Amid pandemic, Christians celebrate an Easter like no other
NEW YORK — Christians around the world celebrated Easter Sunday isolated in their homes by the coronavirus while pastors preached the faith’s joyous n...
UK virus deaths top 10,000 as leader Johnson leaves hospital
LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson expressed his gratitude to the staff of the National Health Service for saving his life when his treatme...
Guam worries as sailors from virus-hit ship take over hotels
HONOLULU — People in Guam are used to a constant U.S. military presence on the strategic Pacific island, but some are nervous as hundreds of sailors f...
Traffic drop from stay-at-home orders imperils road funding
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — America’s roads are a lot less congested, due to coronavirus shutdowns that have kept millions of commuters, shoppers and vacati...
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 their doors instead...
Pope urges solidarity on an Easter of both joy, virus sorrow
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis called for solidarity the world over to confront the “epochal challenge” posed by the coronavirus pandemic, as Christians ...
Signs missed and steps slowed in Trump’s pandemic response
WASHINGTON — By the time President Donald Trump first spoke publicly about the coronavirus, it may already have been too late.
Biden beats Sanders to win Alaska Democratic primary
JUNEAU, Alaska — Joe Biden has won the Alaska Democrats' party-run presidential primary, beating Sen. Bernie Sanders days after Sanders suspended his ...
The Latest: South Korea continues down trend in new cases
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and pe...
Congo, weary from Ebola, must also battle the coronavirus
BENI, Congo — Congo has been battling an Ebola outbreak that has killed thousands of people for more than 18 months, and now it must also face a new s...
AP PHOTOS: Pandemic meets religious holidays in Sarajevo
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Sarajevo, a religious melting pot throughout its more than five-centuries-long history, would normally be teeming with ...
Italy begins to grapple with how to ease virus restrictions
SOAVE, Italy — With warmer weather beckoning, Italians are straining against a strict lockdown to halt the coronavirus that is just now showing signs ...
20,000: US death toll overtakes Italy’s as Midwest braces
CHICAGO — The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus eclipsed Italy's for the highest in the world Saturday at about 20,000, as Chicago and other cities...
Calling Trump: When connections help steer virus supplies
WASHINGTON — It was early on a Friday when Jared Kushner said he received a call from his father-in-law, President Donald Trump. Trump was hearing fro...
The Latest: Electric bands for Koreans who break quarantine
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and pe...
New York area walloped as global virus deaths pass 100,000
NEW YORK — The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus surged past 100,000 Friday as the epidemic in the U.S. cut a widening swath through not just ...
Airlines and Trump administration haggle over payroll grants
The Trump administration is proposing that a significant amount of the $25 billion in cash that airlines expected to keep workers on the job will inst...
1st results in on Gilead coronavirus drug; more study needed
More than half of a group of severely ill coronavirus patients improved after receiving an experimental antiviral drug, although there’s no way to kno...
DeVos reaches settlement in lawsuit over loan relief program
The U.S. Education Department is promising to process student loan forgiveness claims for nearly 170,000 borrowers within 18 months as part of a propo...
US officials: Missile defense systems now operating in Iraq
WASHINGTON — New air defense systems are now protecting American and allied forces at military bases in Iraq where troops have been attacked by Irania...
Doctors, nurses in Good Friday procession at Vatican
VATICAN CITY — Nurses and doctors wearing their white hospital coats joined a torch-lit Good Friday procession in an hauntingly almost empty St. Peter...
Trump feels no need for crisis counsel from predecessors
WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush turned to one of the world's most exclusive clubs for help raising money after an Indian Ocean tsunami killed mo...
Bunnies to the rescue as virus hits Belgian chocolatiers
SINT-PIETERS BRUGGE, Belgium — Master chocolatier Dominique Persoone stood forlorn on his huge workfloor, a faint smell of cocoa lingering amid the id...
Stampede in Kenya as slum residents surge for food aid
NAIROBI, Kenya — Thousands of people surged for food aid in a brief stampede Friday in Kenya's capital, leading police to fire tear gas and injure sev...
Inmates rampage through offices, set fires at Kansas prison
LANSING, Kan. — Dozens of inmates at the Lansing Correctional Facility in Kansas rampaged through offices, breaking windows and setting small fires fo...
Review: In ‘Tigertail,’ an intergenerational immigrant tale
Oh, to be the other “Tiger” on Netflix.
AP Was There: Tiger wins Masters to cap remarkable comeback
A panel of 15 golf writers were asked to vote on the top five Masters in history. They are being republished this week because the Masters has been po...
The howling: Americans let it out from depths of pandemic
DENVER — It starts with a few people letting loose with some tentative yelps. Then neighbors emerge from their homes and join, forming a roiling choru...
For McConnell, virus carries echo of his boyhood polio
WASHINGTON — Mitch McConnell’s earliest childhood memory is the day he left the polio treatment center at Warm Springs, Ga., for the last time.