Cuomo exit isn't stopping push for answers on nursing homes
Sexual harassment allegations cost New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo his job. Now, many want to see him answer for a scandal that cut to the heart of his reputation as a pandemic hero and may have had life-and-death consequences — his administration's handling of outbreaks in nursing homes.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
Cuomo exit isn't stopping push for answers on nursing homes
Sexual harassment allegations cost New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo his job. Now, many want to see him answer for a scandal that cut to the heart of his reputation as a pandemic hero and may have had life-and-death consequences — his administration's handling of outbreaks in nursing homes.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
Cuomo exit isn't stopping push for answers on nursing homes
Sexual harassment allegations cost New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo his job. Now, many want to see him answer for a scandal that cut to the heart of his reputation as a pandemic hero and may have had life-and-death consequences — his administration's handling of outbreaks in nursing homes.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
Cuomo exit isn't stopping push for answers on nursing homes
Sexual harassment allegations cost New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo his job. Now, many want to see him answer for a scandal that cut to the heart of his reputation as a pandemic hero and may have had life-and-death consequences — his administration's handling of outbreaks in nursing homes.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
Nursing home to workers: Get vaccine or lose your job
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. nursing home industry’s resistance to forcing workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 for fear that too many of them might quit began to crack this week when its biggest player announced its employees must get the shot to keep their jobs.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
Nursing home to workers: Get vaccine or lose your job
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. nursing home industry’s resistance to forcing workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 for fear that too many of them might quit began to crack this week when its biggest player announced its employees must get the shot to keep their jobs.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
Nursing home to workers: Get vaccine or lose your job
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. nursing home industry’s resistance to forcing workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 for fear that too many of them might quit began to crack this week when its biggest player announced its employees must get the shot to keep their jobs.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
Nursing home to workers: Get vaccine or lose your job
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. nursing home industry’s resistance to forcing workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 for fear that too many of them might quit began to crack this week when its biggest player announced its employees must get the shot to keep their jobs.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
Rush Limbaugh, voice of American conservatism, has died
Rush Limbaugh, the talk radio host who ripped into liberals and laid waste to political correctness with a gleeful malice that made him one of the most powerful voices in politics, influencing the rightward push of American conservatism and the rise of Donald Trump, died Wednesday. He was 70.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Rush Limbaugh, radio king and architect of right wing, dies
Rush Limbaugh called himself a truth detector, doctor of democracy, lover of mankind, all-around good guy and harmless fuzz ball, titles his legions of followers embraced as he boomed from their radios in a daily ritual.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Rush Limbaugh, voice of American conservatism, has died
Rush Limbaugh, the talk radio host who ripped into liberals and laid waste to political correctness with a gleeful malice that made him one of the most powerful voices in politics, influencing the rightward push of American conservatism and the rise of Donald Trump, died Wednesday. He was 70.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Rush Limbaugh, radio king and architect of right wing, dies
Rush Limbaugh called himself a truth detector, doctor of democracy, lover of mankind, all-around good guy and harmless fuzz ball, titles his legions of followers embraced as he boomed from their radios in a daily ritual.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Rush Limbaugh, radio king and architect of right wing, dies
Rush Limbaugh called himself a truth detector, doctor of democracy, lover of mankind, all-around good guy and harmless fuzz ball, titles his legions of followers embraced as he boomed from their radios in a daily ritual.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Rush Limbaugh, voice of American conservatism, has died
Rush Limbaugh, the talk radio host who ripped into liberals and laid waste to political correctness with a gleeful malice that made him one of the most powerful voices in politics, influencing the rightward push of American conservatism and the rise of Donald Trump, died Wednesday. He was 70.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Vaccine rollout hits snag as health workers balk at shots
The desperately awaited vaccination drive against the coronavirus in the U.S. is running into resistance from an unlikely quarter: Surprising numbers of health care workers who have seen firsthand the death and misery inflicted by COVID-19 are refusing shots.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Vaccine rollout hits snag as health workers balk at shots
The desperately awaited vaccination drive against the coronavirus in the U.S. is running into resistance from an unlikely quarter: Surprising numbers of health care workers who have seen firsthand the death and misery inflicted by COVID-19 are refusing shots.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Vaccine rollout hits snag as health workers balk at shots
The desperately awaited vaccination drive against the coronavirus in the U.S. is running into resistance from an unlikely quarter: Surprising numbers of health care workers who have seen firsthand the death and misery inflicted by COVID-19 are refusing shots.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Rare vaccine injury claims steered to obscure federal office
Though most people who protect themselves with a coronavirus vaccine will never develop serious side effects, such rare cases are barred from federal court and instead steered to an obscure program with a record of seldom paying claims.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Vaccine injury claims could face bureaucratic 'black hole'
Lost in the U.S. launch of the coronavirus vaccine is a fact most don’t know when they roll up their sleeves: In rare cases of serious illness from the shots, the injured are blocked from suing and steered instead to an obscure federal bureaucracy with a record of seldom paying …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Vaccine injury claims could face bureaucratic ‘black hole’
Lost in the U.S. launch of the coronavirus vaccine is a fact most don’t know when they roll up their sleeves: In rare cases of serious illness from the shots, the injured are blocked from suing and steered instead to an obscure federal bureaucracy with a record of seldom paying …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
After 110K virus deaths, nursing homes face vaccine fears
After 110,000 deaths ravaged the nation’s nursing homes and pushed them to the front of the vaccine line, they now face a vexing problem: Skeptical residents and workers balking at getting the shots.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
After 110K virus deaths, nursing homes face vaccine fears
After 110,000 deaths ravaged the nation’s nursing homes and pushed them to the front of the vaccine line, they now face a vexing problem: Skeptical residents and workers balking at getting the shots.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Empty seats, delivered feasts as virus changes Thanksgiving
Vivian Zayas can’t keep herself from scrolling through photos of last Thanksgiving, when her mother stood at the stove to make a big pot of rice and beans and then took a seat at the edge of the table.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Empty seats, delivered feasts as virus changes Thanksgiving
Vivian Zayas can’t keep herself from scrolling through photos of last Thanksgiving, when her mother stood at the stove to make a big pot of rice and beans and then took a seat at the edge of the table.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Empty seats, delivered feasts as virus changes Thanksgiving
Vivian Zayas can’t keep herself from scrolling through photos of last Thanksgiving, when her mother stood at the stove to make a big pot of rice and beans and then took a seat at the edge of the table.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Empty seats, delivered feasts as virus changes Thanksgiving
Vivian Zayas can’t keep herself from scrolling through photos of last Thanksgiving, when her mother stood at the stove to make a big pot of rice and beans and then took a seat at the edge of the table.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Not just COVID: Nursing home neglect deaths surge in shadows
As more than 90,000 of the nation’s long-term care residents have died in the coronavirus pandemic, advocates for the elderly say a tandem wave of fatalities is quietly claiming tens of thousands more who are succumbing not to the virus but to neglect by overwhelmed staffs and slow declines from …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO
Not just COVID: Nursing home neglect deaths surge in shadows
When COVID-19 tore through Donald Wallace’s nursing home, he was one of the lucky few to avoid infection.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO
For some who bore toll of virus, Biden offers sign of hope
After a brutal year of trying to save the sick and burying the dead, news of Joe Biden’s ascension to president-elect came to some as a glimmer of hope that an end to the coronavirus misery might be in sight.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Jittery public awaits news as presidency remains in flux
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — They clung to their cocktails and proclaimed themselves sick with dread. They relentlessly checked the news and went outdoors for fresh air. They bemoaned a wipeout wave that never came and held out hope their favored candidate still would eke out a win.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Jittery public turns to liquor, news as race's fate hangs
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — They clung to their cocktails and proclaimed themselves sick with dread. They relentlessly checked the news and went outdoors for fresh air. They bemoaned a wipeout wave that never came and held out hope their favored candidate would still eke out a win.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Jittery public awaits fate of race in bitterly divided US
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — With a bitterly divided America failing to deliver a decisive result for either party, a jittery public awaited clarity Wednesday over the fate of a race that remained too early to call.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Biden backers make final plea for delivery of mail ballots
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Down to the wire with the threat of court battles looming, supporters of former Vice President Joe Biden scrambled Monday to rally swing-state voters to drop off ballots, visit precincts in person and ensure their votes are counted.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
With post-election lawsuits looming, a final push for votes
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Down to the wire with the threat of court battles looming, supporters of former Vice President Joe Biden scrambled Monday to rally swing-state voters to drop off ballots, visit precincts in person and ensure their votes are counted.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
'So frustrating': Grave missteps seen in US virus response
NEW YORK (AP) — A president who downplayed the coronavirus threat, scorned masks and undercut scientists at every turn. Governors who resisted or rolled back containment measures amid public backlash. State lawmakers who used federal COVID-19 aid to plug budget holes instead of beefing up testing and contact tracing.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
'So frustrating': Grave missteps seen in US virus response
NEW YORK (AP) — A president who downplayed the coronavirus threat, scorned masks and undercut scientists at every turn. Governors who resisted or rolled back containment measures amid public backlash. State lawmakers who used federal COVID-19 aid to plug budget holes instead of beefing up testing and contact tracing.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Justice Department ramps up inquiry into NY care home deaths
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department vastly expanded an inquiry Wednesday that could determine whether New York is undercounting coronavirus deaths among nursing home residents, demanding detailed data from hundreds of private facilities.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
James Randi, dazzling magician and skeptic, dies at 92
James Randi, a magician who later challenged spoon benders, mind readers and faith healers with such voracity that he became regarded as the country’s foremost skeptic, has died, his foundation announced. He was 92.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
James Randi, dazzling magician and skeptic, dies at 92
James Randi, a magician who later challenged spoon benders, mind readers and faith healers with such voracity that he became regarded as the country’s foremost skeptic, has died, his foundation announced. He was 92.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
James Randi, dazzling magician and skeptic, dies at 92
James Randi, a magician who later challenged spoon benders, mind readers and faith healers with such voracity that he became regarded as the country’s foremost skeptic, has died, his foundation announced. He was 92.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
James Randi, dazzling magician and skeptic, dies at 92
James Randi, a magician who later challenged spoon benders, mind readers and faith healers with such voracity that he became regarded as the country’s foremost skeptic, has died, his foundation announced. He was 92.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Lives Lost: Woman of uncommon kindness, hoped for redemption
She was the little girl whose vocabulary burgeoned as she devoured book after book, and the student who earned a degree and went back for one more. She was the woman who children flocked to and teens turned to for mentoring or tutoring or to be spoiled with clothes and …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Lives Lost: A woman of uncommon kindness, succumbs to virus
She was the little girl whose vocabulary burgeoned as she devoured book after book, and the student who earned a degree and went back for one more. She was the woman who children flocked to and teens turned to for mentoring or tutoring or to be spoiled with clothes and …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Lives Lost: A woman of uncommon kindness, unshackled again
She was the little girl whose vocabulary burgeoned as she devoured book after book, and the student who earned a degree and went back for one more. She was the woman who children flocked to and teens turned to for mentoring or tutoring or to be spoiled with clothes and …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
As virus makes goodbyes hard, fears of many more rise in US
NEW YORK (AP) — The coronavirus outbreak could kill 100,000 to 200,000 Americans, the U.S. government's top infectious-disease expert warned on Sunday as family members described wrenching farewells through hospital windows with dying loved ones.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Virus infections top 600,000 globally with long fight ahead
BERLIN (AP) — The number of confirmed coronavirus infections worldwide topped 600,000 on Saturday as new cases stacked up quickly in Europe and the United States and officials dug in for a long fight against the pandemic.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Virus infections top 600,000 globally with long fight ahead
BERLIN (AP) — The number of confirmed coronavirus infections worldwide topped 600,000 on Saturday as new cases stacked up quickly in Europe and the United States and officials dug in for a long fight against the pandemic.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
US eyes new outbreaks as infections worldwide top 590,000
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans rushed to build a makeshift hospital in its convention center Friday as troubling new outbreaks bubbled in the United States, deaths surged in Italy and Spain and the world warily trudged through the pandemic that has sickened more than a half-million people.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
US eyes new outbreaks as infections worldwide top 575,000
As new health crisis looms, economic catastrophe has already arrived in New Orleans
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
As new health crisis looms, economic catastrophe has already arrived in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — Troubling new outbreaks bubbled in the United States on Friday and deaths surged in Italy and Spain as the world warily trudged through the pandemic that has sickened more than a half-million people.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Italy is 2nd country to pass Chinese virus case total
LONDON (AP) — Deaths surged in Italy and Spain on Friday, troubling new outbreak sites bubbled in the United States, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson became the first leader of a major country to test positive for the coronavirus that has sickened more than a half-million people worldwide.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Italy is 2nd country to pass Chinese virus case total
LONDON (AP) — Deaths surged in Italy and Spain on Friday, troubling new outbreak sites bubbled in the United States, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson became the first leader of a major country to test positive for the coronavirus that has sickened more than a half-million people worldwide.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
In pandemic, word definitions shift and new lexicon emerges
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Newscasts bring word of “hot zones” and “lockdowns.” Conversations are littered with talk of “quarantines” and “isolation.” Leaders urge “social distancing” and “sheltering in place” and “flattening the curve.”
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
In pandemic, word definitions shift and new lexicon emerges
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Newscasts bring word of “hot zones” and “lockdowns.” Conversations are littered with talk of “quarantines” and “isolation.” Leaders urge “social distancing” and “sheltering in place” and “flattening the curve.”
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Virus cases top 100,000 in 90 countries as markets take dive
PARIS (AP) — Crossing more borders, the new coronavirus hit a milestone, infecting more than 100,000 people worldwide as it wove itself deeper into the daily lives of millions, infecting the powerful, the unprotected poor and vast masses in between.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Virus cases top 100,000 in 90 countries as markets take dive
PARIS (AP) — Crossing more borders, the new coronavirus hit a milestone, infecting more than 100,000 people worldwide as it wove itself deeper into the daily lives of millions, infecting the powerful, the unprotected poor and vast masses in between.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Virus cases top 100,000 in 90 countries as markets take dive
PARIS (AP) — Crossing more borders, the new coronavirus hit a milestone, infecting more than 100,000 people worldwide as it wove itself deeper into the daily lives of millions, infecting the powerful, the unprotected poor and vast masses in between.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
'This is not a drill': WHO urges the world to fight virus
BANGKOK (AP) — The global march of the new virus triggered a vigorous appeal from the World Health Organization for governments to pull out “all the stops” to slow the epidemic, as it drained color from India's spring festivals, closed Bethlehem's Nativity Church and blocked Italians from visiting elderly relatives …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
'This is not a drill': WHO urges the world to fight virus
BANGKOK (AP) — The global march of the new virus triggered a vigorous appeal Thursday from the World Health Organization for governments to pull out “all the stops” to slow the epidemic, as it drained color from India's spring festivities, closed Bethlehem's Nativity Church and blocked Italians from visiting elderly …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
'This is not a drill': WHO urges the world to fight virus
BANGKOK (AP) — The global march of the new virus triggered a vigorous appeal Thursday from the World Health Organization for governments to pull out “all the stops” to slow the epidemic, as it drained color from India's spring festivities, closed Bethlehem's Nativity Church and blocked Italians from visiting elderly …
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
At a Catholic seminary, hope for church beyond scandals
A cascade of scandals in the Catholic Church has had surprisingly little impact on enrollment in its American seminaries
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Caught off guard?
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 10 YEARS AGO
Poll: Older Americans nix Social Security changes
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS AGO
Not happy with work?
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS AGO
Anger over Casey Anthony verdict pours out online
ORLANDO, Fla. - For nearly two months, the murder trial of Casey Anthony was a living entity. It breathed daily across national television airwaves, then was reinforced nightly on cable TV programs that dissected every word uttered in the courtroom and fueled speculation on her fate.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Memphis readies for big river
HICKMAN, Ky. - As Memphis readied for the mighty Mississippi to bring its furor to town, some Kentucky residents upstream returned to their homes Saturday, optimistic the levees would hold and that they had seen the worst of the flooding.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
Short on men, retirement home hires dance partners
BOCA RATON, Fla. - Hewitt Bruce extends his hand to a waiting lady pining for a dance - and someone with whom to share it. He twirls and waltzes and makes exacting steps; she has become the woman to envy. And as one song fades to another, he is off …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Bill Hudson, civil rights era photographer, dies
Bill Hudson, an Associated Press photographer whose searing images of the civil rights era documented police brutality and galvanized the public, died Thursday in Jacksonville, Fla. He was 77.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Vatican waited years to defrock priest
The future Pope Benedict XVI took over the abuse case of an Arizona priest, then let it languish at the Vatican for years despite repeated pleas from the bishop for the man to be removed from the priesthood, according to church correspondence.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
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