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Kemi Alabi wins First Book Award from poets academy

A Chicago-based writer and activist has received the First Book Award from the Academy of American Poets

DATE: April 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Trump-loving Alabama county faces uphill vaccination effort

Statistics show that Winston County ranks last in terms of people who have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19 in Alabama, which has the country’s lowest inoculation rate

DATE: April 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Israeli academic won't receive prize after signing petition

Israel’s Supreme Court has upheld a Cabinet minister’s decision to temporarily block a prominent academic from receiving the country’s highest honor after he called on the EU to halt funding for an Israeli university located in the occupied West Bank

DATE: April 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Marijuana Home Gardens Announces its Outdoor Grow Hut Kit is Patent Pending – Legal in Arizona

New law permits Arizona residents to come out of the shadows and grow high-value marijuana plants outdoors TEMPE, Ariz., April 8, 2021 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Tempe, Arizona-based, Marijuana Home...

DATE: April 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Advocates: Prisons need better vaccine education for inmates

Advocates for prison inmates say more needs to be done to educate prisoners about coronavirus vaccines because large numbers of them are declining the shots

DATE: April 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

EXPLAINER: Is the US border with Mexico in crisis?

Nearly 19,000 children traveling alone were stopped at the Mexican border in March, smashing previous highs set during periods of heavy child migration in 2014 and 2019

DATE: April 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Mortgage rates dip for first time since January

Mortgage rates fell for the first time in more than two months as buyers continue to be stifled by high prices and limited supply

DATE: April 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Governments give varying advice on AstraZeneca vaccine

A patchwork of advice is emerging from governments across Europe and farther afield, a day after the European Union’s drug regulator said there was a “possible link” between the AstraZeneca vaccine and a rare clotting disorder

DATE: April 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

COVID-19 patient receives lung transplant from living donors

Doctors in Japan say they have successfully performed the world’s first transplant of lung tissue from living donors to a patient with severe lung damage from COVID-19

DATE: April 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Georgia Lt. Gov. unlikely to run again after taking on Trump

The chief of staff for Georgia’s lieutenant governor says his boss is unlikely to run for a second term

DATE: April 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Top US envoy Blinken urges Kosovo resume talks with Serbia

Antony Blinken, the U.S. Secretary of State, has told Kosovo that normalization of talks with Serbia is essential in its path toward the European Union

DATE: April 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Myanmar junta limits internet, seizes satellite TV dishes

An information blackout under Myanmar’s military junta has worsened as fiber broadband service, the last legal way for ordinary people to access the internet, became intermittently inaccessible on several networks

DATE: April 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

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