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Australia to spend $813M to address Indigenous disadvantage

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On Wed, 08/04/2021 - 09:36 PM

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s government on Thursday pledged 1.1 billion Australian dollars ($813 million) to address Indigenous disadvantage, including compensation to thousands of mixed-race children who were taken from their families over decades.

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Pushback challenges vaccination requirements at US colleges

By TOM DAVIES - Associated Press, 94 Reads
Tue, 08/03/2021 - 06:27 AM

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The quickly approaching fall semester has America’s colleges under pressure to decide how far they should go to guard their campuses against COVID-19 while navigating legal and political questions and rising infection rates.

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Dating changed during the pandemic; apps are following suit

By UROOBA JAMAL - Associated Press, 93 Reads
Mon, 08/02/2021 - 11:01 PM

LONDON (AP) — Early in the coronavirus pandemic, Jennifer Sherlock went out with a few men she met through dating apps. The dates were “weird,” she said, and not just because they were masked, socially distanced and outdoors.

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Giant panda in French zoo gives birth to 'lively' twin girls

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On Mon, 08/02/2021 - 04:25 AM

PARIS (AP) — A giant panda on loan to France from China gave birth to female twin cubs early Monday, a French zoo announced, declaring “they are very lively, pink and plump.”

The Beauval Zoo, south of Paris, said the twins were born shortly after 1 a.m. They weigh 149 and 129 grams (5.3 and 4.6 ounces).

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A year ago: Death and birth at hospital hit by Beirut blast

By BASSEM MROUE and FAY ABUELGASIM - Associated Press, 159 Reads
Mon, 08/02/2021 - 01:09 AM

BEIRUT (AP) — Emmanuelle Khnaisser had been in labor all day, and now it was in the last stages. Her baby — her first — was crowning.

Five floors below, Jessica Bezdjian was just coming in through the entrance of Beirut’s St. George Hospital. She was an hour early for her 12-hour shift as a nurse in the psychiatric ward.

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US memorials to victims of COVID-19 pandemic taking shape

By JULIE CARR SMYTH - Associated Press, 166 Reads
Sat, 07/31/2021 - 11:01 AM

CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (AP) — Ohio has planted a memorial grove of native trees to remember people who died of COVID-19, and governors and state lawmakers nationwide are considering their own ways to mark the toll of the virus.

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Drive to charge packagers for recycling, but industry fights

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On Sat, 07/31/2021 - 08:05 AM

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — States across the U.S. are looking to adopt new recycling regimes that require producers of packaging to pay for its inevitable disposal — but industry is digging in to try to halt the movement.

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Glimpses of bygone era in English seaside holiday village

By TONY HICKS - Associated Press, 143 Reads
Sat, 07/31/2021 - 01:36 AM

SHALDON, England (AP) — They are simple pleasures that hark back to analog, unplugged summer days: a book and a picnic blanket, a bucket and spade, fish and chips.

They are also the traditional trappings of the great British seaside holiday that is making a comeback amid foreign travel concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Biden push to vaccinate feds forces uncomfortable questions

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press, 221 Reads
Thu, 07/29/2021 - 11:25 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s requirement for federal workers to reveal their COVID-19 vaccination status is likely to force uncomfortable questions not only at government agencies but at private companies as well.

Right now, there's a lack of clear answers.

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George Roundtree. Photo submitted.

Lifestyles: George Roundtree- First African-American Drum Major at MSU

By Beverly Casteel / Star-Herald, 1,156 Reads
Wed, 07/28/2021 - 05:00 PM

Former Big Red Band member and KHS graduate George Roundtree recently talked to The Star-Herald about what he has been doing in the years since the Big Red Band.

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