By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — For Dr. Jeremy Faust, the moment he realized the pandemic no longer dominated his workday came over Memorial Day weekend, when he didn’t see a single c…
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Global war on ransomware? Hurdles hinder the US response
By ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Foreign keyboard criminals with scant fear of repercussions have paralyzed U.S. schools and hospitals, leaked highly sensitive police files, trig…
‘Next big wave’: Radiation drugs track and kill cancer cells
By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer Doctors are reporting improved survival in men with advanced prostate cancer from an experimental drug that delivers radiation directly to tumor cells. Few such d…
Trump’s grip on GOP sparks fears about democratic process
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press Seven months after Election Day, former President Donald Trump’s supporters are still auditing ballots in Arizona’s largest county and may revive legi…
Newer methods may boost gene therapy’s use for more diseases
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer Jordan Janz knew his gamble on an experimental gene therapy for his rare disease might be paying off when he returned to work and a friend sniffed him. “H…
100 years after Tulsa Race Massacre, the damage remains
By AARON MORRISON Associated Press TULSA, Okla. (AP) — On a recent Sunday, Ernestine Alpha Gibbs returned to Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church. Not her body. She had left this Earth 18 years a…
Deep-rooted racism, discrimination permeate US military
By KAT STAFFORD, JAMES LAPORTA, AARON MORRISON and HELEN WIEFFERING Associated Press For Stephanie Davis, who grew up with little, the military was a path to the American dream, a realm where everyone…
CEO pay rises to $12.7M even as pandemic ravages economy
By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — As COVID-19 ravaged the world last year, CEOs’ big pay packages seemed to be under as much threat as everything else. Fortunately for those CEOs, many h…
“The foundation of the wealth:” Why Black Wall Street boomed
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press TULSA, Okla. (AP) — In a century-old family story about a teenage aunt who liked to drive her luxury car down the trolley tracks of Tulsa, Kristi Williams still sa…
Sheriff: Rail yard shooter stockpiled guns, ammo at his home
By JANIE HAR and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The gunman who killed nine of his co-workers at a California rail yard had stockpiled weapons and 25,000 rounds of ammunition at h…