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Minor progress has been made on establishing safe corridors to allow civilians to escape the fighting. A top Ukranian official says both sides agreed to a 12-hour-long cease-fire Tuesday for the …
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By The Associated Press
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3/8/22
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Jarred by discriminatory treatment and left to evacuate themselves from Ukraine, people from African, Asian and Latin American countries who succeed in getting out are forming impromptu networks to …
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By CHINEDU ASADU and CARA ANNA
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3/6/22
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — News reports from Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities under unrelenting bombardment by the Russian Army have been triggering painful memories among the survivors of …
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By SABINA NIKSIC
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3/6/22
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A group of theologically conservative United Methodists plans to launch a new worldwide denomination on May 1, impatient to get started after yet another pandemic-related delay to a formalized …
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By PETER SMITH
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3/4/22
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Although Africa has contributed relatively little to the planet's greenhouse gas emissions, the continent has suffered some of the world's heaviest impacts of climate change, from famine to …
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By WANJOHI KABUKURU
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3/2/22
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Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine gave children 5 and older strong protection against hospitalization and death even during the omicron surge that hit youngsters especially hard, U.S. health officials …
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By LAURAN NEERGAARD
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3/1/22
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Deadly with extreme weather now, climate change is about to get so much worse. It is likely going to make the world sicker, hungrier, poorer, gloomier and way more dangerous in the next 18 years with …
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By SETH BORENSTEIN
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2/28/22
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Ukraine’s tangled political history with Russia has its counterpart in the religious landscape, with Ukraine’s majority Orthodox Christian population divided between an independent-minded group …
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By PETER SMITH
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2/27/22
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Ukrainians awoke Sunday after a third night of Russia's massive assault to street fighting in the country’s second largest city, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rejected Russian …
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By The Associated Press
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2/27/22
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From Feb. 19-25, 2022
From the glamorous new Moschino and Versace Fall/Winter 2022-2023 fashion collections, unveiled during the Fashion Week in Milan, Italy, to Natali Sevriukova's distraught …
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2/26/22
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The coronavirus mutant widely known as “stealth omicron" is now causing more than a third of new omicron cases around the world, but scientists still don't know how it could affect the future of …
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By LAURA UNGAR
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2/24/22
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Pregnancy-related deaths for U.S. mothers climbed higher in the pandemic’s first year, continuing a decades-long trend that disproportionately affects Black people, according to a government report …
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By LINDSEY TANNER
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2/23/22
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Prosecutors in the federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers accused in George Floyd’s killing needed to convince jurors that the officers “willfully” deprived Floyd of his …
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By MICHAEL TARM
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2/22/22
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COVID-19 vaccines are unlikely to trigger a rare inflammatory condition linked to coronavirus infection in children, according to an analysis of U.S. government data published Tuesday.
The …
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By LINDSEY TANNER
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2/22/22
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Average daily COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are continuing to fall in the U.S., an indicator that the omicron variant’s hold is weakening across the country.
Total confirmed cases …
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By LEAH WILLINGHAM and JONATHAN MATTISE
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2/20/22
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The omicron wave that assaulted the United States this winter also bolstered its defenses, leaving enough protection against the coronavirus that future spikes will likely require much less — if …
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By CARLA K. JOHNSON
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2/17/22
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Enrollment in Catholic schools in the United States rose 3.8% from the previous academic year, rebounding from a sharp drop caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Catholic education officials reported …
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By LUIS ANDRES HENAO
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2/14/22
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Supreme Court told Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday it will not answer his question on whether a Black congressman's district is unconstitutional.
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2/10/22
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Two years into the pandemic Jackie Hansen still left home only for doctor visits, her immune system so wrecked by cancer and lupus that COVID-19 vaccinations couldn’t take hold.
Then Hansen got …
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By LAURAN NEERGAARD
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2/10/22
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Can you get long COVID after an infection with omicron?
It’s too early to know for sure, but many doctors believe it’s possible to have long-term effects from the omicron variant of the …
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By LAURA UNGAR
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2/9/22
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