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Following spike in hospitalizations, Maryland provides surge of money to overburdened hospitals 01/22/2026 03:20pm • The flu and COVID season has been a tough one for Marylanders. State leaders say about 4,000 residents have been hospitalized with the flu this year, another 1,000 with RSV and hundreds more with COVID. It's put a strain on Maryland's hospitals and led Gov. Wes Moore to announce Thursday the stat Olympic halfpipe champion Hirano named to Japanese team. Prospects uncertain after nasty fall 01/22/2026 03:11pm • Olympic halfpipe champion Ayumu Hirano was named to the Japanese team heading to next month's Milan Cortina Games despite breaking bones in his face in an accident at a contest in Switzerland over the weekend. The Japanese ski and snowboard federation placed the 27-year-old on the roster it revealed After presidential election, Ugandan police detain a key ally of opposition figure Bobi Wine 01/22/2026 03:07pm • KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) ��� Police on Thursday detained a key ally of opposition figure Bobi Wine, accusing him of participating in bouts of violence in a remote part of central Uganda during last week's election. Muwanga Kivumbi, a lawmaker who is a deputy president of Wine's National Unity Platform p Florida's Black lawmakers denounce attorney general's opinion as damaging political stunt 01/22/2026 03:07pm • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) ��� An opinion by Florida's Republican attorney general calling into question the constitutionality of dozens of state laws which support minority contracting and promote diverse appointments ignores that racial discrimination still exists and could harm the state's Black resident Trump administration halts use of human fetal tissue in NIH-funded research 01/22/2026 03:06pm • The Trump administration announced Thursday that human fetal tissue derived from abortions can no longer be used in research funded by the National Institutes of Health. The policy, long urged by anti-abortion groups, expands restrictions issued during President Donald Trump���s first term. The gov Rhode Island may ditch Mr. Potato Head license plates after Hasbro moves to Boston 01/22/2026 02:54pm • PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) ��� It's been no small potatoes that Rhode Islanders have been able to choose the image of Mr. Potato Head as a specialty license plate for decades. 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