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July 26, 2021 at 9:31 pm

Inside a KKK murder plot: Grab him up, take him to the river VIEW

PALATKA, Fla. (AP) — Joseph Moore breathed heavily, his face slick with nervous sweat. He held a cellphone with a photo of a man splayed...

FILE – In this April 26, 2021 file photo, a nursing student administers the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center at UNLV, in Las Vegas. Lagging vaccination rates among nursing home staff are being linked to a national increase in COVID-19 infections and deaths at senior facilities in July and are at the center of a federal investigation in a hard-hit Colorado location where disease detectives found many workers were not inoculated. (AP Photo/John Locher, File) NY850 NY850

July 21, 2021 at 10:01 am

Unvaccinated staff eyed in rising nursing home cases, deaths

Lagging vaccination rates among nursing home staff are being linked to a national increase in COVID-19 infections and deaths at senior facilities, and are at...

FILE – In this March 25, 2021 file photo, a box of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is shown in a refrigerator at a clinic in Washington state. A batch of Johnson & Johnsonâ€™s COVID-19 vaccine failed quality standards and canâ€™t be used, the drug giant said late Wednesday, March 31, 2021. The drugmaker didnâ€™t say how many doses were lost, and it wasnâ€™t clear how the problem would impact future deliveries. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) NY376 NY376

March 31, 2021 at 9:05 pm

Company producing J&J vaccine had history of violations

Emergent BioSolutons was a key to Johnson & Johnson’s plan to deliver 100 million doses of its vaccine to the U.S. by the end of...

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FILE – This Dec. 4, 2019 file photo shows Dr. Mehmet Oz at the 14th annual L’Oreal Paris Women of Worth Gala in New York. Oz, the cardiac surgeon and longtime host of TV’s â€œDr. Oz Show,â€ rendered aid a 60-year-old traveler at Newark Liberty International Airport on Monday, March 1, 2021. Oz, along with Port Authority Officer Jeffrey Croissant, performed CPR on the man until three more officers arrived to provide oxygen and activate a defibrillator. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File) NYRD301 NYRD301

March 3, 2021 at 4:51 am

Dr. Oz aids police in resuscitating man at Newark airport

The two performed CPR together on the man until three other officers brought oxygen and a defibrillator for the man, who eventually regained a pulse...

Entertainment

February 15, 2021 at 9:27 pm

Hospitals still ration medical N95 masks as stockpiles swell VIEW

Mike Bowen’s warehouse outside Fort Worth, Texas, was piled high with cases of medical-grade N95 face masks. His company, Prestige Ameritech, can churn out 1...

November 2, 2020 at 3:09 pm

House Dems ask Trump admin to halt COVID border expulsions

NEW YORK (AP) — A group of Democratic lawmakers called on the Trump administration Monday to stop the expulsion of unaccompanied children and other asylum...

November 1, 2020 at 5:13 am

Trump admin funds plasma company based in owner’s condo

WASHINGTON (AP) — When the Trump administration gave a well-connected Republican donor seed money to test a possible COVID-19-fighting blood plasma technology, it noted the...

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FILE — Drs. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, during a House Committee hearing about the coronavirus pandemic, on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 11, 2020. Pressure is mounting on the leaders of the CDC — from inside and outside the agency — to speak publicly against the White House’s manhandling of their research and public health decisions, with career scientists so demoralized they are talking of quitting if President Donald Trump wins re-election. (Pete Marovich/The New York Times) XNYT14 XNYT14

October 15, 2020 at 9:43 pm

White House puts ‘politicals’ at CDC to try to control info

Two new appointees with no public-health experience arrived at the CDC over the summer with the task of helping control the messaging coming from the...

Nation & World

October 3, 2020 at 6:20 am

Pence ordered borders closed after CDC experts refused

NEW YORK (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence in March directed the nation’s top disease control agency to use its emergency powers to effectively seal...

September 22, 2020 at 9:15 pm

Analysis: 200,000 dead as Trump vilifies science, prioritizes politics

NEW YORK (AP) — “I did the best I could,” President Donald Trump said. Huddled with aides in the West Wing last week, his eyes...