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Maryland House OKs budget bill with tax, fee increases 03/21/2024 02:26pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) ��� The Maryland House voted Thursday for budget measures with tax and fee increases, part of a $1.3 billion revenue package for transportation and education. The vote paves the way for negotiations to begin next week with the Senate, which has not been receptive to the House� California wants to pay doctors more money to see Medicaid patients 03/21/2024 01:05pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� When Hunter Morgan bought an optometry practice in Southern California three years ago, one of the first things he did was start seeing patients who use Medicaid, the government-funded health insurance program for low-income people. The previous owners had not accepted p Mega Millions jackpot soars to nearly $1 billion. Here's what to know 03/21/2024 09:43am • The winning numbers for a nearly $1 billion Mega Millions lottery prize will be drawn Friday night, offering sudden riches to any lucky player who matches them and almost certain disappointment for everyone else. Since three months have passed without a winner, the Mega Millions jackpot has grown How a Rockville store is fostering the growth of diverse women-owned businesses 03/21/2024 06:51am • As part of Women���s History Month, WTOP explores how two sisters are taking a homegrown business to the next level with the help of a local incubator program that includes business mentoring and classes for the next generation of female entrepreneurs. Turning a hobby into a successful busine Vietnam's vice president becomes interim president 03/21/2024 03:43am • HANOI, Vietnam (AP) ��� Vietnam's Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan will serve as acting president after the previous president's resignation a year into the position, a Communist Party newspaper reported Thursday. Analysts said a permanent candidate was unlikely to be selected soon, underscoring the g California voters pass measure pushed by governor to tackle homelessness crisis in razor-thin win 03/20/2024 10:08pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� California voters have approved a measure that will impose strict requirements on counties to spend on housing and drug treatment programs to tackle the state���s homelessness crisis, in a tissue-thin win for Gov. Gavin Newsom, who personally campaigned for the measure's Republicans make last-ditch request for Biden to testify as impeachment inquiry winds down 03/20/2024 09:15pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The House impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden is all but winding down, lacking the political appetite from within the Republican ranks to go forward with an actual impeachment, but facing political pressure to deliver after months of work. The chairman of the House Overs Biden touts Arizona as America's 'future' as government invests $8.5 billion in chipmaker Intel 03/20/2024 09:14pm • CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) ��� President Joe Biden on Wednesday celebrated an agreement to provide Intel with up to $8.5 billion in direct funding and $11 billion in loans for computer chip plants around the country, talking up the investment in the political battleground state of Arizona and calling it a The Top Real Estate Companies in Florida 03/20/2024 08:00pm • For decades, Florida has drawn retirees attracted to its absent income tax. More recently, it has become a hot spot for remote workers seeking affordable housing, at least compared to the Northeast and West. The trade association Florida Realtors says rising inventory, albeit still well below demand Agent Scott Boras defends himself and union leadership against a faction pushing for new negotiator 03/20/2024 07:45pm • SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) ��� Agent Scott Boras defended himself and the leadership of the Major League Baseball Players Association against a faction pushing to replace the union's lead negotiator. ���When you have inexperienced people who haven���t been doing this for a long time, they make statement UFC agrees to $335 million settlement with former fighters who filed antitrust lawsuits 03/20/2024 07:25pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� UFC parent company TKO Group Holdings reached a $335 million settlement regarding two antitrust lawsuits brought by former fighters in the organization, according to TKO's disclosure to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The agreement was reached March 13, and the paymen Virginia House leaders dispute governor's claim that their consultant heaped praise on arena deal 03/20/2024 07:03pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� Top legislators in the Virginia House of Delegates are disputing Gov. Glenn Youngkin���s claim that an independent consultant they hired gave a clean bill of health to his proposal to lure two Washington sports teams to the city of Alexandria. Youngkin, a Republican, has host $6,500 school vouchers coming to Georgia as bill gets final passage and heads to governor 03/20/2024 05:55pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Georgia senators gave final approval Wednesday to a plan to create a $6,500 voucher funding for private school tuition and home schooling, sending the measure to Gov. Brian Kemp for his signature. Senators voted 33-21 along party lines to approve changes that the House made last wee A Nebraska bill to subject librarians to charges for giving 'obscene material' to children fails 03/20/2024 05:30pm • A bill that would have held school librarians and teachers criminally responsible for providing ���obscene material��� to Nebraska students in grades K-12 failed to break a filibuster Wednesday in the Legislature. But heated debate over it led the body���s Republican Speaker of the Legislature to sl EPA issues new auto rules aimed at cutting carbon emissions, boosting electric vehicles and hybrids 03/20/2024 04:36pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Biden administration announced new automobile emissions standards Wednesday that officials called the most ambitious plan ever to cut planet-warming emissions from passenger vehicles. The new rules relax initial tailpipe limits proposed last year but eventually get close to t