‘All my dreams are shattered’: coronavirus crushes Asia’s garment industry
YANGON/DHAKA/BANGKOK (Reuters) – Zarchi Lwin pawned her only two gold bangles for $140 when the owner of the Myanmar factory…
France coronavirus death toll rises to 28,108: ministry
FILE PHOTO: People walk on the banks of the river Seine after France began a gradual end to a nationwide…
China reports seven new coronavirus cases, up from five a day earlier
People wearing face masks are seen at Wuhan Railway Station, in Wuhan, the Chinese city hit the hardest by the…
8 more sailors aboard US ship test positive a 2nd time
Eight more sailors aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt have tested positive again for the coronavirus By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated…
6 killed, 20 injured as bus flips over on China highway
Six people have died and 20 others are injured after a bus flipped over on a highway in southwestern China…
‘Little Fires Everywhere’ director Lynn Shelton dies at 54
Lynn Shelton, an independent filmmaker who directed “Humpday” and “Little Fires Everywhere,” has died By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment…
Officials: Chinese ambassador to Israel found dead in home
Israel’s Foreign Ministry says the Chinese ambassador to Israel has been found dead in his home north of Tel Aviv…
European leaders are blunt: A vaccine won’t come soon enough
SOAVE, Italy — In separate, stark warnings, two major European leaders bluntly told their citizens that the world needs to…
Fire, explosion in Los Angeles injures 10 firefighters
An explosion in downtown Los Angeles has injured 10 firefighters, and more than 200 are trying to douse the blaze…
Nevada Rep. Horsford acknowledges he had extramarital affair
Democratic Congressman Steven Horsford of Nevada has acknowledged he had an extramarital affair with a woman who said the on-and-off…
Iditarod mushers could get $500 for veterinary expenses
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has announced that the first 50 mushers who enter the 2021 race and the…
Phyllis George, female sportscasting pioneer, dies at 70
Phyllis George, the former Miss America who became a female sportscasting pioneer on CBS’s “The NFL Today,” has died May…
Truck collision on Indian highway kills 23 migrant workers
A government official says at least 23 migrant workers have been killed when a truck they were travelling in crashed…
Virus rules tighten illegal immigration on northern border
Five Mexican citizens apprehended this week after illegally entering the United States in remote northern Maine were returned to Canada…
Report: Bryant crash pilot had no drugs, alcohol in system
LOS ANGELES — The pilot flying Kobe Bryant and seven others to a youth basketball tournament did not have alcohol…
Trump’s emergency powers worry some senators, legal experts
WASHINGTON — The day he declared the COVID-19 pandemic a national emergency, President Donald Trump made a cryptic offhand remark.…
Puerto Rico to hold statehood referendum amid disillusion
Puerto Rico will hold a nonbinding referendum in November to decide whether the island should become a U.S. state By…
Kroger announces new bonuses after cutting hazard pay
Just days after announcing it would end hazard “hero” pay to front-line workers, Kroger says it will give them extra…
Group buys Alabama abortion clinic to keep it from closing
An Alabama-based abortion rights group received a flood of donations after state lawmakers in 2019 attempted to outlaw abortion By…
Washington Redskins player arrested in Colorado
A Washington Redskins player is facing five charges, including illegal discharge of a firearm, following his arrest in a Denver…
Tensions rise as Texas governor readies to lift more rules
AUSTIN, Texas — Two weeks into the reopening of Texas, coronavirus cases are climbing. New outbreaks still crop up. And…
China reports eight new COVID-19 cases, up from four a day earlier
FILE PHOTO: Residents wearing face masks line up for nucleic acid testings at a residential compound in Wuhan, the Chinese…
Temperature checks, masks the new normal for air travel, says Dubai airport CEO
DUBAI (Reuters) – Temperature screening and face masks will become common sights at airports to mitigate the spread of the…
Police: Man caught on camera choking ex-girlfriend’s dog
Police in Louisiana say a man was recorded on a doorbell camera choking his estranged girlfriend’s dog May 13, 2020,…
9-year-old boy in Tennessee catches 80-pound lake sturgeon
A nine-year-old child in Tennessee has reeled in an 80-pound fish May 13, 2020, 1:44 PM 2 min read 2…
Coroner: French bulldog fatally mauls suburban Chicago woman
Authorities say a suburban Chicago woman was mauled to death by a French bulldog that she recently adopted and that…
Trump ramps up expulsions of migrant youth, citing virus
HOUSTON — The young migrants and asylum seekers swim across the Rio Grande and clamber into the dense brush of…
Powell warns of a possible sustained recession from pandemic
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned Wednesday of the threat of a prolonged recession resulting from the viral…
Calls grow for probe of shooting that left black woman dead
Calls for an outside investigation into the fatal police shooting of a Kentucky emergency medical technician are growing, two months…
Flash flooding kills 2 sisters, ages 7 and 3, in Utah canyon
Two sisters ages 7 and 3 have died in flash flooding that sent torrents of water roaring into a narrow…
Michigan woman at center of transgender rights case dies
Aimee Stephens, a Detroit-area transgender woman who was fired by a funeral home after she said she wanted to be…
Russia: Putin’s spokesman hospitalized with coronavirus
Kremlin spokeman Dmitry Peskov says he is hospitalized with the coronavirus By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press May 12, 2020, 1:08…
Embraer blames failed Boeing deal for sharp drop in commercial jet deliveries
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA is seen at the company’s headquarters in Sao Jose dos Campos,…
UK’s COVID-19 death toll tops 38,000, worst in Europe
LONDON (Reuters) – The United Kingdom’s COVID-19 death toll topped 38,000 as of early May, by far the worst yet…
Maltese ambassador resigns after comparing Merkel to Hitler
Malta’s ambassador to Finland has resigned after writing a Facebook post comparing German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Adolf Hitler May…
Sen. Ted Cruz writing book on Supreme Court cases
Sen. Ted Cruz is working on a book, to be published in October, about the Supreme Court May 11, 2020,…
Rapper Nick Blixky fatally shot in NYC; no suspect arrested
Up-and-coming Rapper Nick Blixky has been shot and killed in New York City May 11, 2020, 12:45 PM 1 min…
Iran says missile kills 19 sailors in training accident
Iran says a military training accident has killed 19 of its sailors and wounded 15 others in waters near the…
5 hurt in shooting at Texas park where hundreds gathered
Police say five people were shot and wounded at a Texas park where hundreds had gathered despite local guidelines discouraging…
Study: Virus death toll in NYC worse than official tally
NEW YORK — New York City’s death toll from the coronavirus may be thousands of fatalities worse than the tally…
Semiconductor companies consider new plants in the U.S.
Chip makers Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor are talking to the Trump administration about building new semiconductor plants in the United…
Surfer killed in shark attack was passionate about the sport
A surfer killed in a shark attack off a Northern California beach was identified as a 26-year-old man who customized…
NY to require virus testing for nursing home staffers
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York nursing homes must start twice-weekly coronavirus testing for all staffers and will no longer be…
Trump administration asks court to toss lawsuit over ERA
The Trump administration has asked a judge to throw out a lawsuit filed by three Democratic state attorneys general seeking…
Video shows man charge at officer who fatally shot him
Video from a Maryland police officer’s body camera captures him warning the man to drop a knife and get down…
Firefighters continue battling fires in Florida Panhandle
Florida firefighters are hoping to hold containment lines around a 2,000-acre fire in the state’s Panhandle, where winds are expected…
Judge refuses to dismiss charges against Loughlin, Giannulli
A federal judge has refused to dismiss charges against actress Lori Loughlin, her fashion designer husband and other prominent parents…
Green hydrogen’s time has come, say advocates eying post-pandemic world
LONDON (Reuters) – Hydrogen has long been touted as a clean alternative to fossil fuels. Now, as major economies prepare…
Michigan, California move to reopen factories as U.S. jobless ranks grow
DETROIT/SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – Michigan and California, two U.S. manufacturing powerhouses, acted on Thursday to allow factories to reopen from…
Bug experts dismiss worry about US ‘murder hornets’ as hype
Insect experts say people should calm down about the big bug with the nickname “murder hornet” — unless you are…
Favre repaying $1.1 M for no-show speeches, auditor says
Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre is repaying more than $1 million in welfare money that he received for speeches where…
N. Carolina principal sorry for racial remark during meeting
A school principal in North Carolina apologized after making a reference to “colored folks” during a staff meeting May 5,…
Woman arraigned in killing of security guard over virus mask
A 45-year-old Michigan woman has appeared in court in the fatal shooting of a store security guard who refused to…
Woman killed by alligator in SC was doing homeowner’s nails
Authorities say the woman attacked and killed by an alligator in a gated community along the South Carolina coast was…
France’s Macron makes mask-wearing an act of national pride
President Emmanuel Macron has shown the famously fashionable French people that civic responsibility and style are not mutually exclusive By…
California sues Uber, Lyft over alleged labor law violations
California is suing ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft, alleging they misclassified their drivers as independent contractors under the state’s new…
Consider human costs in economic reopenings, Cuomo urges
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo argued that officials who are reopening economies need to be upfront about…
Trump denies ties to Venezuelan attack with 2 US men jailed
CARACAS, Venezuela — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United States had nothing to do with an alleged incursion…
UK coronavirus death toll rises by 693 to 29,427
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s COVID-19 death toll has risen by 693 to 29,427, according to figures announced on Tuesday by…
Tiny Montana school to be among first in US to reopen
A tiny public school in Montana will be among the first in the U.S. to resume classroom teaching this week…