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Black, Hispanic families hit hardest by dementia

It can begin with the occasional missed bill payment. An inability to remember names. Telling the same story repeatedly. There may be personality changes or mood swings. Confusion. Over time, it’s as if the person who once was slowly disappears. Dementia. As the population ages, a growing ...

COVID-defying nun toasts 117th birthday with wine and prayer

PARIS — Question: How does one cram enough candles onto a birthday cake for one of the world’s oldest survivors of COVID-19? Answer: With 117 candles, you can’t. A French nun who is believed to be the world’s second-oldest person celebrated her 117th birthday in style on Thursday, ...

AP-NORC poll: A third of US adults skeptical of COVID shots

NEW YORK — About 1 in 3 Americans say they definitely or probably won’t get the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a new poll that some experts say is discouraging news if the U.S. hopes to achieve herd immunity and vanquish the outbreak. The poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for ...

After 40 years at NASA, retiree writes his memoir

MELBOURNE, Fla. — When engineer Roland Norris set out to write down the stories of his career spanning 40 years at NASA, he had one regret. “I wish I’d kept a journal or made notes. Instead I wrote it all from memory,” Norris told FLORIDA TODAY. He discovered quickly that he needed ...

Remembering: International Holocaust Remembrance Week …Auschwitz survivors mark anniversary online amid pandemic

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland — Tova Friedman hid among corpses at Auschwitz amid the chaos of the extermination camp’s final days. Just 6 years old at the time, the Poland-born Friedman was instructed by her mother to lie absolutely still in a bed at a camp hospital, next to the body of a young woman who had just died. As German forces preparing to flee the scene of their genocide went from bed to bed shooting anyone still alive, Friedman barely breathed under a blanket and went unnoticed. Days later, on Jan. 27, 1945, she was among the thousands of ...