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Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador thumbs up after voting in congressional, state and local elections in Mexico City, Sunday, June 6, 2021. Mexicans on Sunday were electing the entire lower house of Congress, almost half the country's governors and most mayors in a vote that will determine if Obrador's Morena party gets the legislative majority. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
Mexico votes on López Obrador's 'transformation' at mid-term

By Christopher Sherman And Mark Stevenson Jun. 06, 2021 12:01 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Florida

By The Associated Press May. 19, 2021 08:10 AM EDT
South Florida Sun Sentinel. May 18, 2021. Editorial: Do some good with gambling: Expand Medicaid The Seminole gambling...

FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2020 file photo, the sun rises behind the Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Supreme Court wrestles with New Jersey pipeline case

By Jessica Gresko Apr. 28, 2021 06:52 PM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2021 file photo, a doctor prepares a dose of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine at the Ana Francisca Perez de Leon II public hospital, in Caracas, Venezuela. Brazil's health regulator rejected on Monday, April 19, 2021, a request from several states to import almost 30 million doses of the Sputnik V vaccine, citing safety concerns, prompting criticism from the Russian government. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)
Brazil regulator rejects Sputnik vaccine; Russia cries foul

By David Biller Apr. 27, 2021 02:22 PM EDT

Exterior view of the European Medicines Agency, EMA, in Amsterdam's business district, Netherlands, Tuesday, April 20, 2021. Experts at the European Medicines Agency are preparing to present the conclusions of their investigation later on Tuesday into possible links between the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine and very rare cases of unusual clotting disorders detected in the U.S. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
EU agency links J&J shot to rare clots, says odds favor use

By Maria Cheng Apr. 20, 2021 03:51 AM EDT

Supporters of Tehreek-e-Labiak Pakistan, a radical Islamist political party, chant slogans during a sit-in protest against the arrest of their party leader Saad Rizvi and demanding to expel the French envoy from the country, in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, April 16, 2021. Pakistan briefly blocked access to all social media on Friday, after days of anti-French protests across the country by radical Islamists opposed to cartoons they consider blasphemous. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
Pakistan briefly blocks social media amid anti-France rally

By Babar Dogar And Munir Ahmed Apr. 16, 2021 03:39 AM EDT

FILE - In this file photo dated Monday, March 22, 2021, vials of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in a fridge at the local vaccine center in Ebersberg near Munich, Germany. German officials have decided to limit the use of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine in people under 60 after more unusual blood clots were reported in a small number of people who received the shots. Earlier this month, more than a dozen countries, including Germany, suspended their use of AstraZeneca over the blood clot issue. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)
UK: Benefits outweigh risks for AstraZeneca despite 7 deaths

By Pan Pylas Apr. 03, 2021 05:52 AM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2021, file photo, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during a virtual roundtable with participants from Black Chambers of Commerce across the country to discuss the American Rescue Plan in Washington. Last year’s coronavirus-triggered market turmoil exposed vulnerable areas in the U.S. economy that need to be addressed by the nation's top-level financial supervisory group, Yellen said Wednesday, March 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
Yellen says regulatory panel to look at 2020 market turmoil

By Martin Crutsinger Mar. 31, 2021 05:36 PM EDT

Discarded in the safe disposal box are used syringes, that were used to give patient their 1st doses for the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at the Wheatfield surgery in Luton, England, Thursday, March 18, 2021. The world is awaiting the results of an initial European investigation into whether there is any evidence that the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine was behind unusual blood clots reported in some recipients of the shot. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
UK regulator: People should keep getting AstraZeneca shots

Mar. 18, 2021 10:38 AM EDT

People rest after being vaccinated with the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in a mass vaccination site at the Brabanthal event center in Heverlee, Belgium, Wednesday, March 17, 2021. The European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen criticized Anglo-Swedish vaccine-maker AstraZeneca on Wednesday, accusing the embattled pharmaceutical company of delaying Europe's coronavirus vaccination campaign and warning that the EU is weighing export bans to ensure supplies. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
EU agency: AstraZeneca vaccine safe, will add clot warning

By Maria Cheng And Frank Jordans Mar. 18, 2021 05:12 AM EDT

Doctor Anil Mehta, surrounded by his team of doctors, administers a dose of the Pfizer vaccine to Geeta Waddon to mark the 10,000th jab in his small practice in London, Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
UK, 4 nations fast-track review of modified COVID vaccines

By Danica Kirka Mar. 04, 2021 02:49 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

Icicles hang from a building Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021, in North Kansas City, Mo. A cold streak continues across the region with temperatures expected to drop to -13 degrees Fahrenheit by by Monday.(AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
The Latest: US regulators to review bulk-power operations

Feb. 16, 2021 11:16 AM EST

Springfield restaurant fined over COVID-19 rules

Feb. 03, 2021 05:40 PM EST
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Occupational Safety and Health has fined a Springfield restaurant $9,215 for two COVID-19-related violations. ...

FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 21, 2020 file photo, under the watchful eye of Prof. Dr. Iftahar Koksal, left, nurse Arzu Yildirim, center, administers a dose of the CoronaVac vaccine, made by Sinovac, then on phase III clinical trials at Acibadem Hospital in Istanbul. Turkish authorities on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, gave the go-ahead for the emergency use of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by China's Sinovac Biotch Ltd. paving the way for the rollout for Turkey's vaccination program starting with health care workers and other high-risk groups in the country of 83 million. Turkey has reported some 2.34 million infections and around 23,000 deaths. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel, File)
Turkey approves China-based Sinovac vaccine's emergency use

By Suzan Fraser Jan. 13, 2021 11:39 AM EST

Pennsylvania lawmakers sue over Delaware River drilling ban

By Michael Rubinkam Jan. 12, 2021 04:52 PM EST
Republican state lawmakers in Pennsylvania are seeking to overturn a ban on gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing in the Delaware River basin, filing a federal...

Hospital systems proposing merger file with state

Dec. 26, 2020 11:22 AM EST
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — UMass Memorial Health Care and Harrington Health Care System have taken another step forward in their proposed merger by filing with...

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020 file photo, a nurse holds a phial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Guy's Hospital in London. As Canadians, Britons and Americans begin getting immunized with a German-developed vaccine against the coronavirus, pressure is building on the European Medicines Agency to approve the shot made by Pfizer Inc. and German company BioNTech. Those countries all approved the COVID-19 vaccine under emergency use rules, meaning it is an unlicensed product. But the EMA approval process for coronavirus vaccines is largely similar to the standard licensing procedure that would be granted to any new vaccine, only on an accelerated schedule. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Pool, File)
EXPLAINER: Why is the EU taking so long to OK vaccine?

Dec. 15, 2020 06:56 AM EST

Christmas trees for sale on the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. Chancellor Angela Merkel said she and the governors of Germany’s 16 states agreed Sunday to step up the country’s lockdown measures from Dec. 16 to Jan. 10 to stop the exponential rise of COVID-19 cases. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Germany's health minister urges EU to approve vaccine faster

By Kirsten Grieshaber Dec. 14, 2020 02:51 AM EST

Paula McMahon prepares a shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, as the mass public vaccination program gets underway, at the NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland, Tuesday Dec. 8, 2020. The United Kingdom is beginning its vaccination campaign to inoculate people against the COVID-19 virus. (Jeff J Mitchell/Pool via AP)
UK probes whether COVID-19 vaccine caused allergic reactions

By Danica Kirka Dec. 09, 2020 05:54 AM EST