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US Supreme Court blocks Trump rule limiting mail voting, sides with Dem states
Biden's challenge: Creating a COVID-19-free White House
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three blocks from the White House, office space for more than 500 Biden transition staffers sits mostly idle. The government is shipping out laptops so staffers can work from home. President-elect…
China prepares for return of lunar probe with moon samples
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese ground crews are standing by for the return of a lunar probe bringing back the first fresh samples of rock and debris from the moon in more than 45 years.
A pandemic atlas: South Africa acts quickly, dodges disaster
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At a popular cafe in Johannesburg's Soweto area, owner Benedict Somi Vilakazi liked to tell foreign visitors how nearby Vilakazi Street was named after his grandfather, who defied racial discrim…
A pandemic atlas: Early success, growing concern in Germany
BERLIN (AP) — For a time, Germany seemed to have solved the puzzle of how to quell COVID-19.
A pandemic atlas: Spanish system fails, and the elderly die
MADRID (AP) — Patiently lining up, distanced, to buy bread. Watching grandchildren grow via screens. Cheering for a soccer team miles away from the stadium. Gathering for dinner, in reduced groups, at 7 p.m. — earl…
A pandemic atlas: Nations ran the gamut in their response
The nations of the world ran the gamut in their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic — sometimes veering from strict to lax measures in the course of just a few months, and vice versa. A look at the state of the pand…
A pandemic atlas: Brazil's leader scoffs, and toll rises
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The story of COVID-19 in Brazil is the story of a president who insists the pandemic is no big deal.
A pandemic atlas: Kenya's youth suffer collateral damage
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The accepted wisdom was that young people had less to fear from COVID-19. But in Kenya, youth suffered from the pandemic in other ways.
A pandemic atlas: A virus widens Israel's religious rifts
BNEI BRAK, Israel (AP) — When Israel went into its second nationwide coronavirus lockdown in September, most of the country quickly complied. But in some ultra-Orthodox areas, synagogues were packed, mourners thron…
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Turning the page? Republicans acknowledge Biden's victory
A pandemic atlas: Peru's death toll leaves a grieving nation
Each day at the height of the pandemic in Peru, Ronald Marín visited a crowded, dusty cemetery to offer final prayers for dozens of victims of COVID-19, their coffins wrapped in plastic like suitcases preparing for…
A pandemic atlas: Italy becomes Europe's viral epicenter
ROME (AP) — On the morning of Feb. 20, Dr. Annalisa Malara went to work at the public hospital in tiny Codogno, Italy, and broke protocol by ordering up a coronavirus test for a patient.
A pandemic atlas: China's state power crushes COVID-19
BEIJING (AP) — Workers have returned to factories, students are back in the classroom and once again long lines form outside popular hot pot restaurants. In major cities, wearing a surgical mask — though no longer …
A pandemic atlas: Masks key to keeping Japan's caseload low
TOKYO (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic came by ship to Japan in February — a foreboding harbinger for a world that had not yet come to grips with the disaster to come.
A pandemic atlas: India struggles to save lives, economy
NEW DELHI (AP) — India is caught between two calamities — a relentless pandemic that is ravaging the country and a hollowed-out economy that is without precedent.