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FILE - Finn Washburn, 9, receives an injection of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in San Jose, Calif., on Nov. 3, 2021, as his sister, Piper Washburn, 6, waits her turn. California's COVID-19 emergency declaration ends on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. Public health experts say the pandemic has not ended, but the virus is much more manageable with the availability of vaccines and other treatments. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

Pfizer will spend $43 billion to acquire Seagen

Pfizer will spend about $43 billion to buy Seagen and broaden its reach into cancer treatments, the pharmaceutical giant said Monday. Bothell, Washington-based Seagen Inc. is a biotech drug … more

By TOM MURPHY and MICHELLE CHAPMAN | 3/13/23

Oscar Moments: Moms get special praise on feel-good night

The Slap? What slap? Sunday’s Oscar ceremony felt more like a big hug, its heartwarming and heartfelt speeches a potent antidote to the uneasy memory of last year’s Will Smith incident. Many of … more

By JOCELYN NOVECK | 3/13/23

Ruth E. Carter poses with the award for best costume design for "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" in the press room at the Oscars on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Ruth E. Carter becomes 1st Black woman to win two Oscars

Ruth E. Carter made history: The costume designer behind the “Black Panther” films has become the first Black woman to win two Oscars. Carter took home best costume designer for the Marvel sequel … more

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. | 3/12/23

List of 2023 Oscar winners

The list of early Oscar winners Sunday includes Jamie Lee Curtis and Ke Huy Quan from "Everything Everywhere All at Once," as well as "Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio," named best animated feature. … more

By The Associated Press | 3/12/23

Jamie Lee Curtis accepts the award for best performance by an actress in a supporting role for "Everything Everywhere All at Once" at the Oscars on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Jamie Lee Curtis wins Oscar for best supporting actress

Jamie Lee Curtis made her long-waited first Oscar nomination count. Curtis won best supporting actress for her role as Deirdre Beaubeirdre in “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” She plays an IRS … more

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. | 3/12/23

Stephanie Hsu, left, and Florence Pugh arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

PHOTOS: Stars at Oscars get candid on the carpet

The parade of Hollywood royalty on the red carpet - champagne colored at these 95th Academy Awards — is nearly as important as the show itself. Stars pose in their dazzling outfits for dozens of … more

By LINDSEY BAHR | 3/12/23

The capsule of the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft, slowed by parachutes, approaches the surface of the waters of the Gulf of Mexico off Tampa, Fla., as it returns to Earth with Expedition 68 Flight Engineers Anna Kikina of Roscosmos, Josh Cassada and Nicole Mann from NASA, and Koichi Wakata of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) after a five-month mission in the International Space Station, on Saturday, March 11, 2023. (Keegan Barber/NASA via AP)

Four astronauts fly SpaceX back home, end 5-month mission

Four space station astronauts are back on Earth after a quick SpaceX flight home. Their capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast late Saturday. The crew from the U.S., Russia … more

By MARCIA DUNN | 3/11/23

FILE - This photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows the inside of the summit crater of the Kilauea Volcano, Jan. 6, 2023. Hawaii's second-largest volcano is likely to resume erupting soon after a three-month hiatus. The U.S. Geological Survey said Saturday, March 11, 2023, that a shallow earthquake storm had been detected under the summit of Kilauea. (U.S. Geological Survey via AP, File)

Earthquakes signal Hawaii's Kilauea about to resume erupting

Hawaii's second-largest volcano is likely to resume erupting soon after a brief pause. The U.S. Geological Survey said Saturday that a shallow earthquake storm had been detected under the summit of … more

3/11/23

This image from video made available by Relativity Space shows the company's Terran 1 rocket on the launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Saturday, March 11, 2023, after a countdown hold. The rocket made almost completely of 3D-printed parts came within a half-second of blasting off Saturday on its debut flight, but remained grounded after back-to-back launch aborts. (Relativity Space via AP)

3D-printed rocket remains grounded after more launch aborts

A rocket made almost completely of 3D-printed parts remains grounded after back-to-back launch aborts. Relativity Space's rocket came within a half-second of blasting off Saturday on its debut flight … more

By MARCIA DUNN | 3/11/23

Police: Stalker kills woman, husband in Seattle-area home

Police say a longhaul truck driver from Texas who became obsessed with a software engineer after meeting her through a social media chatroom app broke into her suburban Seattle home and killed her, … more

Associated Press | 3/11/23

Red tide is observed near Pinellas County beaches off Redington Beach, Fla., during a flight with SouthWings volunteers on Friday, March 10, 2023. Florida's southwest coast experienced a flare-up of the toxic red tide algae this week, setting off concerns that it could continue to stick around for a while. The current bloom started in October. (Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Burning eyes, dead fish; red tide flares up on Florida coast

Residents are complaining about burning eyes and breathing problems. Dead fish have washed up on beaches. A beachside festival has been canceled, even though it wasn’t scheduled for another month. … more

3/11/23

Workers prepare a backdrop during preparations for Sunday's 95th Academy Awards, Friday, March 10, 2023, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Oscars race: Clock ticks for film buffs to binge on nominees

There’s scant time to binge all those Oscar-nominated films before Sunday's Academy Awards broadcast. In the perfect multiverse, time would bend to allow time-strained movie buffs to watch anything … more

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN | 3/11/23

In this image take with a drone, emergency personnel work at the scene of a helicopter crash on the side of Interstate 77 South in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. The family of a meteorologist who was killed last year in a helicopter crash in North Carolina is suing a maintenance facility and the company that owned and operated the aircraft. (Alex Slitz/The Charlotte Observer via AP, File)

Wife sues over meteorologist's death in NC helicopter crash

The family of a meteorologist killed in a North Carolina helicopter crash is suing a maintenance facility and the company that owned and operated the aircraft. The complaint filed in Mecklenburg … more

By BEN FINLEY | 3/10/23

FILE - This combination of photos shows, from left, Travis McMichael, William "Roddie" Bryan, and Gregory McMichael during their trial at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga. On Friday, March 3, 2023, the three white men serving prison sentences in the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery asked an appeals court to throw out their federal hate crime convictions, with two of them arguing their histories of making racist comments do not prove they targeted Arbery because he was Black. (AP Photo/Pool, File)

Ahmaud Arbery's killers deny racist motives in appeals

Three white men sentenced to prison in the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery are asking an appeals court to throw out their federal hate crime convictions. Attorneys for Greg McMichael and William … more

By RUSS BYNUM | 3/10/23

An Afghan bride holds a bouquet of roses at a mass wedding ceremony, during the International Women's Day in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

AP Week in Pictures: Global

March 4 - 10, 2023 War continues in Ukraine, where the battle for the city the Ukrainians have dubbed “fortress Bakhmut” has become emblematic of the way each side has tried to wear down the … more

3/10/23

FILE - A person is taken on a stretcher into the United Memorial Medical Center after going through testing for COVID-19 Thursday, March 19, 2020, in Houston. On the third anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2023, the virus is still spreading and the death toll is nearing 7 million worldwide. Yet most people have resumed their normal lives, thanks to a wall of immunity built from infections and vaccines. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Pandemic 3 years later: Has the COVID-19 virus won?

It’s been three years since the World Health Organization's first called COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The anniversary on Saturday has health experts taking stock of successes and … more

By CARLA K. JOHNSON | 3/10/23

FILE - Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden walks by a flag which says all about him - Legend in our time - after the Swedish ace skier finished fourth in the World Cup Men's Giant Slalom Thursday, March 9, 1989, at Shiga Heights, Japan. Ingemar Stenmark's unbreakable skiing record just got matched by Mikaela Shiffrin. The American won a giant slalom on Friday, March 10, 2023, to equal the Swedish great's record of 86 World Cup victories, which he set more than three decades ago. (AP Photo/Shizua Kambayashi, File)

Shiffrin and Stenmark took different paths to skiing record

Ingemar Stenmark’s unbreakable skiing record just got matched by Mikaela Shiffrin. The American won a giant slalom to equal the Swedish great’s record of 86 World Cup victories set more than … more

By ERIC WILLEMSEN | 3/10/23

Protesters listen to a speaker during a rally against a draft law aimed at curbing the influence of "foreign agents" near the Georgian parliament building in Tbilisi, Georgia, Thursday, March 9, 2023. Following days of massive protests, Georgia's governing party said Thursday it would withdraw draft legislation that opponents warned would stifle dissent and curtail media freedoms, ushering in Russian-style repression. (AP Photo/Zurab Tsertsvadze)

Georgia drops foreign agents law after massive protests

Georgian lawmakers have voted to drop a controversial bill that opponents — and thousands of protesters gathered in the capital — warned could stifle dissent and curtail media freedoms. The bill, … more

3/10/23

People kneel as servicemen carry a coffin of a Ukrainian serviceman Oleksiy Sokolovskyi during the funeral ceremony in St. Michael Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa

MARCH 3-9, 2023 From the battle for the destroyed city the Ukrainians call “Fortress Bakhmut” to International Women’s Day events, the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul … more

By The Associated Press | 3/10/23

In this handout photo taken from video released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022, Russian soldiers take part in drills at an unspecified location in Belarus. After Russia invaded Ukraine, guerrillas from Belarus began carrying out acts of sabotage on their country's railways, including blowing up track equipment to paralyse the rails that Russian forces used to get troops and weapons into Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Anti-Russia guerrillas in Belarus take on 'two-headed enemy'

After Russia invaded Ukraine, guerillas from Belarus began carrying out acts of sabotage on their country’s railways. The attacks were designed to paralyze the rails that Russian forces used to get … more

By The Associated Press | 3/10/23