By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press Pfizer announced Wednesday that its COVID-19 vaccine is safe and strongly protective in kids as young as 12, a step toward possibly beginning s…
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COVID-19 pushed total US deaths beyond 3.3 million last year
By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer The COVID-19 pandemic pushed total U.S. deaths last year beyond 3.3 million, the nation’s highest annual death toll, the government reported Wednesday. The corona…
2 views of Floyd onlookers: Desperate to help, or angry mob
By JIM SALTER Associated Press To the prosecution, the witnesses who watched George Floyd’s body go still were regular people — a firefighter, a mixed martial arts fighter, a high school student and h…
‘Lighting a fuse’: Amazon vote may spark more union pushes
By JOSEPH PISANI and BILL BARROW The Associated Press What happens inside a warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, could have major implications not just for the country’s second-largest employer but t…
States struggle to get rent relief to tenants amid pandemic
By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced last July that New York would spend $100 million in federal coronavirus relief to help cash-strapped tenants pay months of back rent and a…
Less than half of Americans are members of houses of worship
By BOB SMIETANA Religion News Service (RNS) — Ask Americans if they believe in God and most will say yes. But a growing number have lost faith in organized religion. For the first time since the late …
Beyond bridges: Biden redefines infrastructure to add people
By LISA MASCARO, JOSH BOAK and JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Beyond roads and bridges, President Joe Biden is trying to redefine infrastructure not just as an investment in Americ…
Witnesses: Onlooker anger increased as Floyd stopped moving
By STEVE KARNOWSKI and AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Onlookers grew increasingly angry as they begged Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin to take his knee off George Floyd’s neck, but …
A key to bridging the political divide: Sit down and talk?
By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A few years ago, Dave Isay started worrying about America as he saw the middle ground between the political parties vanish into what he calls “discon…
Georgia’s new GOP election law draws criticism, lawsuits
By BEN NADLER and JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Critics of Georgia’s new Republican-backed election law issued fresh calls Monday to boycott some of the state’s largest businesses for…