Hollowed out public health system faces more cuts amid virus
Jul 01, 2020
By LAUREN WEBER, LAURA UNGAR, MICHELLE R. SMITH, HANNAH RECHT and ANNA MARIA BARRY-JESTER AP - The U.S. public health system has been starved for decades and lacks the resources necessary to confront the worst…
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How risky is flying during the coronavirus pandemic?
Jun 30, 2020
By The Associated Press How risky is flying during the coronavirus pandemic? Flying can increase your risk of exposure to infection, but airlines are taking some precautions and you can too. Air travel means spending…
Mississippi surrenders Confederate symbol from state flag
Jun 29, 2020
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi will retire the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem, more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design a…
States retreat as new virus cases hit an all-time high in US
Jun 26, 2020
By MICHELLE R. SMITH and FRANCES D'EMILIO AP - Texas and Florida clamped down on bars again Friday in the biggest retreat yet amid a surge across the South and West that sent the number…
Election results are delayed again. Get used to it.
Jun 25, 2020
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Kentucky and New York had primaries Tuesday, but the winners of the closest races probably won’t be known until next week. What’s going on? Get used to it. Slow vote counts…
US virus cases surge to highest level in 2 months
Jun 24, 2020
By NICK PERRY and KEN MORITSUGU BEIJING (AP) — New coronavirus cases in the U.S. have surged to their highest level in two months and are now back to where they were at the peak…
Fauci to testify at a fraught time for US pandemic response
Jun 23, 2020
By LAURAN NEERGAARD and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR WASHINGTON (AP) — With coronavirus cases rising in about half the states and political polarization competing for attention with public health recommendations, Dr. Anthony Fauci returns to Capitol Hill…
WHO chief warns world leaders not to ‘politicize’ pandemic
Jun 22, 2020
By JON GAMBRELL DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — World leaders must not politicize the coronavirus pandemic but unite to fight it, the head of the World Health Organization warned Monday, reminding all that the…
Juneteenth: A day of joy and pain - and now national action
Jun 19, 2020
By AARON MORRISON and KAT STAFFORD AP - In just about any other year, Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the day in 1865 that all enslaved black people learned they had been freed from bondage, would…
Prosecutor: Officer kicked Rayshard Brooks after shooting
Jun 18, 2020
By KATE BRUMBACK ATLANTA (AP) — As Rayshard Brooks lay dying in a Wendy’s parking lot, prosecutors say the Atlanta police officer who shot him in the back kicked him and didn’t give him medical…