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A child reacts to a throat swab during mass testing for COVID-19 in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021. The coronavirus's delta variant is challenging China's costly strategy of isolating cities, prompting warnings that Chinese leaders who were confident they could keep the virus out of the country need a less disruptive approach. (Chinatopix via AP)

Delta variant challenges China's costly lockdown strategy

Delta variant challenges China's costly lockdown strategy
A child reacts to a throat swab during mass testing for COVID-19 in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021. The coronavirus's delta variant is challenging China's costly strategy of isolating cities, prompting warnings that Chinese leaders who were confident they could keep the virus out of the country need a less disruptive approach. (Chinatopix via AP)
British navy group: Hijackers have left vessel off UAE coast
In this June 14, 2012 photo, the ship that would later become the Asphalt Princess sails through Quebec City, Canada. The hijackers who captured the Asphalt Princess off the coast of the United Arab Emirates in the Gulf of Oman departed the targeted ship on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021, the British navy reported, as recorded radio traffic appeared to reveal a crew member onboard saying Iranian gunmen had stormed the asphalt tanker. (Steve Geronazzo via AP)
The Latest: Sydney reports worst day of its current outbreak
FILE - In this Thursday, July 22, 2021 file photo, a health care worker fills a syringe with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The U.K. is to offer coronavirus vaccines to 16 and 17-year-olds it was announced Wednesday, Aug. 4 after the independent body of scientists that makes recommendations over the rollout changed its advice. The four nations of the U.K. all accepted the change in advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization for healthy 16 to 17-year-olds to be offered a first dose of the Pfizer vaccine, which has already been approved by Britain's medical regulator for use for anyone aged 12 and over. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
Asia stocks mixed with eyes on US economic recovery
FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2020 file photo, a sign for Wall Street is carved in the side of a building, in New York. Stocks are opening mostly lower on Wall Street Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021, led by declines in banks and energy companies. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
Lawyers for Huawei CFO argue US 'strategically crafted' case
Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei, leaves British Columbia Supreme Court during a break from her extradition hearing, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)
Loss of braking cited in 2019 Florida plane incident
FILE - In this May 4, 2019, file photo, a charter plane carrying 143 people and traveling from Cuba to north Florida sits in a river at the end of a runway in Jacksonville, Fla. Investigators say the loss of braking power on a rain-soaked flooded runway caused a cargo plane chartered by the Pentagon to slide into a Florida river in 2019, the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday, AUg. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough, File)
Head of UN health agency seeks vaccine booster moratorium
FILE - In this file photo dated Tuesday, July 14, 2020, Director General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, attends the Bastille Day military parade, in Paris. The head of the World Health Organization has appealed Wednesday Aug. 4, 2021, for a moratorium on administering booster shots of COVID-19 vaccines, to ensure doses are available in countries where few people have yet received their first shots. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, FILE)
Macao orders closure of entertainment venues, mass testing
FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2014, file photo, tourists take selfies at
California spending billions to house homeless in hotels
In this Wednesday, June 30, 2021, photo Veronica Perez hugs her cat, Brooklyn, at her new home at a Homekey site in Los Angeles. She took residence in one of 6,000 new units built statewide over the last year as part of Project Homekey. The California program started in June 2020 is re-purposing vacant hotels, motels and other unused properties as permanent supportive housing for the homeless.  (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Oregon examines spyware investment amid controversy
FILE - This Oct. 30, 2019, file photo show the Oregon State Treasury office in Tigard, Ore. Oregon was Novalpina's first major investor. Stephen Peel and Stefan Kowski, two founding Novalpina Capital partners, showed up at Oregon treasury offices in the Portland suburb of Tigard in November 2017 to make a pitch to the Oregon Investment Council, which oversees the state's $90 billion pension fund. Novalpina Capital has been saddled with both an internal dispute among its founding partners and an explosive report showing NSO Group's spyware has been widely misused around the globe. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky, File)
Facebook shuts out NYU academics' research on political ads
FILE- In this March 29, 2018, file photo, the logo for Facebook appears on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York's Times Square. Facebook has shut down the personal accounts of a pair of New York University researchers and shuttered their investigation into misinformation spread through political ads on the social network. Facebook says the researchers violated its terms of service and were involved in unauthorized data collection from its massive network. The academics, however, say the company is attempting to exert control on research that paints it in a negative light. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
Uber's recovery accelerates, but worries about losses linger
FILE - In this April 28, 2021, file photo, an Uber Eats delivery person rides a bicycle through the Shinjuku district in Tokyo, Japan. Uber's ride-hailing service is regaining most of the momentum that it lost during the pandemic. At the same time, its delivery service is still growing at a torrid pace, indicating that some homebound habits may be here to stay, even though people are going out again. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama, File)
Agreement shows Ohio utility paid regulator for future help
Nursing home to workers: Get vaccine or lose your job
FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2020, file photo, a droplet falls from a syringe after a health care worker was injected with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Providence, R.I. Genesis Healthcare, the nation's largest nursing home operator which has 70,000 employees at nearly 400 nursing homes and senior communities, told its workers this week they will have to get COVID-19 vaccinations to keep their jobs - a possible shift in an industry that has largely rejected compulsory measures for fear of triggering an employee exodus that could worsen already dangerous staffing shortages. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
Wildfire reaches Turkey power plant, prompts evacuations
A Turkish volunteer runs as they head to fight wildfires in Turgut village, near tourist resort of Marmaris, Mugla, Turkey, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021. As Turkish fire crews pressed ahead Tuesday with their weeklong battle against blazes tearing through forests and villages on the country's southern coast, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government faced increased criticism over its apparent poor response and inadequate preparedness for large-scale wildfires.(AP Photo/Emre Tazegul)

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Facebook shuts out NYU academics' research on political ads
FILE- In this March 29, 2018, file photo, the logo for Facebook appears on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York's Times Square. Facebook has shut down the personal accounts of a pair of New York University researchers and shuttered their investigation into misinformation spread through political ads on the social network. Facebook says the researchers violated its terms of service and were involved in unauthorized data collection from its massive network. The academics, however, say the company is attempting to exert control on research that paints it in a negative light. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
Uber's recovery accelerates, but worries about losses linger
FILE - In this April 28, 2021, file photo, an Uber Eats delivery person rides a bicycle through the Shinjuku district in Tokyo, Japan. Uber's ride-hailing service is regaining most of the momentum that it lost during the pandemic. At the same time, its delivery service is still growing at a torrid pace, indicating that some homebound habits may be here to stay, even though people are going out again. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama, File)
Agreement shows Ohio utility paid regulator for future help
Nursing home to workers: Get vaccine or lose your job
FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2020, file photo, a droplet falls from a syringe after a health care worker was injected with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Providence, R.I. Genesis Healthcare, the nation's largest nursing home operator which has 70,000 employees at nearly 400 nursing homes and senior communities, told its workers this week they will have to get COVID-19 vaccinations to keep their jobs - a possible shift in an industry that has largely rejected compulsory measures for fear of triggering an employee exodus that could worsen already dangerous staffing shortages. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
Wildfire reaches Turkey power plant, prompts evacuations
A Turkish volunteer runs as they head to fight wildfires in Turgut village, near tourist resort of Marmaris, Mugla, Turkey, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021. As Turkish fire crews pressed ahead Tuesday with their weeklong battle against blazes tearing through forests and villages on the country's southern coast, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government faced increased criticism over its apparent poor response and inadequate preparedness for large-scale wildfires.(AP Photo/Emre Tazegul)
Will McConnell lift roadblock of Biden for infrastructure?
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., arrives as lawmakers work to advance the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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