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Biden seeks $33B for Ukraine, signaling long-term commitment 04/29/2022 05:20pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden asked Congress on Thursday for $33 billion to bolster Ukraine's fight against Russia, signaling a burgeoning and long-haul American commitment as Moscow's invasion and the international tensions it has inflamed show no signs of receding. The Report critical of ex-leader at veterans home torn by COVID 04/29/2022 05:17pm • The leader of a veterans' care center in Massachusetts where 76 veterans died after contracting the coronavirus in the spring of 2020 lacked both the leadership skills and the temperament to run such a facility when he was hired in 2016, according to a blistering state Inspector General's report rel First recent US case of human bird flu confirmed in Colorado 04/29/2022 04:36pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Colorado prison inmate has become the first person in the U.S. to test positive for bird flu in a recent outbreak that has led to the deaths of millions of chickens and turkeys, but federal officials say they still see little threat to the general public. The U.S. Centers Political stakes high as Beijing responds to virus outbreak 04/29/2022 01:16pm • BEIJING (AP) — Classes suspended. Buildings and communities sealed off. Mass testing of residents. A rush to stock up on food, just in case. Beijing, China's sprawling capital, is starting to resemble other Chinese cities grappling with the latest wave of the omicron variant of the coronavirus. Au South Africa likely in new COVID wave, says health minister 04/29/2022 11:49am • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa has likely entered a new wave of COVID-19 earlier than expected as new infections and hospitalizations have risen rapidly over the past two weeks, the country’s health minister said on Friday. The increase in new cases has been dominated by the BA.4 and BA.5 line NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 04/29/2022 10:22am • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts: ___ Unexplained hepatitis cases not caused by COVID-19 vaccines China halts freight train traffic with North Korea 04/29/2022 06:24am • BEIJING (AP) — China says it halted railroad freight traffic with North Korea as it deals with the spread of COVID-19 in the border town of Dandong. The countries had reopened trade between Dandong and North Korea’s Sinuiju in January following a two-year pause while the North imposed one of t South Korea to relax outdoor mask mandate as COVID-19 slows 04/29/2022 04:06am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea will ease its outdoor mask mandate starting next week as COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations continue to decline. Starting Monday, people will only be required to wear a mask outdoors when participating in gatherings of more than 50 people or attending s Hong Kong’s John Lee pledges to enact local security law 04/29/2022 03:49am • HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s only candidate for the upcoming leadership elections pledged Friday to enact a long-shelved local legislation to protect against security threats and vowed to increase the city’s competitiveness upon taking office. John Lee, formerly the city's No. 2 official, reve Closures of Beach Drive will not end this weekend as expected 04/28/2022 11:41pm • The National Park Service said that closures along the northern sections of Beach Drive, which kicked in during the early days of the pandemic, will not end on Saturday as previously expected. Since 2020, much of the road from Broad Branch Road NW to the Maryland state line has been closed to all Colorado inmate tests positive for avian flu, officials say risk to others is low 04/28/2022 09:28pm • A Colorado man has tested positive for the avian flu, also known as H5N1 flu. The man, who is younger than 40 and an inmate at a state correctional facility in Delta County, is largely asymptomatic, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said Thursday, adding that the ris Increased infectious disease risk likely from climate change 04/28/2022 01:42pm • Climate change will result in thousands of new viruses spread among animal species by 2070 — and that's likely to increase the risk of emerging infectious diseases jumping from animals to humans, according to a new study. This is especially true for Africa and Asia, continents that have been hotsp Moderna seeks to be 1st with COVID shots for littlest kids 04/28/2022 12:59pm • Moderna is seeking to be the first to offer COVID-19 vaccine for the youngest American children, as it asked the Food and Drug Administration Thursday to clear low-dose shots for babies, toddlers and preschoolers. Frustrated families are waiting impatiently for a chance to protect the nation’s lit COVID-19 treatment, Keytruda boost drugmaker Merck in Q1 04/28/2022 11:02am • Merck soared past first-quarter expectations, helped by sales of its long-standing blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda and a new COVID-19 treatment that also topped forecasts. The drugmaker raised its 2022 forecast Thursday after its coronavirus treatment molnupiravir brought in almost $3.2 billion in Supreme Court Notebook: Roberts pays tribute to Breyer 04/28/2022 10:15am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The fertile mind of Justice Stephen Breyer has conjured a stream of hypothetical questions through the years that have, in the words of a colleague, “befuddled” lawyers and justices alike. Breyer, 83, seemed a bit subdued as he sat through the last of more than 2,000 argument