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Syrian refugee Mohammed Dawood, 30, left, poses for a photo with his parents, Hayat Fatah, 65, center, and Abdulilah Amin Dawoud, 73, at their home in Irbil, Iraq, Nov. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Farid Abdulwahed)

Around the world, refugees are shut out of the US by Trump’s new policies

December 5, 2025 at 9:08 a.m.

When President Donald Trump suspended the refugee program on day one of his current administration, thousands of people around the world who’d been so close to a new life in...

Virologist Zhang Yongzhen speaks at a coffeeshop in Shanghai, China on Dec. 13, 2020. Zhang, the first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China was staging a sit-in protest after authorities locked him out of his lab. Zhang wrote in an online post on Monday, April 29, 2024, that he and his team were suddenly notified they were being evicted from their lab, the latest in a series of setbacks, demotions and ousters since he first published the sequence in early January 2020. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)

Chinese scientist who first published COVID sequence stages protest after being locked out of lab

April 30, 2024 at 8:17 a.m.

The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China staged a sit-in protest outside his lab after authorities locked him out of the facility — a...

A van passes high-rise apartment buildings in The Canton Place where U.S. government workers experienced unexplained health issues in Guangzhou in south China's Guangdong province, June 7, 2018.

U.S. Embassy in China sends new alert for mystery health issue

August 22, 2019 at 4:10 a.m.

The U.S. Embassy in China sent its second alert in two weeks Friday to its citizens over unexplained health issues that have prompted the evacuation of a number of U.S....

Ohio State University denies appearance by white nationalist Richard Spencer

August 22, 2019 at 1:21 a.m.

Ohio State University has denied a request to rent space for an appearance by white nationalist Richard Spencer, citing risks to public safety. An attorney representing Ohio State said in...

This Sept. 23, 2015 photo shows ground crew moring the Goodyear Blimp "Sprit of Innovation" as pilot Taylor Laverty brings the ship for a landing at Goodyear Airship Base in Carson, Calif. Goodyear is letting the helium out of the last of its fabled fleet of blimps on Tuesday, March 14, 2017.

Old dogs, new blimps: Goodyear pilots need to be retrained

June 3, 2018 at 11:02 a.m.

When William Bayliss is in the air, he wants to make sure he's the one flying the machine, not the machine flying him. That's why blimps are more his speed...

Firefighters investigate the remains of a burned home in Akron, Ohio on Monday, May 15, 2017.

Neighbor charged in Ohio fire that killed 5 kids, 2 adults

August 21, 2019 at 11:27 p.m.

Investigators in Ohio have charged a neighbor with setting a house fire that killed two adults and five children last week.Akron police say they charged 58-year-old Stanley Ford with aggravated...

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