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Millions in new COVID lockdown as China keeps strict policy 08/30/2022 07:31am • BEIJING (AP) — China has placed millions of its citizens under renewed lockdown following fresh outbreaks of COVID-19, authorities reported Tuesday, as the government persists in its hard-line policy on containing the virus. The measures affected about half of the 6 million residents of the port c First lady Jill Biden tests negative for COVID after rebound 08/29/2022 08:37pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden tested negative for COVID-19 on Monday and will return to Washington on Tuesday, nearly a week after she came down with a “rebound” case of the coronavirus. Her communications director, Elizabeth Alexander, announced the negative test in a statement Mond Miami QB Tyler Van Dyke ready for his encore performance 08/29/2022 04:02pm • CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Tyler Van Dyke has studied every play from his 2021 season at Miami. There are some plays he’s evaluated much more than the others. And they’re not the highlight-reel entries, either. Van Dyke’s right arm is carrying a significant amount of No. 16 Miami’s hopes en Shapiro breaks with Dems on COVID policies in Pa. gov race 08/29/2022 04:00pm • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — As attorney general, Josh Shapiro went to court repeatedly to defend Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration against legal challenges to his pandemic-era mandates and shutdowns. Now, as he's running to succeed Wolf as governor, Shapiro says he is against some of the sa Hundreds of thousands return to classes in DC, Md. and Va. 08/29/2022 01:40pm • Hundreds of thousands of public school students in Maryland, Virginia and D.C. begin a new year Monday. Who is returning In D.C., more than 90,000 DCPS students are back in the classroom again. In Maryland, students returned to classes in Montgomery, Prince George's, Howard, Charles and Baltimo Chinese think tank: Virus curbs must change to help economy 08/29/2022 09:06am • BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese think tank issued a rare public disagreement Monday with the ruling Communist Party’s severe “zero COVID” policy, saying curbs that shut down cities and disrupt trade, travel and industry must change to prevent an “economic stall.” The Anbound Research Center gav Palau VP delegation quarantined in Taiwan after 2 get virus 08/29/2022 05:28am • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Palau's vice president and her eight-member delegation have been quarantined in Taiwan after two of them tested positive for the coronavirus. Palau is one of the 14 countries still maintaining formal relations with Taiwan, which China claims as its own and has relentlessly s Moderna sues Pfizer, BioNTech over COVID-19 vaccine patents 08/26/2022 05:07pm • COVID-19 vaccine maker Moderna is suing Pfizer and the German drugmaker BioNTech, accusing its main competitors of copying Moderna’s technology in order to make their own vaccine. Moderna said Friday that Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine Comirnaty infringes on patents Moderna filed several years a US data reveals racial gaps in monkeypox vaccinations 08/26/2022 03:55pm • The Biden administration said Friday there's enough monkeypox vaccine available now but health officials say the shots aren’t getting to some of the people who need the protection the most. About 10% of monkeypox vaccine doses have been given to Black people, even though they account for one-third More polio virus detected in upstate New York wastewater 08/26/2022 02:51pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — State health officials in New York are warning of expanding “community spread” of the polio virus after it was found in wastewater samples from another upstate county. The state Department of Health said Friday the polio virus was detected in four samples from Sullivan Coun USDA scattering rabies vaccines for wildlife in 13 states 08/26/2022 11:10am • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has begun scattering millions of packets of oral rabies vaccine from helicopters and planes over 13 states from Maine to Alabama. The major aim is to keep raccoons from spreading their strain of the deadly virus to states where it hasn't bee Pfizer asks EU drug regulator to OK tweaked COVID vaccine 08/26/2022 10:55am • LONDON (AP) — Pfizer and BioNTech have asked the European Medicines Agency to authorize their updated coronavirus booster vaccine that includes the most recent omicron subvariants. In a statement Friday, Pfizer said it is requesting that the EU drug regulator OK its combination COVID-19 vaccine Biden rallies for Democrats, slams 'semi-fascism' in GOP 08/26/2022 09:15am • ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — President Joe Biden called on Democrats Thursday “to vote to literally save democracy once again” — and compared Republican ideology to “semi-fascism” — as he led a kickoff rally and a fundraiser in Maryland 75 days out from the midterm elections. Addressing an ov US suspends Chinese airline flights in COVID-19 dispute 08/26/2022 04:11am • BEIJING (AP) — The U.S. government is suspending 26 flights by Chinese airlines from the United States to China in a dispute over anti-virus controls after Beijing suspended flights by American carriers. The Department of Transportation on Thursday complained Beijing violated an air travel agreeme North Korea says new fever cases were flu, not COVID-19 08/25/2022 08:32pm • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Friday said the latest fever cases detected in its border region with China were tested to be influenza, not coronavirus infections as initially feared. The report by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency came a day after the North said it