COVID surge, vaccine mandate mean some Oregon school delays
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — With COVID-19 cases surging in Oregon, at least four school districts have delayed their start date. The Alsea School District…
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Spain tightens fertilizer rules after dead fish clog lagoon
MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities are expanding a ban on harmful fertilizers around a saltwater lagoon on the country’s Mediterranean coast,…
Continue ReadingColorado high school volleyball coach says school administrators asked him to denounce being gay or leave his job
By Carma Hassan and Kay Jones, CNN A volleyball coach says administrators at Valor Christian High School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, forced him to…
Continue ReadingWomen’s rights activist recounts pain of leaving Afghanistan
By DANIEL NIEMANN Associated Press DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — A former mayor of a central Afghanistan city is in Germany after having fled her…
Continue ReadingVisualizing the stark maternal health inequities in the United States
By Priya Krishnakumar, CNN Black women in the United States are more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth than any other demographic — and the…
Continue ReadingAncient DNA from a teen girl reveals previously unknown group of humans
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The bones of a teenage hunter-gatherer who died more than 7,000 years ago on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi tell the…
Continue ReadingReport: Most federal election security money remains unspent
By ROXANA HEGEMAN Associated Press A federal report finds that in the run up to the 2020 presidential election U.S. states and territories had spent…
Continue ReadingSecond beluga in failing health after move to Connecticut
By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press Mystic Aquarium says that a second of the five beluga whales it imported in May from a marine park in Canada is in…
Continue ReadingNew NY governor adds 12,000 deaths to publicized COVID tally
By MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s new governor is acknowledging that the state has had nearly 12,000 more…
Continue ReadingEXPLAINER: What’s happening with Afghanistan evacuations?
By BEN FOX and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 82,000 people have been evacuated from Afghanistan since the Taliban…
Continue ReadingJersey Shore landmark Lucy the Elephant to get new skin
MARGATE, N.J. (AP) — The beach-side landmark, Lucy the Elephant, is having all of its metal skin replaced because more than 50% of the exterior has…
Continue ReadingExperts on WHO team say search for COVID origins has stalled
By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The international scientists dispatched to China by the World Health Organization to look for the…
Continue ReadingFeds report most rental assistance has still not gone out
By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Only 11% of the tens of billions of dollars in federal rent assistance meant to help tenants around…
Continue ReadingFeds report most rental assistance has still not gone out
By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Only 11% of the tens of billions of dollars in federal rent assistance meant to help tenants around…
Continue ReadingDelta will charge unvaccinated employees $200 per month
By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Delta Air Lines won’t force employees to get vaccinated, but it’s going to make unvaccinated workers…
Continue ReadingDelta will charge unvaccinated employees $200 per month
By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Delta Air Lines won’t force employees to get vaccinated, but it’s going to make unvaccinated workers…
Continue ReadingOnlyFans reverses explicit content ban after outcry
By TALI ARBEL and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writers OnlyFans says it has suspended a plan to ban sexually explicit content following an outcry…
Continue ReadingOnlyFans reverses explicit content ban after outcry
By TALI ARBEL and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writers OnlyFans says it has suspended a plan to ban sexually explicit content following an outcry…
Continue ReadingMasks ordered for most Florida students, defying DeSantis
By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Just over half of Florida’s 2.8 million public school students now face mandates to…
Continue ReadingMany predicted some kind of ‘Covid slide’ in learning. Test results show how bad it is
By Rachel Clarke, CNN Children are heading back to school with the academic cost of the pandemic now being laid bare. Tumbling test scores reveal how…
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