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The AP Interview: US 'vulnerable' to COVID without new shots

WASHINGTON (AP) - White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha issued a dire warning Thursday that the U.S. will be increasingly vulnerable to the coronavirus this fall and winter if Congress doesn...

May 12, 2022

Jan. 6 panel subpoenas McCarthy, four other GOP lawmakers

WASHINGTON (AP) - House investigators said Thursday they have issued subpoenas to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other GOP lawmakers as part of their probe into the violent Jan. 6 ins...

May 12, 2022

Delayed Southeast Asian Games begin in Vietnam's capital

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - The Southeast Asian Games officially kicked off Thursday with a mask-optional opening ceremony in Vietnam's capital, the first major gathering in the country since the start of t...

May 12, 2022

Astronomers capture 1st image of Milky Way's huge black hole

WASHINGTON (AP) - The world got a look Thursday at the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers believe nearly all galaxies, inc...

May 12, 2022

Wickremesinghe chosen Sri Lanka PM in effort to end crisis

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Five-time former Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was reappointed Thursday in an effort to bring stability to the island nation, engulfed in a political and eco...

May 12, 2022

Rights group: Israel approves over 4,000 new settler homes

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel advanced plans for the construction of more than 4,000 settler homes in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, a rights group said, a day after the military demolished homes in an...

May 12, 2022

North Korea fires suspected ballistic missile toward sea

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea fired a suspected ballistic missile toward the sea on Thursday, South Korea and Japan said, in the latest of a series of weapons demonstrations this years and jus...

May 12, 2022

Lawyers: Nearly $1B tentative settlement in condo collapse

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - A nearly $1 billion tentative settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit brought by families of victims and survivors of last June's condominium collapse in Surf...

May 11, 2022

Court: California's under-21 gun sales ban unconstitutional

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A U.S. appeals court ruled Wednesday that California's ban on the sale of semiautomatic weapons to adults under 21 is unconstitutional. In a 2-1 ruling, a panel of the San Francisco...

May 11, 2022

Dems' bid to secure Roe v. Wade falls to GOP-led filibuster

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate fell far short Wednesday in a rushed effort toward enshrining Roe v. Wade abortion access as federal law, blocked by a Republican filibuster in a blunt display of the nati...

May 11, 2022