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Holiday procrastinators are back in force. Blame inflation. 12/22/2022 10:31am • NEW YORK (AP) — Last year, Lucila Gomez and her husband started their holiday shopping around Thanksgiving and wrapped it up a week before Christmas, spending $750 on tablets and clothing for their three children and relatives. This year? Gomez is waiting until she gets her annual bonus on Friday Social secretary helps 'people's house' welcome the people 12/22/2022 10:27am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Cookies forgotten in purses until they crumble. Complaints about not being invited. Boycotts over political disagreements with President Joe Biden. After a couple of party-free years because of the coronavirus pandemic, White House holiday parties are back — and the “peopl Uganda gets Ebola vaccine doses for trial on Sudan strain 12/22/2022 09:28am • KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s government says it has received more than 5,000 doses of Ebola vaccines for a clinical trial to assess their protection against the Sudan strain of the virus that caused an outbreak with over 50 deaths. Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng told journalists on Thursday China limits how it defines COVID deaths in official count 12/22/2022 12:55am • ZHUOZHOU, China (AP) — China only counts deaths from pneumonia or respiratory failure in its official COVID-19 death toll, a Chinese health official said, a narrow definition that limits the number of deaths being reported as the virus surges following the easing of pandemic-related restrictions. AP PHOTOS: Sidecar ambulances help moms give birth in India 12/22/2022 12:52am • NARAYANPUR, India (AP) — The motorbike roared as it strained to carry the ambulance sidecar up a steep river bank. The bike's rear tire whirred in place, kicking up water and mud while the sidecar — a hospital bed on wheels, under a white canvas canopy — lolled dangerously. Two health workers, Today in History: December 22, the shoe bomber fails 12/22/2022 12:00am • Today in History Today is Thursday, Dec. 22, the 356th day of 2022. There are nine days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 22, 1990, Lech Walesa (lek vah-WEN’-sah) took the oath of office as Poland’s first popularly elected president. On this date: In 1858, opera composer Storm adds uncertainty to strong holiday travel demand 12/21/2022 10:42pm • Concerns about illness or inflation aren’t stopping Americans from hitting the roads and airports this holiday season. But a massive winter storm might. Forecasters predict an onslaught of heavy snow, ice, flooding and powerful winds from Thursday to Saturday in a broad swath of the country, from As flu rages, US releases medicine from national stockpile 12/21/2022 08:29pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Wednesday it will release doses of prescription flu medicine from the Strategic National Stockpile to states as flu-sickened patients continue to flock to hospitals and doctors' offices around the country. This year's flu season has hit hard and ear WHO "very concerned" about reports of severe COVID in China 12/21/2022 12:12pm • GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization said the agency is “very concerned” about rising reports of severe coronavirus disease across China after the country largely abandoned its “zero COVID” policy, warning that its lagging vaccination rate could result in large numbers o Police seize on COVID-19 tech to expand global surveillance 12/20/2022 08:28pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Majd Ramlawi was serving coffee in Jerusalem’s Old City when a chilling text message appeared on his phone. “You have been spotted as having participated in acts of violence in the Al-Aqsa Mosque,” it read in Arabic. “We will hold you accountable.” Ramlawi, then 19, wa US starts grappling with 'travesty' of untreated hepatitis C 12/20/2022 12:35pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Too many Americans are missing out on a cure for hepatitis C, and a study underway in a hard-hit corner of Kentucky is exploring a simple way to start changing that. The key: On-the-spot diagnosis to replace today's multiple-step testing. In about an hour and with just a finger-p Chinese with mild COVID urged to work as restrictions ease 12/20/2022 06:42am • BEIJING (AP) — Several local governments in China encouraged people with mild cases of COVID-19 to go to work this week, another sign of the difficulty the country faces as its rollback of virus-containment measures sets off a wave of infections — and a growing number of deaths. Health authoriti 2 COVID-19 deaths reported in Beijing as virus surges 12/19/2022 07:46pm • BEIJING (AP) — China's health authorities on Monday announced two COVID-19 deaths — the country's first reported fatalities in weeks — amid an expected surge of illnesses after it eased its strict “zero-COVID” approach. Unofficial reports point to a widespread wave of new coronavirus cases Children's medicine shortage hits as flu season starts fast 12/19/2022 05:21pm • Caring for sick children has become extra stressful recently for many U.S. parents due to shortages of Children’s Tylenol and other medicines. Doctors and other experts say the problem could persist through the winter cold-and-flu season but should not last as long as other recent shortages of How busy is the next rest stop? Md. company makes an app for that 12/19/2022 10:00am • Highway signs make it easy for road-trippers to know when the next rest stop is coming up, but they can’t tell you how busy it is. A new app developed by a Maryland company can do that. Annapolis-based Trip Routing Technologies has developed the RestStopsAhead app, which alerts drivers to t