By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A $1.9 trillion package aimed at helping the country rebuild from the pandemic seemed headed toward House passage Friday, even as Democrats searched for…
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Highlights of the COVID-19 relief bill advancing in Congress
By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is expected to pass a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package late Friday that includes $1,400 checks for most Americans and billions of dol…
Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls taken in mass abduction
By SAM OLUKOYA Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen abducted 317 girls from a boarding school in northern Nigeria on Friday, police said, the latest in a series of mass kidnappings of student…
Debate amid pandemic: Should foundations have to give more?
By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The viral pandemic wiped out jobs and businesses and left many U.S. families unable to afford food. It also caused a crisis for charities: Too much n…
BLM launches Survival Fund amid federal COVID-19 relief wait
By AARON MORRISON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation is formally expanding a $3 million financial relief fund that it quietly launched earlier this month…
How would COVID-19 vaccine makers adapt to variants?
By The Associated Press How would COVID-19 vaccine makers adapt to variants? By tweaking their vaccines, a process that should be easier than coming up with the original shots. Viruses constantly muta…
States pass their own virus aid, not waiting on Washington
By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Not waiting for more federal help, states have been approving their own coronavirus aid packages, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to help…
FDA says single-dose shot from J&J prevents severe COVID
By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose vaccine offers strong protection against severe COVID-19, according to an analysis releas…
Left out of MeToo: New initiative focuses on Black survivors
By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer It’s been more than three years since the #MeToo movement launched a culture-shifting conversation about sexual violence. But Tarana Burke, the activist who gave t…
Mars rover’s giant parachute carried secret message
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The huge parachute used by NASA’s Perseverance rover to land on Mars contained a secret message, thanks to a puzzle lover on the spacecra…