Democrats try again with sweeping mail voting requirements
Despite an earlier failed attempt, Democrats were set to try again Friday to adopt a massive expansion of voting by mail during the coronavirus outbre...
Tesla picks Austin, Tulsa as finalists for new US factory
DETROIT — Tesla has picked Austin, Texas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, as finalists for its new U.S. assembly plant, a person briefed on the matter said Frida...
Navajo Nation residents to be under strictest lockdown yet
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Residents of the Navajo Nation will be under the strictest weekend lockdown yet, with grocery stores and gas stations closed, and e...
Burr submits final Russia report before leaving chairmanship
WASHINGTON — Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr has submitted the final report in the panel's three-year Russia investigation to the ...
Coronavirus spreads in Yemen with health system in shambles
Hundreds of people in Aden, southern Yemen’s main city, have died in the past week with symptoms of what appears to be the coronavirus, local health o...
Beginning to bloom: New York creaking back to economic life
SCHOHARIE, N.Y. — Idled contractors girded for long-awaited jobs and shoppers browsed spring flowers -- though masks made stopping to smell the roses ...
The Shots: Ehlo, Russell playing a role in ‘The Last Dance’
Craig Ehlo still believes he played great defense.
VA says it won’t stop use of unproven drug on vets for now
WASHINGTON — Facing growing criticism, the Department of Veterans Affairs said Friday that it will not halt use of an unproven malaria drug on veteran...
NASCAR putting its safety plan to test as racing restarts
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Crew chief Chad Knaus won't get a look at the car Hendrick Motorsports built for Darlington Raceway until he gets to the track Sunda...
Virus or not, if you open Jersey Shore beaches, they’ll come
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. — Somehow, after years of living underground and waiting for some unfathomable signal that it's time, cicadas suddenly know when...
US begins ‘warp speed’ vaccine push as studies ramp up
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump vowed to use “every plane, truck and soldier” to distribute COVID-19 vaccines he hopes will be ready by year's end...
Column: Former Georgia player shows power of persistence
ATLANTA — For all its ills, there are times when college athletics gets it just right.
Crisis averted, hospital ship leaves LA; treats 77 patients
LOS ANGELES — Seven weeks ago a Navy hospital ship pulled into the Port of Los Angeles to provide relief to the city amid fears it was about to become...
Many struggling in horse racing hope return brings lifeline
Instead of the Preakness running Saturday in Baltimore with perhaps another heralded Kentucky Derby winner looking to capture the second jewel of the ...
Tourists enter reopened Grand Canyon despite virus concerns
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. — Tourists appeared ready to roam Grand Canyon National Park again after it partially reopened Friday, despite objec...
Tennis tours extend coronavirus breaks; 40-plus events off
More than 40 top-level professional tennis tournaments are off the sport's 2020 calendar because of the coronavirus pandemic as of Friday, when the me...
NASCAR’s return latest chapter in Darlington’s rich legacy
DARLINGTON, S.C. — Harold Brasington III recalls riding around the infield at Darlington Raceway as a youngster with his late grandfather, track build...
Sailors on sidelined carrier get virus for second time
WASHINGTON — Five sailors on the aircraft carrier sidelined in Guam due to a COVID-19 outbreak have gotten the virus for the second time and have been...
Boy, 9, is 1st French death from likely COVID-linked illness
LE PECQ, France — Medics at a hospital that treated the first child to die in France with a puzzling inflammatory condition seemingly linked to the ne...
10 cases, 2 weeks, 1 Supreme Court holding phone arguments
WASHINGTON — The coronavirus pandemic has changed the way the Supreme Court is doing business. For the foreseeable future the court will be announcing...
Michigan judge hears latest clash over stay-home orders
DETROIT — Republicans who control the Michigan Legislature urged a judge Friday to strike down stay-home orders and other restrictions related to the ...
Review: Zoinks! ‘Scoob!’ is no tasty treat
Even before darker anxieties took hold, the bad guys of “Scooby-Doo” were charmingly quaint. An evil circus owner, a grumpy civil servant, a plotting ...
Historically black colleges work to help students amid virus
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Ja’nayla Johnson worked hard in high school with the dream of being the first in her family to graduate from college, but she start...
Daveed Diggs lets out his inner sci-fi fan in ‘Snowpiercer’
LOS ANGELES — Daveed Diggs was sorting through the many TV offers coming his way a few years ago when, as the Tony Award-winning actor puts it, “there...
Oh, baby! Flyers’ van Riemsdyk has full house with new girl
PHILADELPHIA — James van Riemsdyk can’t keep track of the secondary assists while his family is quarantined with his in-laws: it’s all hands on deck i...
Curtis Sittenfeld’s `Rodham’ imagines a different `Hillary’
NEW YORK — Over the past few years, author Curtis Sittenfeld has gotten to know Hillary Clinton in a way uniquely suited for a novelist — by writing a...
U.S. layoffs surged to record high of 11.4 million in March
WASHINGTON — U.S. layoffs soared in March to a record 11.4 million after state and local governments closed restaurants, bars, movie theaters and othe...
Portland, Oregon, homeless tax tests voter mood in pandemic
PORTLAND, Ore. — Voters in metropolitan Portland, Oregon, will be asked Tuesday to approve taxes on personal income and business profits that would ra...
US stock indexes are mostly lower on weak retail sales data
Stock indexes were mostly lower in early trading on Wall Street Friday following another batch of data showing how the business shutdowns aimed at slo...
VIRUS DIARY: Navigating a flu-like illness in the corona age
TEL AVIV, Israel — For those of us from a region where outbursts of violence are an occupational hazard, coping with coronavirus seemed simple enough:...