DC officials push back on aggressive response to protests
WASHINGTON — Officials in the nation’s capital pushed back Tuesday on an aggressive response by the federal government to demonstrations over the deat...
Safety board asks helicopter makers to install ‘black boxes’
Federal safety investigators bypassed aviation regulators on Tuesday and urged leading helicopter manufacturers to install so-called black boxes that ...
Minneapolis police face civil rights probe over Floyd death
MINNEAPOLIS — The state of Minnesota on Tuesday launched a civil rights investigation of the Minneapolis Police Department in hopes of forcing widespr...
Retired officer, ex-college athlete among victims of unrest
One man was a retired St. Louis police captain checking on his friend's shop. Another was the beloved owner of a Louisville barbecue restaurant who pr...
John Prine’s wife urges Tennessee to expand absentee voting
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The wife of singer-songwriter John Prine, who died from complications of COVID-19, urged lawmakers Tuesday to expand absentee votin...
Bell, Telus give 5G contracts to Europeans, Huawei shut out
TORONTO — Two of Canada’s three major telecommunication companies announced Tuesday they’ve decided not to use Chinese tech giant Huawei for their nex...
Some governors balk at Trump request to send troops to DC
RICHMOND, Va. — Some governors are rejecting President Donald Trump's request to send National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., for a massive militar...
Pompeo hits China over Tiananmen as US faces civil unrest
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday marked this week's anniversary of China's deadly 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in ...
Experts watch as Rio de Janeiro economy starts to reopen
RIO DE JANEIRO — Rio de Janeiro, one of the cities worst hit by COVID-19 in Brazil, slowly started to reopen on Tuesday, more than two months after no...
Hoops Hall mulls date for Bryant, Class of 2020 induction
The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame was gearing up for a great year: not just the all-but-certain election of NBA superstars like Kobe Bryan...
Former tennis star still shaken by encounter with cop in ’15
Nearly five years later, former tennis star James Blake says he never suspected the large man running toward him was a plainclothes New York City poli...
Movie night in Venezuela barrio offers respite from troubles
CARACAS, Venezuela — At nightfall in one corner of Venezuela's largest and most notorious barrio, all eyes turned to the glow of a temporary movie scr...
Review: Documentary about electric racing holds little spark
For proof that Leonardo DiCaprio can't save every film he touches, look no further than “And We Go Green,” a languid documentary about the electric ca...
Concerns mount about two studies on drugs for coronavirus
Concerns are mounting about studies in two influential medical journals on drugs used in people with coronavirus, including one that led multiple coun...
Protests in top 25 virus hot spots ignite fears of contagion
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — As demonstrators flooded streets across America to decry the killing of George Floyd, public health experts watched in alarm — the ...
Police: Retired St. Louis police captain killed amid unrest
ST. LOUIS — A retired St. Louis police officer was shot and killed early Tuesday by people who had broken into a pawn shop during unrest that followed...
Pakistani girl dies of her injuries from Karachi plane crash
KARACHI, Pakistan — A Pakistani girl who was critically injured on the ground last month when a passenger plane went down in a crowded neighborhood of...
Afghan official: Kabul mosque bombed, 2 dead, 2 wounded
KABUL, Afghanistan — A bomb exploded inside a mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul on Tuesday, killing two people, including the mosque's prayer leader,...
With Italy at risk, Europe Central Bank could boost stimulus
FRANKFURT, Germany — The European Central Bank could soon expand its anti-pandemic stimulus program to more than a trillion euros, giving it more fire...
Social media, music world go dark for Black Out Tuesday
NEW YORK — Though Black Out Tuesday was originally organized by the music community, the social media world also went dark in support of the Black Liv...
Astronauts ring opening bell for Nasdaq from space station
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The astronauts launched into orbit by SpaceX joined in the ringing of the opening bell for the Nasdaq on Tuesday to mark “a piv...
Afghan official says bombing of mosque in capital Kabul kills one, wounds three, including prayer leader
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan official says bombing of mosque in capital Kabul kills one, wounds three, including prayer leader.
‘Just Mercy,’ drama of racial injustice, to be free in June
NEW YORK — The 2019 film “Just Mercy,” which chronicles courtroom struggles against racial injustice and mass incarceration, will be made free on digi...
‘We won’t tolerate’: Sports world unites behind Floyd
Players who scored in the German and Hungarian soccer leagues removed their jerseys to display undershirts with the words: “Justice for George Floyd.”
Report: Child disparities highest in US South, West
RIO RANCHO, N.M. — Childhood disparities around malnutrition, graduation rates, and early deaths are worst among rural, black-majority counties in the...
VIRUS DIARY: He draws, and a world opens up for his mother
LONDON — I cannot draw. I am unable to sketch anything past the outlines of a simple flower or a house no one would want to live in. For my verbally d...
Putin signs Russia’s nuclear deterrent policy
MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday endorsed Russia's nuclear deterrent policy which allows him to use atomic weapons in response to a conven...
Kenyans protest as police accused of killing homeless man
NAIROBI, Kenya — Residents of a slum in Kenya's capital have protested the death of a homeless man who they said was killed by police for violating a ...