WHO: global COVID cases up 11% last week, omicron risk high
Dec 29, 2021
By: The Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The World Health Organization says the number of COVID-19 cases recorded worldwide increased by 11% last week compared with the previous week, with the biggest increase in the…
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Flu is making a comeback in US after an unusual year off
Dec 28, 2021
By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP - The U.S. flu season has arrived on schedule after taking a year off, with flu hospitalizations rising and two child deaths reported. Last year’s flu season was the lowest…
Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s moral conscience, dies at 90
Dec 27, 2021
By ANDREW MELDRUM JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning icon, an uncompromising foe of apartheid and a modern-day activist for racial justice and LGBT rights, died Sunday at 90. South Africans,…
Omicron is latest blow to pandemic-weary front-line workers
Dec 24, 2021
By PHILIP MARCELO, ANNE D’INNOCENZIO and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN BOSTON (AP) — Staff absences for COVID-19 tripled this month in London’s hospitals, and nearly 10% of the city’s firefighters called out sick. In New York,…
To grandmother’s house or no? Omicron disrupts holiday plans
Dec 23, 2021
By LAURA UNGAR and TALI ARBEL AP - Dave Fravel and his wife invited several relatives to their Cape Cod home for Christmas to share food, gifts and the togetherness they’ve longed for during the…
Democrats ‘not giving up’ on Biden bill, talks with Manchin
Dec 22, 2021
By LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden appears determined to return to the negotiating table with Sen. Joe Manchin, the holdout Democrat who effectively tanked the party’s signature $2 trillion…
Biden to pledge 500M free COVID-19 tests to counter omicron
Dec 21, 2021
By JOSH BOAK and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR WASHINGTON (AP) — With the omicron variant on the march, President Joe Biden plans to announce 500 million free rapid tests for Americans, increased support for hospitals under strain and a…
Manchin’s child tax credit stance draws criticism back home
Dec 17, 2021
By ASHRAF KHALIL WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Joe Manchin’s reluctance to endorse the Biden administration’s expanded child tax credit program is rippling through his home state of West Virginia. Manchin, a moderate Democrat, is one…
Towns in mourning while digging out from deadly tornadoes
Dec 16, 2021
By SEAN MURPHY and BRUCE SCHREINER DAWSON SPRINGS, Ky. (AP) — Tight-knit communities still digging out from the deadly tornadoes that killed dozens of people across eight states in the South and Midwest are turning to another…
Chauvin pleads guilty to federal charges in Floyd’s death
Dec 15, 2021
By AMY FORLITI ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges of violating George Floyd’s civil rights, averting a trial but likely extending the time he is…