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Delaware committee approves state pay raises, adds funds for marijuana industry 05/23/2023 06:48pm • DOVER, Del. (AP) — Members of the Delaware legislature’s budget-writing committee began marking up Gov. John Carney’s spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year on Tuesday by approving across-the-board pay raises of up to 9% for state employees. The Joint Finance Committee approved Carney’s 'My heart will always be here': DC police Chief Contee shares why he’s leaving after 33 years 05/23/2023 05:31pm • On his last working day on the job, D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee reflected back on his more than three decades on the force, acknowledging the personal toll being D.C.'s top cop takes and why he feels he's leaving this chapter of his career on his own terms. Last month, Contee surprised ju Appeals court upholds admissions policy at elite Virginia high school 05/23/2023 04:52pm • A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of a new admissions policy at an elite public high school in Virginia that critics say discriminates against highly qualified Asian Americans. The 2-1 ruling from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond overturns a rul Caustic feedback, serious injuries and the quiet mental health suffering of horse racing jockeys 05/23/2023 04:40pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — Eurico Rosa da Silva was in a dark place. On the track, the jockey in his early 30s was winning races and making money. At home, he was fighting suicidal thoughts every day. “I got to the point where I have no more choice but to go for help,” he recalled recently. “I went b Biden leaning into global diplomacy to manage migration at US-Mexico border 05/23/2023 12:36pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — On President Joe Biden 's first day in office, he handed Congress a legislative plan to modernize the nation's immigration system. It went nowhere, just like so many past overhaul attempts. Meanwhile, the number of migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border climbed to re High blood pressure plagues many Black Americans. Combined with COVID, it's catastrophic 05/23/2023 10:38am • DISTRICT HEIGHTS, Md. (AP) — Charles Thomas was unwell but he had no time for rest. He was on the cusp of a management promotion and a move to Florida to begin a new chapter that would alter his family’s financial future and break the cycle of generational poverty. Yet, as his family’s prospe 'Long overdue': Prince William Co. schools launch task force to review grading policy 05/23/2023 04:33am • The Prince William County Public School system has convened a task force to review its grading policy, making it the latest Virginia school system to evaluate how student work is graded. Superintendent LaTanya McDade told the school board Wednesday that the task force includes teachers, administr Asian stocks mixed after more US debt talks fail to break impasse 05/23/2023 12:07am • BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Tuesday after more talks in Washington on government debt ended with no deal to avoid a potentially jarring default. Shanghai and Hong Kong declined while Tokyo and Sydney advanced. Oil prices rose. Wall Street's benchmark S&P 500 index edged up le Autopsy finds 'severe neglect' to blame for man's death in bedbug-infested Georgia jail cell 05/22/2023 09:00pm • ATLANTA (AP) — A man who died in a bedbug-infested cell in a Georgia jail's psychiatric wing "died due to severe neglect,” according to an independent autopsy released Monday by lawyers for his family. Lashawn Thompson, 35, died in September, three months after he was booked into the Fulton Coun US bomb designed to hit targets like Iran underground nuclear sites briefly reappears amid tensions 05/22/2023 08:35pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As tensions with Iran have escalated over its nuclear program, the U.S. military this month posted pictures of a powerful bomb designed to penetrate deep into the earth and destroy underground facilities that could be used to enrich uranium. 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