By KATHLEEN FOODY and DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — As large American cities try various strategies to keep people home to limit the coronavirus’s spread, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has balanced a blend of stern — and occasionally scolding — news conferences with lighthearted social media to drive home her point. Lightfoot’s hard-line […]
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Mayor Says Virus Has Hit Black, Hispanic New Yorkers Hard
By MARINA VILLENEUVE, KAREN MATTHEWS and MICHAEL HILL, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New data shows New York City’s death toll from COVID-19 has been disproportionately high in Black and Hispanic communities. And deaths continue to rise statewide at a record pace, even as stay-at-home restrictions show signs of working. New York City’s death […]
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Louisiana Data: Virus Hits Blacks, People With Hypertension
By MELINDA DESLATTE, Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana is releasing more information about its coronavirus deaths, showing the virus’s victims are disproportionately Black and two-thirds of those who have died suffered from high blood pressure. The new data released by Louisiana’s health department, which will be updated weekly, gives a glimpse of […]
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Tulsa’s Former Black Wall Street to be Modernized With Grant
By The Associated Press TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A $500,000 grant from the National Park service will be used to renovate buildings along Tulsa’s former Black Wall Street, nearly 100 years after the area was largely destroyed and as many as 300 people were killed in one of the nation’s deadliest outbreaks of racial violence. […]
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Black Voters Weighed History, Health in Wisconsin Election
By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and GRETCHEN EHLKE, Associated Press MILWAUKEE, Wis. (AP) — After going to sleep angry and afraid to vote, Xavier Thomas woke up on election day in Wisconsin thinking about how hard Black people had to fight for the right to cast a ballot. He didn’t want to be deterred, despite the […]
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Outcry Over Racial Data Grows as Virus Slams Black Americans
By KAT STAFFORD, MEGHAN HOYER and AARON MORRISON, Associated Press As the coronavirus tightens its grip across the country, it is cutting a particularly devastating swath through an already vulnerable population — Black Americans. Democratic lawmakers and community leaders in cities hard-hit by the pandemic have been sounding the alarm over what they see as […]
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Trump Feels No Need For Crisis Counsel From Predecessors
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President George W. Bush turned to one of the world’s most exclusive clubs for help raising money after an Indian Ocean tsunami killed more than 200,000 people in 2004. He paired his father, George H.W. Bush, and the man who defeated him to win the presidency in […]
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Doctors, Nurses in Good Friday Procession at Vatican
By FRANCES D’EMILIO, Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — A pair of white-coated doctors who care for coronavirus patients participated in a torch-lit Good Friday procession, watched over by Pope Francis and held in a hauntingly nearly empty St. Peter’s Square instead of at Rome’s Colosseum because of the safety measures aimed at containing the […]
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New York Area Walloped as Global Virus Deaths Pass 100,000
By MATT SEDENSKY, MIKE CATALINI and JIM MUSTIAN, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus surged past 100,000 Friday as the epidemic in the U.S. cut a widening swath through not just New York City but the entire three-state metropolitan area of 20 million people connected by a tangle […]
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Next Potential Shortage: Drugs Needed To Run Ventilators
By MICHAEL REZENDES and LINDA A. JOHNSON, Associated Press New York (AP) — As hospitals scour the country for scarce ventilators to treat critically ill patients stricken by the new coronavirus, pharmacists are beginning to sound an alarm that could become just as urgent: Drugs that go hand in hand with ventilators are running low even […]
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Groups Used To Serving Desperately Poor Nations Now Help US
By MARTHA MENDOZA and JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press In Santa Barbara, forklifts chug through the warehouse of Direct Relief, hustling pallets of much-needed medical supplies into waiting FedEx trucks. Normally those gloves, masks and medicines would go to desperately poor clinics in Haiti or Sudan, but now they’re racing off to Stanford Hospital in Palo […]
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Some Churches Confront Virus Restrictions On Easter Services
By CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — At the holiest time of year for Christians, churches are wrestling with how to hold services amid the coronavirus outbreak, and in some cases, that has set up showdowns with local governments over restrictions that forbid large gatherings. Many churches are offering parishioners livestreaming options […]