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Too many people, not enough management: A look at the chaos of 'overtourism' in the summer of 2024 08/19/2024 01:25am • SINTRA, Portugal (AP) — The doorbell to Martinho de Almada Pimentel’s house is hard to find, and he likes it that way. It’s a long rope that, when pulled, rings a literal bell on the roof that lets him know someone is outside the mountainside mansion that his great-grandfather built in 1914 as Got cold symptoms? Here's when kids should take a sick day from school 08/19/2024 12:14am • PHOENIX (AP) — As schools reopen for another year, they are focused on improving student attendance. But back-to-school is hitting just as COVID-19 cases are increasing, raising the question: When is a child too sick for school? School absences surged during the pandemic and have yet to recover. N Her name was on a filing agreeing to be a Cornel West elector. Her question: What's an elector? 08/16/2024 10:30pm • PHOENIX (AP) — When Denisha Mitchell was asked why she filled out paperwork to serve as an Arizona elector for the independent presidential candidate Cornel West, her first response was “What?!” Her second: What's an elector? “I was shocked and surprised by it all. I didn't even know what a COVID-19 is on the upswing in the US 08/16/2024 03:28pm • COVID-19 hasn’t gone away, and data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests it’s on the upswing around the country. “We’ve seen these summer increases every summer that COVID-19 has been with us,” said Dr. Amesh Adalja, a Johns Hopkins University infectious disease phy Now that mpox is a global health emergency, will it trigger another pandemic? 08/16/2024 01:08pm • LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization has declared the ongoing outbreaks of mpox in Congo and elsewhere in Africa to be a global emergency, requiring urgent action to curb the virus' transmission. Sweden has since announced it had found the first case of a new form of mpox previously only Germany's quarrelsome government clinches a deal on the 2025 budget 08/16/2024 10:53am • BERLIN (AP) — Germany's quarrelsome governing coalition reached an agreement Friday on details of the country's 2025 budget, weeks after Chancellor Olaf Scholz and top officials clinched an initial deal that then got bogged down in a new dispute, further damaging the unpopular government's image. Palau's president says China is weaponizing lucrative tourism over his refusal to break Taiwan ties 08/16/2024 02:57am • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Beijing weaponized tourism to the Pacific archipelago of Palau over its allegiance to Taiwan and its accusations that China was behind a major cyberattack there, President Surangel Whipps Jr. told The Associated Press. Palau, along with Tuvalu and the Marshall Islan The ACT Is Changing: Here's What to Know 08/15/2024 08:00pm • Another college admissions test is getting a revamp. Like the SAT -- for which a new format was launched in March 2024 -- the ACT is undergoing some adjustments, including a shortened format, optional science section and ability for students to choose between the paper and digital versions. Those ch Dubai-based port operator DP World's half-year profits fall nearly 60%, in part over Red Sea attacks 08/15/2024 04:06am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai-based port operator DP World reported Thursday its half-year profits fell by nearly 60%, in part over the ongoing attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels over the Israel-Hamas war that have affected shipping through the Red Sea. DP World reported profits of $265 m Survey shows disaster-prone Southeast Asia is also best prepared, suggesting lessons can be learned 08/15/2024 12:08am • BANGKOK (AP) — Southeast Asia is among the regions most prone to natural disasters, but a new analysis released Thursday shows its people also feel the best equipped to deal with them. It seems logical that the countries in and around the Pacific Ring of Fire, vulnerable to earthquakes, typhoons, Presented with rise in border crossings, Kamala Harris chose a long-term approach to the problem 08/14/2024 10:54am • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden, watching tens of thousands of migrants from Central America reach the U.S.-Mexico border just a few months into his administration, tapped his second-in-command to help address the influx — a decision that has exposed Vice President Kamala Harris to one of Victoria's Secret bringing in Hillary Super from Savage X Fenty as its new CEO 08/14/2024 08:54am • Victoria's Secret is making a change at the top, naming Hillary Super from Savage X Fenty as its new chief executive. Super will take over for Martin Waters, effective Sept. 9. Waters became CEO of Victoria's Secret in 2021. He will serve as an advisor through the end of the month to help with the Biden announces $150 million in research grants as part of his 'moonshot' push to fight cancer 08/13/2024 06:44pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — President Joe Biden is zeroing in on the policy goals closest to his heart now that he's no longer seeking a second term, visiting New Orleans on Tuesday to promote his administration's "moonshot" initiative aiming to dramatically reduce cancer deaths. The president and first la Google and Selena Gomez partner to fund teen mental health in the classroom 08/12/2024 04:51pm • The unprecedented mental health crisis for children in the United States often surfaces where they spend much of their days: school. With that in mind, Google’s philanthropic arm is directly financing high school wellbeing projects on a classroom crowdfunding platform. Google.org on Monday flash f Everyone agrees there's a homeless crisis in the US. Plans to address it vary among mayor candidates 08/11/2024 12:01am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco Mayor London Breed has launched a new crackdown on people sleeping outside in a campaign to clear the sidewalks of homeless encampments that have come to define the city. Her four challengers in November's election, all Democrats, say she hasn't handled the crisi