Cinemas across U.S. close for pandemic
NEW YORK — U.S. movie theaters nationwide are preparing to shut down after President Donald Trump announced new guidelines urging against gatherings o...
Report: Augusta National to close club by end of the week
Augusta National first postponed the Masters. Now the home of the Masters is closing its club.
Anna Wintour: Met Gala postponed due to the virus outbreak
NEW YORK — One of fashion's biggest nights, the Met Gala, has been postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak, host Anna Wintour said Monday on Vogue's...
US airport security officers fear exposure as cases rise
WASHINGTON — At least six Transportation Security Administration officers have tested positive for the new coronavirus and dozens were in self-quarant...
San Francisco Bay Area counties issue shelter-in-place order
SAN FRANCISCO — Officials in six San Francisco Bay Area counties issued a sweeping shelter-in-place mandate Monday affecting nearly 7 million people, ...
The Latest: Stock market outdoes itself, but not in good way
The Latest on financial markets (all times local):
Economic fallout from virus felt in gas lines in Venezuela
SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela — Nicolás Maduro’s government on Monday banned gasoline sales in two states as part of a broader lock-down to stem panic buyi...
Disney Junior’s ‘Mira, Royal Detective’ is India-inspired
NEW YORK — The newest cartoon on Disney Junior has all the hallmarks one would expect from a children's show — a smart, resourceful lead character, en...
‘Don’t stop’: When Carnegie Hall canceled, show went on
NEW YORK — How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. And when the coronavirus cancels the performance you've been practicing for? Take it outside.
G-7 leaders try to ease tension, vow to coordinate on virus
WASHINGTON — The United States and its top economic allies pledged Monday to more closely share real-time information about the coronavirus and the av...
Brazil’s battered job market faces new foe: Coronavirus
SAO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, Brazil — At Ford Motor Company’s shuttered factory in Sao Bernardo do Campo, a cradle of Brazil's car industry, only a handful ...
Virus seizes markets and business as usual hits a wall
Global markets and businesses big and small opened the week to a landscape seemingly altered by the coronavirus pandemic. National retail chains have ...
AP Source: Cards get WR Hopkins from Texans for RB Johnson
The Arizona Cardinals have acquired three-time All-Pro receiver DeAndre Hopkins in a trade that will send running back David Johnson and draft picks t...
What’s Happening: Millions holed up, vaccine trial starts
Millions of people are holing up at home, stocking up on supplies and keeping a wary eye on how close they get to friends and neighbors as the coronav...
US census faces challenges counting small, poor Latino towns
GUADALUPE, Ariz. — The two white-washed, mission-style churches and old, wooden homes in this town of mostly Latinos and Native Americans seem misplac...
To bet or not to bet? Casinos, gamblers weigh virus concerns
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Gamblers and vacationers who had planned to visit U.S. casinos expressed a mixture of disappointment and relief over a wave of c...
Retrial of US Catholic official delayed over virus concerns
PHILADELPHIA — The retrial of the only church official who has ever gone to prison in the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal was delayed Monday b...
Israel swears in new parliament under coronavirus shadow
JERUSALEM — Israel swore in its newly elected parliament on Monday under stringent restrictions because of the coronavirus outbreak, in a surreal cere...
What now? Facing life without the entertainment world
NEW YORK — Overheard as the entertainment world stalled in response to the coronavirus outbreak: “What are we gonna do now, read books?”
The secret to a great Irish Coffee isn’t what you’d expect
Last summer, I traveled to Ireland to learn about Irish whiskey, a spirit I knew relatively little about. The Irish drink I knew better was Guinness, ...
Virus toll in Iran climbs as lockdowns deepen across Mideast
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran reported another 129 fatalities from the new coronavirus on Monday, the largest one-day rise in deaths since it began battling the...
IOC official says no deadline for decision on Olympics
SYDNEY — The leader of the IOC’s coordination commission for the Tokyo Olympics said there is no May deadline to cancel the games and he remains confi...
Anti-doping body ready to look into allegations about Fury
LONDON — Britain’s anti-doping body is expected to look into allegations in a newspaper report in which a farmer said he was offered money to provide ...
A year after deadly cyclone, Mozambique now braces for virus
JOHANNESBURG — A year after hundreds of people were killed by one of the southern hemisphere's worst cyclones, Mozambique's port city of Beira is rebo...
Worker at Japan care home sentenced to hang for mass killing
TOKYO — A Japanese court on Monday sentenced a former care home employee to hang for knifing to death 19 disabled people and injuring two dozen others...
German tour firm TUI suspends most operations over virus
BERLIN — German-based tour company TUI says it is suspending most of its operations until further notice in light of the deepening coronavirus crisis ...
Next primaries offer contrast between nation’s past, future
CLEVELAND — Sharing the primary calendar Tuesday are two states that represent different pieces of America: Ohio, a largely white state that’s barely ...
Trial of Robert Durst delayed for 3 weeks amid virus fears
LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles judge on Sunday postponed the murder trial of multimillionaire New York real estate heir Robert Durst for three weeks over...
Asian stock markets, US futures sink after Fed’s rate cut
BEIJING — Asian stock markets and U.S. futures fell Monday after the Federal Reserve slashed its key interest rate to shore up economic growth in the ...