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For up-to-the minute information on AP’s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov A Swiss populist party rebounds and the Greens sink in the election. That's a big change from 2019 10/23/2023 09:19am • GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland's anti-immigration Swiss People's Party rebounded from searing losses four years ago to become the largest parliamentary faction after the election, official results showed, as two environmentally-minded parties lost ground despite record glacier melt in the Alpine countr This procedure is banned in the US. Why is it a hot topic in fight over Ohio's abortion amendment? 10/23/2023 06:06am • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — With Election Day closing in, anti-abortion groups seeking to build opposition to a reproductive rights measure in Ohio are messaging heavily around a term for an abortion procedure that was once used later in pregnancy — but hasn't been legal in the U.S. for over 15 years. Second aid convoy reaches Gaza as Israel attacks targets in Syria and occupied West Bank 10/22/2023 11:58pm • RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The second aid convoy destined for desperate Palestinian civilians reached Gaza on Sunday, as Israel widened its attacks to include targets in Syria and the occupied West Bank and the Israeli prime minister warned Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group that if it launches it Live updates | Israel says it's stepping up attacks on the Gaza Strip 10/22/2023 09:45pm • Israeli warplanes have struck targets across the Gaza Strip as well as two airports in Syria and a mosque in the occupied West Bank allegedly used by militants, while a second convoy of humanitarian aid reportedly began crossing into Gaza from Egypt on Sunday afternoon. Israel’s military spokesman A Guide to Calling in Sick 10/22/2023 08:00pm • Calling in sick can be a source of anxiety for workers who wonder when to call, what to say and how to say it. They may question whether they are truly sick enough to take the day off or worry missing work will reflect poorly on them. "First, there is a worry about the work they are going to miss," Biden walks a tightrope with his support for Israel as his party's left urges restraint 10/22/2023 05:21pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden told a crowd of Democratic donors over the weekend about a decades-old photo he took with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an aside that seemed intended to illustrate his long support of Israel and track record of speaking bluntly with the conservative Israe Exit poll shows Swiss right-wing party bouncing back in parliamentary election as Greens lose ground 10/22/2023 12:06pm • GENEVA (AP) — Exit polls conducted for Switzerland's public broadcaster showed the country's right-wing populist party was set to further strengthen its position as the largest faction in parliament in a legislative election Sunday that saw the leading Green party lose ground. Broadcaster SSR sai Live updates | Israel plans to step up attacks on the Gaza Strip 10/21/2023 11:16pm • Aid deliveries have begun moving into the besieged Gaza Strip, two weeks after the militant group Hamas rampaged through southern Israel and Israel responded with airstrikes. Israel says Hamas has freed two American hostages who had been held in Gaza since the war began Oct. 7. Israeli airstrikes co Venezuela's opposition is holding primary to pick challenger for Maduro in 2024 presidential rival 10/21/2023 12:09pm • VALENCIA, Venezuela (AP) — Josselyz Essa and a friend, two 9-year-olds with a budding interest in politics as Venezuela starts toward its next presidential election, bubbled with eagerness waiting for the campaign rally to start. Then a thunderous noise spread over the crowd in the streets of the Swiss elect their parliament on Sunday with worries about environment and migration high in minds 10/21/2023 11:40am • GENEVA (AP) — Swiss voters this weekend elect a parliament that could reshape Switzerland’s executive branch at a time when key concerns include migration, rising health care costs and climate change, which has shrunk the country's Alpine glaciers. Final ballots will be collected Sunday morning Americans' faith in institutions has been sliding for years. The chaos in Congress isn't helping 10/21/2023 08:06am • WASHINGTON (AP) — For many Americans, the Republican dysfunction that has ground business in the U.S. House to a halt as two wars rage abroad and a budget crisis looms at home is feeding into a longer-term pessimism about the country's core institutions. The lack of faith extends beyond Congress, Thousands in Muslim countries and beyond demonstrate over Israeli airstrikes 10/20/2023 08:16pm • Thousands of people in Muslim countries and beyond held demonstrations Friday in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. They called for an end to Israel's blockade and airstrikes following a brutal incursion into southern Israel by fighters from the Hamas militant group that rules Gaza. Dem