Stopping virus a huge challenge at crowded US meat plants
OMAHA, Neb. — Daily reports of giant meat-processing plants closing because workers tested positive for the coronavirus have called into question whet...
Trump signs immigration order featuring numerous exemptions
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that he had signed an executive order “temporarily suspending immigration into the United States...
Asian shares rise moderately as oil prices recover
TOKYO — Asian shares rose moderately Thursday following a rally on Wall Street and even oil prices recovering from their recent plunge to zero.
Moving past ‘invisible enemy,’ Trump nudges nation to reopen
WASHINGTON — For weeks, the Trump administration played up the dangers of the coronavirus as it sought to convince Americans to disrupt their lives an...
News outlets, long resistant to government help, take loans
NEW YORK — The idea of taking government money was once anathema to news organizations that guarded their independence, but attitudes change when surv...
As 4th virus relief bill nears passage, fight looms over 5th
WASHINGTON — Congress is on the verge of passing an almost $500 billion coronavirus relief bill, but battle lines already are forming over the next me...
Biden campaign says it has refunded donation from Louis C.K.
WASHINGTON — Joe Biden's presidential campaign said Wednesday that it has refunded a $2,800 donation from Louis C.K., a comedian and writer whose care...
New virus timeline: California had 2 deaths weeks earlier
SAN FRANCISCO — Two people with the coronavirus died in California as much as three weeks before the U.S. reported its first death from the disease in...
Iran-US tensions rise on Trump threat, Iran satellite launch
WASHINGTON — Tensions between Washington and Tehran flared anew Wednesday as Iran's Revolutionary Guard conducted a space launch that could advance th...
Volunteer + tutor = learning and fun for isolated students
NEW YORK — “Tell us about Vikings; tell us about shipwrecks; tells us about pirates and ancient myths.”
Review: ‘Book of Longings’ has an ambitious, lasting power
“The Book of Longings,” by Sue Monk Kidd (Viking)
With spelling bee canceled, ex-spellers launch their own bee
With this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee canceled because the coronavirus pandemic, an online spelling bee launched by two Texas teenagers is of...
NKorea silence on Kim’s health raises succession speculation
SEOUL, South Korea — With North Korea saying nothing so far about outside media reports that leader Kim Jong Un may be unwell, there’s renewed worry a...
China calls virus lawsuit brought by US state ‘very absurd’
BEIJING — China on Wednesday slammed a lawsuit brought against it by the U.S. state of Missouri over the coronavirus pandemic as “very absurd."
As people stay home, Earth turns wilder and cleaner
An unplanned grand experiment is changing Earth.
AP Exclusive: ER staff saves lives, suffers in hot spot
YONKERS, N.Y. — A nurse furiously pushes down on a man's chest as five other staff in full protective gear surround the patient's bed.
Trump bars new immigration green cards, not temporary visas
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced what he described as a “temporary suspension of immigration into the United States” on Tuesday, an execu...
Officials: 7 virus cases may be related to in-person voting
MADISON, Wis. — Health officials in Wisconsin said they have identified at least seven people who may have contracted the coronavirus from participati...
Senate approves $483B virus aid deal, sends it to House
WASHINGTON — A $483 billion coronavirus aid package flew through the Senate on Tuesday after Congress and the White House reached a deal to replenish ...
AP: Publicly traded firms get $365M in small-business loans
Companies with thousands of employees, past penalties from government investigations and risks of financial failure even before the coronavirus wallop...
Highlights of the nearly $500B coronavirus relief bill
WASHINGTON — A $483 billion coronavirus relief bill — the fourth coronavirus response legislation so far — is moving through Congress. The legislation...
Q&A: Oil prices hit new lows as economic pain deepens
NEW YORK — Oil tanks are filling up and producers are finding there's nowhere to put the once-valuable commodity as global demand craters and prices s...
Hospitals, volunteers combine to ease isolation of sick kids
What kind of tree can you carry in your hand? Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?
10 years after BP spill: Oil drilled deeper; rules relaxed
NEW ORLEANS — Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are dri...
Ask a Designer: Improving your home’s function as refuge
When your entire life is happening inside your home, it matters how that space feels and functions.
Talks drag on $450B virus aid for small business, hospitals
WASHINGTON — Late-stage negotiations in Washington on a new $450 billion coronavirus aid package dragged past Monday's hoped-for deadline, but the Tru...
New Zealand could pull off bold goal of eliminating virus
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — While most countries are working on ways to contain the coronavirus, New Zealand has set itself a much more ambitious goal: ...
Pandemic squeezes finances of Democratic grassroots donors
WASHINGTON — Well-to-do donors gathered last August at the sprawling Charlotte, North Carolina, home of Erskine Bowles, a former chief of staff to Pre...
Some US producers, states reopening amid political pressure
SEATTLE — Boeing and at least one other U.S. heavy-equipment manufacturer resumed production and some states rolled out aggressive reopening plans Mon...
Supreme Court: Criminal juries must be unanimous to convict
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that juries in state criminal trials must be unanimous to convict a defendant, settling a quirk of constit...