George Floyd protests spread to smaller, mostly white towns
OMAHA, Neb. — Norfolk, Nebraska, is a quiet, conservative and predominantly white city of 24,000 people where public protests are…
China defends its coronavirus response in new report
Senior Chinese health officials have defended their country’s response to the new coronavirus pandemic, saying they provided information in a…
Criminals stealing unemployment benefits as claims surge
Criminals are seizing on a surge in job losses to steal unemployment benefits from Americans nationwide. This complicates an already…
World reaches 400,000 virus deaths as pope urges caution
BARCELONA, Spain — The confirmed global death toll from the COVID-19 virus reached at least 400,000 fatalities on Sunday, a…
Virginia city removes 176-year-old slave auction block
A 176-year-old slave auction block has been removed from a Virginia city’s downtown June 5, 2020, 3:09 PM 2 min…
NBA owners approve 22-team season restart plan
The NBA took a major step toward getting back on the court Thursday, with the league’s Board of Governors approving…
Democrats to interview ousted State Department watchdog
WASHINGTON — Members of three House and Senate committees will interview former State Department Inspector General Steve Linick on Wednesday…
FDA finds contamination in several brands of diabetes drug
U.S. health regulators are telling five drugmakers to recall versions of a popular diabetes drug due to contamination with an…
Take 2 for SpaceX’s 1st astronaut launch with more storms
SpaceX is taking a second shot at launching astronauts, but rain and storm clouds are threatening more delays By MARCIA…
New drugs make headway against lung, prostate, colon cancers
Doctors are reporting success with newer drugs that control certain types of cancer better, reduce the risk it will come…
Judge demands ICE better explain why it won’t release kids
A judge has criticized the Trump administration’s handling of detained immigrant children and families, ordering it to give the court…
Trump’s disconnect with DC widens during viral pandemic
WASHINGTON — District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser’s cellphone rang earlier this week from an unfamiliar number: It was the…
Rural areas, tribal lands hit hardest by census interruption
ORLANDO, Fla. — Even though they’re neighbors, two New Mexico counties couldn’t be further apart in the rate of people…
Trump threatens funds for states easing voting in pandemic
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to hold up federal funds for two election battleground states that are…
New Jersey gym reopens in defiance of coronavirus measures
A gym in southern New Jersey has reopened for business in defiance of a state order that shutdown nonessential businesses…
WHO bows to calls from countries for independent virus probe
GENEVA — The World Health Organization bowed to calls Monday from most of its member states to launch an independent…
Local leaders resist Mexico president’s push for reopening
MEXICO CITY — Local governments across Mexico pushed back Monday against President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s call to reopen the…
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…
Preakness rescheduled for Oct 3, one month after Derby
The 145th Preakness Stakes has been rescheduled for Oct. 3, an announcement delivered Saturday less than hour before the original…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
AP: Most states fall short of coronavirus testing thresholds
ATLANTA — As more states begin to relax their coronavirus lockdowns, most are falling short of the minimum levels of…
Company says drug proved effective against virus in US study
A biotech company says its experimental drug has proved effective against the new coronavirus in a major U.S. government study…
A look at what’s ahead for virus-stricken aircraft carrier
WASHINGTON — The crew of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, sidelined in Guam with a coronavirus outbreak, is inching toward getting…
`Infecting our dreams’: Pandemic sabotages sleep worldwide
For millions of people around the world dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, sleep brings no relief. The horrors of COVID-19,…
Virus lockdown raises tensions in France’s poorest areas
CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS, France — Joining more than 1,000 others, Djemba Diatite stood for hours in line to feed her growing family,…
U.S. states build stockpiles of malaria drug touted by Trump
SALT LAKE CITY — State and local governments across the United States have obtained about 30 million doses of a…
Italian government sets May 18 return for soccer training
Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte has announced that professional sports teams can resume training on May 18 By ANDREW DAMPF AP…
Israel’s once-mighty Labor party weighs unity with Netanyahu
Israel’s once-mighty Labor party has voted to join the incoming government headed by its arch-rival Benjamin Netanyahu, despite repeated promises…
Official: ‘Unacceptable’ to transport bodies in pickup truck
A spokesman for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health says transporting bodies from a hospital to the medical examiner’s office…
Officials: Man angry about stimulus check set shed on fire
Fire Marshals in Louisiana say a man set his mother’s shed on fire out of anger that he didn’t get…
US OKs 1st coronavirus test that allows self-swab at home
U.S. health regulators have OK’d the first coronavirus test that allows people to take their own sample at home By…
Trump defends decision to furlough Mar-a-Lago employees
President Donald Trump is defending his company’s decision to furlough hundreds of employees because of the coronavirus pandemic, after his…
Global health crisis pits economic against health concerns
WASHINGTON — The global health crisis is taking a nasty political turn with tensions worsening between governments locked down to…
‘A stroke of luck’ to be on global cruise during pandemic
BARCELONA, Spain — For Spanish traveler Carlos Payá, being on an around-the-globe luxury cruise while the rest of world scurried…
Virginia juvenile detention center new coronavirus hotspot
Coronavirus has erupted inside a juvenile detention center in Virginia where officials said Friday 25 kids tested positive April 18,…
NY virus deaths hit 2-week low; state to OK video weddings
NEW YORK — New York’s daily toll of coronavirus deaths hit its lowest point in more than two weeks, but…
Reinstate? Reassign? Navy to decide fate of fired captain
WASHINGTON — The Navy’s top admiral will soon decide the fate of the ship captain who was fired after pleading…
TV doctors Oz and Phil explaining controversial Fox comments
Two television doctors — Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil — find themselves trying to explain comments made on Fox News…
Tribes sue over distribution of coronavirus relief funding
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Several Native American tribes sued the federal government Friday, seeking to keep any of the $8 billion…
`LIBERATE!’: Trump pushes states to lift virus restrictions
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump urged supporters to “LIBERATE” three states led by Democratic governors Friday, apparently encouraging protests against…
7 Midwest states to partner on reopening the economy
Seven Midwestern governors announced Thursday that they will coordinate on reopening their state economies, after similar pacts were made earlier…
Trump says it’s his call when to ease virus rules, not govs’
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump claimed the authority Monday to decide how and when to reopen the economy after weeks…
Infected Antarctic cruise passengers return to Australia
More than 100 Australian and New Zealand passengers of the Antarctic cruise ship the Greg Mortimer, most of whom infected…
From people and firms desperate for aid, one question: When?
BALTIMORE — It’s been two weeks since President Donald Trump signed into law a $2.2 trillion economic rescue package that…
Comedian Tim Brooke-Taylor of The Goodies dies with COVID-19
British comedian Tim Brooke-Taylor, a member of comedy trio The Goodies, has died after contracting the new coronavirus April 12,…
‘SNL’ returns for work-at-home version with host Tom Hanks
For the first time in its lengthy history, ‘Saturday Night Live’ held an all-quarantine version, with stars delivering taped material…
Stores try to stay relevant while their doors are closed
NEW YORK — Long before there was a global coronavirus pandemic, brick-and-mortar retailers struggled to get people to walk through…
Hogan, Cuomo call for additional $500B in aid to states
Governors Larry Hogan of Maryland and Andrew Cuomo of New York issued a bipartisan call Saturday for an additional $500…
Puerto Rico extends lockdown to May to fight COVID-19
Puerto Rico’s governor has announced that the U.S. territory will remain on lockdown until May 3 to curb coronavirus cases,…