Fired Atlanta officers file suit against mayor, police chief
ATLANTA — Two Atlanta police officers who were fired after video showed them using stun guns on two college students pulled from a car in traffic duri...
US challenges planned expedition to retrieve Titanic’s radio
NORFOLK, Va. — The U.S. government will try to stop a company's planned salvage mission to retrieve the Titanic’s wireless telegraph machine, arguing ...
Hundreds march in Hong Kong as leader urges stability
HONG KONG — Hundreds of people marched in Hong Kong's streets on Tuesday to mark a year since the start of anti-government protests, as the leader of ...
Yemen’s rebels crack down as COVID-19 and rumors spread
CAIRO — In the darkness, the bodies of suspected victims of coronavirus are carried in silence, one after the other, to be buried in several cemeterie...
Key Democrats spurn push to defund police amid Trump attacks
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his allies have seized on calls to “defund the police” as a dangerous example of Democratic overreach as the R...
Violence gives way to street fair vibe outside White House
WASHINGTON — That massive fence erected around Lafayette Park has become a do-it-yourself gallery of protest art. Messages, posters and portraits, ran...
Trump closer to resuming rallies that were halted by virus
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is aiming to resume campaign rallies in the coming weeks, though the locations and coronavirus precautions still a...
Review: Davidson steps up in ‘The King of Staten Island’
The protagonists in Judd Apatow movies don’t generally have their stuff together. They are emotionally stunted, occasionally underachieving, unmotivat...
‘A big test’: Hard-hit New York City begins reopening
NEW YORK — After three gloomy months and 21,000 deaths that made it the nation's most lethal hot spot, New York City slowly began reopening Monday in ...
Coast Guard Academy faulted on response to racial incidents
The U.S. Coast Guard Academy failed to properly address complaints of racial harassment, including the use of racial slurs by cadets, according to the...
K-pop fans become an unexpected ally to American protesters
SEOUL, South Korea — As American protesters took to the streets to mourn the death of George Floyd, they found an unexpected ally: K-pop fans.
A US recession began in February in the face of coronavirus
WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy entered a recession in February as the coronavirus struck the nation, a group of economists declared Monday, ending the ...
Building bubbles: Cautious 1st steps toward football season
College football is scheduled to kick off in less than three months and there are plenty of reasons to be hopeful that games will be played Labor Day ...
A look back, and follow-up, on coronavirus good-deed tales
One Good Thing, each day. That was the guiding principle when The Associated Press launched this fixture in mid-March.
Viewers refute myth that black US films, TV are poor exports
LOS ANGELES — To entice a European TV executive shopping for programs, ABC offered up glossy fare including “Scandal” starring Kerry Washington and “H...
BP to cut 10,000 jobs worldwide amid virus pandemic
LONDON — Oil and gas company BP announced Monday that it will slash its global workforce by 10,000 jobs as the COVID-19 pandemic slams the energy indu...
In Minneapolis, rage over George Floyd extends beyond cops
MINNEAPOLIS — To truly understand the rage people in this city felt as they watched a video of George Floyd begging, gasping and slowly succumbing ben...
Vietnam ratifies trade deal with EU in boost for economy
HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnam ratified a landmark trade deal Monday with the European Union that is expected to energize the country’s manufacturing sector...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump exaggerations on blacks’ economic gains
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is exaggerating economic gains for African Americans during his administration.
Police show less force as peaceful protests push reform
Police around the U.S. took a less aggressive stance and even sometimes joined protesters demanding a reckoning with institutional racism, as leaders ...
NY Times editorial page editor resigns amid fury over op-ed
NEW YORK — The New York Times’ editorial page editor resigned Sunday after the newspaper disowned an opinion piece by U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton that advoca...
When protesters cry ‘defund the police,’ what does it mean?
WASHINGTON — Protesters are pushing to “defund the police" over the death of George Floyd and other black Americans killed by law enforcement. Their c...
Left out: More workers now losing hope of getting back jobs
NEW YORK — Eric Benz didn't worry very much when his graphic design firm in Atlanta laid him off in March. He felt sure he'd be recalled to work once ...
Street gatherings bring joy in Hell’s Kitchen in pandemic
NEW YORK — On a late Friday afternoon, there is joy and fraternity found on a blocked-off street in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood. Neighbors...
New York City curfew lifts early following peaceful protests
NEW YORK — New York City is lifting its curfew spurred by protests against police brutality ahead of schedule, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Sunday m...
Washington protesters express optimism after week on edge
WASHINGTON — On Monday, they were forcibly removed from the street by law enforcement. On Saturday, they danced.
The Latest: China has 1st non-imported infection in 2 weeks
BEIJING — China has reported its first non-imported case of the new coronavirus in two weeks, an infected person on the island of Hainan off the south...
Prosecutor: 2 Buffalo police charged with assault in shoving
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Two Buffalo police officers were charged with assault Saturday, prosecutors said, after a video showed them shoving a 75-year-old prot...
OPEC, allied nations extend nearly 10M barrel cut by a month
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — OPEC and allied nations agreed Saturday to extend a production cut of nearly 10 million barrels of oil a day through the...
Pandemic makes for a lonely D-Day observance in Normandy
COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France — At daybreak on Saturday, Charles Shay stood lonesome without any fellow veteran on the very same beach where he waded ash...