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Nada Waked, a Lebanese woman who helped provide a small amount of medications for free, gestures as she speaks at her house, in Sabtiyeh neighborhood, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, June 7, 2021. In late May, Lebanon's central bank said that it cannot continue with its subsidies of medical items without dipping into the mandatory reserves, and asked authorities to find a solution. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
In Lebanon, a search for medicine and a stranger's help

By Mariam Fam Jun. 09, 2021 03:11 AM EDT

Pennsylvania's new unemployment claims system goes live

By Michael Rubinkam Jun. 08, 2021 01:48 PM EDT
Pennsylvania’s long-awaited overhaul of its rickety unemployment claims filing system went live on Tuesday, with some users immediately complaining about...

Editorial Roundup: Texas

By The Associated Press May. 31, 2021 10:00 AM EDT
San Antonio Express-News. May 30, 2021. Editorial: Let’s honor all our fallen: soldiers and virus victims After a year...

A convenience store worker sits outside the darkened store during a blackout in New Taipei City in Taiwan on Thursday, May 13, 2021. An equipment failure has caused an outage at a power plant in southern Taiwan, triggering rolling blackouts across the island affecting millions of people. (AP Photo/Johnson Lai)
Power restored in Taiwan after rolling blackouts

May. 13, 2021 11:15 PM EDT

A convenience store worker sits outside the darkened store during a blackout in New Taipei City in Taiwan on Thursday, May 13, 2021. An equipment failure has caused an outage at a power plant in southern Taiwan, triggering rolling blackouts across the island affecting millions of people. (AP Photo/Johnson Lai)
Millions lose power after Taiwan power plant failure

May. 13, 2021 07:16 AM EDT

Kenneth Henderson carries a case of donated water back to his home, which was without running water after the recent winter storm, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, in Houston. Local officials, including Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, say they have focused their efforts during the different disasters on helping the underserved and under-resourced but that their work is far from complete. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Deep freeze just latest disaster to befall Houston's needy

By Juan A. Lozano Mar. 08, 2021 05:11 AM EST

A lineman from National Grid repairs a main line damaged from a fallen white pine on Hubbard Street in Lenox, Mass., on Tuesday, March 2, 2021. High winds knocked out power for thousands in the Berkshires. (Ben Garver/The Berkshire Eagle via AP)
High winds leave tens of thousands without power

Mar. 02, 2021 12:29 PM EST

Former president Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
AP FACT CHECK: Trump clings to his core election falsehoods

By Hope Yen And Calvin Woodward Mar. 01, 2021 12:13 AM EST

Former president Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
AP FACT CHECK: Trump clings to his core election falsehoods

By Hope Yen And Calvin Woodward Feb. 28, 2021 07:25 PM EST

Editorial Roundup: West Virginia

By The Associated Press Feb. 24, 2021 07:51 AM EST
Recent editorials from West Virginia newspapers: ___ Feb. 22 The Intelligencer on keeping pets warm...

Utility: Much more power cut than necessary Mardi Gras night

By Kevin Mcgill Feb. 23, 2021 03:15 PM EST
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The utility company serving New Orleans appears to have cut three times as much electricity as it needed to during emergency winter weather...

Texas congresswoman Penny Morales Shaw, from left, joins U.S. Representatives Sheila Jackson Lee, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sylvia Garcia, as they fill boxes at the Houston Food Bank on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021. President Joe Biden declared a major disaster in Texas on Friday, directing federal agencies to help in the recovery. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Biden to visit storm-ravaged Texas Friday

By Alexandra Jaffe Feb. 23, 2021 12:40 PM EST

Editorial Roundup: Texas

By The Associated Press Feb. 22, 2021 10:00 AM EST
Dallas Morning News. Feb. 18, 2021. Editorial: ‘Only the strong survive?’ That isn’t the society we want. Former Colorado City Mayor Tim...

Firefighters, from left, Matthew Wheat, Warren Agnor and Zach Schilling, place bottles of water into residents' vehicle on Saturdasy, Feb. 20, 2021, in McComb, Miss., where residents are under a boil-water notice after the city lost water pressure during recent winter weather. (Matt Williamson /The Enterprise-Journal via AP)
Progress in restoring electricity, water challenges remain

By Rebecca Santana Feb. 21, 2021 01:03 PM EST

Ambulances line up outside of St. David's South Austin Medical Center in preparation to transport patients in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. Hospitals across the South grappled with water shortages Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021 as the region carried on with recovery efforts in the wake of a devastating winter storm, and the weather offered a balmy respite — temperatures as high as the mid-60s. (Bronte Wittpenn/Austin American-Statesman via AP, file)
Hospitals confront water shortages in winter storm aftermath

By Juan Lozano, Jonathan Mattise And Adrian Sainz Feb. 21, 2021 11:37 AM EST

FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2021, file photo, a man seeking shelter from sup-freezing temperatures prepares his cot at a make-shift warming shelter at Travis Park Methodist Church in San Antonio. As temperatures plunged and snow and ice whipped the state, much of Texas' power grid collapsed, followed by its water systems. Tens of millions huddled in frigid homes that slowly grew colder or fled for safety. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
Power failure: How a winter storm pushed Texas into crisis

By Nomaan Merchant Feb. 21, 2021 09:07 AM EST

FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2021, file photo, customers use the light from a cell phone to look in the meat section of a grocery store in Dallas. Even though the store lost power, it was open for cash only sales. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
Power failure: How a winter storm pushed Texas into crisis

By Nomaan Merchant Feb. 21, 2021 09:04 AM EST

FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2021, file photo people line up to fill their empty propane tanks in Houston. A Democratic senator is calling for federal investigations into possible price gouging of natural gas in the Midwest and other regions following severe winter storms that plunged Texas and other states into a deep freeze that caused power outages in million of homes and businesses. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)
Senator seeks probe of natural gas price spikes during storm

By Matthew Daly Feb. 20, 2021 03:57 PM EST

Louisiana confirms 2 more deaths tied to winter weather

Feb. 20, 2021 02:17 PM EST
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Louisiana authorities on Saturday confirmed two more fatalities tied to severe winter conditions, bringing the total deaths in the...

People wait in line for the opening of a 24-hour, walk-up COVID-19 vaccination clinic hosted by the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium at Temple University's Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, Friday, Feb. 19, 2021. Efforts to vaccinate Americans against COVID-19 have been stymied by a series of winter storms and outages in parts of the country not used to extreme cold weather, and hobbled transportation hubs and highways. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
EXPLAINER: How have storms affected COVID-19 vaccinations?

By Anne D'innocenzio And Linda A. Johnson Feb. 19, 2021 06:16 PM EST