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Shanghai’s landmark park revived as COVID restrictions ease

SHANGHAI (AP) — Zhu Rongfang was among a group of friends revisiting their favorite haunt in the center of Shanghai's historic old town Thursday following the easing of COVID-19 restrictions that had confined many of the city's 25 million residents to their homes for two months. The ...

Local governments turn away $73M of federal pandemic aid

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — From small towns to big cities, every government across the U.S. was offered a slice of $350 billion in federal coronavirus relief funds to help shore up their finances, cover pandemic-related costs and invest in community projects. Officials in 1,468 local ...

Seven new COVID-19 deaths, 2,764 new cases, 32 hospitalized, DHHS reports

On Thursday, June 2, the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced 2,764 new positive COVID-19 test results between Thursday, May 26 and Wednesday, June 1. For the previous week, DHHS announce 7 additional death(s) related to COVID-19. We offer our sympathies to ...

Asia shares slide across board amid rate hike, COVID worries

TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares declined Thursday, echoing a retreat on Wall Street as investors fretted about higher interest rates and rising coronavirus cases in parts of the region. Benchmarks fell in Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Seoul and Sydney. Oil prices fell by more than $2 a barrel. In ...

VIDEO: Gridlock could delay COVID funds until fall — or longer

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is headed for "a lot of unnecessary loss of life," the Biden administration says, if Congress fails to provide billions more dollars to brace for the pandemic's next wave. Yet the quest for that money is in limbo, the latest victim of election-year gridlock that's ...

WHO believes COVID getting worse, not better in North Korea

LONDON (AP) — A top official at the World Health Organization said the U.N. health agency assumes the coronavirus outbreak in North Korea is "getting worse, not better," despite the secretive country's recent claims that COVID-19 is slowing there. At a briefing on Wednesday, WHO's ...