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…
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Blinken 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 ReadingAfghan women are sharing photos of dresses to protest the Taliban’s black hijab mandate
By Masoud Popalzai and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN Afghan women around the world are protesting the Taliban‘s new hijab requirement in schools by…
Continue ReadingOnline bets on NFL games seen surging as season begins
By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A company that most of the legal U.S. sports betting industry uses to verify that its…
Continue ReadingScientists are potty-training cows in a bid to help save the planet
By Isabelle Jani-Friend, CNN If you can potty-train a child, you can potty-train a cow. At least, that was the theory a group of researchers in…
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 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 ReadingA heart patient died after he couldn’t get a cardiac ICU bed in 43 hospitals. Now his family is pleading for people to get vaccinated
By Alta Spells and Holly Yan, CNN Ray DeMonia wasn’t seeking Covid-19 treatment when he arrived at an Alabama hospital with heart problems. But…
Continue ReadingMan caught with machete near DNC is charged as new details of White supremacist views emerge
CNN By Marshall Cohen, CNN The man who was caught with a machete and bayonet-style knife near the Democratic Party headquarters was formally charged…
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 ReadingHe was lucky to escape Afghanistan, but many of his relatives, friends and other Afghan allies were left behind, in danger and pleading to be evacuated
CNN By Liam Reilly, CNN After a perilous 14-hour drive from Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second-largest city, to the capital of Kabul, a flight to…
Continue ReadingSheriff: Man killed in truck explosion in Troutdale, Oregon
TROUTDALE, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say an explosion in a pickup truck killed a man in Troutdale, Oregon. The Multnomah County Sheriff’s…
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 ReadingSouth Africa mulls vaccine passports as Covid-19 restrictions are eased
By David McKenzie, CNN South Africa will start to ease several Covid-19 restrictions as infection rates decrease in the country, President Cyril…
Continue ReadingCanadian National railroad facing more investor pressure
By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A day after being spurned by Kansas City Southern, Canadian National Railway is facing…
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 ReadingGunmen storm Nigerian jail to break out more than 200 prisoners
By Nimi Princewill, CNN At least 240 prisoners have escaped in a prison break in Nigeria’s north-central Kogi State after gunmen carried out a…
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