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Biden’s Aid Plan Could Revamp Economy, Prompt GOP Resistance
BALTIMORE (AP) — The $1.9 trillion rescue plan unveiled by President-elect Joe Biden offers the chance ...

California Counties Beg for Vaccine as Eligibility Expands
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California counties begged for more coronavirus vaccine as the state added a ...

Flint Families Welcome Water Crisis Charges, Seek Healing
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Flint mother Ariana Hawk struggled to find words. Bittersweet came to mind, ...

Teacher Trained 56 Guide Dogs, Passed Legacy to Students
After years of treating President Donald Trump's inflammatory rhetoric with a light touch, Facebook and Instagram ...

US Unemployment Claims Slip to Still-High 787,000
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell slightly last week to 787,000, ...

Legislators Eye Minimum Sick Leave, Anti-Discrimination Law
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico legislators unveiled initiatives on issues ranging from minimum sick-day ...

Bill Legalizing Abortion Passed in Pope’s Native Argentina
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina on Wednesday became the largest nation in Latin America to ...

After a Year Like This, Expect a Strange New Year’s Eve
NEW YORK (AP) — If ever a year's end seemed like cause for celebration, 2020 might ...

More COVID-19 Vaccines in the Pipeline as US Effort Ramps Up
A huge U.S. study of another COVID-19 vaccine candidate got underway Monday as states continue to ...

One Good Thing: Highlights of 9 Months in Tales of Kindness
In mid-March, as the coronavirus was ravaging communities and economies around the world, The Associated Press ...

Aid Groups Aim to Bring Health Care to Migrants on Way to US
MATAMOROS, Mexico (AP) — Aurora Leticia Cruz has tried to keep up with her blood pressure ...

Girl Scouts Rebuke Boy Scouts in Escalating Recruitment War
NEW YORK (AP) — The Girl Scouts are in a "highly damaging" recruitment war with the ...

A Pandemic Christmas: Services Move Online, People Stay Home
ROME (AP) — Families that usually reunite on Christmas over a hearty, lingering meal celebrated apart ...

Endangered Ferrets Get Experimental COVID-19 in Colorado
In late summer, as researchers accelerated the first clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines for humans, a ...

Pope on COVID-19 Vaccine: Needy, Vulnerable Must Come First
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis made a Christmas Day plea for authorities to make COVID-19 ...

Christmas in The ICU: Decorations, Lights and Many Tears
OPELIKA, Ala. (AP) — A Christmas tree stands outside the intensive care room where a man ...

Oklahoma Teachers Union Head Warns About Return to Classes
A program that has pumped $2.7 billion into healing long-term injuries to the Great Lakes environment ...

As Some Pandemic Aid Ends, What’s Next for Hurting Americans
Americans who struggled through 2020 could face more hardship in the year ahead as pandemic related ...

Some Schools Go Remote, Others Ask for Voluntary Quarantines
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Some Vermont schools are moving to all-remote teaching in the week following ...

UK Cuts Overseas Aid After Worst Recession in Over 300 Years
LONDON (AP) — The British government faced fury Wednesday after ditching its long-standing target for overseas ...

Global Push to End Domestic Violence, Worse Amid COVID-19
BRUSSELS (AP) — In a global push to end violence against women, activists held rallies Wednesday ...

Heading Home for the Holiday? Get a Virus Test, Colleges Say
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — As college students prepare to go home for the holidays, some ...

CDC Pleads with Americans to Not Travel for Thanksgiving
NEW YORK (AP) — With the coronavirus surging out of control, the nation's top public health ...

Judge Orders US to Stop Expelling Children Who Cross Border
HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to stop expelling immigrant ...

Study Suggests Video Games Can Help Mental Health
LONDON (AP) — Time spent playing video games can be good for mental health, according to ...

Bangladeshi Wins Children’s Prize for Fighting Cyberbullying
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A 17-year-old Bangladeshi boy won the International Children's Peace Prize on ...

US Deports Migrant Women Who Alleged Abuse by Georgia Doctor
HOUSTON (AP) — The Trump administration is trying to deport several women who allege they were ...

For Biden, How to Help Mangled Economy is Next Obstacle
BALTIMORE (AP) — Joe Biden will inherit a mangled U.S. economy — one that never fully ...

FDA Panel Urges Rejection of Experimental Alzheimer’s Drug
WASHINGTON (AP) — Government health advisers sharply criticized a closely watched Alzheimer's drug on Friday, concluding ...

Preview: North Home Children & Family Services – James Christmas
James Christmas, President & CEO of North Homes Children and Family Services, discusses the organization's unique ...

Washington Passes 1st Voter-Approved Sex Ed Mandate in US
SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state voters approved a sex education referendum, allowing Democrats' wide-ranging mandate for ...

California Measure Would Allow Cities to Expand Rent Control
Californians are deciding whether to let cities expand rent control as residents grapple with rising housing ...

Hospitals Competing for Nurses as US Coronavirus Cases Surge
FENTON, Michigan (AP) — As the coronavirus pandemic surges across the nation and infections and hospitalizations ...

Families, Day Cares Feel Strain of New COVID-19 Health Rules
SEATTLE (AP) — Joelle Wheatley hit her pandemic-parenting rock bottom after her son was sent home ...

On Pandemic ‘Learning Loss,’ Schools Look Forward, Not Back
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A complete picture has yet to emerge of how much learning was ...

Heightened Unrest in Philadelphia After Black Man’s Killing
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A tense Philadelphia braced for more demonstrations Wednesday over the police killing of ...

Halloween in 2020: Some Fun with Death and Fear, Anyone?
PORTERSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — The setting: a rolling patch of Pennsylvania farmland, about 15 miles from ...

Feeding Houston’s Hungry: 1M Pounds of Food Daily for Needy
HOUSTON (AP) — In car lines that can stretch half a mile (0.8 kilometers), workers who ...

In Video Classes Teachers Parse Clues to Student Wellbeing
DENVER (AP) — Orange skies, winds gusting up to 70 mph, smoke tornadoes and hazardous air ...

Colorado Wildfires Drag on Later Than Normal, Break Records
DENVER (AP) — Orange skies, winds gusting up to 70 mph, smoke tornadoes and hazardous air ...