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FILE - This July 23, 2020, file photo shows the view of the Space Needle, in Seattle. Record-high heat is forecast in the Pacific Northwest this weekend, raising concerns about wildfires and the health of people in a region where many don't have air conditioning. The National Weather Service has issued an Excessive Heat Watch and predicted “dangerously hot” conditions Friday, June 25, 2021, through at least Tuesday. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
Pacific Northwest braces for record-breaking heat wave

By Nicholas K. Geranios Jun. 24, 2021 03:04 PM EDT

People queue at an NHS Vaccination Clinic at Tottenham Hotspur's stadium in north London, Sunday, June 20, 2021. The NHS is braced for high demand as anyone in England over the age of 18 can now book a Covid-19 vaccination jab. (Yui Mok/PA via AP)
The Latest: Blood shortage forces New England surgery delay

By The Associated Press Jun. 20, 2021 05:32 AM EDT

Men wait outside a privately owned oxygen factory to get their oxygen cylinders refilled, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, June 19, 2021. Health officials say Afghanistan is fast running out of oxygen as a deadly third surge of COVID worsen. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
Afghanistan running out of oxygen as COVID surge worsens

By Kathy Gannon Jun. 19, 2021 10:04 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Georgia

By The Associated Press Jun. 02, 2021 10:10 AM EDT
Valdosta Daily Times. June 1, 2021. Editorial: Be prepared for hurricane season While pandemic seems to be subsiding,...

FILE - In this June 12, 2020 file photo, a doctor holds a bag of blood plasma donated by a COVID-19 survivor at at blood bank in La Paz, Bolivia. On Friday, May 28, 2021, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly asserting that the Red Cross says if you recovered from COVID-19 and had a vaccine, you cannot donate blood plasma because the vaccine wipes out natural antibodies. The Red Cross said the statement is inaccurate, and COVID-19 vaccines do not wipe out antibodies, according to experts. (AP Photo/Juan Karita, File)
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

By The Associated Press May. 28, 2021 02:14 PM EDT

Spanish Army soldiers clash with migrants near the border of Morocco and Spain, at the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, on Tuesday, May 18, 2021. Ceuta, a Spanish city of 85,000 in northern Africa, faces a humanitarian crisis after thousands of Moroccans took advantage of relaxed border control in their country to swim or paddle in inflatable boats into European soil. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Spain, Morocco square off after 8,000 migrants arrive by sea

By Renata Brito And Aritz Parra May. 18, 2021 11:46 AM EDT

Bodies of people who died of COVID-19 are cremated at an open crematorium on the outskirts of Bengaluru, Karnataka state, India, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
Red Cross warns that coronavirus cases are exploding in Asia

May. 12, 2021 05:07 AM EDT

FILE - In this May 2, 2021, patrons at a sidewalk cafe are seated without masks in Boston. COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have tumbled to an average of just over 600 per day — the lowest level in 10 months — with the number of lives lost dropping to single digits in well over half the states and hitting zero on some days. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
The Latest: Louisiana kids can start vaccinations Thursday

By The Associated Press May. 12, 2021 01:36 AM EDT

FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2021 file photo, an Israeli military paramedic prepares a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, to be administered to elderly people at a medical center in Ashdod, southern Israel. On Friday, April 23 The Associated Press reported on social media posts that misrepresented a report from doctors in Israel claiming shingles may be a side effect of the vaccine. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

By The Associated Press Apr. 23, 2021 12:23 PM EDT

RIEMA, Red Cross team up to prevent home fires

Apr. 18, 2021 04:01 PM EDT
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency and the state chapter of the American Red Cross are teaming up to prevent home fires,...

FILE - In this Sunday, March 14, 2021, file photo, migrant children and teenagers are processed after entering the site of a temporary holding facility south of Midland, Texas. The Biden administration is not requiring FBI fingerprint background checks of caregivers at its rapidly expanding network of emergency sites to hold thousands of immigrant teenagers. That alarms child welfare experts who say the waiver compromises safety. (Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP, File)
US waives FBI checks on caregivers at new migrant facilities

By Nomaan Merchant Mar. 27, 2021 02:05 PM EDT

A traveler waiting in line to cross a customs area into the U.S. at the McAllen-Hidalgo International Bridge looks back as a group of migrants are deported to Reynosa, Mexico, Thursday, March 18, 2021, in Hidalgo, Texas. A surge of migrants on the Southwest border has the Biden administration on the defensive. The head of Homeland Security acknowledged the severity of the problem Tuesday but insisted it's under control and said he won't revive a Trump-era practice of immediately expelling teens and children. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Emergency sites for migrant children raising safety concerns

By Nomaan Merchant And Adriana Gomez Licon Mar. 18, 2021 03:57 PM EDT

The Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center stands in Dallas on March 29, 2020. The U.S. government wants to house up to 3,000 immigrant teenagers at the center as it struggles to find space for a surge of migrant children who have inundated the border and strained the immigration system just two months into the Biden administration. (Juan Figueroa/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
Immigrant teens to be housed at Dallas convention center

By Nomaan Merchant And Jake Bleiberg Mar. 15, 2021 05:34 PM EDT

A medical staffer holds a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine during a nationwide vaccination program at the American University Medical Center in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. (AP Photo / Bilal Hussein)
Lebanon administers 1st vaccines to health workers, elderly

By Sarah El Deeb Feb. 14, 2021 05:46 AM EST

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020 file photo, refugees who fled the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region ride a bus going to the Village 8 temporary shelter, near the Sudan-Ethiopia border, in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan. Life for civilians in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region has become "extremely alarming" as hunger grows and fighting remains an obstacle to reaching millions of people with aid, the United Nations said in a new report released late Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)
'Emaciated' survivors hint at worse in Ethiopia's Tigray

By Cara Anna Feb. 10, 2021 09:57 AM EST

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster donates plasma to help with COVID-19 treatment, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021, in Columbia, S.C. McMaster contracted COVID-19 in December and said this was his way to help others. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)
South Carolina governor donates plasma for COVID-19 therapy

By Jeffrey Collins Feb. 05, 2021 03:51 PM EST

FILE - This July 30, 2020, image taken from video by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services shows Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers in Madison, Wis. Gov. Evers has issued a new statewide mask order an hour after the Republican-controlled Legislature voted to repeal his previous mandate on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. The Democrat Evers said in a video message Thursday that his priority is keeping people safe and that wearing a mask was the most basic way to do that. The mandate, saying masks are probably the most effective way to slow the spread of COVID-19. (Wisconsin Department of Health Services via the AP, File)
The Latest: Mexico's president has negative antigen test

By The Associated Press Feb. 04, 2021 04:42 AM EST

FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2020, photo provided by the Iranian Health Ministry, medics tend to a COVID-19 patient at a hospital in Tehran, Iran. Iranian media reported on Monday, Dec. 28 that an unidentified group of U.S.-based philanthropists plans to send 150,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine to Iran in the coming weeks, in a step that could bring the hardest-hit country in the Middle East closer to inoculating its citizens against the coronavirus. (Akbar Badrkhani/Iranian Health Ministry via AP, File)
Iran says Pfizer vaccine batch expected from US benefactors

By Nasser Karimi Dec. 28, 2020 10:40 AM EST

International Federation of Red Cross President Francesco Rocca spekas to media the Kastanies border checkpoint on the Greek-Turkish border, Thursday, March 5, 2020. Turkey has vowed to seek justice for a migrant it says was killed on the border with Greece after Greek authorities fired tear gas and stun grenades to push back dozens of people attempting to cross over. Greece had denied that anyone was killed in the clashes. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)
Red Cross chief urges vaccine 'fake news' fight

By Edith M. Lederer Nov. 30, 2020 09:29 PM EST

FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2020 file photo, volunteer firefighters rush to a waiting helicopter to load emergency aid to be transported to a nearby zone where residents are believed buried by a massive, rain-fueled landslide, during search and rescue efforts, in San Cristobal Verapaz, in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Eta. The search was eventually called off after recovering a few bodies and declaring about 100 people missing. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)
Punishing hurricanes to spur more Central American migration

By Claudio Escalon And María Verza Nov. 24, 2020 02:36 PM EST