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Ousted incumbents, key matchups set: Takeaways from Virginia's primary election 06/21/2023 06:11pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� A historic number of state lawmakers were ousted in this week's Virginia primary, which featured about four dozen legislative races that set the parties' slate of candidates for what will be a hard-fought general election. Every seat in both the House of Delegates and state Hunter Biden plea agreement in tax, gun case set for July court date 06/21/2023 05:45pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Hunter Biden will go before a judge next month to formally strike a plea agreement with prosecutors on tax and gun charges that will likely spare President Joe Biden's son time behind bars, according to court documents posted Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika must Trump-Russia special counsel Durham at center of political clash as he appears before Congress 06/21/2023 05:37pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The special counsel who investigated the FBI���s probe of ties between Russia and Donald Trump���s 2016 campaign found himself at the center of a heated political fight as he appeared before a congressional committee Wednesday, with Democrats denouncing his inquiry and Republican Proposed Minnesota nickel mine begins environmental review, would supply Tesla if approved 06/21/2023 04:05pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� Talon Metals Corp. filed papers with Minnesota regulators Wednesday to launch the environmental review process for its proposed underground nickel mine near the northern town of Tamarack, which would supply nickel to Tesla for electric car batteries. The Department of Energy has Drugmaker lobbying group sues over plan to negotiate Medicare drug prices 06/21/2023 03:22pm • A key drugmaker lobbying group has joined the legal fight against the federal government���s plan to negotiate Medicare drug prices. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, or PhRMA, is suing over plans laid out in the Inflation Reduction Act to give the federal coverage program mo Fed's Powell: More rate hikes are likely this year to fight still-high inflation 06/21/2023 01:03pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� With inflation in the United States still excessive, most Federal Reserve officials expect to raise interest rates further this year, Chair Jerome Powell told a House committee Wednesday. ���Inflation pressures continue to run high, and the process of getting inflation back do IRS reduces tax return backlog by 80% and is doing better job answering the phone 06/21/2023 10:03am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The IRS has processed tens of millions of tax returns faster this year compared with past years while getting through to customer service on the phone is slowly improving, according to a report to Congress released Wednesday. But there is a huge need to update the agency's inform Charitable giving in 2022 drops for only the fourth time in 40 years: Giving USA report 06/21/2023 09:18am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Charitable giving in the United States declined in 2022 -- only the fourth time in four decades that donations did not increase year over year -- according to the Giving USA report released Tuesday. Total giving fell 3.4% in 2022 to $499.3 billion in current dollars, a drop of 10.5 From zero to NIL: How student-athletes can manage name, image, likeness income 06/21/2023 08:49am • When University of Notre Dame sophomore Calyn ���KK��� Bransford takes the court this upcoming basketball season, she���ll do so with a touch of glam thanks to her false lashes. She wants to look good while hooping, but wearing the lashes is also her job. Bransford is under contract as a brand ambas Windrush scandal rumbles on 5 years after UK government's apology 06/21/2023 05:48am • LONDON (AP) ��� When Thomas Tobierre���s wife, Caroline, died in 2021, he didn���t know how he was going to pay for her funeral. That's because he had drained his savings while caught up in a U.K. immigration crackdown that improperly targeted legal residents largely from the Caribbean and other pa Parents take on struggle for trans rights for their kids and others in conservative Poland 06/21/2023 04:48am • WARSAW, Poland (AP) ��� The parents stood by side-by-side wearing signs offering free hugs at Warsaw's Pride celebration last weekend. One after another, young gay and transgender people accepted the warm embrace of other people's parents. Agata Misiorna, the mother of a transgender son, wore a T-s Pride and pain for Biden as his son Hunter reaches a plea deal after 5 years of investigation 06/21/2023 04:23am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden had just six words to offer after his 53-year-old son Hunter pleaded guilty to federal tax offenses in a deal that is also likely to spare him time behind bars on a weapons charge. ���I���m very proud of my son,��� he said. That pride has been accompanie Democrats downplay Hunter Biden's plea deal, while Republicans see opportunity to deflect from Trump 06/21/2023 12:14am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Democrats, already anxious about President Joe Biden's reelection prospects, are seeking to downplay ��� or ignore altogether ��� revelations that the president's son has entered into a plea deal with federal prosecutors over tax offenses and a gun charge. And as Democrats dodge, f What to know about Hunter Biden's plea deal in federal tax and gun case 06/20/2023 09:40pm • The announcement that federal prosecutors have reached a plea deal with President Joe Biden���s son Hunter over tax and gun charges marks the likely end of a five-year Justice Department investigation that has dogged the Biden family. It doesn't, however, mean that congressional Republicans are done New study says high housing costs, low income push Californians into homelessness 06/20/2023 08:19pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Homeless people in California are already a vulnerable group, often struggling with poor health, trauma and deep poverty before they lose their housing, according to a new study on adult homelessness. The study released Tuesday by the University of California, San Francisco at