By CARLA K. JOHNSON and NICKY FORSTER Associated Press Despite the clamor to speed up the U.S. vaccination drive against COVID-19 and get the country back to normal, the first three months of the roll…
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Biden aims to prevent border crossings from swamping agenda
By JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is scrambling to manage a growing humanitarian and political challenge at the U.S.-Mexico border that threatens to oversh…
Married 66 years, husband, wife die minutes apart of virus
By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Bill and Esther Ilnisky spent nearly seven decades together as Christian ministers and missionaries, working in the Caribbean and Middle …
Happiness Report: World shows resilience in face of COVID19
By DAVID KEYTON Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — The coronavirus brought a year of fear and anxiety, loneliness and lockdown, and illness and death, but an annual report on happiness around the world…
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
By The Associated Press A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The A…
Stigmas on race, gender and sex overlap in Atlanta slayings
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press Seven of the eight people killed were women; six were of Asian descent. The suspect, according to police, appeared to blame his actions on …
Forecast for spring: Nasty drought worsens for much of US
BY SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer With nearly two-thirds of the United States abnormally dry or worse, the government’s spring forecast offers little hope for relief, especially in the West where a…
Will work from home outlast virus? Ford’s move suggests yes
By TOM KRISHER and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Business Writers DETROIT (AP) — It’s a question occupying the minds of millions of employees who have worked from home the past year: Will they still be allow…
I got the COVID-19 vaccine. What can I safely do?
By TERRY TANG Associated Press I got the COVID-19 vaccine. What can I safely do? You can enjoy small gatherings again, but should continue wearing a mask and social distancing in public. In the U.S., …
White supremacist propaganda surged in 2020, report says
By AARON MORRISON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — White supremacist propaganda reached alarming levels across the U.S. in 2020, according to a new report that the Anti-Defamation League provided to T…