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Special police is on guard on the roof of the congress hotel at the 51st annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in Davos, Switzerland. The forum has been postponed due to the Covid-19 outbreak and was rescheduled to early summer. The meeting brings together entrepreneurs, scientists, corporate and political leaders in Davos under the topic

Davos updates | Pfizer offers low-cost drugs to poor nations

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Pfizer to offer low-cost medicines, vaccines to poor nations

FDA chief to detail delays inspecting baby formula plant

Vaccines bring optimism as COVID cases soar in South America

China's bet on homegrown mRNA vaccines holds back nation

US safety, savings rules set stage for baby formula shortage

FILE - In this March 15, 2021 photo, demonstrators gather on the steps of the Montana State Capitol protesting anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in Helena, Mont. Montana health officials say transgender people can't change their birth certificates even if they undergo surgery, in defiance of a court order that temporarily blocked the Republican state's bid to restrict transgender rights. (Thom Bridge/Independent Record via AP, File)

Montana bars birth certificate changes, even with surgery

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte's administration says transgender people can not change their birth certificates even if they undergo gender-confirmation surgery, in defiance of a court order that temporarily blocked the Republican state's bid to restrict transgender rights.

UCLA to pay record of nearly $700M in doctor abuse lawsuits

Two victims of UCLA gynecologist Dr. James Heaps hold hands during a press conference, Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in Los Angeles. A lawsuit settlement against the University of California regents was announced Tuesday in Los Angeles where 312 former patients of ex-UCLA gynecologist Heaps will be compensated. Heaps also was criminally charged last year with 21 counts of sexual offenses involving seven women. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Pandemic-weary Americans plan for summer despite COVID surge

People line up at a food truck parked near Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Monday, May 23, 2022. A COVID surge is under way that is starting to cause disruptions as schools wrap up for the year and Americans prepare for summer vacations. Case counts are as high as they've been since mid-February and those figures are likely a major undercount because of unreported home tests and asymptomatic infections. But the beaches beckoned and visitors have flocked to Hawaii, especially in recent months. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)

Buddhist chaplains on the rise in US, offering broad appeal

Rev. Jo Laurence, a Buddhist chaplain, poses for a photo on April 22, 2022 in the garden of a memory care facility in Portland, Ore. before visiting hospice patients to offer spiritual care. Buddhist chaplains like Laurence have become more numerous in hospitals, hospices, and prisons and graduate programs to train them have proliferated across the country. (AP Photo/Gosia Wozniacka) Rev. Jo Laurence, a Buddhist chaplain, speaks about meditation and bodily suffering with hospice patient Skylar Freimann on April 20, 2022 at an assisted living facility in Portland, Ore. Laurence says her approach is increasingly important as more Americans become un-churched or consider themselves spiritual but not religious. (AP Photo/Gosia Wozniacka)

Delaware Gov. John Carney vetoes marijuana legalization bill

FILE - In this July 14, 2020, file photo, Delaware Gov. John Carney speaks during a briefing on the current status of the coronavirus pandemic, at the Carvel State Building in Wilmington, Del. Carney on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, vetoed a bill to legalize possession of up to one ounce of marijuana by adults for recreational use. (Jerry Habraken/The News Journal via AP, File)

Mothers pass torch to daughters in abortion's forever war

Amnet Ramos, 44, and her daughter, Inaia Hernandez, 12, stand for a portrait during a protest in Manhattan on Saturday, May 14, 2022, in New York where generations of women came together for a protest against the U.S. Supreme Court's anticipated ruling overturning Roe v. Wade. Ramos has protested since the Trump administration, and the threat to abortion rights has steeled her resolve to be heard - and that of her daughter. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Report: Dramatic rise in pesticides in EU fruits, vegetables

FILE - Farmer Dimitris Kakalis, 25, fills a spray machine with pesticide at his vineyard near the town of Tyrnavos, central Greece, Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022. The contamination of fruits and vegetables produced in the European Union by the most toxic pesticides has substantially increased over the past decade, according to new research published Tuesday, May 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos, File)

Planned Parenthood to step in if North Dakota clinic closes

Protesters at North Dakota's lone abortion clinic are flanked by patient escorts in rainbow-colored vests on Wednesday, May 11, 2022, in Fargo, N.D. A state law states that the Red River Women's Clinic would have to shut down in 30 days should the U.S. Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade. The facility would likely end up across the river in Moorhead, Minn. (AP Photo/Dave Kolpack)

WHO chief Tedros reappointed to second five-year term

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), centre, celebrates his reelection, during the 75th World Health Assembly at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

EXPLAINER: What is monkeypox and where is it spreading?

FILE - This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. A leading doctor who chairs a World Health Organization expert group described the unprecedented outbreak of the rare disease monkeypox in developed countries as

Local resident Dave sits at the Community Food Hub in London, Wednesday, May 4, 2022. Across Britain, food banks and community food hubs that helped struggling families, older people and the homeless during the pandemic are now seeing soaring demand. The cost of food and fuel in the U.K. has risen sharply since late last year, with inflation reaching the highest level in 40 years. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

More turn to UK food banks as food and fuel bills soar

LONDON (AP) - For many struggling families, older people and the homeless, Michelle Dornelly's food hub in east London has been a lifeline. Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit Britain, she has been collecting surplus groceries from supermarkets and distributing them to people who can't afford to buy food.

Florida suspends abortion clinic after hospitalizations

Pedestrians and bikers pass fencing that blocks off the area around the U.S. Supreme Court, Saturday, May 7, 2022, in Washington. A draft opinion suggests the U.S. Supreme Court could be poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide, according to a Politico report released Monday. Whatever the outcome, the Politico report represents an extremely rare breach of the court's secretive deliberation process, and on a case of surpassing importance. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

Pfizer says 3 COVID shots protect children under 5

FILE - Syringes and colorful bandages are prepared as children from local schools prepare to get COVID-19 vaccines in Pittsfield, Mass., on Monday Dec. 13, 2021. Three doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine offer strong protection for children younger than 5, the company announced Monday, May 23, 2022. Pfizer plans to give the data to U.S. regulators later this week in a step toward letting the littlest kids get the shots. (Ben Garver/The Berkshire Eagle via AP, File)

Harris, surgeon general warn of health care worker burnout

Vice President Kamala Harris, center, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, right, and Joy Budd, Registered Nurse, Children's National Hospital, left, arrive to speak with member of the hospital staff during tour at Children's National Hospital, Monday, May 23, 2022. (AP Photo/ Carolyn Kaster)

NC Medicaid expansion gets serious attention from Senate GOP

FILE - Republican Senate leader Phil Berger speaks Aug. 24, 2021, in Raleigh, N.C. North Carolina Senate Republicans are strongly considering legislation Monday, May 23, 2022, that would expand Medicaid coverage to hundreds of thousands of additional low-income adults. (AP Photo/Bryan Anderson, file)

Expert: Monkeypox likely spread by sex at 2 raves in Europe

If Roe falls, some fear repercussions for reproductive care

FILE - Margot Riphagen of New Orleans, wears a birth control pill costume as she protests in front of the Supreme Court in Washington on March 25, 2014. In 2022, a leaked draft opinion indicating U.S. Supreme Court justices are poised to overturn the decision that legalized abortion nationwide in the U.S. is raising fears that restrictions on contraception could follow. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Opponents of federal vaccine mandate seek rehearing

FILE - A syringe is prepared with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic at the Keystone First Wellness Center in Chester, Pa., Dec. 15, 2021. A federal appeals court is being asked Monday, May 23, 2022, to reconsider its decision allowing the Biden administration to require that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Argentine president to pay fine for party during quarantine

FILE - Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez waits for the arrival of Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, April 18, 2022. Fernandez and first lady Fabiola Y��ez will pay a fine of 3 million pesos ($24,000) for hosting a party in July 2020 that violated the quarantine orders the head of state himself had ordered to prohibit group gatherings as a way to stem the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)

What's next for COVID-19 vaccines for youngest US children

FILE - Ilana Diener holds her son, Hudson, 3, during an appointment for a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine trial in Commack, N.Y. on Nov. 30, 2021. Parents hoping to get their youngest children vaccinated against COVID-19 have some encouraging news. Pfizer said Monday, May 23, 2022, that three doses of its vaccines offers strong protection to those under 5. That news comes a month after Moderna said it would ask regulators to OK its two shot regimen for the youngest kids. (AP Photo/Emma H. Tobin, File)

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Davos updates | Pfizer offers low-cost drugs to poor nations

Pfizer to offer low-cost medicines, vaccines to poor nations

FDA chief to detail delays inspecting baby formula plant

Vaccines bring optimism as COVID cases soar in South America

China's bet on homegrown mRNA vaccines holds back nation

US safety, savings rules set stage for baby formula shortage

Montana bars birth certificate changes, even with surgery

UCLA to pay record of nearly $700M in doctor abuse lawsuits

Pandemic-weary Americans plan for summer despite COVID surge

Buddhist chaplains on the rise in US, offering broad appeal

Delaware Gov. John Carney vetoes marijuana legalization bill

Mothers pass torch to daughters in abortion's forever war

Report: Dramatic rise in pesticides in EU fruits, vegetables

Planned Parenthood to step in if North Dakota clinic closes

WHO chief Tedros reappointed to second five-year term

EXPLAINER: What is monkeypox and where is it spreading?

More turn to UK food banks as food and fuel bills soar

Florida suspends abortion clinic after hospitalizations

Pfizer says 3 COVID shots protect children under 5

Harris, surgeon general warn of health care worker burnout

NC Medicaid expansion gets serious attention from Senate GOP

Expert: Monkeypox likely spread by sex at 2 raves in Europe

If Roe falls, some fear repercussions for reproductive care

Opponents of federal vaccine mandate seek rehearing

Argentine president to pay fine for party during quarantine

What's next for COVID-19 vaccines for youngest US children

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Is NYS considering extending bonuses to other frontline healthcare workers?

Changes coming for daycares and parents dealing with COVID-19 quarantines

Americans can order 8 more free, at-home rapid COVID-19 tests

Masks now optional in RBTL's Auditorium Theatre

US authorizes COVID-19 vaccine booster shot for kids ages 5 to 11. Next step: CDC recommendation later this week.

Overnight camps prepare for first summer since COVID

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Pfizer to offer low-cost medicines, vaccines to poor nations

FDA chief to detail delays inspecting baby formula plant

Vaccines bring optimism as COVID cases soar in South America

China's bet on homegrown mRNA vaccines holds back nation

US safety, savings rules set stage for baby formula shortage

Is NYS considering extending bonuses to other frontline healthcare workers?

Changes coming for daycares and parents dealing with COVID-19 quarantines

Americans can order 8 more free, at-home rapid COVID-19 tests

Masks now optional in RBTL's Auditorium Theatre

US authorizes COVID-19 vaccine booster shot for kids ages 5 to 11. Next step: CDC recommendation later this week.

Overnight camps prepare for first summer since COVID