NEW YORK (AP) — Rising prices for a variety of commodities are contributing to a jump in prices at the consumer level, with Americans paying more for meat, gasoline, items they keep in their homes and even the homes themselves.
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NEW YORK (AP) — At this stage in the pandemic, CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta is concerned that Americans are not getting clear enough messages about what they should or shouldn't be doing to keep themselves and others protected.
FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2020 file photo, Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine discusses the most recent data on Ohio's soaring coronavirus cases during a news briefing at John Glenn International Airport in Columbus, Ohio. DeWine is ready to address Ohioans in his fourth primetime speech about the state's progress against the coronavirus pandemic. DeWine planned his address for late Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins)
DETROIT (AP) — For the next few months, Charlie Gilchrist figures his 11 car dealerships in the Dallas-Fort Worth area will sell just about every new vehicle they can get from the factories — and at increased prices.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Sandra Kunz had been worried for her safety while working as a cashier at a Walmart in Aurora, Colorado, during the pandemic, said her sister, Paula Spellman.
A medical assistant enters data at a COVID-19 vaccination clinic, Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in Auburn, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
In this image from the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism, a Tyson Berry Street Plant sign is seen in front of the Springdale, Arkansas, Tyson parking lot for hauling chicken products, April 20, 2021. The Berry Street location had more than 400 COVID-19 cases among the workers, the highest number of cases across Arkansas poultry plants. (Abby Zimmardi/University of Arkansas via AP)
Alex Bernier, 16, of Minot, Maine, receives a dose of a COVID-19 vaccination, Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in Auburn, Maine. Clinics in Maine recently began vaccinating children as young as 12-years-old. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
A medical assistant applies pressure to cause after Jacob Conary received his first shot of the COVID-19 vaccination, Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in Auburn, Maine. Vaccination clinics in Maine recently opened up to 12 to 15-year-olds. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have tumbled to an average of around 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.
NEW YORK — Deaths from the coronavirus in the U.S. have tumbled to an average of about 600 per day, the lowest level in 10 months.
States are rolling out Pfizer’s COVID-19 shots to pediatricians and even some school vaccine clinics as they prepare to vaccinate millions of kids as young as 12.
WESTMORELAND, N.H. (AP) — Much like the round clock faces, gears and planets that often populate his artwork, Robert Seaman has come full circle.
A woman in a nurses uniform stands surrounded by white pairs of shoes to represent the 402 nurses who died because of covid-19, near the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. National Nurses United union is asking the Biden administration to adopt Emergency Temporary Standards, which will require employers to continue to protect workers from Covid-19. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Nurses stand surrounded by white pairs of shoes to represent the 402 nurses who died because of covid-19, near the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. National Nurses United union is asking the Biden administration to adopt Emergency Temporary Standards, which will require employers to continue to protect workers from Covid-19. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Nurses stand surrounded by white pairs of shoes to represent the 402 nurses who died because of covid-19, near the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. National Nurses United union is asking the Biden administration to adopt Emergency Temporary Standards, which will require employers to continue to protect workers from Covid-19. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
A woman in a nurses uniform stands surrounded by white pairs of shoes to represent the 402 nurses who died because of covid-19, near the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. National Nurses United union is asking the Biden administration to adopt Emergency Temporary Standards, which will require employers to continue to protect workers from Covid-19. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Nurses stand surrounded by white pairs of shoes to represent the 402 nurses who died because of covid-19, near the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. National Nurses United union is asking the Biden administration to adopt Emergency Temporary Standards, which will require employers to continue to protect workers from Covid-19. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
White pairs of shoes to represent the 402 nurses who died because of covid-19, are displayed near the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. National Nurses United union is asking the Biden administration to adopt Emergency Temporary Standards, which will require employers to continue to protect workers from Covid-19. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
A woman in a nurses uniform stands surrounded by white pairs of shoes to represent the 402 nurses who died because of covid-19, near the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. National Nurses United union is asking the Biden administration to adopt Emergency Temporary Standards, which will require employers to continue to protect workers from Covid-19. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
A woman in a nurses uniform stands surrounded by white pairs of shoes to represent the 402 nurses who died because of covid-19, near the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. National Nurses United union is asking the Biden administration to adopt Emergency Temporary Standards, which will require employers to continue to protect workers from Covid-19. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Jacqueline Brooks of Waldorf, Md., foreground, and other registered nurses stand surrounded by white pairs of shoes to represent the 402 nurses who died because of covid-19, near the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. National Nurses United union is asking the Biden administration to adopt Emergency Temporary Standards, which will require employers to continue to protect workers from Covid-19. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Jacqueline Brooks of Waldorf, Md., and other registered nurses stand surrounded by white pairs of shoes to represent the 402 nurses who died because of covid-19, near the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. National Nurses United union is asking the Biden administration to adopt Emergency Temporary Standards, which will require employers to continue to protect workers from Covid-19. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Nurses stand surrounded by white pairs of shoes to represent the 402 nurses who died because of covid-19, near the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. National Nurses United union is asking the Biden administration to adopt Emergency Temporary Standards, which will require employers to continue to protect workers from Covid-19. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Jacqueline Brooks of Waldorf, Md., foreground, and other registered nurses stand surrounded by white pairs of shoes to represent the 402 nurses who died because of covid-19, near the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. National Nurses United union is asking the Biden administration to adopt Emergency Temporary Standards, which will require employers to continue to protect workers from Covid-19. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Nurses stand surrounded by white pairs of shoes to represent the 402 nurses who died because of covid-19, near the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. National Nurses United union is asking the Biden administration to adopt Emergency Temporary Standards, which will require employers to continue to protect workers from Covid-19. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Nurses stand surrounded by white pairs of shoes to represent the 402 nurses who died because of covid-19, near the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. National Nurses United union is asking the Biden administration to adopt Emergency Temporary Standards, which will require employers to continue to protect workers from Covid-19. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Jacqueline Brooks of Waldorf, Md., foreground, and other registered nurses stand surrounded by white pairs of shoes to represent the 402 nurses who died because of covid-19, near the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. National Nurses United union is asking the Biden administration to adopt Emergency Temporary Standards, which will require employers to continue to protect workers from Covid-19. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
NEW YORK CITY, N.Y., May 12, 2021 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Executive Producers Eric Conte and Dan Weinreich of Content.23 Media, Inc. return to produce the global media industry event, the IAB 2021 Podcast Upfront, right on the heels of last week’s IAB 2021 NewFronts.
STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) — He scurries through his apartment, downing a quick mug of coffee, brushing his teeth, feeding his pet rabbit, Auggie, before leaving. Not so long ago, Bill Mathis would have headed to his high school classroom to discuss great literature like “To Kill a Mocking…
Traffic flows on California 110 on Monday, May 11, 2020, in Los Angeles. Americans are slowly getting back on the road after hunkering down amid the coronavirus pandemic, though driving still is well below what it was before many states issued stay-at-home orders. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) — Teaching high school was Bill Mathis’ dream job, the one he referenced in a childhood journal he still keeps: “I would love to be a teacher,” he scrawled in pencil as a third grader.
DALLAS (AP) — A federal judge dismissed the National Rifle Association’s bankruptcy case Tuesday, leaving the powerful gun-rights group to face a New York state lawsuit that accuses it of financial abuses and aims to put it out of business.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — During the gloomiest stretches of the pandemic, Dr. Diona Krahn's veterinary clinic has been a puppy fest, overrun with new four-legged patients.
Americans can begin applying for $50 off their monthly internet bill on Wednesday as part of an emergency government program to keep people connected during the pandemic.
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The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to extend the mandate of the nearly 3,700-strong peacekeeping force in the disputed Abyei region on the Sudan-South Sudan border until Nov. 15.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The number of unaccompanied children encountered on the U.S. border with Mexico in April eased from an all-time high a month earlier, while more adults were found coming without families, authorities said Tuesday.
NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera reached a tentative agreement Tuesday on a four-year contract with the American Guild of Musical Artists, one of three major labor deals needed for the New York company to resume performances in September.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Buoyed by a large budget surplus and swimming in federal pandemic recovery money, California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday proposed $12 billion to get more people experiencing homelessness off the streets and into homes of their own.
FILE — In this Thursday April 9, 2020, file photo, Dr. Mark Ghaly, California Health and Human Services Secretary, discusses the state's response to the coronavirus at a news briefing in Rancho Cordova, Calif. California is nearing approval of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine for its 2.1 million children ages 12 to 15, state health officials said Tuesday, May 11, 2021, one day after the federal government expanded its use. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
FILE - This Dec. 24, 2020, file photo, shows a vial of the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer, shown at Seton Medical Center during the coronavirus pandemic in Daly City, Calif. California is nearing approval of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine for its 2.1 million children ages 12 to 15, state health officials said Tuesday, May 11, 2021, one day after the federal government expanded its use. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
SALEM, Ore. — Oregon lawmakers have passed a bill to give tenants who are struggling with financial hardships due to the pandemic more time to pay past-due rent.
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Parents, schools and vaccine clinics rushed to begin inoculating younger adolescents Tuesday after U.S. regulators endorsed Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children as young as 12, a decision seen as a breakthrough in allowing classroom instruction to resume safely around …
Olivia Edwards, left, 13, of Flourtown, Pa., receives a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination from registered nurse Philene Moore at a Montgomery County, Pa. Office of Public Health vaccination clinic at the King of Prussia Mall, Tuesday, May 11, 2021, in King of Prussia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Manaf Albarakati, 14, of Narberth, Pa., receives a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination from registered nurse Alicia Jimenez at a Montgomery County, Pa., Office of Public Health vaccination clinic at the King of Prussia Mall, Tuesday, May 11, 2021, in King of Prussia, Pa.. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Registered nurse Carol Lennon gives a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination to Camden Kramer, 14, of Paoli, Pa., at a Montgomery County, Pa. Office of Public Health vaccination clinic at the King of Prussia Mall, Tuesday, May 11, 2021, in King of Prussia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Olivia Edwards, left, 13, of Flourtown, Pa., looks through photos of her sister, Kate Edwards, 15, getting a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination at a Montgomery County, Pa. Office of Public Health vaccination clinic at the King of Prussia Mall, Tuesday, May 11, 2021, in King of Prussia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Riku Morihata, left, 12, of Haverford, Pa., receives a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination from registered nurse Carol Lennon at a Montgomery County, Pa. Office of Public Health vaccination clinic at the King of Prussia Mall, Tuesday, May 11, 2021, in King of Prussia, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
KNOXVILLE, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa woman who stabbed her estranged husband's girlfriend to death was found guilty Tuesday of first-degree murder.
FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2021, file photo a sheet with information about how to get a COVID-19 vaccine sticks out of an order of groceries for delivery to a homebound senior citizen in Portland, Ore., through the nonprofit group Store to Door. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has announced statewide and county COVID-19 vaccination targets, with the hope of reopening the state's economy. The governor said Tuesday, May 11, most statewide coronavirus related restrictions will be lifted when 70% of Oregon's residents who are 16 years and older receive the first COVID-19 vaccine dose. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus, File)