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The Biden administration is slow to act as millions are booted off Medicaid, advocates say 11/14/2023 05:00pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Up to 30 million of the poorest Americans could be purged from the Medicaid program, many the result of error-ridden state reviews that poverty experts say the Biden administration is not doing enough to stop. The projections from the health consulting firm Avalere come as state PGA Tour parsing private investment deals as the clock ticks on its Saudi deal 11/14/2023 03:00pm • The PGA Tour has created a program that would give players equity ownership in a new commercial enterprise, provided it finalizes a deal with Saudi Arabia's national wealth fund and five other private groups that want to invest. Commissioner Jay Monahan laid out the proposal in a memo to players on Cowboys owner Jerry Jones still loves the spotlight in his 80s, despite reasons to shrink from it 11/14/2023 02:53pm • FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Jerry Jones wandered over to where reporters were gathered to watch a recent Dallas Cowboys practice, ready for an impromptu question-and-answer session. The high-profile owner was still going when the closed portion of practice began, and jokingly pleaded for five more minute Big 12 quarterbacks have taken more than their fair share of lumps; 8 teams have lost starters 11/14/2023 02:25pm • Starting quarterback has been a precarious position in the Big 12. Whether due to injuries or coaching decisions, staying on the field has been a challenge for many of the league's quarterbacks who started the season No. 1 for their programs. Injuries have knocked out starters at some point in the Suspect convicted of 2nd-degree murder in 2018 shooting of a deputy US marshal in Tucson 11/14/2023 12:26pm • TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A man convicted of killing a federal agent in Tucson five years ago could face life in prison when he’s sentenced in January, according to authorities. A jury on Monday found Ryan Phillip Schlesinger guilty of second-degree murder in the November 2018 death of Deputy U.S. Ma Vehicles with higher, vertical front ends raise risks for pedestrians 11/14/2023 11:36am • Motor vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends raise risks for pedestrians, according to a highway safety organization. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said that whatever the nose shape, pickups, SUVs and vans with a hood height greater than 40 inches are about 45% more likely to ca 3 killed, 15 taken to hospital when semi crashes into bus carrying students on Ohio highway, emergency official says 11/14/2023 10:37am • ETNA, Ohio (AP) — 3 killed, 15 taken to hospital when semi crashes into bus carrying students on Ohio highway, emergency official says. Germany's opposition Left Party to dissolve caucus after prominent member launches rival venture 11/14/2023 09:20am • BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s opposition Left Party said Tuesday it will dissolve its parliamentary caucus next month after prominent party member Sahra Wagenknecht broke away to found a new party with a more nationalist, migration-skeptic agenda. The Left Party emerged in 2005, bringing together ex-c A slow transition to winter keeps houseplants healthy 11/14/2023 07:37am • My mandarin orange tree and spider plants enjoyed a longer vacation than I did, having spent the entire summer outdoors on the back deck. But the party ended late last month when frost threatened. So I gave them a thorough hose drenching -- leaves and all -- to remove any would-be hitchhikers and p Small plane crashes into car after overshooting runway during emergency landing near Dallas 11/14/2023 06:28am • MCKINNEY, Texas (AP) — A small plane overshot the runway while landing at a Texas airport over the weekend and struck a car driving along a nearby road, injuring one person, authorities said. Video shows the propeller plane smash through a fence during an emergency landing in the Dallas suburb of UK cybersecurity center says 'deepfakes' and other AI tools pose a threat to the next election 11/14/2023 04:46am • LONDON (AP) — Britain’s cybersecurity agency said Tuesday that artificial intelligence poses a threat to the country’s next national election, and cyberattacks by hostile countries and their proxies are proliferating and getting harder to track. The National Cyber Security Center said “this Internal documents show the World Health Organization paid sexual abuse victims in Congo $250 each 11/14/2023 03:51am • LONDON (AP) — Earlier this year, the doctor who leads the World Health Organization’s efforts to prevent sexual abuse travelled to Congo to address the biggest known sex scandal in the U.N. health agency’s history, the abuse of well over 100 local women by staffers and others during a deadly E Medics and patients, including babies, stranded as battles rage around Gaza hospitals 11/14/2023 01:13am • KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Battles between Israel and Hamas around hospitals forced thousands of Palestinians to flee from some of the last perceived safe places in northern Gaza, stranding critically wounded patients, newborns and their caregivers with dwindling supplies and no electricity, h Live updates | Biden says Gaza's largest hospital 'must be protected' as thousands flee the fighting 11/13/2023 10:16pm • Fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants outside Gaza's largest hospital has prompted thousands of people to flee from the sprawling medical facility, but hundreds of patients and others displaced by the war remained inside, health officials said Monday. U.S. President Joe Biden sai 'It is well worth it': Prince George’s Co. libraries raising money for defibrillators 11/13/2023 09:45pm • Some of the libraries in Prince George’s County have defibrillators. But library leaders say all of them should. With GivingTuesday coming up a few days after Thanksgiving, the library system is raising money to buy them for every branch. Seven of the county’s 19 library branches have defibri