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Friends to foes: How Trump and DeSantis' relationship has deteriorated over the years
05/25/2023 12:24am • MIAMI (AP) — It wasn't always this way. Before Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis were leading rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, they were allies. Trump gave DeSantis' gubernatorial bid an early boost by tweeting his support even before DeSantis formally entered the race. In his 2
'There's about to be blood': Mosquito season returns to the DC area
05/23/2023 11:31pm • For most people, summer can be one of their least favorite seasons. With the warm weather comes bugs, and this mosquito season is back and about to get longer in the D.C. region. The region is ranked among the top spots for mosquitoes in the nation. According to Orkin, it's No. 6 for mosquitoes,
How raising the nation's debt limit could reduce spending of some corona
virus
relief funds
05/23/2023 04:28pm • With the pandemic officially over, leftover corona
virus
relief money for vaccines, public health initiatives and other programs has become a target as negotiators try to reach a budget deal to raise the nation's debt limit. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that $30 billion of pandemic-relat
Business group: Companies in China want 'clarity' after security rule changes, raids on consultants
05/23/2023 03:36am • BEIJING (AP) — Foreign companies in China are uncertain about what they are allowed to do following police raids on consulting firms and want “greater clarity” about how newly expanded national security and other rules will be enforced, a foreign business group said Tuesday. The British Chambe
California's Newsom faces tough question: Who would replace Feinstein?
05/23/2023 01:04am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s ongoing medical struggles have raised a sensitive political question with no easy answer: Who would California Gov. Gavin Newsom pick to replace her if the seat becomes vacant? Despite calls from within her own party to resign, Feinstein, who turns
An Iranian nuclear facility is so deep underground that US airstrikes likely couldn’t reach it
05/22/2023 11:40am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Near a peak of the Zagros Mountains in central Iran, workers are building a nuclear facility so deep in the earth that it is likely beyond the range of a last-ditch U.S. weapon designed to destroy such sites, according to experts and satellite imagery analyzed by
Singapore's prime minister tests positive for COVID-19
05/22/2023 01:49am • KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Monday he tested positive for COVID-19 for the first time after returning home from work trips in Africa and Asia. Due to his age, the 71-year-old said he was prescribed the Paxlovid antiviral medication. “I tested posi
Attacks fly as contentious general election campaign for Kentucky governor begins
05/19/2023 04:20pm • FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The general election campaign for Kentucky governor got off to a feisty start this week as Democrats worked to link the freshly minted Republican nominee to heavily criticized pardons by the vanquished predecessor of Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat who is trying to win a second
Millions ditched cars for bikes during the pandemic. These cities want the habit to stick
05/19/2023 02:18pm • MONTREAL (AP) — In the agonies of the
virus
that upended most of the world, millions of people from Bogota to Berlin saw what life could be like on two wheels instead of four. Even as commuting to the office and going to school plunged at the height of COVID lockdowns, outdoor recreation, and cycl
COVID emergency orders are among `greatest intrusions on civil liberties,' Justice Gorsuch says
05/19/2023 01:36pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court got rid of a pandemic-related immigration case with a single sentence. Justice Neil Gorsuch had a lot more to say, leveling harsh criticism of how governments, from small towns to the nation's capital, responded to the gravest public health threat in a century.
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week
05/19/2023 11:29am • 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: ___ Claims misconstrue Pfizer grants received by NIH
Lifting the lid: Virginia health department rolls out COVID data tied to what you flush
05/19/2023 09:45am • At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Virginia Department of Health began pushing to use wastewater to track the spread of corona
virus
. Now that data is available to the public. The dashboard, now available where the state's corona
virus
dashboard is located, uses wastewater from 36 treatmen
Feinstein's office details previously unknown complications from shingles illness
05/18/2023 06:20pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office said Thursday that she is suffering from Ramsay Hunt syndrome, a complication from the shingles
virus
that can paralyze part of the face, and that she contracted encephalitis while recovering from the
virus
earlier this year. Feinstein,
FDA advisers back RSV vaccine for pregnant women that protects their newborns
05/18/2023 05:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A first-of-its-kind RSV vaccine for pregnant women guards their newborns against the scary respiratory
virus
-– and federal health advisers on Thursday backed Pfizer's shot despite some lingering questions. RSV fills hospitals with wheezing babies each fall and winter, and the
Rafael Nadal's career timeline is filled with wins, losses, rivalries and injuries
05/18/2023 03:36pm • Since winning the French Open the first time he entered in 2005, Rafael Nadal had never missed his favorite tournament until now. The owner of 14 titles in Paris and 22 Grand Slam trophies overall announced Thursday that a bad hip will force him to skip the trip to Roland Garros. Here is a look at t
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