David Crary, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

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Transgender rights advocates reeling from election setback

by David Crary Associated PressNovember 15, 2024

Election victories for Donald Trump and other candidates whose campaigns demeaned transgender people reinforced a widespread backlash against trans rights. For America’s LGBTQ-rights movement, it adds up to one of the most sustained setbacks in its…

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Pope OKs blessings for same-sex couples, but maintains strict ban on gay marriage

by Nicole Winfield Associated Press, and David Crary Associated PressDecember 18, 2023

FILE - Robert W. McElroy, bishop of the diocese of San Diego, arrives to attend a conference on nuclear disarmament, at the Vatican, Friday, Nov. 10, 2017. Pope Francis said Sunday, May 29, 2022 he has tapped 21 churchmen to become cardinals, most of them from continents other than Europe, which has dominated Catholic hierarchy for most of the church's history. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

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San Diego Bishop McElroy named by Pope Francis as a cardinal

by David Crary Associated PressMay 29, 2022

FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021 file photo, President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, listen as Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Archbishop of Washington, delivers the invocation during a COVID-19 memorial at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington. Gregory has made clear that President Biden, who sometimes worships in Washington, is welcome to receive Communion at the archdiocese's churches. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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US Catholic bishops OK steps toward possible rebuke of Biden

by David Crary Associated PressJune 18, 2021

Photographs of descendants of enslaved people who were sold by Georgetown University and the Maryland Jesuits to southern Louisiana in 1838, are shown in 2019.

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Jesuits in US pledge $100M for racial healing

by David Crary Associated PressMarch 16, 2021

A man waves a flag as he stands in the back of a military vehicle during a Veterans Day parade, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020 in New York. The 100-vehicle parade, with no spectators, was held during the coronavirus pandemic to maintain the 101-year tradition of veterans marching on Fifth Avenue. The U.S. has recorded about 10.3 million confirmed infections, with new cases soaring to all-time highs of well over 120,000 per day over the past week. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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Texas tops 1 million COVID-19 cases

by David Crary Associated PressNovember 11, 2020

Siblings, from left, Katherine, Jennifer, Jazzmyn and Zavion look at their mother Lunisol Guzman's wedding album, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020, in Newark, N.J. Four-year-old Zavion and 2-year-old Jazzmyn have been taken in by the oldest of Lunisol Guzman's other three children, Katherine and Jennifer, after she died from symptoms of coronavirus. Lunisol Guzman had adopted them when she was in her 40s. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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‘I miss mommy’: Families shattered by COVID forge new paths

by Matt Sedensky Associated Press, Kelli Kennedy Associated Press, and David Crary Associated PressSeptember 21, 2020

FILE - In this Dec. 26, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks to members of the military at a hangar rally at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq. Among veterans and military families across the United States, there are sharply mixed feelings about the new reports that Trump made multiple disparaging comments about the U.S. military. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

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Vets split over Trump’s alleged disregard

by Jeffrey Collins Associated Press, and David Crary Associated PressSeptember 6, 2020

Bridget Kreider, right, helps her three-year-old daughter Maggie pull on her protective face covering before entering a store, Wednesday, May 20, 2020, in Harmony, Pa. Customers entering stores are required to wear face coverings to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus during the COVID-19 pandemic under the state yellow phase reopening guide. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

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It’s back to business, but not business as usual

by David Crary Associated Press, Mike Corder Associated Press, and Nicole Winfield Associated PressMay 20, 2020

Workers line up to enter the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Logansport, Ind., Thursday, May 7, 2020. In Cass County, home to the Tyson plant, confirmed coronavirus cases have surpassed 1,500. That’s given the county — home to about 38,000 residents — one of the nation’s highest per-capita infection rates. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

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Thousands getting sick on the job

by David Crary Associated PressMay 12, 2020