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WHO says COVID emergency is over. So what does that mean? 05/05/2023 02:52pm • LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization downgraded its assessment of the coronavirus pandemic on Friday, saying it no longer qualifies as a global emergency. The action reverses a declaration that was first made on January 30, 2020, when the disease had not even been named COVID-19 and when th Group led by China, Russia criticizes global institutions 05/05/2023 01:00pm • PANAJI, India (AP) — Foreign ministers from a group of nations led by China and Russia criticized on Friday the ability of world institutions to resolve geopolitical problems, including the coronavirus pandemic, and said their organization should do more to address such challenges. Indian Foreign Italian ex-leader Conte attacked by man protesting lockdowns 05/05/2023 12:51pm • MILAN (AP) — Former Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte has been physically attacked during an official appearance in Tuscany by a man protesting against Italy’s lockdowns and other measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic, Italian media reported Friday. The man struck Conte in the face, and the Today in History: May 5, Shepard is first American in space 05/05/2023 12:00am • Today in History Today is Friday, May 5, the 125th day of 2023. There are 240 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America’s first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight aboard Mercury capsule Freedom 7. On When should school start? Arlington schools draft framework for future academic calendars 05/04/2023 10:01pm • Arlington Public Schools in Virginia has unveiled a proposed policy that it would use as a framework to create calendars for each school year. The school board has already passed an academic calendar for the 2023-24 school year, but the policy would be used to codify things such as how many days US often didn't screen workers at migrant centers: Watchdog 05/04/2023 07:06pm • SAN DIEGO (AP) — The federal Health and Human Services Department often failed to perform required background checks on workers at emergency holding centers for migrant children who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border alone during a surge in 2021, the agency's internal watchdog has found. The inspector One Championship finally lands in U.S. with debut show 05/04/2023 06:51pm • DENVER (AP) — One Championship finally makes its U.S. debut Friday night, and the martial arts promotion believes more stateside shows are in its near future. One is holding a Fight Night headlined by former UFC champion Demetrious Johnson at the 1st Bank Center in Broomfield, Colorado, just outsi State charges tossed in university town hate crime attack 05/04/2023 06:50pm • BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — State charges including attempted murder have been dismissed against a woman accused of stabbing an Indiana University student of Chinese descent on a public bus, court records show. Billie R. Davis, 56, of Bloomington, who is white, still faces a federal hate crime charge Oregon Senate walkout highlights unusual stalling tactics 05/04/2023 06:05pm • The Oregon Senate has been brought to a halt because Republican lawmakers have refused to show up to work on a Democratic agenda that includes new gun controls and greater access to abortion. It's not the first time Republicans have walked out of the Capitol, or even the second or third. Though ra Research monkey shortage undermines US readiness, panel says 05/04/2023 03:58pm • There’s a shortage of monkeys available for medical research and the U.S. should expand its breeding programs rather than rely on international suppliers to solve it, an influential scientific advisory panel said Thursday. Studies using nonhuman primates, especially monkeys, have been critical to California lawmakers OK emergency loans to failing hospitals 05/04/2023 02:48pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Alarmed by the closure of a rural hospital earlier this year, California lawmakers on Thursday voted to loan $150 million to struggling medical centers in the hope of preventing a cascade of similar failures across the state. The only hospital in Madera County closed in D COVID dropped to 4th leading cause of death in US last year 05/04/2023 02:30pm • NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. deaths fell last year, and COVID-19 dropped to the nation's No. 4 cause, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday. COVID-19 deaths trailed those caused by heart disease, cancer and injuries such as drug overdoses, motor vehicle fatalities and shootings. COVID fell to fourth leading cause of death for Americans in 2022 05/04/2023 01:00pm • ▶ Watch Video: Latest COVID booster guidance as new Arcturus subvariant spreads The spread of COVID-19 has been slowing, but the virus still remained one of the leading causes of death for Americans in 2022, falling from third place to fourth place last year.Among Norway climber aims to be fastest to scale 14 tallest peaks 05/04/2023 11:09am • KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Norwegian who just became the fastest female to climb the world's 14 highest mountains is now aiming to become the fastest person to complete the feat by beating the record set by a male climber in 2019. Kristin Harila, 37, successfully scaled Mount Cho Oyu and Mount Shis Ban social media for kids? Fed-up parents in Senate say yes 05/04/2023 06:16am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Katie Britt says she hears about it constantly when she is at home in Alabama — at school track meets, basketball tournaments and on her regular morning walks with friends. And when she was running for the Senate last year, Britt says, “parent after parent” came up to