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Tamika Dalton looks out of a window at her home in Durham, N.C., on Sept. 23, 2021. When COVID-19 kept visitors from going inside the Blumenthal Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Greensboro, N.C, Dalton would often visit at her motherâ€™s window a couple times a day. Through the glass, Dalton didnâ€™t like what she saw: Fewer and fewer aides passed by, and her mother sometimes sat for hours in a soiled diaper. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed) ny981 ny981

October 7, 2021 at 7:06 am

Ghost towns: Nursing home staffing falls amid pandemic VIEW

Even before the pandemic bared the truth of a profit-driven nursing home industry with too few caring for society’s most vulnerable, thin staffing was a...

In this Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, photo Bronwyn Russell poses for a photo at her home in Des Plaines, Ill. Russell, who has had the COVID-19 vaccine, wears a mask anytime she leaves her Illinois home. â€œIâ€™m worried. I donâ€™t want to get sick,â€ says Russell. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) ILNH104 ILNH104

September 29, 2021 at 5:00 am

AP-NORC poll: Virus fears linger for vaccinated older adults VIEW

A new survey finds that vaccinated older adults are far more worried about COVID-19 than the unvaccinated are.

September 12, 2021 at 5:48 am

Ida deals new blow to Louisiana schools struggling to reopen VIEW

Louisiana students were just getting back to class after a year and a half of COVID-19 disruptions when Hurricane Ida struck

September 4, 2021 at 10:00 pm

Louisiana residents thankful for small miracles after Ida VIEW

Parishioners of a church outside New Orleans were surprised to find electricity had been restored overnight, allowing for an indoor service on Sunday

September 3, 2021 at 10:00 pm

Energy company: Hurricane Ida restoration could take weeks VIEW

The energy company that is providing power to Louisiana says full restoration of electricity to hurricane-battered areas outside New Orleans could take until the end...

Taliban fighters stand guard in Kunduz city, northern Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 9, 2021. The militants have ramped up their push across much of Afghanistan in recent weeks, turning their guns on provincial capitals after taking district after district and large swaths of land in the mostly rural countryside. (AP Photo/Abdullah Sahil) POW207 POW207

August 17, 2021 at 9:08 pm

In Taliban’s 7-day march to power, a stunning string of wins VIEW

Just a week before Afghanistan’s collapse, things looked staggeringly different, but even for a country scarred by generations of war, the weeklong string of victories...

Nation & World

August 12, 2021 at 8:04 am

Cuomo exit isn’t stopping push for answers on nursing homes

Sexual harassment allegations cost New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo his job

FILE – In this Dec. 15, 2020, file photo, a droplet falls from a syringe after a health care worker was injected with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Providence, R.I. Genesis Healthcare, the nationâ€™s largest nursing home operator which has 70,000 employees at nearly 400 nursing homes and senior communities, told its workers this week they will have to get COVID-19 vaccinations to keep their jobs â€” a possible shift in an industry that has largely rejected compulsory measures for fear of triggering an employee exodus that could worsen already dangerous staffing shortages. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File) NYDD203 NYDD203

August 4, 2021 at 11:44 am

Nursing home company to 70,000 workers: Get vaccine or lose your job

The nation’s largest nursing home operator told its 70,000 workers they will have to get COVID-19 vaccinations to keep their jobs — a possible shift...

Business

July 19, 2021 at 9:09 pm

Afghan war’s end quiets chaplain’s litany of funeral prayers VIEW

DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. (AP) — This is the place where mothers buckled to the tarmac in grief and children lifted their teddy bears...

July 19, 2021 at 9:07 pm

Afghan war’s end quiets chaplain’s litany of funeral prayers VIEW

DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. (AP) — This is the place where widows wailed, where mothers buckled to the tarmac in grief and where children...