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Conspiracy theorists flock to bird flu, spreading falsehoods 05/17/2022 10:26am • Brad Moline, a fourth-generation Iowa turkey farmer, saw this happen before. In 2015, a virulent avian flu outbreak nearly wiped out his flock. Barns once filled with chattering birds were suddenly silent. Employees were anguished by having to kill sickened animals. The family business, started in 1 Students protest, discontent grows over China's COVID policy 05/17/2022 09:16am • BEIJING (AP) — Administrators at an elite Beijing university have backed down from plans to further tighten pandemic restrictions on students as part of China’s “zero-COVID” strategy after a weekend protest at the school, according to students Tuesday. Graduate students at Peking University North Korea reports another fever surge amid COVID-19 crisis 05/17/2022 06:51am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Tuesday reported another large jump in illnesses believed to be COVID-19 and encouraged good health habits, as a mass outbreak spreads through its unvaccinated population and military officers were deployed to distribute medicine. State media said the anti- Musk's China ties add potential risks to Twitter purchase 05/17/2022 05:19am • BEIJING (AP) — Elon Musk's ties to China through his role as electric car brand Tesla's biggest shareholder could add complexity to his bid to buy Twitter. Other companies that want access to China give in to pressure to follow Beijing's positions on Taiwan and other issues. But Twitter is shut ou US deaths from COVID hit 1 million, less than 2 1/2 years in 05/16/2022 04:46pm • The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hit 1 million on Monday, a once-unimaginable figure that only hints at the multitudes of loved ones and friends staggered by grief and frustration. The confirmed number of dead is equivalent to a 9/11 attack every day for 336 days. It is roughly equal to how many Am Mask up in indoor public settings, NYC health chief urges 05/16/2022 03:43pm • NEW YORK (AP) — New York City health officials issued an advisory Monday urging New Yorkers to wear masks in all indoor public settings as the city approaches “high risk” COVID-19 alert status. Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan said everyone “regardless of vaccination status or past COVID-19 Macron names Elisabeth Borne as France's new prime minister 05/16/2022 03:10pm • PARIS (AP) — Centrist politician Elisabeth Borne was appointed France’s new prime minister on Monday, becoming only the second woman in history to hold the post. Borne, 61, the labor minister in French President Emmanuel Macron's previous government, succeeds Jean Castex, whose resignation on Mo UK officials: 4 men infected with "rare" monkeypox in London 05/16/2022 02:18pm • LONDON (AP) — British health authorities say they have identified four “rare and unusual” cases of the disease monkeypox among men who appear to have been infected in London and had no history of travel to the African countries where the smallpox-like disease is endemic. In a statement Monday Kim blasts pandemic response as North Korean outbreak surges 05/16/2022 09:56am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un criticized officials over slow medicine deliveries and mobilized the military to respond to a surge in suspected COVID-19 infections, as his nation struggled to contain a fever that has reportedly killed dozens and sickened nearly a million Official: China's economy reviving as anti-virus curbs ease 05/16/2022 07:14am • BEIJING (AP) — China's factory and consumer activity fell even more than expected in April under anti-virus controls, official data showed Monday, but a Cabinet official said the economy is reviving as anti-virus curbs ease and its commercial capital of Shanghai reopens. The slump in the second-bi Shanghai says lockdown to ease as virus spread mostly ends 05/16/2022 03:53am • BEIJING (AP) — Most of Shanghai has stopped the spread of the coronavirus in the community and fewer than 1 million people remain under strict lockdown, authorities said Monday, as the city moves toward reopening and economic data showed the gloomy impact of China's “zero-COVID" policy. Vice As virus cases go up and down, some DC restaurants keep COVID restrictions in place 05/16/2022 02:11am • COVID-19 may be moving into a more manageable phase, but some D.C. businesses are keeping their pandemic-era protocols alive for the foreseeable future. "As long as (hospitalizations and cases) are still going up and down, and up and down, I'm comfortable with keeping policies that we have in pla Buffalo shooting: Sites yank videos faster, but not by much 05/15/2022 08:21pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Social platforms have learned to remove violent videos of extremist shootings more quickly over the past few years. It's just not clear they're moving quickly enough. Police say that when a white gunman killed 10 people and wounded three others — most of them Black — in a “ra Suicide bomber kills 6, gunmen kill 2 Sikhs in NW Pakistan 05/15/2022 09:41am • PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bombing near a security forces vehicle killed three soldiers and three children in northwest Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan on Sunday, while gunmen shot dead two minority Sikhs in Peshawar, officials said. A military statement said the suicide bomber North Korea reports 15 more suspected COVID-19 deaths 05/15/2022 05:05am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has confirmed 15 more deaths and hundreds of thousands of additional patients with fevers as it mobilizes more than a million health and other workers to try to suppress the country’s first COVID-19 outbreak, state media reported Sunday. After maintaining