Italy’s seas speak: No tourists or boats mean cleaner water
FIUMICINO, Italy — Pollution from human and agriculture waste spilling into the seas off Rome has decreased 30% during Italy's coronavirus lockdown, p...
Trump strikes China over virus, Hong Kong and student visas
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has announced that he would withdraw funding from the World Health Organization, end Hong Kong’s special trade sta...
Street dog helps see Chinese nurse through virus traumas
BEIJING — Zhang Dan was among the first to respond to the call for help in China's coronavirus epicenter. The 36-year-old nurse worked through gruelin...
Officer charged with George Floyd’s death as protests flare
MINNEAPOLIS — The white Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee into George Floyd’s neck as he begged for air was arrested Friday and charged ...
Protests, some violent, spread in wake of George Floyd death
ATLANTA — Demonstrators marched, stopped traffic and in some cases lashed out violently at police as protests erupted Friday in dozens of U.S. cities ...
Quarantine bottlenecks add to woes of returning Filipinos
MANILA, Philippines — When his cruise ship sailed into Manila Bay after weeks of voyaging like a castaway amid port closures set off by the global pan...
Trump takes aim at WHO as US economic outlook worsens
WASHINGTON — With new U.S. economic numbers highlighting the rough road ahead for a hoped-for rebound, President Donald Trump on Friday took aim at th...
Trump vetoes bipartisan measure against DeVos’ loan rules
President Donald Trump on Friday vetoed a measure that would have overturned a policy that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos issued in 2019 making it ha...
The Latest: US agency calls back drone it sent to Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS — The Latest on the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air as a white police officer knelt on his neck (all tim...
Trump walks back his incendiary Minneapolis ‘thugs’ post
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump spent Friday walking back his post-midnight “thugs” tweet about Minneapolis protesters that added to outrage over ...
Washington DC begins reopening in fits and starts
WASHINGTON — As the nation's capital took the first tiny steps toward reopening Friday, the continued threat of coronavirus was ever present.
Column: A college hockey program worth saving in Alabama
They've always been an outlier, a major college hockey program in the Deep South.
Biden ally sees Klobuchar as less likely Biden running mate
WASHINGTON — Sen. Amy Klobuchar seems a less likely choice to become Joe Biden's running mate on his presidential ticket following this week's death o...
Minneapolis protest misinformation stokes racial tensions
CHICAGO — The false social media posts started just hours after protesters first began chanting and carrying banners around the Minneapolis neighborho...
Transcripts released of Flynn’s calls with Russian diplomat
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration's new national intelligence director waded into political waters in his first week on the job, declassifying doc...
No rodeo festival dashes Wyoming city’s hopes amid COVID-19
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The Just Dandy women's clothing store in downtown Cheyenne has endured fire, flooding, recessions and so far the coronavirus pandemic...
AP sources: No consensus yet on NBA return-to-play plan
The NBA Board of Governors met again without a consensus opinion emerging on how many teams should be back on the floor for the planned late-July resu...
Turkey reopens some mosques, prayers held in ex-cathedral
ANKARA, Turkey — Worshipers in Turkey have held their first communal Friday prayers in 74 days after the government reopened some mosques under an eas...
After criticism, Russia expands stats on virus-linked deaths
MOSCOW — The Russian government on Friday presented more detailed mortality figures for last month that include more deaths linked with the coronaviru...
Ricky Martin makes “Pausa” to channel newly found anxiety
NEW YORK — The world paused and for the first time in his life Ricky Martin felt anxiety.
US: Russian jets in Libya present broader worries for region
WASHINGTON — U.S. Africa Command flatly rejected Russian claims that Moscow did not deploy fighter jets to Libya, saying Friday that the 14 aircraft f...
Power Five leagues ask Congress for athlete compensation law
The Power Five conference commissioners are asking Congress to move forward with federal legislation regarding compensation for college athletes.
Crowd protests white mayor’s words about black man’s death
PETAL, Miss. — Several dozen people protested Friday outside a Mississippi City Hall, calling for the resignation of a white mayor who sparked outrage...
Trump’s tweet about rioters echoes 1960s Miami police chief
CHICAGO — President Donald Trump's tweeted warning Friday amid unrest in Minneapolis that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” echoes the la...
Communion unchanged in Greek Orthodox Church despite virus
ATHENS, Greece — One by one, the children and adults line up for the centuries-old ritual of Holy Communion, trying to keep a proper social distance. ...
As Trump deadline approaches, N.C. wants more on convention
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina's top health official asked Friday for more details on how GOP leaders will protect attendees of a Republican National ...
Review: Pop star Gaga is back, but where’s the art or spark?
Lady Gaga, “Chromatica” (Interscope)
Review: The Archives pay inspired tribute to Gil Scott-Heron
The Archives, “Carry Me Home. A Reggae Tribute to Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson” (Montserrat House)