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 ...
VW car sales, profits plunge during coronavirus crisis
FRANKFURT, Germany — Automaker Volkswagen saw car sales and operating profit plunge in the first quarter as the coronavirus outbreak closed dealership...
UK climate activists stranded in historic town in Kosovo
PRIZREN, Kosovo — British climate activists Rosie Watson and Mike Elm were on an international bicycle and running tour to promote their green campaig...
Pandemic impacts prospects of non-elite basketball recruits
PHOENIX — Jake Murphy expected this summer to be his showcase for college coaches, a chance to catch an eye, hopefully earn a Division I basketball sc...
Senior Bowl was added personal touch for NFL scouts
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — NFL teams didn’t know when they left the Senior Bowl in January that they wouldn’t get all that much more time with prospects befor...
Groups sow doubt about COVID vaccine before one even exists
NEW YORK — A coronavirus vaccine is still months or years away, but groups that peddle misinformation about immunizations are already taking aim, pote...
In NYC it’s ‘survival of fittest for fashion brands’
NEW YORK — Felicia Lynch started a dream job last November as an assistant knitwear designer for a luxury brand working in lower Manhattan before the ...
China silent amid global calls to give Africa debt relief
KAMPALA, Uganda — African leaders are asking what China can do for them as the coronavirus pandemic threatens to destroy economies and wipe out some 2...
‘Trolls’ went straight to homes. Movie theaters are fuming.
NEW YORK — The most controversial movie of the year is ... “Trolls World Tour”?
Medicare applications raise anxiety for seniors in pandemic
WASHINGTON — At greater risk from COVID-19, some seniors now face added anxiety due to delays obtaining Medicare coverage.
China to convene Congress, showing confidence in virus fight
BEIJING — China has decided to hold the annual meeting of its ceremonial parliament late next month after postponing it for weeks because of the coron...
Rep. Amash exploring 2020 run for Libertarian nomination
WASHINGTON — Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan said Tuesday that he is launching an exploratory committee for the 2020 Libertarian Party's presidential no...
FBI documents reveal communication between Stone, Assange
WASHINGTON — Weeks after Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel in the Russia investigation, Roger Stone, a confidant of President Donald Trump,...
Sailors head back to aircraft carrier hit by virus outbreak
WASHINGTON — Navy sailors who have been quarantined on Guam for weeks will begin moving back to the USS Theodore Roosevelt Tuesday night, U.S. officia...
Ex-NAACP leader Kweisi Mfume wins Maryland seat in Congress
BALTIMORE — Democrat Kweisi Mfume won a special election Tuesday to finish the term of the late Elijah Cummings, retaking a Maryland congressional sea...
Ford burns up billions of dollars in 1Q, posts $2B net loss
DETROIT — The coronavirus crisis is forcing Ford Motor Co. to burn through cash at an alarming rate, but its chief financial officer says there's enou...
Baffert rallies for return of live racing at Santa Anita
LOS ANGELES — Kentucky Derby-winning trainers Bob Baffert and Doug O'Neill joined horse racing advocates rallying outside a Los Angeles County Board o...
Money for meals for California seniors could end in 2 weeks
LOS ANGELES — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s first-in-the-nation plan to pay for and deliver three meals a day to vulnerable seniors during the corona...
Q&A: With rock-bottom prices, will the oil industry recover?
NEW YORK — With a barrel of crude oil costing less than a New York pizza, many U.S. shale producers are being pushed to the brink of bankruptcy and ex...
In rural US, fears of virus seem far away as stores reopen
ROUNDUP, Mont. — Traffic got a little busier along Main Street, but otherwise, it was hard to tell that coronavirus restrictions were ending in the ti...
Coast Guard, Ripley Entertainment criticized in boat crash
LIBERTY, Mo. — A duck boat sinking on a Missouri Lake that killed 17 people two summers ago likely would not have happened if the U.S. Coast Guard had...
Worried about virus, US House won’t return — for now
WASHINGTON — Facing the stark, startling reality that Congress may not be able to fully resume for a year, House leaders are desperately reaching for ...
Oklahoma, Utah face scrutiny over malaria drug purchases
OKLAHOMA CITY — Republican state leaders in Oklahoma and Utah are facing scrutiny for spending millions of dollars combined to purchase malaria drugs ...
Column: No fans means same sport, different arena
Rory McIlroy contemplated what golf would be like without fans. This was five days before there was no golf at all.
Easing lockdowns makes day-to-day choices more complicated
Things were so much clearer when just about everything was locked down.
Trump says US closer to testing international air travelers
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday his administration is considering requiring travelers on certain incoming international flights to un...