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Mid Atlantic Daybook 10/01/2023 04:32pm • Associated Press Mid Atlantic Daybook for Sunday, Oct. 01. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Mid-Atlantic bureau is reachable at 202-641-9660 an Connecticut enacts its most sweeping gun control law since the Sandy Hook shooting 10/01/2023 09:54am • HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) ��� Connecticut's most wide-ranging gun control measure since the 2013 law enacted after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting takes effect Sunday, with proponents vowing to pursue more gun legislation despite legal challenges happening across the country. The new law, sign Rishi Sunak needs to rally his flagging Conservatives. He hopes a dash of populism will do the trick 10/01/2023 02:09am • LONDON (AP) ��� U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak heads to the governing Conservative Party���s annual conference on Sunday facing a triple challenge: Cheer up a party that���s trailing in opinion polls, sideline rivals who are eyeing his job and persuade the voting public that a party in power for 13 Powerball jackpot rises to $1.04 billion after another drawing without a big winner 10/01/2023 12:29am • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ��� The Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $1.04 billion after no players hit it big Saturday night, continuing a stretch of lottery futility lasting for more than two months. The numbers drawn were: 19, 30, 37, 44, 46 and red Powerball 22. The jackpot for the next Who is Arthur Engoron? Judge weighing future of Donald Trump empire is Ivy League-educated ex-cabbie 10/01/2023 12:02am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� He���s driven a taxi cab, played in a band and protested the Vietnam War. As a New York City judge, Arthur Engoron has resolved hundreds of disputes, deciding everything from zoning and free speech issues to a custody fight over a dog named ���Stevie.��� Now, in the twilight of a d California governor rejects bill to give unemployment checks to striking workers 09/30/2023 11:14pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� California won't be giving unemployment checks to workers on strike, with Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoing a bill Saturday that had been inspired by high-profile work stoppages in Hollywood and the hotel industry. Newsom, a Democrat, says he supports workers and of Iowa's two campaigns: Donald Trump's rivals search for paths to stop him as he blazes his own trail 09/30/2023 12:45pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ��� Having stood out in two presidential debates, Nikki Haley has booked her largest venue in Iowa since launching her campaign. She's hoping to fill a 600-person hall in a western Des Moines suburb on Saturday. That would be a huge number for most of her rivals. It's also l The Supreme Court will take up abortion and gun cases in its new term while ethics concerns swirl 09/30/2023 12:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Supreme Court is returning to a new term to take up some familiar topics ��� guns and abortion ��� and concerns about ethics swirling around the justices. The year also will have a heavy focus on social media and how free speech protections apply online. A big unknown is whet A lead prosecutor in the Hunter Biden case cut a contentious path during his time in Baltimore 09/30/2023 11:17am • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� Before being assigned to investigate President Joe Biden���s son, Leo Wise built a reputation in Baltimore as a tough and hard-charging federal prosecutor, taking on powerful, and seemingly untouchable, figures ��� whether a gang of corrupt cops, a police commissioner, a top local Anti-abortion groups are at odds on strategies ahead of Ohio vote. It could be a preview for 2024 09/30/2023 11:08am • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ��� Abortion opponents in Ohio are at odds not only over how to frame their opposition to a reproductive rights initiative on the state's November ballot but also over their longer-term goals on how severely they would restrict the procedure. The disagreements, roiling the anti-a Rejected by US courts, Onondaga Nation take centuries-old land rights case to international panel 09/30/2023 10:17am • ONONDAGA NATION TERRITORY (AP) ��� The Onondaga Nation has protested for centuries that illegal land grabs shrank its territory from what was once thousands of square miles in upstate New York to a relatively paltry patch of land south of Syracuse. It took its case to President George Washington, to Emerging election issues in New Jersey include lawsuits over outing trans students, offshore wind 09/30/2023 01:21am • TRENTON, N.J. (AP) ��� New Jersey Republicans are seizing on flashpoint issues in this year's election, aiming to energize voters over the state's lawsuits against school districts to stop them from outing transgender students to their parents as well as stoking skepticism toward offshore wind turbi Trump animates California Republicans with calls to shoot people who rob stores 09/29/2023 11:45pm • ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) ��� In an occasionally dark and profane speech, Donald Trump on Friday sought to win over Republicans in California by complaining that rich people in Beverly Hills smell bad because they're denied water, reiterating lies about widespread election fraud and calling on police to IRS contractor charged with leaking tax return information of Trump, wealthy people 09/29/2023 11:37pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A former contractor for the Internal Revenue Service was charged Friday with leaking tax information to news outlets about thousands of the country's wealthiest people. Charles Edward Littlejohn, 38, of Washington, D.C., is accused of stealing the tax return information and givi Prince William Co. voters could decide control of the House of Delegates in ���competitive��� race 09/29/2023 10:08pm • Voters in western Prince William County will decide one of the most closely-watched General Assembly races this cycle on Nov. 7, and one that could ultimately decide the partisan control of the House of Delegates. The 21st House District race features a familiar face to longtime county residents