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Trump faces global resistance to US plan to cut WHO funding

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump faced international resistance Thursday to his plan to cut U.S. payments to the World Health Organization over its...
19:44 16 April 2020

‘E.T.,’ ‘Bugsy’ cinematographer Allen Daviau dies at 77

LOS ANGELES — Cinematographer Allen Daviau, who shot three of Steven Spielberg’s films including “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,” has died. A representat...
19:43 16 April 2020

Layoffs and pay cuts are now striking more white collar jobs

WASHINGTON — First, it was bars, restaurants, hotels. And clothing stores, movie theaters, entertainment venues. And countless small businesses, from ...
19:39 16 April 2020

Backup of bodies overwhelms nursing home amid outbreak

An extraordinary number of coronavirus-related deaths appears to have overwhelmed a nursing home in northern New Jersey where police found 18 bodies i...
19:30 16 April 2020

US Open tennis COVID-19 decision by June; no fans ‘unlikely’

A decision on whether to postpone or cancel the U.S. Open because of the coronavirus pandemic is expected by June, the U.S. Tennis Association’s new C...
18:34 16 April 2020

Nurses push back on pressure to work without right equipment

Nurse Mike Gulick was meticulous about not bringing the coronavirus home to his wife and their 2-year-old daughter. He’d stop at a hotel after work ju...
18:25 16 April 2020

EPA guts rule credited with cleaning up coal-plant toxic air

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday gutted an Obama-era rule that compelled the country's coal plants to cut back emissions of mercury a...
18:12 16 April 2020

Study: Warming makes US West megadrought worst in modern age

KENSINGTON, Maryland — A two-decade-long dry spell that has parched much of the western United States is turning into one of the deepest megadroughts ...
18:10 16 April 2020

Brian Dennehy, Tony-winning stage, screen actor, dies at 81

NEW YORK — Brian Dennehy, the burly actor who started in films as a macho heavy and later in his career won plaudits for his stage work in plays by Wi...
17:51 16 April 2020

No baseball or beaches: Virus upends usual California summer

LOS ANGELES — In these dark times, clouded by fears of an enemy we can’t see and sheltered in homes we're itching to leave, it's reassuring to know th...
17:35 16 April 2020

New information adds to questions about Russia probe dossier

WASHINGTON — Newly released material raises the possibility that Russian disinformation made its way into a dossier of opposition research that the FB...
17:21 16 April 2020

Tribes press judge to halt US-Canada pipeline as work starts

BILLINGS, Mont. — American Indian tribes and environmental groups are pressuring a federal judge to shut down work on the disputed Keystone XL pipelin...
16:58 16 April 2020

UK government extends virus lockdown by at least 3 weeks

LONDON — The British government announced Thursday that a nationwide lockdown imposed to slow the spread of the new coronavirus will remain in place f...
16:18 16 April 2020

Burrow to the rescue? Lowly Bengals look for next leader

CINCINNATI — In 2003, everything was in place for the Bengals to take a quarterback with the first overall draft pick.
16:14 16 April 2020

VIRUS DIARY: In pandemic, a forlorn dog finds new purpose

BERKELEY, Calif. — “This feels like a good time to get another dog to help us get over the loss of Surfer,” the Professor announced in her FM radio-re...
16:11 16 April 2020

Pandemic provokes spike in demand for food pantries in US

FRANKLIN, Tenn. — Brooklyn Dotson needed food. Her first unemployment check had yet to arrive after she was let go by the warehouse where she used to ...
15:57 16 April 2020

US long-term mortgage rates hover near low; 30-year at 3.31%

WASHINGTON — U.S. long-term mortgage rates hovered near all-time lows for the third straight week amid fresh signs of severe damage to the economy and...
15:31 16 April 2020

Poland lawmakers defer final vote on divisive abortion bill

WARSAW, Poland — Polish lawmakers on Thursday postponed a final decision on a controversial proposal to impose a near-total ban on abortion in the pre...
14:38 16 April 2020

Amid pandemic, debate rages in Mexico: is beer essential?

MEXICO CITY — Perhaps one of the most heated debates in Mexico during the pandemic — after disagreements about personal protective equipment and testi...
14:03 16 April 2020

Leading in pandemic becomes part of audition for Biden’s VP

CHICAGO — California Sen. Kamala Harris is raising money for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden while speaking out about the dispro...
13:35 16 April 2020

Oil and gas giant Shell targets ‘net zero’ emissions by 2050

BERLIN — Energy company Royal Dutch Shell told investors Thursday that it aims to stop adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere by 2050, a move that ...
13:33 16 April 2020

Reopening could require thousands more public health workers

SEATTLE — Before Washington state lifts its stay-at-home order, public health workers in Seattle’s King County want to be ready to douse any new spark...
13:12 16 April 2020

Tokyo Olympics could cut ‘extras’ in face of soaring costs

TOKYO — Tokyo Olympic organizers and the IOC said Thursday they will cut some of the extras out of next year’s postponed games, an attempt to limit wh...
13:08 16 April 2020

Belgian bluebells are too beautiful to see during pandemic

HALLE, Belgium — When nature is at its brightest this year, it needs to be hidden from sight.
13:03 16 April 2020

Veteran’s garden walk raises $16M for UK health service

LONDON — A 99-year-old World War II veteran has completed his quest to walk 100 laps of his garden in eastern England and raised almost 13 million pou...
12:19 16 April 2020

Israeli president asks parliament to choose prime minister

JERUSALEM — Israel’s president Thursday asked the Knesset to choose a new prime minister, giving parliament three weeks to agree upon a leader or plun...
10:23 16 April 2020

Some leaders use pandemic to sharpen tools against critics

BANGKOK — Health concerns were on artist Danai Ussama’s mind when he returned to Thailand last month from a trip to Spain. He noticed that he and his ...
9:20 16 April 2020

With price high, Thais with dwindling incomes sell off gold

Bangkok — With gold prices rising to a seven-year high, many Thais have been flocking to gold shops to trade in their necklaces, bracelets, rings and ...
9:15 16 April 2020

High-level North Korean defector wins South parliament seat

SEOUL, South Korea — A former senior North Korean diplomat won a constituency seat in South Korea’s parliamentary elections, the first such achievemen...
6:51 16 April 2020

Coronavirus could erode global fight against other diseases

NEW DELHI — Lavina D’Souza hasn’t been able to collect her government-supplied anti-HIV medication since the abrupt lockdown of India's 1.3 billion pe...
5:07 16 April 2020