SAO PAULO (AP) – Jussara de Jesús never thought that her family would live in a shack. But work as a hairdresser dried up after the new coronavirus hit the Brazilian metropolis of Sao Paulo. She couldn’t pay $ 150 a month in rent for the small house where she …
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CHICAGO (AP) – A statue of Christopher Columbus in downtown Chicago’s Grant Park was demolished early Friday, a week after protesters trying to tear down the monument to the Italian explorer clashed with police. The teams used a large crane to remove the statue from its pedestal as a small …
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SAINT-GERMAIN-EN-LAYE, France (AP) – House keys, wallet or purse, mobile phone and … oh yes: mask. Reluctantly for many, but also inexorably facing a deadly invisible enemy, tiny rectangles of fragile but life-saving fabric have joined the list of items in just a few months so as not to leave …
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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Alex Trebek says he is responding exceptionally well to pancreatic cancer treatment and hopes to mark his two-year survival next February. Your doctor has said you have that milestone, the “Danger!” The host said, “So I hope I’m close because he said I’ll be close.” And …
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Sophia Garabedian had been dealing with a persistent fever and a painful headache when her parents found her numb in her bed one morning last fall. Doctors finally diagnosed Sudbury, Massachusetts, 5, a resident with eastern equine encephalitis, a rare but severe mosquito-borne virus that causes brain inflammation. Garabedian survived …
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