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Mobile soup kitchens take food, vaccine to Detroit's poorest

Keenon Carreker walked up to the Salvation Army mobile soup kitchen parked in one of the poorest areas of Detroit for the big ...

Big 0.6% April wholesale price jump catches many off guard

Wholesale prices, driven by escalating costs for services and food, jumped 0.6% in April, surprising economists and providing ...

Amazon seeks to hire 75,000; offers $100 to vaccinated hires

Amazon is seeking to hire 75,000 people in a tight job market and is offering bonuses to attract workers, including $100 for ...

Students hold private prom amid pandemic

A year after the pandemic canceled most proms, school districts around the country are considering whether they can once ...

Some proms are back, with masks, testing and distancing

A minor league baseball stadium. A negative coronavirus test and absolutely no slow dancing. Those are just a few of the ...

Feds provide $7.4B for public health; school nurses in plan

The government will provide $7.4 billion to expand the nation's public health capacity by hiring school nurses to vaccinate ...

CNN's Sanjay Gupta worries about a muddled pandemic message

At this stage in the pandemic, CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta is concerned that Americans are not getting clear enough messages about ...

Biden team moves swiftly to tackle pipeline political peril

The Biden administration swung aggressively into action after a primary gasoline pipeline fell prey to a cyberattack — ...

US cities see surge in deadly street racing amid pandemic

Jaye Sanford, a 52-year-old mother of two, was driving home in suburban Atlanta on Nov. 21 when a man in a Dodge Challenger ...

Morning shows extend the day to cope with viewer erosion

A recent job promotion came with what seems to be a counterintuitive mandate for NBC News senior vice president Libby Leist: ...

Tunisia to reopen economy despite hospital strain

Tunisian authorities plan to reopen the economy next week amid public pushback against virus restrictions, even as the ...

US agents encounter more single adults crossing border

Parents emerge from the brush into a baseball field, carrying exhausted children. Border Patrol agents dictate orders: ...

Nurses, nonprofits, others take vaccine to homebound people

For months, Victoria McAllister searched online to make a vaccination appointment. Unlike other people who can hop into a ...

Virus, Mideast turmoil stifle Eid al-Fitr celebrations

Muslims celebrated Eid al-Fitr in a subdued mood for a second year Thursday as the COVID-19 pandemic again forced mosque ...

Ohio offers $1m lottery for people getting vaccine

Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine has unrolled incentives including a weekly $1 million lottery prize and drawings for college ...

Pipeline hack sends people scrambling for fuel in the South

A run on gas following a computer hack of the nation’s largest fuel pipeline had North Carolina tow-truck driver Jonathan ...

LEADING OFF: Burnes returns, Mariners bring up big prospects

A look at what's happening around the majors today: ___ BURNES RETURNS Brewers ace Corbin Burnes is set to face St. Louis in ...

Schools ditch student mask requirements in growing numbers

As a lengthy, bitter fight over mask requirements for students neared its conclusion, the chairperson of a Florida school ...

Officials: Tiny uptick in 2020 military sex assault reports

Reports of sexual assaults across the U.S. military increased by a very small amount in 2020, a year when troops were largely ...

As chip shortage goes on, cars are scarce and prices are up

For the next few months, Charlie Gilchrist figures his 11 car dealerships in the Dallas-Fort Worth area will sell just about ...