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Jim Biden's last name has helped open doors. It also has made him a target of House Republicans 11/11/2023 02:49pm • ELLWOOD CITY, Pa. (AP) — When a health care startup dreamed of building a network of rural hospitals several years ago, it turned to Jim Biden. Although he wasn’t a public health consultant or a medical expert, Jim Biden was the brother of Joe Biden, who had recently finished his term as vice pr Constitutional challenge to Georgia voting machines set for trial early next year 11/11/2023 10:45am • ATLANTA (AP) — The question of whether Georgia's electronic voting system has major cybersecurity flaws that amount to a violation of voters' constitutional rights to cast their votes and have those votes accurately counted is set to be decided at trial early next year. U.S. District Judge Amy Tot Maryland-based immigrant rights group scrambles to save political, financial support 11/11/2023 10:03am • These should be heady times for CASA, the immigrants’ rights group based in Langley Park. The organization just finalized its new strategic plan, and canvassers from CASA’s political unit were on the ground in Virginia for the past few weeks, contributing to the Democrats’ significant vict Somber bugles and bells mark Armistice Day around the globe as wars drown out peace messages 11/11/2023 07:38am • YPRES, Belgium (AP) — With somber bugles and bells from Australia to western Europe's battlefields of World War I, people around the globe on Saturday remembered the slaughter and losses just over a century ago that was supposed to be “the war to end all wars.” Yet the rumble of tanks and the Biden's movable wall is criticized by environmentalists and those who want more border security 11/11/2023 12:01am • McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Biden administration’s plan to build new barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border in South Texas calls for a “movable” design that frustrates both environmentalists and advocates of stronger border enforcement. The plans for the nearly 20 miles (32 kilometers) of new b Government ministers in Pacific nation of Vanuatu call for parliament's dissolution, media says 11/10/2023 10:11pm • TOKYO (AP) — Government ministers in the Pacific nation of Vanuatu are asking the president to dissolve parliament, adding to political disarray after lawmakers introduced a no-confidence against the prime minister, local media said Saturday. National elections would be held if President Nikenike New epilepsy training could soon be required in DC schools 11/10/2023 09:30pm • Epilepsy, a broad term used for a disorder that causes seizures, can often be misunderstood, which is why a D.C. mother said she is working with local lawmakers in an effort to increase awareness in schools. Mollie Ellis, who has an 8-year-old daughter with epilepsy in the D.C. public school syst Live updates | Fighting near hospitals in north Gaza, as Palestinians flee to overcrowded shelters 11/10/2023 08:56pm • Thousands of Palestinians are fleeing northern Gaza as Israel's military pushed deeper into dense urban neighborhoods in its battle with Hamas militants. Officials in the besieged enclave said the Palestinian death toll has surpassed 11,000 people. The search for safety in Gaza is growing more despe Green Jr. paces Florida State with 18 points as 'Noles smack Kennesaw State 94-67 11/10/2023 08:38pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Senior guard Darrin Green Jr. scored 18 points and Florida State beat Kennesaw State 94-67 on Friday night in the season opener for the Seminoles. Reserve Camron Fletcher scored 11 points and Cam Corhen scored 10 points for Florida State which never trailed. Simeon Cottle Louisiana lawmakers have until Jan. 15 to enact new congressional map, court says 11/10/2023 07:33pm • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana Legislature has until Jan. 15 to enact a new congressional map after a lower court last year ruled that the current political boundaries dilute the power of the state’s Black voters, a federal New Orleans appeals court said Friday. However, whether current AP PHOTOS: Anxiety, grief and despair grip Gaza and Israel on week 5 of the Israel-Hamas war 11/10/2023 06:53pm • A little girl lies prone, her face barely recognizable under a blanket of dust, as gloved hands scrape away the mounds of pulverized concrete under which she’s been buried alive. A man sitting in the rubble of a destroyed building in the Gaza Strip screams in anguish for the family members he’s Things to know about efforts to block people from crossing state lines for abortion 11/10/2023 04:49pm • A federal judge and the U.S. Department of Justice this week said that states are going too far by trying to block people from helping others cross state lines for abortion. A ruling in Idaho and the federal government taking sides in an Alabama lawsuit are far from the final word, but they could of Struggling Buccaneers defense faces another rookie QB, hosting Will Levis and the Tennessee Titans 11/10/2023 04:33pm • TENNESSEE (3-5) at TAMPA BAY (3-5) Sunday, 1 p.m. EST, CBS FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK NFL LINE: Buccaneers by 1½. AGAINST THE SPREAD: Tennessee 4-4; Tampa Bay 5-3. SERIES RECORD: Titans lead 10-2. LAST MEETING: Titans beat Buccaneers 27-23 on Oct. 27, 2019, in Nashville. LAST WEEK: Titans lost to Steelers Local election workers have been under siege since 2020. Now they face fentanyl-laced letters 11/10/2023 04:23pm • ATLANTA (AP) — While workers were counting ballots for primary elections in August, the elections office in King County, Washington, received a suspicious envelope that turned out to contain trace amounts of fentanyl. It happened again this week, and not just in Washington state, where the office Arizona's athletic department is struggling financially ahead of move to the Big 12 11/10/2023 04:16pm • The University of Arizona's athletic department is struggling financially ahead of its move from the Pac-12 to the Big 12. University President Robert C. Robbins acknowledged during a Nov. 2 meeting with the board of regents that athletics was not producing the revenue that was expected following th