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...
COVID-19 showing suburbs are just as vulnerable as cities
NEW YORK — Haunting images of an empty Times Square and the daily accounting of hundreds of fatalities in New York City have reinforced the idea of th...
NYC mayor takes heat after lashing out at Jewish funeral
NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio oversaw the dispersal of a large, tightly packed Hasidic Jewish funeral and lashed out at the mourners w...
Police file reveals suspicions of Blatter in FIFA TV deal
GENEVA — Swiss investigators concluded Sepp Blatter knew that a World Cup broadcasting contract was breached illegally and that it would cost FIFA mil...
UK leader Boris Johnson, fiancee announce birth of baby boy
LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his fiancee Carrie Symonds announced the birth of a son on Wednesday, just two days after Johnson re...
IOC official disagrees COVID-19 vaccine needed for Olympics
SYDNEY — The head of the IOC’s coordination commission for the Tokyo Olympics said Wednesday he disagrees with suggestions by some scientists and doct...
Virus lockdown worsens suffering for Johannesburg beggars
JOHANNESBURG — Inock Mukanhairi shows the small amount of food that he has for himself, his wife, Angeline, and five children — barely enough to make ...