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‘Everyone’s watching’: Biden’s VP audition process begins

WASHINGTON — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wore a T-shirt on television emblazoned with the words “that woman from Michigan,” a cheeky reference to President ...
6:34 1 May 2020

COVID-19 survivor urges: ‘To all of you: continue to fight’

ALKEN, Belgium — Sucking in the little oxygen her lungs could still process, Diane Wanten wouldn't back down in her fight against a disease that is ki...
6:28 1 May 2020

May Day marks pain, not celebration for workers hit by virus

JAKARTA, Indonesia — May Day usually brings both protest rallies and celebrations rallies marking international Labor Day. This year, many in Asia are...
5:54 1 May 2020

Watchdog group says US not releasing data on Taliban attacks

KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S. mission in Afghanistan has for the first time refused to publicly release its data on insurgent attacks amid the impleme...
5:35 1 May 2020

Work safety strike, virus lockdown protest set for May Day

LOS ANGELES — Essential workers will strike nationwide on May Day to demand safer conditions during the coronavirus outbreak, while other groups plan ...
5:20 1 May 2020

Lives Lost: Virus silences angelic voice of WWII evacuee

LISBON, Portugal — After Adolf Hitler annexed his native Austria and Allied bombs laid waste to Vienna, Hannelore Cruz traveled to Portugal without he...
5:01 1 May 2020

Hairstylist gives free haircuts to Thai health frontliners

BANGKOK — Scrubs may be in fashion during the coronavirus crisis, but split ends — never. That's where Pornsupa Hattayong comes in.
4:55 1 May 2020

Dem lawmakers say Trump’s freeze for WHO to hurt Venezuelans

MIAMI — As much as $110 million in U.S. funding for disease prevention in Latin America as well as U.S. support for Venezuelan migrants has been throw...
4:02 1 May 2020

Anderson Cooper is a father; gives infant son a special name

NEW YORK — Anderson Cooper is a father, a milestone the CNN anchor says for a while he didn't believe would ever happen.
3:54 1 May 2020

Asian shares fall after Wall St slips on grim economic news

Shares fell in Asia on Friday after a crush of dismal data about the economy helped send markets lower overnight in a meek ending to a historic, jugge...
3:35 1 May 2020

Broncos’ Von Miller says he’s recovered from COVID-19

Denver Broncos star linebacker Von Miller tweeted Thursday night that he tested negative for the coronavirus two weeks after announcing he had been di...
3:00 1 May 2020

‘Remain in Mexico’ asylum hearings suspended through June 1

SAN DIEGO — The Trump administration on Thursday suspended immigration court hearings for asylum-seekers waiting in Mexico through June 1, bowing to p...
2:54 1 May 2020

Trump speculates that China released virus in lab ‘mistake’

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday speculated that China could have unleashed the coronavirus on the world due to some kind of horrible “...
2:46 1 May 2020

Jordan halts Israeli farmers’ access to border enclave

AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan's Foreign Ministry said Thursday that Israeli farmers will no longer be allowed to work their fields in an enclave of southern ...
2:31 1 May 2020

California governor’s beach closure order sparks anger

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After state officials signaled an intention to close all California beaches, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday chose instead to shutt...
1:40 1 May 2020

With rural Kansas close to reopening, doctor remains nervous

TOPEKA, Kan. — Dr. Beth Oller would like Kansas to remain under a stay-at-home order a while longer, even as some neighbors in her rural northwest cou...
1:27 1 May 2020

NYPD cracks down on another big funeral, stoking tensions

NEW YORK — Tensions between police and members of New York City’s Hasidic Jewish community flared again Thursday as officers interrupted a crowded fun...
1:26 1 May 2020

Beachgoers seen carrying virus more than sand or surf

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — Maureen Osborne is torn by the state's decision to close the sweeping, scenic beach just a 10-minute walk from her home.
1:22 1 May 2020

Mari Winsor, Pilates guru and celebrity trainer, dies at 70

LOS ANGELES — Mari Winsor, a celebrity trainer for Hollywood’s elite who became known as a Pilates guru, has died. She was 70.
0:20 1 May 2020

Review: In ‘All Day and a Night,’ a circular crime drama

Joe Robert Cole’s “All Day and a Night” is a tough and anguished drama that somberly spirals around the circular tragedies of crime and incarceration.
23:20 30 April 2020

Trump says US can never declare ‘total victory’ over virus

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he believes the U.S. can never declare “total victory” over the coronavirus because too many pe...
22:49 30 April 2020

Ex-prosecutor reprimanded for appealing to jurors’ emotions

PHOENIX — A former prosecutor best known for winning a murder conviction against Jodi Arias in the gruesome killing of her former boyfriend was reprim...
22:38 30 April 2020

Economic figures show grim toll in Europe and US from virus

NEW YORK — Bleak new figures Thursday underscored the worldwide economic pain inflicted by the coronavirus: The number of Americans filing for unemplo...
22:29 30 April 2020

NASA goes private for 1st astronaut lunar landers in decades

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA is turning to private industry for the first lunar landers for astronauts in a half-century, with three competing, quite c...
22:15 30 April 2020

‘And then, boom’: Outbreak shows shaky ground as Texas opens

PARIS, Texas — Barely a week ago, rural Lamar County could make a pretty good argument for Texas' reopening on Friday.
21:50 30 April 2020

Sex assault allegation raises questions for Biden, Democrats

WASHINGTON — A sexual assault allegation is Joe Biden's first big challenge as the Democrats' presidential nominee, fueling Republican attacks and lea...
21:41 30 April 2020

Navy hospital ships, once thought critical, see few patients

About a month ago, with Los Angeles girding for a potentially crippling surge of coronavirus cases, a massive white Navy hospital ship chugged into po...
21:33 30 April 2020

Coronavirus and other causes driving surge in US deaths

NEW YORK — The U.S. has seen at least 66,000 more deaths than usual so far this year, according to government data, and the new coronavirus accounts f...
21:29 30 April 2020

Virus-related delays for Universal parks in Florida, Japan

ORLANDO, Fla. — The company that owns Universal theme parks around the world said it's delaying construction on a fourth theme park in Florida and tha...
21:28 30 April 2020

Brazilians start defying isolation, egged on by Bolsonaro

RIO DE JANEIRO — Divina Baldomero awoke, looked out the window at Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana beach under a cloudless sky, and decided to take her fir...
21:17 30 April 2020