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October 19, 2020

COVID-19 overwhelms nursing staff in N Carolina

Seven months after the coronavirus pandemic began to overwhelm the American healthcare system, the nurses at UNC Hospital in ...

October 19, 2020

Parents build desks for kids in need

As remote schooling swept the nation, parents mobilized to build, collect and donate hundreds of desks for kids in their ...

October 19, 2020

Beekeepers pursue dream in very challenging year

James Cook and his wife, Samantha Jones, had already put plans to start their own beekeeping business in motion when the ...

October 19, 2020

UN hopes meeting will raise $1 billion for key Sahel nations

The U.N. humanitarian chief is hoping a major ministerial meeting Tuesday will not only raise $1 billion for the three ...

October 19, 2020

Plan to retrieve Titanic radio spurs debate on human remains

People have been diving to the Titanic's wreck for 35 years. No one has found human remains, according to the company that ...

October 18, 2020

Report: Damage from August wind storm in Midwest at $7.5B

Damage estimates from a rare wind storm that slammed Iowa and some other parts of the Midwest in August are growing, with the ...

October 17, 2020

Mike Pence headlines rally in keystone state

With barely two weeks left before Election Day, the battleground state of Pennsylvania is being flooded with visits by the ...

October 17, 2020

WH Press Sec: WH looking at surge in COVID numbers

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said that the White House is "routinely looking at COVID numbers" when asked ...

October 17, 2020

Trump changes course, approves California relief for 6 fires

President Donald Trump's administration abruptly reversed course and approved California's application for disaster relief ...

October 17, 2020

Montana judge blocks actions by Trump’s former land boss

A month after ousting the Trump administration’s public lands boss for being in the post unlawfully, a Montana judge on ...

October 17, 2020

Early N Carolina voters wait 'as long as it takes'

October 17, 2020

Biden: Trump doesn't see Americans daily strife

Joe Biden is warning Michigan voters that President Donald Trump wants to strip health insurance from tens of millions of ...

October 16, 2020

Trump: Moving 'heaven and earth' saving seniors

President Donald Trump says he's moving "heaven and earth" to protect seniors from the coronavirus. Polls have shown that ...

October 16, 2020

COVID-19 infections persist in Ukraine

The number of COVID-19 infections in Ukraine has nearly doubled over the past month, topping 287,000. The government is keen ...

October 16, 2020

Fauci: Infection baseline going in wrong direction

The leading infectious-disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci says the community "infection baseline" is going in the wrong ...

October 16, 2020

Uncertainty looms as stone crab season opens

For Florida Keys commercial fishermen, the beginning of the stone crab claw harvest season Thursday means uncertainties about ...

October 16, 2020

UK fines British Airways for failures in 2018 data hack

Britain’s information commissioner has fined British Airways 20 million pounds ($25 million) for failing to protect personal ...

October 16, 2020

AP Top Stories Oct. 16 A

Here's the latest for Friday October 16th: Trump, in town hall, doesn't say if he tested negative for virus before last ...

October 16, 2020

WH puts ‘politicals’ at CDC to try to control info

The Trump White House has installed two political operatives at the nation’s top public health agency as the administration ...

October 16, 2020

Power cut to thousands in California to prevent wildfires

Thousands of people in wine country were without power Thursday amid a fall heat wave that brought another round of extreme ...