内容摘要：Chelsea Pensioner Peter Wilson reaches up to touch a Punks head with a mohawk created with pampas grass, tropical blooms and preserved leaves part of Chelsea in Bloom by Ricky Paul Flowers at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Chelsea Pensioner Peter Wilson reaches up to touch a Punks head with a mohawk created with pampas grass, tropical blooms and preserved leaves part of Chelsea in Bloom by Ricky Paul Flowers at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

“Every year, it’s a little worse,” Jones said of the financial pressures on his business.Rural pharmacies, independent or chain, can be a

. The staff knows everyone’s names and drugs, answers questions about residents’ mail-order prescriptions or can spot the signs of serious illness.But rural pharmacies’ business models face unrelenting pressures to the point that sometimes they have to close. Several largely rural states have some of the lowest number of pharmacies per ZIP code, according to an AP analysis of data from 49 states and the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs.The closest pharmacy to Basin Pharmacy is eight miles away in Greybull, and Jones and two other pharmacists opened it after the

chain that ran its predecessor went bankrupt.When a pharmacy does close in a rural area, communities feel the absence.

In Herscher, Illinois, news came out of nowhere that the CVS would shut down in early March.

Mayor Shannon Sweeney met with CVS representatives and asked them to delay the closure for his village of 1,500 that’s 80 miles south of Chicago, but he said the company told him the front of the store was not making enough money.“For some reason, the Russians are concealing this document. This is an absolutely bizarre position. There is no clarity about the format,” Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram.

Moscow previously said it would share its memorandum during the talks.Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at

CATANIA, Italy (AP) — Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and other 11 activists set sail on Sunday afternoon for Gaza on a ship aimed at “breaking Israel’s siege” of the devastated territory, organizers said.The sailing boat Madleen – operated by activist group Freedom Flotilla Coalition — departed from the Sicilian port of Catania, in southern Italy.