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  • Thailand wants to buy more vaccines as surge worsens

    May 07, 2021 - 7:04 PM

    BANGKOK - Thailand's prime minister said he wants to secure more vaccines for his country and give as many first doses as possible, as it battles a surge of the pandemic with Bangkok reporting a record number of cases.

  • Former acting Defence chief to testify on Jan. 6 response

    May 07, 2021 - 6:53 PM

    WASHINGTON - Former acting Defence Secretary Christopher Miller is scheduled to testify next week about the Pentagon's role in responding to the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, the latest in a series of high-profile congressional hearings centred on the insurrection.

  • Gaetz, Greene take mantle of Trump's populism at rally

    May 07, 2021 - 6:14 PM

    THE VILLAGES, Fla. - U.S. Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene, two of the Republican Party's most controversial figures, kicked off their “America First Rally" roadshow Friday with a Trump-centric revival of sorts for the MAGA faithful at a Florida retirement community.

  • NASA Mars helicopter heard humming through planet's thin air

    May 07, 2021 - 6:09 PM

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - First came the amazing pictures, then the video. Now NASA is sharing sounds of its little helicopter humming through the thin Martian air.

  • Deadly police shootout prompts claims of abuse in Brazil

    May 07, 2021 - 6:09 PM

    RIO DE JANEIRO - A bloody, hour-long gunbattle in a Rio de Janeiro slum echoed into Friday, with authorities saying the police killed two dozen criminals while residents and activists claimed human rights abuses and a Supreme Court justice hinted at an investigation.

  • AP News in Brief at 9:04 p.m. EDT

    May 07, 2021 - 6:05 PM

    Weak jobs report spurs new arguments over big fed spending

  • Rachel Zoll, much-admired AP religion writer, dead at 55

    May 07, 2021 - 6:03 PM

    Rachel Zoll, who for 17 years as religion writer for The Associated Press endeared herself to colleagues, competitors and sources with her warm heart and world-class reporting skills, died Friday in Amherst, Massachusetts, after a three-year bout with brain cancer. She was 55.

  • Vans co-founder Paul Van Doren dies at 90

    May 07, 2021 - 5:57 PM

    LOS ANGELES - Paul Van Doren, co-founder of the Vans company whose iconic Southern California sneakers were beloved by skateboarders and became an international success, has died. He was 90.

  • US allows diplomats, embassy families to leave Nepal

    May 07, 2021 - 5:50 PM

    WASHINGTON - The State Department said Friday it is allowing non-essential diplomats and the families of all American staff at the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu to leave Nepal at government expense due a surge in coronavirus cases.

  • Stefanik's rise toward leadership job irks conservatives

    May 07, 2021 - 5:22 PM

    WASHINGTON - Conservatives in and out of Congress are expressing opposition to Rep. Elise Stefanik ’s rise toward House Republicans' No. 3 leadership job, grumbling that's unlikely to derail her but serves notice that the right wing is battling again to affect the party’s future.

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