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Efforts to make protective medical gear in U.S. falling flat

UNIVERSITY CITY, Mo. — When the coronavirus pandemic first hit the U.S., sales of window coverings at Halcyon Shades quickly went dark. So the suburban St. Louis business did what hundreds of other small manufacturers did: It pivoted to make protective supplies, with help from an $870,000 government grant. But...
Can cancer blood tests live up to promise of saving lives?

Joyce Ares had just turned 74 and was feeling fine when she agreed to give a blood sample for research. So she was surprised when the screening test came back positive for signs of cancer. After a repeat blood test, a PET scan and a needle biopsy, she was diagnosed...
2 people killed, 5 wounded in shooting near Los Angeles

WILLOWBROOK, Calif. — Two people were killed in a weekend shooting near Los Angeles and five people were wounded and hospitalized, authorities said. The gunfire erupted at about 4 p.m. Sunday on a residential block in the community of Willowbrook, about 10 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, the Los...
Frontier CEO talks about Spirit Airlines merger, travel outlook

DALLAS — Barry Biffle is juggling his day job as CEO of Frontier Airlines while also working to save a proposed merger with Spirit Airlines that would create the nation’s fifth-biggest carrier by some measures. This figures to be a bounce-back year for airlines like Frontier that cater to leisure...
Germany may have to junk 3 million covid shots by late June

BERLIN — Germany’s health ministry said Monday that the country may have to discard 3 million doses of expired covid-19 vaccine by the end of June. Ministry spokesman Hanno Kautz told reporters in Berlin that “not many doses” have been destroyed so far, though he couldn’t give an exact figure....
For Scottie Scheffler, a new world awaits as the Masters champion

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Scottie Scheffler just wanted dinner. The best option, he decided, would be for him and his wife Meredith to grab some takeout and head back to their rented home so he could rest up before the final round of the Masters. Small problem. On the way home,...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk won’t join Twitter’s board after all

SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter’s largest investor, billionaire Elon Musk, is reversing course and will no longer join the company’s board of directors less than a week after being awarded a seat. Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announced the news, which followed a weekend of Musk tweets suggesting changes to Twitter, including...
Mimi Reinhard, who typed up Schindler’s list, dies at 107

JERUSALEM — Mimi Reinhard, a secretary in Oskar Schindler’s office who typed up the list of Jews he saved from extermination by Nazi Germany, has died in Israel at the age of 107. Reinhard died early Friday and was laid to rest Sunday in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv, her son...
Polish panel: Russia behind Polish leader’s plane crash

WARSAW, Poland — A Polish government special commission has reinforced its earlier allegations that the 2010 plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others in Russia was the result of Moscow’s assassination plan. The latest of the commission’s reports, released Monday, alleges that an intentional detonation of planted...
Mariupol mayor says siege has killed more than 10,000 civilians

KYIV, Ukraine — The mayor of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol said Monday that more than 10,000 civilians have died in the Russian siege of his city, and that the death toll could surpass 20,000, with corpses that were “carpeted through the streets.” Speaking by phone Monday to The...
Elon Musk suggests Twitter changes, including accepting Dogecoin

As Twitter’s newest board member and largest shareholder, Elon Musk is already floating suggestions for changes he’d like to see on the social media platform. In a series of tweets late Saturday, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO said that the company should include an “authentication checkmark” as a feature of...
2 killed and 10 wounded in Cedar Rapids nightclub shootingVideo

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — A shooting inside a crowded Cedar Rapids nightclub left a man and a woman dead and 10 people wounded early Sunday, authorities said. Cedar Rapids Police Chief Wayne Jerman said investigators believe two men fired more than a dozen shots inside the Taboo Nightclub and Lounge...
Caddie champ: Ted Scott gets to be part of 3rd Masters winVideo

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Ted Scott was retiring last fall. He was done with golf, ready to do something else, probably teach the game. And when Scottie Scheffler called to ask the veteran caddie to work for him, an answer didn’t come easily. Scott was truly torn. He told his family...
Column: A day to remember for Rory McIlroy, but no green jacket at MastersVideo

AUGUSTA, Ga. — For the briefest of moments, there was the smallest bit of hope. A day that began with little to shoot for other than a top 10 suddenly threatened to turn magical for Rory McIlroy as he made his way around Augusta National, triumphantly holing his final shot...
Josef Newgarden moves Team Penske to 3-0 with IndyCar win at Long BeachVideo

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Colton Herta is so good on the downtown streets of Long Beach, and was so strong this weekend, a second consecutive victory seemed automatic. Not so fast, scowled Josef Newgarden, who went to sleep the night before the race Sunday stewing over a question he’d been...
Texas DA says murder charge in abortion case will be dropped

A Texas district attorney said Sunday that he will ask a judge to dismiss a murder charge against a woman over a self-induced abortion. Lizelle Herrera was arrested Thursday in Rio Grande City, a community of about 14,000 people along the Mexico border, after a Starr County grand jury indicted...

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