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Usher uses first Super Bowl performance as 'cheat sheet' for 2024 show and urges diabetes screening 11/01/2023 05:56pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — While Usher gears up for his 2024 Super Bowl halftime performance, the singer will lean on his previous experience of hitting the NFL’s biggest stage to help prepare for the 13-minute set. The Grammy winner said he’s using his appearance with Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i. Florida attorney general, against criticism, seeks to keep abortion rights amendment off 2024 ballot 11/01/2023 05:46pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida's Republican attorney general has asked the state Supreme Court to keep a proposed abortion rights amendment off the ballot, saying proponents are waging “a war” to protect the procedure and ultimately will seek to expand those rights in future years. But propo Addiction can lead to financial ruin. Ohio wants to teach finance pros to help stem the loss 11/01/2023 02:39pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Joe Smith did not picture raising his granddaughter at age 66, but when his daughter’s substance use disorder meant she couldn’t care for her child, that’s where Smith and his wife found themselves nineteen years ago. That brought all the costs that come with a new baby ACLU and families of trans teens ask Supreme Court to block Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care 11/01/2023 01:33pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys representing Tennessee transgender teens and their families asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to block a ban on gender-affirming care for minors that a lower court allowed to go into effect. Should the nation's highest court agree to take the case, it woul It's time to buy health insurance through the marketplace. Experts suggest doing your research first 11/01/2023 12:02pm • It’s time to pick health coverage for next year on the Affordable Care Act’s insurance marketplaces, and experts caution against focusing your choice on price alone. In order to prevent thousands of dollars in financial surprises, buyers should know what a plan covers, how it works and what cost Chinese arrivals replace Hong Kong exodus. For them, the city is still freer than the mainland 11/01/2023 08:04am • HONG KONG (AP) — The exodus of tens of thousands of professionals from Hong Kong triggered by a crackdown on its civil liberties is being offset by new arrivals: mainland Chinese keen to move to the former British colony. The Asian financial hub has attracted tens of thousands of visa application ACLU of Virginia plans to spend over $1M on abortion rights messaging 11/01/2023 05:32am • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia says it is making a financial investment unprecedented in its history for this year’s election cycle because of the implications November’s legislative races will hold for abortion access and other policy decisions in the stat Police arrest an armed suspect after 8-hour hostage drama at a post office north of Tokyo 10/31/2023 10:34pm • TOKYO (AP) — Police ended an eight-hour standoff at a post office north of Tokyo by arresting the armed suspect after two hostages were freed safely in an attack authorities said could be related to an earlier shooting at a hospital. The man had entered the post office with a gun in Warabi on Tues Live updates | Deluge of Israeli airstrikes destroy apartments in Gaza refugee camp 10/31/2023 09:54pm • A deluge of Israeli airstrikes Tuesday on a refugee camp near Gaza City demolished apartment buildings, leaving gaping holes where they once stood, while ground troops battled Hamas militants across northern Gaza. Buoyed by the first successful rescue of a captive held by Hamas, Prime Minister Benja House Speaker Mike Johnson was once the dean of a Christian law school. It never opened its doors 10/31/2023 09:26pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Before House Speaker Mike Johnson was elected to public office, he was the dean of a small Baptist law school that didn’t actually exist. The Judge Paul Pressler School of Law was supposed to be a capstone achievement for Louisiana College. Instead, it collapsed roughly a decad Essential Questions to Ask When Choosing a Nursing Home 10/31/2023 08:00pm • Finding the right nursing home for a loved one can be a challenging proposition. The options are many, but the industry can seem completely opaque. That's why visiting a home -- and asking a lot of questions -- before you move a loved one there is a critical part of the process. The following nine c Largest Christian university in US faces record fine after federal probe into alleged deception 10/31/2023 07:45pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The country’s largest Christian university is being fined $37.7 million by the federal government amid accusations that it misled students about the cost of its graduate programs. Grand Canyon University, which has more than 100,000 students, mostly in online programs, faces th Maryland man who received second pig heart transplant dies, hospital says 10/31/2023 07:15pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery, his Maryland doctors announced Tuesday. Lawrence Faucette, 58, was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he rec Diabetes awareness is front and center in November for Adventist HealthCare Fort Washington Medical Center 10/31/2023 04:39pm • This content is sponsored by Adventist HealthCare Fort Washington Medical Center. November is National Diabetes Month. It's a top priority for specialists at Adventist HealthCare Fort Washington Medical Center as they continue working to bring more resources and treatment options to southwestern Amnesty International says Israeli forces wounded Lebanese civilians with white phosphorus 10/31/2023 03:31pm • BEIRUT (AP) — The human rights group Amnesty International said Tuesday that civilians in southern Lebanon were injured this month when Israeli forces hit a border village with shells containing white phosphorus, a controversial incendiary munition. The organization said it verified three other in