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FILE – In this March 30, 2021 file photo, young migrants wait to be tested for COVID-19 at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, in Donna, Texas. The Biden administration is holding tens of thousands of asylum-seeking children in an opaque network of some 200 facilities that The Associated Press has now learned spans two dozen states and includes five shelters with more than 1,000 children packed inside. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool, File) NY950 NY950

May 11, 2021 at 4:00 am

Migrant children held in mass shelters with little oversight

This week the federal government was housing around 21,000 kids, from toddlers to teens, in two dozen states. Five facilities hold more than 1,000 kids...

April 23, 2021 at 7:31 am

FDA: N95 masks, now plentiful, should no longer be reused

Critical shortages of personal protective equipment early in the pandemic had both medical providers and the public rationing and reusing masks. Now U.S. manufacturers say...

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March 4, 2021 at 9:08 pm

Officers maced, trampled: Docs expose depth of Jan. 6 chaos

Federal agents are still investigating and hundreds more suspects are at large. The materials shed new light on the sprawling patchwork of law enforcement agencies...

FILE – In this Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 file photo, Trump supporters gather outside the Capitol in Washington. A faction of local, county and state Republican officials across the country is pushing lies, misinformation and conspiracy theories online that echo those that helped inspire the violent Capitol insurrection, forcing the GOP into an internal reckoning. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) NY834 NY834

February 25, 2021 at 9:08 pm

Some local GOP leaders fire up base with conspiracies, lies VIEW

Bitter, combative rhetoric is helping officials grow their constituencies on social media and gain outsized influence in their communities, city councils, county boards and state...

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...

January 24, 2021 at 5:53 am

One county, worlds apart: Bridging the political divide VIEW

FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — She fired up her laptop to scour the internet for bits from right-wing websites and conspiratorial YouTube channels. The inauguration of...

October 6, 2020 at 7:14 am

5 takeaways: AP/FRONTLINE investigate medical supply chains

From the very moment the coronavirus pandemic reached America’s shores, the country was unprepared. Health care facilities didn’t have the masks and equipment needed to...

October 6, 2020 at 7:03 am

US medical supply chains failed, and COVID deaths followed VIEW

Nurse Sandra Oldfield’s patient didn’t have the usual symptoms of COVID-19 — yet. But then he tested positive for the virus, and it was clear...

In this file photo from March 16, 2020, a patient receives a shot in the first-stage safety study clinical trial of a potential vaccine for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle. When precious vats of COVID-19 vaccine are finally ready, the ability to jab the lifesaving solution into the arms of Americans will require hundreds of millions of injections.
(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

July 10, 2020 at 9:21 am

U.S. bets big on small, untested company to deliver COVID vaccine

The Trump administration has agreed to invest more than half a billion tax dollars in ApiJect Systems America, a young company whose injector is not...

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An opened box of protective masks sits on a pallet at Direct Relief’s distribution center in Santa Barbara, Calif., on Wednesday, April 1, 2020. An Associated Press investigation has found millions of medical masks, gloves, gowns and other supplies being used in hospitals across the country are counterfeits, putting lives at risk. (Jonathan Ingalls/FRONTLINE/PBS/GRC via AP) WX150 WX150

May 12, 2020 at 10:39 am

Counterfeit masks reaching frontline health workers in US

Millions of counterfeit medical masks, gloves, gowns and other supplies being used in hospitals across the country, putting lives at risk.

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