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WHO chief lands in eastern Congo’s Ituri province, epicenter of Ebola, as outbreak outpaces response

BUNIA, Congo (AP) - The head of the World Health Organization Saturday arrived in eastern Congo's Bunia, a city at the heart of an outbreak of a rare type of Ebola, where the virus still spreads faster than the response, despite better-organized health facilities ...
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Most new moms get the baby blues. But it could be something more serious: postpartum depression

Moments after Jenna Carberg gave birth to her daughter, doctors put the baby on her chest. "I felt a disconnect right away," she recalled. At home, the Orlando, Florida, mom was exhausted and anxious and cried every day. She was eventually diagnosed with postpartum depression - ...
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New Jersey state police assert control outside migrant detention center

By Steve Gorman and Maria Tsvetkova May 29 (Reuters) - New Jersey's governor on Friday ordered state police to assume control outside a migrant detention center in Newark that has become a weeklong flashpoint for clashes between protesters and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Governor ...
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump’s $1.8 billion ‘weaponization’ fund

By Andrew Goudsward and Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's administration from setting up a nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate victims of what Trump has called government "weaponization." The order by U.S. District Judge ...
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US investigates Vietnam’s intellectual property practices

May 30 (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Friday opened an unfair trade practices investigation into Vietnam's intellectual property protection policies and enforcement that may lead to new tariffs or other trade measures. Vietnam was identified as a priority country by the U.S. Trade Representative's ...
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Filipino lawyers move to raise legacy of Pablo Manlapit, forgotten leader of Hawaii labor movement

HONOLULU (AP) - Decades before Filipino American agricultural workers organized a historic strike in California, Pablo Manlapit was organizing Filipino laborers in Hawaii. Manlapit, who migrated to Honolulu in 1910 to work on sugar plantations, saw the exploitation of other Philippine-born workers - known as ...
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Zambia says two suspected Ebola cases test negative, steps up screening

May 30 (Reuters) - Zambia has investigated and cleared two suspected cases of Ebola as it steps up screening and surveillance for the deadly viral disease following an outbreak in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. Congolese authorities said on Friday suspected cases from the rare ...
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Factbox-How Republicans are winning the war over US congressional redistricting, state by state

By Joseph Ax May 29 (Reuters) - Several Republican-led states across the South are rushing to redraw their congressional maps ahead of November's midterm elections in a bid to help save their party's narrow majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, the latest round in ...
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Senate Republicans face a political knife-edge over Trump’s ‘anti-weaponization’ fund

By David Morgan WASHINGTON, May 30 (Reuters) - Senate Republicans face a stark choice when they return from recess next week: back President Donald Trump's controversial $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund to benefit his political allies or defy a commander-in-chief who just ended the careers of ...
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US Democrats say Bondi refuses to answer Trump questions in Epstein probe

By Richard Cowan and Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) - Former U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to answer questions from Congress on whether President Donald Trump was aware of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's activities that led to his criminal indictments or ...
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Trump jumps into Republican primaries for governor in South Carolina, Iowa and Oklahoma

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - President Donald Trump endorsed three Republican gubernatorial candidates Friday, wading into contests in South Carolina, Iowa and Oklahoma that have pitted allies against each other in a fierce competition for their party leader's blessing. In a trio of social media posts, ...
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How a chemical tank disaster struck at the heart of a Washington state mill town

LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) - From his living room window, Washington state Sen. Jeff Wilson can see the paper mill where a chemical tank ruptured this week in Longview, killing 11 people. He used to perform work there as the owner of an environmental cleanup ...
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