As virus cases surge, Brazil starts to worry its neighbors
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Brazil’s virtually uncontrolled surge of COVID-19 cases is spawning fear that construction workers, truck drivers and touris...
The Latest: S.Korea reports 4 virus cases, lowest since Feb.
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and pe...
Mayor: LA 1st major US city offering all residents tests
LOS ANGELES — The city of Los Angeles will offer free coronavirus testing to all residents regardless of whether they have symptoms, Mayor Eric Garcet...
Churchill Downs to reopen stables, race without spectators
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Churchill Downs will open stables at the track and training center in phases starting May 11 before races are run during its spring ...
LeBron James to honor Class of 2020 with all-star event
NEW YORK — LeBron James is putting together an all-star event to honor and celebrate the high school class of 2020, which has had its graduation seaso...
Over 70% of tested inmates in federal prisons have COVID-19
WASHINGTON — Michael Fleming never got to say goodbye to his father. He didn't know his dad was fading away on a ventilator, diagnosed with coronaviru...
Orthodox Jews beset by virus grapple with NYC mayor’s rebuke
NEW YORK — It started with a funeral that got out of hand. It ended Wednesday with some of New York City’s Jews at odds with the mayor over his critic...
Utah halts crime-detection deal over company’s past KKK ties
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s attorney general has suspended a $20.7 million contract with a technology company using government surveillance data to develo...
Debate flares over legal protections as businesses open up
SALT LAKE CITY — The effort to reopen the economy in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic has set off a conflict at the state and federal level that ...
Meatpackers welcome Trump order; others question virus risks
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Big meatpacking companies that have struggled to keep plants running during the coronavirus crisis said Wednesday that they welcom...
Biden assault allegation prompts GOP attacks, Dem worries
WASHINGTON — A sexual assault allegation is raising Joe Biden's first big challenge as the Democrats' presidential nominee, fueling Republican attacks...
VA defends use of unproven drug on veterans for coronavirus
WASHINGTON — Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie on Wednesday defended the use of an unproven drug on veterans for the coronavirus, insisting the...
Boeing to cut 10% of work force as 1Q revenue, profit slide
Boeing outlined plans Wednesday to cut 10% of its workforce, slow production of new planes and raise more cash to survive a downturn in business that ...
Many field hospitals went largely unused, will be shut down
NEW YORK — Gleaming new tent hospitals sit empty on two suburban New York college campuses, never having treated a single coronavirus patient. Convent...
Bad hair days: Virus confounds stylists in a fashion capital
NEW YORK — Sara Gilmore has swapped out her hairbrush for a paintbrush.
Trump says he won’t extend social distancing guidelines
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Wednesday the federal government’s coronavirus social distancing guidelines will be “fading out” when they ex...
Review: A six-decade romance story in ‘A Secret Love’
Terry Donahue, the subject of the new Netflix documentary “ A Secret Love,” was a catcher for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Yes...
Protective orders issued to ‘Duck Dynasty’ star’s family
WEST MONROE, La. — Three members of “Duck Dynasty” star Willie Robertson's family have received protective orders against a man charged with shooting ...
Goodell reduces salary to $0, NFL workers taking pay cuts
Commissioner Roger Goodell has reduced his salary to $0 and other NFL employees will be taking pay cuts or furloughs due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Secretariat is 7-2 early favorite in virtual Kentucky Derby
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Secretariat is the early 7-2 favorite for this weekend’s virtual Kentucky Derby, an animated race between all 13 Triple Crown winner...
AP Exclusive: Texas AG helped donor fight virus lockout
AUSTIN, Texas — When a small county in the Colorado mountains banished everyone but locals to blunt the spread of the coronavirus, an unlikely outside...
Making public transit safe a next hurdle in easing lockdowns
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — In cities around the world, public transportation systems are key to getting workers back on the job and restarting devastate...
Brees, Brady give ‘Quarterback South’ top 2 all-time passers
ATLANTA — Dan Quinn says the NFC South has earned a new moniker.
Curtain lowers on nuke plant a stone’s throw from Manhattan
ALBANY, N.Y. — With the push of a red button, one of the two operating reactors at an aging nuclear plant serving millions of people in the New York C...
No ‘Black Widow’ or ‘F9’ leaves a muted summer movie season
LOS ANGELES — The six-year fan campaign for a standalone Black Widow movie was paying off: at long last, a film would put Scarlett Johansson’s popular...
Virus leaves New York City artists in a ‘tailspin’
NEW YORK — Dancer and choreographer Netta Yerushalmy has built a career in movement and community. Both are gone now. Her world is still, isolated — a...
‘U ok?’ Virus-era friendships can be both crucial & fraught
A single mother hunkering down at home with a teenage daughter, Sharon Litwin sees her friends, like most people these days, only virtually. Even so, ...
Laid-off US workers face foreign world of insurance shopping
Mass layoffs are pushing many Americans into an unfamiliar role: shopping for health insurance that isn’t offered by an employer.
VIRUS DIARY: A positive test, then a Mumbai hotel quarantine
MUMBAI, India — I was on assignment April 20 outside Mumbai, India’s financial center. My phone rang nonstop. Fellow news photographers checked whethe...