FDA experts among group opposing US booster shot plan
By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press An international group of scientists is arguing the average person doesn’t need a…
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School vaccine campaigns targeting students face blowback
By CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press / Report for America Across the U.S., vaccine-hesitant parents are struggling with vaccine-seeking teenagers set…
Continue ReadingBlinken pushes back on GOP criticism of Afghan withdrawal
By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken has pushed back against harsh Republican criticism of the…
Continue ReadingNo bull: Scientists potty train cows to use ‘MooLoo’
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Researchers in Germany have potty trained cows, all in the name of science. Monday’s study in the journal…
Continue ReadingNTSB chief: focus on road safety must shift to entire system
By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The new chairman of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board wants to change the way governments…
Continue ReadingBurkina Faso humanitarian response risks lives, agency says
By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — The Norwegian Refugee Council said Burkina Faso’s slow and insufficient…
Continue ReadingSouth Africa events industry gets boost with regulation ease
By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The hospitality and events industry in South Africa has received a major boost with the…
Continue ReadingUN: Probe in Ethiopia’s Tigray didn’t reach Axum massacre
By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United Nations human rights chief says a highly awaited joint investigation into abuses in…
Continue ReadingA youth-driven Met fashion exhibit, for a changing world
By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The new exhibit at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art seeks to start a…
Continue ReadingTony Awards land hosts Leslie Odom Jr. and Audra McDonald
By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The long-delayed Tony Awards have landed two impressive master of ceremonies — Tony- and…
Continue ReadingSept. 11 monument is defaced by vandals in South Carolina
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Authorities in South Carolina say a large granite monument honoring 9-11 victims was defaced by vandals who spray-painted…
Continue ReadingSecond lawsuit alleges abuse at New Hampshire youth center
By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A man who alleges that he was raped by multiple staffers at New Hampshire’s youth detention…
Continue ReadingHolocaust survivor, scholar awarded $815,000 Balzan Prize
By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — An Israeli-French-American Holocaust survivor and historian and a U.S. scientist specializing in gut…
Continue ReadingReport: Climate change could see 200 million move by 2050
By RENATA BRITO Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Climate change could push more than 200 million people to move within their own countries…
Continue ReadingWhitehead’s ‘Harlem Shuffle’ among Kirkus Prize nominees
NEW YORK (AP) — The latest novels from Colson Whitehead and Joy Williams, and Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ debut work “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du…
Continue ReadingLebanese president wants to resume bailout talks with IMF
By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s new government has held its first meeting with a call by the president to resume talks…
Continue ReadingStudy: Pentagon reliance on contractors hurt US in 9/11 wars
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press A new study says up to half of the $14 trillion spent by the Pentagon since 9/11 went to for-profit defense…
Continue ReadingJhumpa Lahiri book on translation to come out in the spring
NEW YORK (AP) — The next book from Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer Jhumpa Lahiri will highlight her work as a translator. Princeton…
Continue ReadingIsrael PM in first official trip to Egypt in over a decade
By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The leaders of Egypt and Israel have met as part of the first official visit by an Israeli prime…
Continue ReadingUS steps up effort to unite families separated under Trump
By BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is stepping up its effort to find and unite migrant families forcibly…
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