AP wins feature photography Pulitzer for Kashmir coverage
NEW YORK — The story of India’s crackdown on Kashmir last August was difficult to show to the world. The unprecedented lockdown included a sweeping cu...
J.Crew files for Chapter 11 as pandemic chokes retail sector
NEW YORK — Struggling fashion brand J.Crew has filed for bankruptcy protection, the first major retailer to do so since the coronavirus pandemic force...
AP Courtside: Supreme Court wraps up its 1st phone arguments
WASHINGTON — The coronavirus pandemic has forced the tradition-bound Supreme Court into some big changes. Starting Monday, the justices are hearing ar...
Wall Street pauses after April’s surge, airline stocks fall
Stock indexes are down slightly in midday trading on Wall Street Monday, as the market takes a pause following its best month in decades.
Called to order: Supreme Court holds 1st arguments by phone
WASHINGTON — It's a morning of firsts for the Supreme Court, the first time audio of the court's arguments was heard live by the world and the first a...
AP Explains: India lockdown slows virus, but gaps remain
NEW DELHI — India's six-week coronavirus lockdown, which was supposed to end Monday, has been extended for another two weeks, although some constructi...
With testing, Iceland claims major success against COVID-19
HVAMMSTANGI, Iceland — Winter storms isolated the northern village of Hvammstangi from the rest of Iceland. Then spring brought the coronavirus, isola...
The Latest: Experts back Japan plan to extend virus measures
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and pe...
National traumas familiar for virus-hit, unscathed countries
LONDON — National traumas or major political convulsions have been familiar and bloodied territory in the latter 20th and early 21st centuries for som...
Ex-Green Beret claims he led foiled raid into Venezuela
CARACAS, Venezuela — A former Green Beret has taken responsibility for what he claimed was a failed attack Sunday aimed at overthrowing Venezuelan Pre...
Martin Luther King’s traffic ticket changed history’s course
DECATUR, Ga. — On this day 60 years ago, a black man driving a white woman was pulled over in a traffic stop that would change the course of American ...
‘We don’t know how it will end’: Hunger stalks amid virus
WASHINGTON — When all this started — when the coronavirus began stalking humanity like an animal hunting prey, when she and her husband lost their res...
DHS report: China hid virus’ severity to hoard supplies
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials believe China covered up the extent of the coronavirus outbreak — and how contagious the disease is — to stock up on medic...
North and South Korean troops exchange fire along border
SEOUL, South Korea — North and South Korean troops exchanged fire along their tense border on Sunday, the South’s military said, the first such incide...
Power of the needle: 4 women help UK docs needing scrubs
LONDON — They just wanted to help. But they created a movement.
Desert or sea: Virus traps migrants in mid-route danger zone
Thousands of desperate migrants are trapped in limbo and even at risk of death without food, water or shelter in scorching deserts and at sea, as gove...
Cycle power: Bikes emerge as a post-lockdown commuter option
MADRID — Halfway through his 30-minute bike ride to work, police ordered Juan Pasamar to dismount, accusing him of breaking Spain’s coronavirus lockdo...
Reade: ‘I didn’t use sexual harassment’ in Biden complaint
WASHINGTON — Tara Reade, the former Senate staffer who alleges Joe Biden sexually assaulted her 27 years ago, says she filed a limited report with a c...
AP FACT CHECK: Testing ‘czar’ rebuts Trump; vet care hyped
WASHINGTON — Diagnostic testing for the coronavirus is bound to go down in history books as one of the most consequential failures of the U.S. respons...
Sun draws many out in US, Europe; Russia virus numbers grow
NEW YORK — Gorgeous spring weather across the United States and Europe on Saturday drew people cooped up inside for weeks outside to soak in the sun, ...
Kim reappears in public, ending absence amid health rumors
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made his first public appearance in 20 days as he celebrated the completion of a fertilizer facto...
Saudi Arabia eyes more moves in time of pandemic, oil woes
WASHINGTON — A beleaguered Saudi Arabia is taking modest steps to improve its human rights record as it tries to navigate the coronavirus pandemic and...
The Sea of Galilee is full, but the beaches are empty
JERUSALEM — After an especially rainy winter, the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel is at its highest level in two decades, but the beaches and major ...
The Latest: China reports 1 new virus case, no deaths
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and pe...
Believe women? Sure, say Democrats, but vet their claims
WASHINGTON — "Believe women" was never a call to believe all women automatically.
Protests mark growing unrest with California stay-home order
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Californians weary of stay-at-home orders that have left millions unemployed staged displays of defiance Friday, with hundreds of...
Biden declares sexual assault ‘never, never happened’
WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday emphatically denied all egations from a former Senate staffer that he sexually assa...
US allows use of 1st drug shown to help virus recovery
WASHINGTON — U.S. regulators on Friday allowed emergency use of the first drug that appears to help some COVID-19 patients recover faster, a milestone...
‘Raging Bull’ delivers outside ring as classic sports film
Jake LaMotta was a straight-ahead brawler, so determined to wreak havoc every time he entered the boxing ring that he handed the great Sugar Ray Robin...