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Voters elect Democrat Cherelle Parker as Philadelphia’s 100th mayor — and the 1st woman 11/08/2023 12:51am • Voters elected two women for the first time to lead Philadelphia and Pennsylvania’s second-largest county, installing Democrat Cherelle Parker as the 100th mayor of the state’s largest city and Democrat Sara Innamorato as executive of the county that includes Pittsburgh. Parker, 51, who has held Two governors win reelection, while Ohio passes amendment on abortion rights. Follow live updates 11/08/2023 12:44am • Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves won reelection on Tuesday, while Ohio voters approved a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to an abortion and other forms of reproductive health care. In Virginia, Democrats swept legislative elections in Can Nikki Haley take a big step forward? What to watch during the Republican debate 11/08/2023 12:12am • NEW YORK (AP) — Five Republicans will appear on stage Wednesday night in Miami for the GOP's third presidential primary debate. The group is the smallest to qualify for the debate stage so far, but it's unclear whether the increased airtime for the shrinking group will fundamentally change the 202 Today in History: November 8, Hitler’s “Beer-Hall Putsch” fails 11/08/2023 12:00am • Today in History Today is Wednesday, Nov. 8, the 312th day of 2023. There are 53 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 8, 1923, Adolf Hitler launched his first attempt at seizing power in Germany with a failed coup in Munich that came to be known as the “Beer-Hall Putsc Mainers vote against new utility, approve restoration of tribal obligations to printed constitutions 11/07/2023 11:50pm • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine voters turned down an attempt to oust the state’s corporate-owned electric utilities among several ballot initiatives Tuesday, and approved one to stop foreign spending in referendums. Voters also decided to restore language about honoring obligations to Native Ameri Ohio votes to legalize marijuana for adult recreational use, becoming 24th state to do so 11/07/2023 11:30pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio voters approved a measure legalizing recreational marijuana on Tuesday, defying Republican legislative leaders who had failed to pass the proposed law. Passage of Issue 2 makes Ohio the 24th state to allow adult cannabis use for non-medical purposes. “Marijuana is no Democrat Gabe Amo becomes Rhode Island's first Black candidate elected to Congress 11/07/2023 10:50pm • Democrat Gabe Amo defeated Republican Gerry Leonard to win Rhode Island’s 1st Congressional District seat Tuesday, becoming the state’s first Black candidate elected to Congress. Amo, the son of Ghanaian and Liberian immigrants who once worked as a White House aide, succeeds former Democratic Re Pennsylvania county promises accurate tally after clerical error appears to flip votes for judges 11/07/2023 07:53pm • A voting machine company's clerical error caused votes in an eastern Pennsylvania county to appear to be flipped on a ballot question that asked whether a pair of incumbent state appeals judges should be retained, officials said Tuesday. Voters were asked to decide whether Pennsylvania Superior Cour Biden administration warns of major disruption at border if judges halt asylum rule 11/07/2023 07:48pm • The Biden administration on Tuesday urged an appeals court to allow sweeping new asylum restrictions to stay in place, warning that halting them would be “highly disruptive” at the border. The government is urging a panel of judges in Pasadena, California — two appointed by President Bill Clin Biden administration guidance on abortion to save mother's life argued at appeals court 11/07/2023 07:00pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Biden administration asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to uphold health care guidance issued in 2022 that says hospitals must provide abortions for women whose lives are at risk due to pregnancy. A federal judge blocked enforcement of the guidance last year after the sta Syphilis cases in US newborns skyrocketed in 2022. Health officials suggest more testing 11/07/2023 06:24pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Alarmed by yet another jump in syphilis cases in newborns, U.S. health officials are calling for stepped-up prevention measures, including encouraging millions of women of childbearing age and their partners to get tested for the sexually transmitted disease. More than 3,700 babies WeWork seeks bankruptcy protection in stunning fall for a company once valued close to $50 billion 11/07/2023 05:30pm • NEW YORK (AP) — WeWork has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a stunning fall for the office-sharing company that once promised to upend the way people went to work around the world. The filing comes at a time of incredible disruption in the commercial real estate market. The COVID-19 pan South African government minister and bodyguards robbed at gunpoint on major highway 11/07/2023 04:21pm • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African police are on a manhunt for suspects who robbed a government minister at gunpoint and disarmed her two bodyguards of their pistols on a busy Johannesburg highway, police said Tuesday. The robbery took place while Transport Minister Sindisiwe Chikunga’s bodyguard Fire ban imposed in Shenandoah National Park as Va. wildfire spreads; state of emergency declared 11/07/2023 02:52pm • A wildfire that began Oct. 24 near the town of Syria in Madison County, Virginia, has spread to 2,800 acres of private and state land, and is now burning within the eastern boundaries of Shenandoah National Park. Shenandoah National Park implemented a complete fire ban Tuesday, including wood and Cyprus official says Israel-Hamas war may give an impetus to regional energy projects 11/07/2023 02:34pm • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The political and economic ramifications from the Israel-Hamas war may provide an impetus to plans for a pipeline conveying offshore natural gas to Cyprus for processing and shipping to foreign markets, the east Mediterranean island nation's energy minister said Tuesday. The