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Speaker takes lawmaker to task over 'China virus' email

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AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — House Speaker Ryan Fecteau criticized a Republican lawmaker for calling the coronavirus the “Chinese virus" but he has no plans for...

This undated photo provided by Weee Inc. shows Weee founder Larry Liu. Virtual grocery shopping became more popular during the pandemic lockdowns, and Weee, a startup focused on Asian grocery delivery, was no exception. (Weee via AP)
Online grocery Weee's Larry Liu on delivering in a pandemic

By Tali Arbel Apr. 11, 2021 10:05 AM EDT

FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2018, file photo, Jon Husted, then a candidate for Ohio Lt. Governor, speaks at the Columbus Chamber of Commerce Government Day, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Now the current Ohio lieutenant governor, Husted entered the coronavirus pandemic as one of Ohio's rising Republican stars. Following an uninterrupted two-decade climb from state representative, to House speaker, to state senator, to secretary of state, to lieutenant governor, his next stop was supposed to be the Governor's Residence. But his party's hard turn to the right has required deft recalculation. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
Meeting between Husted, neighbors over tweet is in flux

Apr. 09, 2021 12:36 PM EDT

FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2018, file photo Jon Husted speaks at the Columbus Chamber of Commerce Government Day in Cincinnati, Ohio. Now the current Ohio Lieutenant Governor, Husted entered the coronavirus pandemic as one of Ohio's rising Republican stars. Following an uninterrupted two-decade climb from state representative, to House speaker, to state senator, to secretary of state, to lieutenant governor, his next stop was supposed to be the Governor's Residence. But his party's hard turn to the right has required deft recalculation. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
Ohio GOP lieutenant governor faces political test over tweet

By Julie Carr Smyth And Farnoush Amiri Apr. 08, 2021 07:29 AM EDT

Neighbors say Lt Gov Husted will meet them to discuss tweet

Apr. 05, 2021 05:15 PM EDT
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A group representing Asian American neighbors of Ohio’s Republican lieutenant governor said Monday that he and his family have agreed to...

Editorial Roundup: Ohio

By The Associated Press Apr. 05, 2021 09:00 AM EDT
Cleveland Plain Dealer. April 4, 2021. Editorial: Lt. Gov. Jon Husted covers himself in shame by not disavowing ‘Wuhan Virus’ tweet ...

FILE-This Monday, March 23, 2020 file photo shows Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted walking out of a coronavirus news conference at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. Husted is continuing to face criticism for a recent tweet where he referred to COVID-19 as the "Wuhan virus," as advocates warn the phrase is leading to an uptick of violence against Asian Americans. (Doral Chenoweth/The Columbus Dispatch via AP, File)
Asian neighbors pen letter of fear to Ohio's lieutenant gov

By Farnoush Amiri Mar. 31, 2021 12:11 PM EDT

Liang Wannian, the Chinese co-leader of the joint China-WHO investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, speaks during a press conference in Beijing, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. Chinese health officials pushed Wednesday for expanding the search for the origins of COVID-19 beyond China, one day after the release of a World Health Organization report on the issue. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
China pushes to expand virus origin search beyond its border

By Ken Moritsugu Mar. 31, 2021 08:55 AM EDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021 file photo, Peter Ben Embarek of a World Health Organization team speaks to journalists, at the end of their WHO mission to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. An international team behind a long-awaited study of the possible origins of COVID-19 with Chinese colleagues on Tuesday, March 30 called it a “first start,” while the United States and allies expressed concerns about the findings and China trumpeted its cooperation. Team leader Peter Ben Embarek of the World Health Organization presented the team’s first-phase look into the possible origins of the pandemic that has killed nearly 2.8 million people and pummeled economies since it first turned up in China over a year ago. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, file)
WHO team urges patience after 1st look for origin of virus

By Jamey Keaten Mar. 30, 2021 01:22 PM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2021, file photo, Marion Koopmans, right, and Peter Ben Embarek of a World Health Organization team arrive for a joint press conference at the end of their mission to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak is “extremely unlikely," according to a draft copy obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
WHO report: COVID likely 1st jumped into humans from animals

By Jamey Keaten And Ken Moritsugu Mar. 29, 2021 01:13 AM EDT

A stylist wearing a face mask to protect against COVID-19 cuts a child's hair in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province, Friday, March 26, 2021. Chinese officials briefed diplomats Friday on the ongoing research into the origin of COVID-19, ahead of the expected release of a long-awaited report from the World Health Organization. (Chinatopix via AP)
China outlines COVID-origin findings, ahead of WHO report

By Ken Moritsugu Mar. 26, 2021 07:49 AM EDT

FILE - In this file photo dated Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021, a worker in protectively overalls and carrying disinfecting equipment walks outside the Wuhan Central Hospital where Li Wenliang, the whistleblower doctor who sounded the alarm and was reprimanded by local police for it in the early days of Wuhan's pandemic, worked in Wuhan in central China. A lengthy written report published Thursday March 25, 2021, from a team of international and Chinese scientists on a joint mission to Wuhan aims to help unearth the origins of the coronavirus since it was first detected in China more than a year ago. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, FILE)
1 report, 4 theories: Scientists mull clues on virus' origin

By Daria Litvinova And Jamey Keaten Mar. 25, 2021 03:33 AM EDT

Chinese artist Yang Qian speaks during an interview at her studio in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021. Yang, who worked as a volunteer delivering vital supplies to hospitals and residents during the city's pandemic 76-day lockdown, is using her art work to make sure that history is not forgotten. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
One Good Thing: An artist preserves Wuhan's COVID memories

By Emily Wang Fujiyama Mar. 23, 2021 01:37 AM EDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021 file photo, Peter Ben Embarek of a World Health Organization team arrives for a joint press conference at the end of their mission to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. Peter Ben Embarek, the head of a World Health Organization team, working with Chinese colleagues to finish a long-awaited report into the origins of the coronavirus, said in interviews on Wednesday and Thursday that the team hopes the report will be ready for release next week. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, file)
WHO expert: Virus study to have unanimity despite pressure

By Jamey Keaten Mar. 18, 2021 06:59 AM EDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021 file photo, Marion Koopmans of the World Health Organization team speaks during a joint press conference held at the end of the WHO mission in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. In a press briefing on Wednesday, March 10 organized by the think tank Chatham House in London, Peter Daszak estimated that collective scientific research might be able to pin down how animals carrying COVID-19 infected the first people in Wuhan identified last December. Koopmans, who was also on the WHO-led team, said they considered numerous hypotheses for how the pandemic might have started, including the possibility of a laboratory accident. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, file)
Expert says origins of pandemic could be known in few years

By Maria Cheng Mar. 10, 2021 12:01 PM EST

Workers gesture near the Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre under construction for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in Zhangjiakou in northwestern China's Hebei province on on Dec. 16, 2020. Calls for a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics on human rights grounds are “doomed to failure,” a Chinese government spokesperson said Wednesday, March 3, 2021, as lawmakers and political advisers began converging on China's capital for the biggest annual gathering of the political calendar. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
China: Calls for 2022 Winter Olympics boycott doomed to fail

Mar. 03, 2021 04:43 AM EST

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021 file photo, President Joe Biden visits the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md. At bottom center is a model of the COVID-19 virus. On Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly asserting Biden restored taxpayer funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Social media users are falsely claiming the Biden administration is bankrolling the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a Chinese lab which has faced unproven allegations that the coronavirus leaked from the facility leading to the global COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

By Ali Swenson And Arijeta Lajka Feb. 26, 2021 02:49 PM EST

South Korean President Moon Jae-in, top right, watches a doctor receives a shot of AstraZeneca vaccine at a public health center in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. South Korea on Friday administered its first available shots of coronavirus vaccines to people at long-term care facilities, launching a mass immunization campaign that health authorities hope will restore some level of normalcy by the end of the year. (Choe Jae-koo/Yonhap via AP)
Asia Today: 1st vaccines reach arms in S. Korea, Hong Kong

Feb. 25, 2021 11:15 PM EST

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2020, file photo, a worker inspects syringes of a vaccine for COVID-19 produced by Sinovac at its factory in Beijing. China approved two new more COVID-19 vaccines for wider use Thursday, adding to its growing arsenal of shots: one from CanSino Biologics, and a second one from state-owned Sinopharm. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
China approves two more COVID-19 vaccines for wider use

By Huizhong Wu Feb. 25, 2021 09:11 AM EST

FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2020 file photo, a smartphone records Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying as she speaks during a daily briefing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing. "I'd like to stress that if the United States truly respects facts, it should open the biological lab at Fort Detrick, give more transparency to issues like its 200-plus overseas bio-labs, invite WHO experts to conduct origin-tracing in the United States," she said at a January 2021 MOFA press conference that went viral in China. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
China defends use of Twitter, Facebook in virus campaign

Feb. 18, 2021 06:09 AM EST