July 23, 2021 - 3:04 AM
As Tokyo Games open, can Olympic flame burn away the funk?
TOKYO (AP) â Disputed, locked down and running a year late, the Tokyo Games begin at last on Friday night, a multinational showcase of the finest athletes of a world fragmented by disease â and an event steeped in the political and medical baggage of a relentless pandemic whose presence haunts every Olympic corner.
As the first pandemic Games in a century convene largely without spectators and opposed by much of the host nation, the disbelief and anger of those kept outside the near-deserted national stadium threaten to drown out the usual carefully packaged glitz and soaring rhetoric about sports and peace that are the hallmarks of the opening ceremony.
July 22, 2021 - 8:04 PM
Vaccinations rise in some states with soaring infections
Vaccinations are beginning to rise in some states where COVID-19 cases are soaring, White House officials said Thursday in a sign that the summer surge is getting the attention of vaccine-hesitant Americans as hospitals in the South are being overrun with patients.
Coronavirus coordinator Jeff Zients told reporters that several states with the highest proportions of new infections have seen residents get vaccinated at higher rates than the nation as a whole. Officials cited Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri and Nevada as examples.
âThe fourth surge is real, and the numbers are quite frightening at the moment,â Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said on a New Orleans radio show. Edwards, a Democrat, added: âThereâs no doubt that we are going in the wrong direction, and weâre going there in a hurry.â
Vaccinations rise in some states with soaring infections
Vaccinations are beginning to rise in some states where COVID-19 cases are soaring, White House officials said Thursday in a sign that the summer surge is getting the attention of vaccine-hesitant Americans as hospitals in the South are being overrun with patients.
Coronavirus coordinator Jeff Zients told reporters that several states with the highest proportions of new infections have seen residents get vaccinated at higher rates than the nation as a whole. Officials cited Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri and Nevada as examples.
âThe fourth surge is real, and the numbers are quite frightening at the moment,â Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said on a New Orleans radio show. Edwards, a Democrat, added: âThereâs no doubt that we are going in the wrong direction, and weâre going there in a hurry.â
Associated Press
This photo made available by the Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, shows students at a Presbyterian boarding school in Sitka, Alaska, in the summer of 1883.
Associated Press
This photo from the 1910s provided by the United Church of Canada Archives shows students at a school in Alberta. Over 3,200 Indigenous children who attended residential schools died, a Canadian panel said. Previous Next
Friday, July 23, 2021 1:00 am
Legacy of Native schools vexes American churches
Calls arise to reckon with traumatic history
PETER SMITH Associated Press
The discoveries of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential schools for Indigenous children in Canada have prompted renewed calls for a reckoning over the traumatic legacy of similar schools in the United States – and in particular by the churches that operated many of them.
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Jul 23, 2021 at 1:09 am ADT
Vaccinations rise in some states with soaring infections
Vaccinations are beginning to rise in some states where COVID-19 cases are soaring, White House officials said Thursday in a sign that the summer surge is getting the attention of vaccine-hesitant Americans as hospitals in the South are being overrun with patients.
Coronavirus coordinator Jeff Zients told reporters that several states with the highest proportions of new infections have seen residents get vaccinated at higher rates than the nation as a whole. Officials cited Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri and Nevada as examples.