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Basin Pharmacy fills more than prescriptions in rural northern Wyoming. It's also the key health-care access point for the town of about 1,300 people and the surrounding area. It sells catheters, colostomy supplies and diabetic testing strips. The storage room contains things that people rely on to survive, such as a dozen boxes of food [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is telling lawmakers that President Joe Biden is preparing to sign off on an executive order that would shut down asylum requests at the United States-Mexico border once the average number of daily encounters hits 2,500 between ports of entry, with the border reopening only once that number declines [...]
For retirees Tom and Beverly McAdam, the good news is the value of their two-bedroom home in suburban Denver has risen 45 percent since they purchased it more than six years ago. That's also the bad news, costing them thousands more in real estate taxes and leaving less for discretionary spending. "To pay the higher [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A price gauge closely monitored by the Federal Reserve cooled slightly last month, a sign that inflation may be easing after running high in the first three months of this year. Last week's report from the Commerce Department showed that an index that excludes volatile food and energy costs rose 0.2 percent [...]
Lab-grown meat is not currently available in any grocery stores or restaurants. If some lawmakers have their way, it never will be. Earlier this month, Florida and Arizona banned the sale of cultivated meat and seafood, which is grown from animal cells. In Iowa, the governor signed a bill prohibiting schools from buying lab-grown meat. [...]
PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — Standing in her living room, Isabel Valencia sets up her makeshift tennis serve with the materials on hand: a green balloon for a ball and a ruler affixed to a paper plate for a racket. She bats the balloon to her home visitor, Mayra Ocampo, and they pass it back and [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Several large retailers are stepping up discounts heading into the summer months, hoping to entice inflation-weary shoppers into opening their wallets. Target, Walmart and other chains have rolled out price cuts — some permanent, others temporary — with the stated aim of giving their customers some relief. The reductions, which mostly [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Three years ago, Erin Decker was a middle school librarian in Kissimmee, Fla., increasingly frustrated by the state’s prohibition of sexually-oriented books in school libraries and worried that she couldn’t make a difference remaining in her job. So, she and fellow librarian Tania Galiñanes thought of a way to fight back. [...]
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Long before generative artificial intelligence's boom, a Silicon Valley firm contracted to collect and analyze non-classified data on illicit Chinese fentanyl trafficking made a compelling case for its embrace by American intelligence agencies. The operation's results exceeded human-only analysis, finding twice as many companies and 400 percent more people engaged in [...]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — They operate in places such as airports, resorts and distribution centers, tucked away from the public eye, but close enough for easy access. They often emit laughter — and the sound of tumbling blocks, bouncing balls and meandering tricycles. They're child-care centers based at workplaces and they are popping up more [...]