MEXICO CITY – Decades ago, Mexican activists drove women into the United States to terminate their pregnancies at clinics. Now it’s women in the U.S. who are facing more challenges to accessing abortion services and again Mexican activists are stepping up to offer support.
Jury selection began Thursday in the federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights. The federal indictment unsealed in May alleges Derek Chauvin, Thomas Lane, J.
NEW YORK – Donald Trump plans to build 2,300 luxury homes at his Doral golf resort in the Miami area, part of a flurry of recent moves to revive a family business suffering from the one-two punch of a divisive presidency and coronavirus shutdowns.
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden ends his first year in the White House with a clear majority of Americans for the first time disapproving of his handling of the presidency in the face of an unrelenting pandemic and roaring inflation, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
ST. LOUIS – The U.S. Army Corps said it will spend $732 million to expand a lock and dam system to help barges more efficiently transport millions of tons of corn, soybeans and other goods on the Mississippi River.
The omicron-fueled surge of CO- VOD-19 has made staffing and capacity “a little tight” at University Health, president/CEO Charlie Shields said, but both campuses of the county's safety-net hospital have been able to keep up with patients.
GENEVA – A U.N.-backed organization announced Thursday that it has signed agreements with more than two dozen generic drug makers to produce versions of Merck’s COVID-19 pill to supply 105 developing countries.
NAIROBI, Kenya – The United Nations says food distribution in Ethiopia’s blockaded Tigray region has reached its “all-time lowest” while more than 50,000 children are thought to be severely malnourished, the latest sign of growing crisis amid efforts to end the country’s 14-month war.
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson delivered his annual State of the State address Wednesday, outlining a wide range of desired investments funded by both state and federal stimulus dollars that would raise teacher and state worker salaries, repair and renovate infrastructure projects and expand grant programs for education and the workforce. h Parson, a Republican in his second term as head of state, struck an optimistic tone in his remarks to the General Assembly. While Missouri navigates the newest COVID-19 surge in the omicron variant — marked by closing schools and record-high hospitalizations — Parson said the state “accepted the challenges and prevailed” in the pandemic.
All Missourians ages 5 and older (Pfizer vaccine) or 18 and older (Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccines) are eligible to receive COVID vaccines without charge. If you are seeking a third dose of Pfizer or Moderna, you should first talk with your health-care provider.