• Trump names a Fox News personality, a COVID mandate critic and an anti-vaccine doctor to key public health roles

    Trump names a Fox News personality, a COVID mandate critic and an anti-vaccine doctor to key public health roles

    Nov 24, 2024 12:47 AM EDT

    ... death from the virus, medical societies including the American Academy of Pediatrics concluded that vaccinations significantly reduced severe disease in the age group. Makary has lamented how drugmakers used misleading data to urge doctors to prescribe OxyContin and other opioids as low-risk, non-addictive pain relievers. That marketing was ...

  • Boys forced into gangs, girls face sexual abuse as Haiti violence robs childhoods

    Boys forced into gangs, girls face sexual abuse as Haiti violence robs childhoods

    Nov 22, 2024 11:35 PM EDT

    ... The lack of security has increased the cases of rape all over Port-au-Prince. Marcia Biggs:  As gangs continue to hold the upper hand, Lamercie says she doesn't have the resources to meet the needs. Lamercie Charles Pierre Fontaine (through interpreter):  I received so many calls this week ...

  • Australia's plan to ban children from social media popular but problematic

    Australia's plan to ban children from social media popular but problematic

    Nov 20, 2024 07:23 PM EDT

    ... week. The concerned teen Leo Puglisi, a 17-year-old Melbourne student who founded online streaming service 6 News Australia at the age of 11, laments that lawmakers imposing the ban lack the perspective on social media that young people have gained by growing up in the digital age. “With ...

  • Attacks on Israeli soccer fans in Europe heightens tensions and antisemitism fears

    Attacks on Israeli soccer fans in Europe heightens tensions and antisemitism fears

    Nov 18, 2024 11:40 PM EDT

    ... being orchestrated by a violent minority and has proffered an olive branch. Hans Weijel:  There are imams who talk to our rabbis and there are laymen who talk to our laymen. But the problem is, we don't hear any sound of, let's say, the leaders of the Muslim ...

  • Biden asks for nearly $100 billion in disaster aid, 'urgently needed' after Hurricanes Helene and Milton

    Biden asks for nearly $100 billion in disaster aid, 'urgently needed' after Hurricanes Helene and Milton

    Nov 18, 2024 11:04 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is requesting nearly $100 billion in emergency disaster aid after Hurricanes Helene and Milton, and other natural disasters, telling lawmakers that the money is “urgently needed.” The letter Monday to House Speaker Mike Johnson comes as lawmakers meet during a lame-duck session to finish ...

  • Biden begins six-day trip to international summits in South America as world braces for Trump presidency

    Biden begins six-day trip to international summits in South America as world braces for Trump presidency

    Nov 14, 2024 04:17 PM EDT

    ... a swan song for Biden," said Erin Murphy, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "Not only is he a lame duck, but a super lame duck because his successor is going to have very different policies." White House officials insist that Biden's visits ...

  • What Biden and Trump discussed during their White House meeting

    What Biden and Trump discussed during their White House meeting

    Nov 13, 2024 11:50 PM EDT

    ... he came with a detailed list of questions. President Biden talked about the important items that he feels he still has to do in the lame-duck session of Congress, including funding the government, as well as some more additional disaster relief funds that he wants to see done. He ...

  • WATCH: House Republicans 'ready to deliver,' Johnson says as GOP readies for new Trump era

    WATCH: House Republicans 'ready to deliver,' Johnson says as GOP readies for new Trump era

    Nov 12, 2024 03:46 PM EDT

    First tests will come during the "lame duck" period of the remaining days of this Congress, the eight-week sprint until Jan. 3, 2025, when the new lawmakers are sworn into office. As lawmakers return this week they will be joined by dozens of new names in the House and ...

  • AP Race Call: Donald Trump wins Wisconsin

    AP Race Call: Donald Trump wins Wisconsin

    Nov 06, 2024 01:56 PM EDT

    The heavily Republican district includes cities such as Green Bay as well as rural areas. Lyerly’s campaign spokesperson, Kurt Frewing, said that Lyerly congratulated Wied but had no further comment. Wied promised in a statement to bring “some Wisconsin commonsense to Washington to lower everyday costs, secure the southern ...

  • Donald Trump elected 47th president of the United States

    Donald Trump elected 47th president of the United States

    Nov 06, 2024 12:14 PM EDT

    ... that was increasingly skeptical – if not outright hostile – to institutions and established power structures. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who challenged Trump for the Republican nomination, lamented that the indictments “sucked out all the oxygen” from this year’s GOP primary. Trump easily captured his party’s nomination without ever participating ...