By Andrew Meldrum and Carley PeteschAssociated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African firm will begin producing the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, the first time that the shot will be produced […]
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Summer Setback: Covid Deaths and Cases Rising Again Globally
By Heather Hollingsworth and Maria ChengAssociated Press COVID-19 deaths and cases are on the rise again globally in a dispiriting setback that is triggering another round of restrictions and dampening […]
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Global COVID-19 Deaths Hit 4 Million Amid Rush to Vaccinate
By Joshua GoodmanAssociated Press The global death toll from COVID-19 eclipsed 4 million Wednesday as the crisis increasingly becomes a race between the vaccine and the highly contagious delta variant. […]
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NASA’s Self-Driving Perseverance Mars Rover ‘Takes the Wheel’
NASA’s newest six-wheeled robot on Mars, the Perseverance rover, is beginning an epic journey across a crater floor seeking signs of ancient life. That means the rover team is deeply […]
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Mexico High Court Mandates Permits for Personal Pot Use
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Supreme Court ordered the government Monday to issue permits for the personal use of marijuana and for the growing of limited amounts of pot plants, […]
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Major Ocean-Observing Satellite Starts Providing Science Data
After six months of check-out and calibration in orbit, the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite made its first two data streams available to the public on June 22. The satellite launched […]
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Report Blames Poor Welds for Mexico City Subway Collapse
By Mark StevensonAssociated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A preliminary report by experts into the collapse of a Mexico City elevated subway line that killed 26 people placed much of […]
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‘Practical Work’ Summit for Biden, Putin: No Punches or Hugs
By Aamer Madhani, Jonathan Lemire, and Vladimir IsachenkovAssociated Press GENEVA (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden and Russia’s Vladimir Putin exchanged cordial words and plotted modest steps on arms control […]
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Biden Opens Overseas Trip Declaring ‘United States is Back’
By Jonathan Lemire and Aamer MadhaniAssociated Press MILDENHALL, England (AP) — President Joe Biden opened the first overseas trip of his term Wednesday with a declaration that “the United States […]
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Blunt Message, Search for Answers Mark VP’s 1st Foreign Trip
By Alexandra JaffeAssociated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris came to Latin America to deliver a message rather than clinch some kind of concrete deal. She bluntly […]