By DAVID KLEPPER and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In March, as claims about the dangers and ineffectiveness of coronavirus vaccines spun across social media and undermined attempts …
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Half its original size, Biden’s big plan in race to finish
By LISA MASCARO, AAMER MADHANI and ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Half its original size, President Joe Biden’s big domestic policy plan is being pulled apart and reconfigured as D…
Enforcement of indoor vaccine mandates proves uneven in US
By CALEB JONES and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Go out for a night on the town in some U.S. cities and you might find yourself waiting while someone at the door of the restaurant…
COVID cases falling, but trouble signs arise as winter looms
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press Tumbling COVID-19 case counts have some schools around the U.S. considering relaxing their mask rules, but deaths nationally have been ticking up over the past f…
Moderna says its low-dose COVID shot works for kids 6 to 11
By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer Moderna said Monday that a low dose of its COVID-19 vaccine is safe and appears to work in 6- to 11-year-olds, as the manufacturer joins its rival Pfizer in movin…
A moving ‘reunion’ for descendants of Holocaust survivors
By BOBBY ROSS Jr. Associated Press WESTLAKE, Texas (AP) — Anna Salton Eisen found the old pictures — wallet-size, black-and-white images of Jewish prisoners who survived the Holocaust — in a folder he…
Africa tries to end vaccine inequity by replicating its own
By LORI HINNANT, MARIA CHENG and ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — In a pair of Cape Town warehouses converted into a maze of airlocked sterile rooms, young scientists are…
Where are the workers? Cutoff of jobless aid spurs no influx
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, CASEY SMITH and LARRY FENN Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Earlier this year, an insistent cry arose from business leaders and Republican governors: Cut…
Amid the Capitol riot, Facebook faced its own insurrection
By ALAN SUDERMAN and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press Thousands of miles away, in California, Facebook engineers were racing to tweak internal controls to slow the spread of misinformation and incitefu…
AP FACT CHECK: No, Election Day wasn’t the real insurrection
By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As he prepares to launch a new media companythat will give him his own social media platform, former President Donald Trump has ramped up his efforts to…