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Asian stocks mixed after US job gain paves way for rate hike 08/08/2022 12:05am • BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks were mixed on Monday after strong U.S. jobs data cleared the way for more interest rate hikes and China reported its exports rose by double digits. Shanghai and Tokyo advanced while Hong Kong and Seoul retreated. Oil prices edged higher. Wall Street's benchmark S&P Biden leaves White House for 1st time since getting COVID-19 08/07/2022 01:00pm • REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — Ending his most recent COVID-19 isolation, President Joe Biden on Sunday left the White House for the first time since becoming infected with the coronavirus last month, settling in for a reunion with first lady Jill Biden in their home state of Delaware. The president Quantrill throws 6 shutout innings, Guardians top Astros 4-1 08/06/2022 09:55pm • CLEVELAND (AP) — Cal Quantrill tossed six scoreless innings and Amed Rosario had a two-run single, lifting the Cleveland Guardians to a 4-1 victory over the AL West-leading Houston Astros on Saturday night. All-Star José Ramírez added two hits and an RBI, and Andres Gimenez and Myles Straw had t In wake of floods, typical barbs at Kentucky political event 08/06/2022 07:42pm • FANCY FARM, Ky. (AP) — While Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear was consoling families displaced by historic flooding in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, Republicans at the state’s premier political event on the other side of the state were campaigning to oust him from office in 2023. GOP candidate Many Maryland counties experiencing high COVID-19 community levels 08/06/2022 04:50pm • Though daily cases of COVID-19 were fairly constant in the D.C. area earlier in the summer, some counties are beginning to see their community levels of the infection rise. Community levels are a metric used by the Centers for Disease Control based on new cases of COVID-19, hospital admissions and Biden tests negative for COVID, isolating until 2nd negative 08/06/2022 01:21pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden tested negative for COVID-19 on Saturday but will continue to isolate at the White House until a second negative test, his doctor said. Dr. Kevin O'Connor wrote in his latest daily update that the president, “in an abundance of caution,” will abide by the Fauci on monkeypox: 'You never blow off any emerging infection,' but it can be controlled 08/05/2022 07:58pm • People lined up Friday at a pop-up vaccination clinic in D.C. for the monkeypox vaccine, hoping to mitigate the infection risk. Dr. Anthony Fauci says people should be aware of the virus but not panic. The federal government declared monkeypox a public health emergency Thursday to bolster Officials: Central Illinois day care worker has monkeypox 08/05/2022 07:51pm • CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — A central Illinois day care worker has developed monkeypox but it has not spread to others at the center, public health officials said Friday. The worker at the unidentified day care in the village of Rantoul was in isolation and doing well, officials said. Screening of chil Doctor critical of lax COVID rules wins Tenn. Dem gov race 08/05/2022 02:25pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jason Martin, a Nashville doctor critical of Republican Gov. Bill Lee’s hands-off approach to the COVID-19 pandemic, won the Democratic nomination for governor Friday and will face Lee in November. Martin, a first-time political candidate, defeated Memphis attorney and Ci Texan sentenced to 25 years for virus-era attack on Asians 08/05/2022 01:48pm • MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — A Texas man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for attacking an Asian family in 2020 because he thought they were Chinese and therefore responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, according to federal court records Jose Gomez III, 21, of Midland, Texas, was sentenced Thursda UK: 'Early signs' that monkeypox outbreak may be peaking 08/05/2022 01:36pm • LONDON (AP) — British health authorities said Friday the monkeypox outbreak across the country may be peaking and that the epidemic’s growth rate has slowed. The U.K.'s Health Security Agency said in a statement there were “early signs that the outbreak is plateauing,” with 2,859 cases detec Biden heading to Kentucky to see flood damage, meet families 08/05/2022 01:31pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel to eastern Kentucky on Monday to survey the damage from last week's devastating floods and meet with those affected. The White House announced Friday that the Bidens would join Gov. Andy Beshear and his wife, Britainy, at Spain leads Europe in monkeypox, struggles to check spread 08/05/2022 10:55am • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — As a sex worker and adult film actor, Roc was relieved when he was among the first Spaniards to get a monkeypox vaccine. He knew of several cases among men who have sex with men, which is the leading demographic for the disease, and feared he could be next. “I went home a Rangers win 3-2 over WSox in debuts of 2 former 1st-rounders 08/05/2022 12:15am • ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Meibrys Viloria had a tiebreaking pinch-hit single in the seventh inning and Texas beat the Chicago White Sox 3-2 on Thursday night, when the Rangers became the first team since 1986 to have two of its first-round picks make their big league debuts as starters in the same g DC-area organization that helps others needs help 08/04/2022 10:14pm • Six days a week from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., hundreds gather at the parking lot of Lakeforest Mall in Montgomery County, Maryland, and people line up to get free vegetables, fruits and other foods. When the pandemic hit, Montgomery County-based nonprofit So What Else had to stop what they focused on �