LYNNWOOD, Wash. (AP) – On a hot summer night, two food trucks pulled up a tree-lined street in a hilltop neighborhood outside Seattle. The smell of grilled meat filled the air, and neighbors slurped on boba tea drinks. Toddlers, teens, their parents and dogs sat in the grass, chatting behind …
Read More »Bomber’s brother turns 55 before Manchester concert attack
LONDON (AP) – The brother of the suicide bomber who set off an explosion at a 2017 Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, killing 22 people and injuring hundreds, was sentenced on Thursday to a minimum of 55 years in prison. Hashem Abedi, 23, had refused to help plan the …
Read More »Rise in unemployment claims still reflects wrestling of the US economy
WASHINGTON (AP) – The coronavirus recession hit fast and violently. Now, with the U.S. economy still five months later in the grip of the outbreak, the recovery looks fit and uneven – and painfully slow. The latest evidence came Thursday, when the government reported that the number of workers applying …
Read More »Pharmacists can provide shoes for children, U.S. officials say
NEW YORK (AP) – Pharmacists in all 50 states are now allowed to give vaccinations to children under a new guideline aimed at future outbreaks of knives and other preventable diseases. Alex Azar, the head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, took the step using emergency forces …
Read More »Trail of bubbles leads scientists to new detection of coronavirus
A doctor who checks comatose COVID-19 patients for signs of a stroke, instead stumbles upon a new indication of how the virus can damage the lungs – thanks to a test that used small air bubbles and a robot. Dr. Alexandra Reynolds, a neurologist at New York’s Mount Sinai Health …
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