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Biden, McCarthy to speak on debt limit; talks stalled as Republicans seek deep spending cuts 05/21/2023 06:20am • HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) ��� President Joe Biden planned on Sunday to speak directly with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, hoping to salvage talks to raise the debt limit that have stalled in recent days while he was abroad at the Group of Seven summit. GOP lawmakers are holding tight to demands for sharp Minnesota bill legalizing recreational pot passes Senate, heads to governor's desk 05/20/2023 07:17pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� Senators in Minnesota passed a bill Saturday that would allow recreational marijuana use by people over the age of 21 and make it the 23rd state to legalize the substance for adults. The measure has already been approved by the House and now goes to Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, who Meet the influential new player on transgender health bills 05/20/2023 06:08pm • Do No Harm, a nonprofit that launched last year to oppose diversity initiatives in medicine, has evolved into a significant leader in statehouses seeking to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youths, producing model legislation that an Associated Press analysis found has been used in at least Chesapeake mansion, an architectural ���milestone,��� wants the nation to see it 05/20/2023 09:01am • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) ��� When Horatio Sharpe, the colonial governor of Maryland, started work on Whitehall in the 18th century, the story goes that he hoped the palatial villa on the Chesapeake Bay would win his beloved���s heart. Alas, the young woman fell for Sharpe���s friend and personal secretar Moore issues first vetoes, lets cannabis search bill and others become law without his signature 05/20/2023 07:35am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP���s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for��Maryland Matters��� free email subscription��today. Gov. Wes Moore (D) issued the first vetoes of his administration on Friday. He allowed several others to take effect without his signatur Out of bailout spotlight, Greeks feeling recovery pains at election 05/20/2023 04:24am • ATHENS, Greece (AP) ��� For the first time in more than a decade, Greeks will go to the polls Sunday to elect a leader no longer confined to steering the country���s economy from a back seat. Conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is seeking a second term after a draconian regime of spendin Debt limit talks start, stop as Republicans, White House face 'serious differences' 05/20/2023 01:42am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Debt limit talks between the White House and House Republicans stopped, started and stopped again Friday at the U.S. Capitol, a dizzying series of events in high-stakes negotiations to avoid a potentially catastrophic federal default. President Joe Biden���s administration is rea Taxed wins Black-Eyed Susan at 11-1; Faiza finishes 3rd in 1st defeat 05/19/2023 07:29pm • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� Faiza was lurking just behind Hoosier Philly at the end of the second turn, and the unbeaten favorite appeared ready to press for the lead. Turned out there was another horse that was about to leave both of them behind. Taxed raced to an upset victory in the Black-Eyed Susan DXC Technology, Farfetch rise; Foot Locker, Flowers Foods fall 05/19/2023 04:17pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Flowers Foods Inc., down $2.85 to $25.99. The bakery goods company trimmed its profit forecast for the year. Farfetch Inc., up 64 cents to $4.98. The online luxury fashion company beat analysts' first-quarter earn Lebanon receives Interpol notice for its central bank governor who was no-show at Paris questioning 05/19/2023 01:04pm • BEIRUT (AP) ��� Lebanon on Friday received an Interpol notice for the country's embattled central bank governor who failed to show up in Paris earlier in the week for questioning in a key corruption case, officials said. France, Germany, and Luxembourg are investigating the governor, Riad Salameh, Detroit enclave built on auto industry struggles under $20M water debt 05/19/2023 09:53am • HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (AP) ��� Kevin Houston scanned the Michigan street where his fixer-upper and older homes bridge gaps between the vacant, overgrown lots and abandoned, ramshackle houses, boarded-up businesses and potholed streets of Highland Park. ���It���s not a bad place to live,��� Houston sa In preliminary budget vote, Montgomery Co. Council OKs nearly 5-cent property tax hike 05/19/2023 06:06am • Residents in Montgomery County, Maryland, can expect their property taxes to rise nearly five cents under a budget agreement arrived at by the county council Thursday. The preliminary vote by the 11-member council approves a $6.7 billion operating budget. Instead of approving a 10-cent property t Push for transit, walkable communities growing across US 05/19/2023 12:08am • ATLANTA (AP) ��� On the weekend in March when Brittany Glover would have turned 34, her mother stood on the same busy road in Atlanta where her daughter died six months earlier. Glover, a flight attendant with a passion for clothes, was coming from an entertainment venue during the early morning Utah kids' book author accused in husband's killing changed life insurance policies, prosecutors say 05/18/2023 11:02pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ��� A Utah woman who wrote a children���s book about grief after her husband���s death and was later arrested on accusations of killing him made changes to her husband���s life insurance years before he was fatally poisoned, according to charging documents updated Thursday. The a Legal Clinics: What Law School Students Should Know 05/18/2023 08:00pm • Participating in a legal clinic could be the highlight of a student's law school experience. Working with clients on a broad array of legal issues, law students may come away from the clinical experience with a greater sense of duty and strong convictions about being a lawyer, some experts say. Chr