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Yolanda Ames knows how to make food stretch: A little bread added to the ground beef, or a little extra water in the macaroni, will help keep her three boys' stomachs full longer. That's not the problem; it's whether she can afford electricity this month, so the fridge will stay on and keep her groceries…

UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations marked its 75th anniversary Monday with its chief urging leaders of an increasingly polarized, go-it-alone world to work together and preserve the organization’s most important success since its founding: avoiding a military confrontation between the major global powers.Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ appeal for a revival of multilateralism — the foundation…

APPLETON, Wis. -- Nothing can shake Scott Rice’s faith that President Donald Trump will save the U.S. economy — not seeing businesses close or friends furloughed, not even his own hellish bout with the novel coronavirus.Rice reveres the president the way Wisconsin loves the Green Bay Packers. He has painted “T-R-U-M-P” on his lawn, spelled…

MARIETTA, Ga. -- The little girl ran up to her, wide-eyed and giddy.“Are you Charisse Davis?” the fourth grader asked.Davis was stunned. A former kindergarten teacher and librarian, she was more accustomed to shuttling her two sons to basketball practice than being seen as a local celebrity. But now she had been elected the only…

All five intensive care beds dedicated to COVID patients are full in the Laveran Military Training Hospital in Marseille, and its doctors are bracing for moreBy DANIEL COLE Associated PressSeptember 11, 2020, 5:34 PM• 6 min readMARSEILLE, France -- All five intensive care beds dedicated to COVID patients are in use at the Laveran Military…

Far from city streets filled with demonstrators, racial reckonings also are playing out in rural areas like New York's Adirondack MountainsBy MICHAEL HILL Associated PressSeptember 14, 2020, 6:30 PM• 5 min readLAKE PLACID, N.Y. -- Nicole Hylton-Patterson moved to the Adirondack Mountains to help make this vast, and overwhelmingly white, region more welcoming to people…

For family and friends, Lydia Nunez always had jokes, hugs and lots of love.She was the “glue” that brought people together, the one who remembered birthdays, spoiled her nieces and nephews and brought a spark to any room she entered. “Where's the party at?” was one of her favorite phrases.So when she died at 34…