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WHO: COVID-19 deaths rise, reversing a 5-week decline 06/16/2022 05:48am • GENEVA (AP) — After five weeks of declining coronavirus deaths, the number of fatalities reported globally increased by 4% last week, according to the World Health Organization. In its weekly assessment of the pandemic issued on Thursday, the U.N. health agency said there were 8,700 COVID-19 death Oregon's prison chief in lead for top federal prisons job 06/15/2022 08:29pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Colette Peters, the director of Oregon’s prison system, has now emerged as the leading contender to run the federal prison system, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Peters, who has run the state’s corrections department since 2012, is County's refusal to certify the vote hints at election chaos 06/15/2022 04:55pm • ATLANTA (AP) — The conspiracy theories about Dominion voting machines that erupted during the 2020 presidential contest flared this week in a remote New Mexico county in what could be just a preview of the kind of chaos election experts fear is coming in the fall midterms and in 2024. The governin Fauci tests positive for virus, has mild COVID-19 symptoms 06/15/2022 03:25pm • Dr. Anthony Fauci, the face of America's pandemic response through two White House administrations, has tested positive for the coronavirus. The 81-year-old Fauci, who is fully vaccinated and has received two booster shots, was experiencing mild COVID-19 symptoms, according to a statement Wednesday WHO to share vaccines to stop monkeypox amid inequity fears 06/15/2022 08:11am • LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization said it’s creating a new vaccine-sharing mechanism to stop the outbreak of monkeypox in more than 30 countries beyond Africa. The move could result in the U.N. health agency distributing scarce vaccine doses to rich countries that can otherwise afford China's factory activity rebounds as anti-virus curbs ease 06/15/2022 01:46am • BEIJING (AP) — China’s factory output rebounded in May, adding to a recovery from the latest COVID-induced economic slump after controls that shut down Shanghai and other industrial centers eased. Industrial production rose 0.7% over a year earlier, recovering from April’s 2.9% contraction, go Asian stocks mixed ahead of Fed rate hike decision 06/15/2022 12:19am • BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Wednesday ahead of the Federal Reserve's announcement of how sharply it will raise interest rates to cool U.S. inflation. Shanghai and Hong Kong advanced. Tokyo and Sydney declined. Oil prices edged higher. Wall Street's benchmark S&P 500 index los China city mayor apologizes over COVID-19 lockdown response 06/14/2022 08:45pm • BEIJING (AP) — The mayor of a northeastern Chinese city on the North Korean border that has been under lockdown for more than 50 days has apologized for failures in his administration’s work amid widespread — but often disguised — dissatisfaction over the government's heavy-handed approach t FDA advisers back Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for older kids 06/14/2022 07:09pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A government advisory panel Tuesday endorsed a second brand of COVID-19 vaccine for school-age children and teens. The Food and Drug Administration's outside experts voted unanimously that Moderna's vaccine is safe and effective enough to give kids ages 6 to 17. If the FDA agrees, WHO convenes experts to decide if monkeypox is an emergency 06/14/2022 12:25pm • GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization will convene an emergency committee of experts to determine if the expanding monkeypox outbreak that has mysteriously spread outside Africa should be considered a global health emergency. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Tuesday he HHS secretary Becerra tests positive for COVID-19 again 06/13/2022 06:58pm • President Joe Biden’s top health official has again tested positive for COVID-19, less than a month after he came down with virus symptoms while on a trip to Germany. U.S. Health Secretary Xavier Becerra woke up with symptoms again Monday morning and tested positive afterward, spokeswoman Sarah Lo Kentucky shatters its fatal overdose record; fentanyl blamed 06/13/2022 05:46pm • FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Fatal drug overdoses rose nearly 15% in Kentucky last year, surpassing 2,000 deaths as the increased use of fentanyl — a powerful synthetic opioid — resulted in a record death toll in the state, according to a report released Monday. The report showed that 2,250 Kentuckia EU: Schengen travel restrictions badly checked amid pandemic 06/13/2022 12:46pm • BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union auditors said Monday that the bloc's executive arm should have checked more carefully the restrictions on free movement imposed by EU nations during the COVID-19 pandemic. EU nations struggled to coordinate travel restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic — whic Yelp CEO says abortion rights stand is a risk worth taking 06/13/2022 09:51am • Many major companies have chosen to stay quiet on the abortion debate, but Yelp and its CEO Jeremy Stoppelman have chosen a different path. The San Francisco-based online reviews site is among the handful of companies covering travel costs for employees and their dependents who must travel out of s Virus cluster at nightclub sets off new Beijing clampdown 06/13/2022 08:14am • BEIJING (AP) — China’s capital has put school back online in one of its major districts amid a new COVID-19 outbreak linked to a nightclub, while life has yet to return to normal in Shanghai despite the lifting of a more than two-month-long lockdown. China has stuck to its “zero-COVID” poli