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President Joe Biden speaks with White House Physician Kevin O'Connor as he arrives back at the White House in Washington

Biden’s physician refuses to answer questions from Republicans in House probe of former president’s mental fitness

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Joe Biden’s White House physician on Wednesday declined to answer questions during a closed-door deposition with the House Oversight Committee, invoking his Fifth Amendment right as the Republican-led panel pushes forward in its probe of the former president’s mental fitness and decline. While Dr. Kevin O’Connor appeared on Capitol

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Former Wisconsin clerk who failed to count ballots broke laws, the state’s elections commission says

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A “confluence of errors” including unlawful actions by the former clerk in Wisconsin’s capital city led to nearly 200 absentee ballots not being counted in the November presidential election, an investigation by the state elections commission released Wednesday concluded. Maribeth Witzel-Behl resigned as Madison city clerk

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The office of US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy called off an upcoming meeting of expert advisers on preventive health care.

HHS abruptly calls off meeting of expert panel on preventive care, raising questions about its future

By Sarah Owermohle, Meg Tirrell, Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The US Department of Health and Human Services called off an upcoming meeting of expert advisers on preventive health care, raising questions about the future of the longtime, nonpolitical advisory group. An HHS spokesperson confirmed to CNN that the US Preventive Services Task Force —

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Great Plains News Digest

To see stories that have already moved, please visit AP Newsroom. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan ——————————-— MINNESOTA ————-——————— US–Minnesota Lawmakers Shot Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman, shot 9 times by a man posing as an officer, leaves the hospital SUMMARY: A Minnesota

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Great Plains News Digest

To see stories that have already moved, please visit AP Newsroom. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan ——————————-— MINNESOTA ————-——————— US–Minnesota Lawmakers Shot Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman, shot 9 times by a man posing as an officer, leaves the hospital SUMMARY: A Minnesota

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Great Plains News Digest

To see stories that have already moved, please visit AP Newsroom. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan ——————————-— MINNESOTA ————-——————— US–Minnesota Lawmakers Shot Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman, shot 9 times by a man posing as an officer, leaves the hospital SUMMARY: A Minnesota

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Republicans urge US universities to cut ties with China-backed scholarship program

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are urging seven U.S. universities to cut ties with a Chinese scholarship program that lawmakers call a “nefarious mechanism” to steal technology for the Chinese government. In letters to Dartmouth College, the University of Notre Dame and five other universities, leaders of the House

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WNBA Glance

All Times EDT EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB New York 13 6 .684 — Atlanta 12 7 .632 1 Indiana 9 10 .474 4 Washington 9 10 .474 4 Chicago 5 13 .278 7½ Connecticut 3 16 .158 10 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Minnesota 17 3 .850 — Phoenix 14 6 .700

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