By TALI ARBEL Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Eight days into the school year, all five of Amber Cessac’s daughters, ages 4 to 10, had tested positive for COVID-19. Having them all sick at once and wo…
Facebook whistleblower testifies: Five highlights
By BARBARA ORTUTAY and DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press A former Facebook employee told members of Congress Tuesday that the company knows that its platform spreads misinformation and content that harms…
J&J seeks US clearance for COVID-19 vaccine booster doses
By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Johnson & Johnson asked the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday to allow extra shots of its COVID-19 vaccine as the U.S. government moves …
Physics Nobel rewards work on climate change, other forces
By DAVID KEYTON and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for work that found order in seeming disorder, helping to explain and pred…
Trial against pharmacy chains’ opioid sales begins
By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — Retail pharmacy chains contributed to a deadly and expensive public nuisance in two Ohio counties where the opioid crisis continues to rage, an atto…
Court: Giant e-school cannot appeal Ohio board’s $60M order
By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio school board’s order requiring a giant, now-defunct online charter school to repay the state $60 million over inflated enrollm…
Doctors grow frustrated over COVID-19 denial, misinformation
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press The COVID-19 patient’s health was deteriorating quickly at a Michigan hospital, but he was having none of the doctor’s diagnosis. Despite dangerou…
COVID-19 deaths eclipse 700,000 in US as delta variant rages
By TAMMY WEBBER and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press It’s a milestone that by all accounts didn’t have to happen this soon. The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 eclipsed 700,000 late Friday — a num…
Leaked records open a ‘Pandora’ box of financial secrets
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press Hundreds of world leaders, powerful politicians, billionaires, celebrities, religious leaders and drug dealers have been hiding their investmen…
AP: States and cities slow to spend federal pandemic money
By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press As Congress considered a massive COVID-19 relief package earlier this year, hundreds of mayors from across the U.S. pleaded for “immediate action” on billions of doll…