Ionescu headlines AP All-America women’s basketball team
NEW YORK — Sabrina Ionescu has joined an elite group, becoming a three-time All-American.
Gabbard ends long-shot 2020 bid, throws support to Biden
COLUMBA, S.C. — Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has suspended her presidential campaign, ending a long-shot effort that saw her feuding with Hillar...
US mortgage rates climb this week; 30-year loan at 3.65%
WASHINGTON — U.S. long-term mortgage rates climbed this week in a whip-sawing market amid deepening anxiety over devastation to the economy from the c...
AP Was There: North Carolina beats Michigan for ’93 title
EDITOR'S NOTE — A panel of Associated Press sports writers voted in March 2020 on the top 10 men's basketball games in the history of the NCAA Tournam...
Virus-shocked Hollywood gets break with streaming services
LOS ANGELES — Sports are on hold, theaters are closed and so are amusement parks, a disaster-movie scenario that has Hollywood reeling. But Americans ...
UK government slammed for failing its Windrush immigrants
LONDON — An independent report sharply criticized Britain's Conservative government on Thursday for the way it treated long-term U.K. residents who we...
Brazil’s Bolsonaro strives to regain leadership amid virus
RIO DE JANEIRO — After questioning the seriousness of COVID-19, defying his own health ministry's recommendations and denouncing a “certain hysteria,”...
Mideast airlines lose $7B as airports shut to combat virus
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Seven Middle Eastern countries have suspended all commercial flights due to a fast-spreading new virus as the aviation i...
Soccer’s paralysis sparks questions about player contracts
It was the dream scenario for David Silva at the end of his trophy-filled, decade-long career at Manchester City.
The marquee NCAA Tournament matchups that could have been
Seton Hall's Myles Powell and Marquette's Markus Howard went head to head during the regular season in a pair of games befitting two of college basket...
Indonesia halts Islamic assembly, quarantining 9,000 people
MAKASSAR, Indonesia — Indonesia halted a mass congregation of nearly 9,000 Muslim pilgrims and began quarantining and checking their health Thursday t...
Earthquake rattles millions on edge amid coronavirus threat
SALT LAKE CITY — With much of normal life at a screeching halt to combat the coronavirus, millions of people in Utah are hunkered down in the safety o...
Surgeon general’s TV praise of Trump earns his ‘star’ label
WASHINGTON — The U.S. surgeon general caught the eye of Donald Trump in a tried-and-true way: praising the 45th president on television.
2 cruise ships not allowed to disembark in Honolulu
HONOLULU — Two cruise ships won't be allowed to disembark in Honolulu after being turned away by other ports, even with no positive cases of coronavir...
The Latest: Ships going to Honolulu won’t let off passengers
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than 218,000 people and killed more than 8,800. The COVID-19 illness causes mild or mo...
States suspending standardized tests as schools close
AUSTIN, Texas — Closing schools to combat the spread of the coronavirus is having a sweeping impact on an annual rite of spring: the standardized test...
Trump invokes emergency authority, no new cases in Wuhan
MINNEAPOLIS — President Donald Trump invoked emergency authority to marshal industry to fight the coronavirus, as the economic fallout from the pandem...
The Latest: Asian shares log early losses, Tokyo down 0.8%
NEW YORK — The Latest on action in the financial markets (all times local):
Chinese factories face new threat: US anti-virus controls
BEIJING — Factories in China, struggling to reopen after the coronavirus shut down the economy, face a new threat from U.S. anti-disease controls that...
What’s Happening: Trump taps powers, auto factories closing
These are some of the latest developments Wednesday in the world's coronavirus pandemic:
Silver says NBA will consider many ideas if play can resume
The NBA is considering an idea where some players would be quarantined or isolated for purposes of being able to compete against one another and provi...
Weinstein moved to state prison day before 68th birthday
NEW YORK — Harvey Weinstein was transferred to a state prison in New York on Wednesday as he begins to serve a 23-year sentence for rape and sexual as...
USDA to appeal ruling, seeks food stamp change amid pandemic
WASHINGTON — The Agriculture Department said Wednesday that it would appeal a judge’s ruling that it would be “arbitrary and capricious” to move forwa...
Getting coronavirus updates in Spanish is a mixed bag in US
PHOENIX — Osvaldo Salas speaks a little English, but not proficiently. The suburban Phoenix man relies on Spanish-language TV and friends and family f...
Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, who circled moon, dies at 88
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, who circled the moon alone in 1971 while his two crewmates test-drove the first lunar rover, die...
US military’s role in response to virus outbreak is growing
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon's role in responding to the coronavirus outbreak in the United States began to rapidly expand on Wednesday as officials anno...
Carlson says he felt obligation to meet with Trump on virus
NEW YORK — Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson says he felt a “moral obligation” to meet with President Donald Trump and warn him personally about the s...
Colleges offering dorms as hospital overflow for virus cases
BOSTON — A growing number of U.S. colleges are preparing to turn empty dorms into temporary housing for patients with the coronavirus as the nation’s ...
Trump dubs COVID-19 ‘Chinese virus’ despite hate crime risks
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he doesn’t think calling COVID-19 the "Chinese virus" — or the "kung-flu," as one administrati...
Health and safety: Police shift priorities as crisis grows
NEW YORK — Police officers in Fort Worth and Denver have stopped arresting people for some low-level crimes. The district attorney in Brooklyn is decl...