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40 years later, vote to skip Moscow Games still ‘horrible’

DENVER — By the time the news filtered to him, Edwin Moses had already left a promising engineering job to focus on a full-time career on the track.
17:48 11 April 2020

Chicago mayor takes hard line fighting coronavirus outbreak

CHICAGO — As large American cities try various strategies to keep people home to limit the coronavirus's spread, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has bala...
17:26 11 April 2020

GOP leaders hit brakes on virus aid as governors seek help

WASHINGTON — As governors plead for aid, Republican leaders in Congress said Saturday they prefer replenishing a $350 billion small business program r...
17:25 11 April 2020

‘Undrafted but undaunted’: Oilers’ Colby Cave dies at 25

TORONTO — Edmonton Oilers forward Colby Cave died Saturday after a brain bleed this week. He was 25.
16:25 11 April 2020

75th anniversary of Buchenwald liberation affected by virus

WEIMAR, Germany — The 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis’ Buchenwald concentration camp passed more quietly than originally planned on Sa...
16:02 11 April 2020

Deserted icons: No College World Series hits Omaha hard

OMAHA, Neb. — Rich Tokheim's sports apparel shop is right across the street from TD Ameritrade Park. More than half his annual revenue comes in the 11...
15:46 11 April 2020

Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens and wife to get divorced

ST. LOUIS — Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens and his wife, Sheena Greitens, are divorcing, the couple announced on social media Saturday, nearly two...
15:39 11 April 2020

Memorable shots in the Masters from every club in the bag

Every hole has a tale about the Masters. The playlist of shots is longer than any of the other majors because everyone knows Augusta National so well,...
15:15 11 April 2020

Virus sends Holocaust survivors behind doors, back in time

OAK PARK, Ill. — For Olga Weiss, the order to stay at home is about much more than simply locking her door to the coronavirus. It has awakened fears f...
14:34 11 April 2020

Iran begins lifting restrictions after brief virus lockdown

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran began reopening government offices Saturday after a brief nationwide lockdown to help contain the worst coronavirus outbreak in th...
12:44 11 April 2020

Coronavirus ravages storied New Orleans Mardi Gras group

NEW ORLEANS — On Fat Tuesday, 51-year-old Cornell Charles was taking part in a storied New Orleans Mardi Gras tradition central to the city's African ...
12:21 11 April 2020

Swiss prosecutors intend to drop 1 FIFA case against Blatter

GENEVA — In a legal victory for former FIFA president Sepp Blatter, federal prosecutors in Switzerland plan to drop one of two cases open against him ...
11:23 11 April 2020

China auto sales sink 48.4% in March as virus hurts demand

BEIJING — China’s auto sales sank 48.4% in March from a year ago as the economy reeled from the coronavirus, according to an industry group, adding to...
10:33 11 April 2020

Congo, weary from Ebola, must also battle the coronavirus

BENI, Congo — Congo has been battling an Ebola outbreak that has killed thousands of people for more than 18 months, and now it must also face a new s...
8:01 11 April 2020

AP PHOTOS: Pandemic meets religious holidays in Sarajevo

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Sarajevo, a religious melting pot throughout its more than five-centuries-long history, would normally be teeming with ...
6:59 11 April 2020

Italy begins to grapple with how to ease virus restrictions

SOAVE, Italy — With warmer weather beckoning, Italians are straining against a strict lockdown to halt the coronavirus that is just now showing signs ...
6:51 11 April 2020

Broncos star polishing both his deejay and pass rush skills

Von Miller longs to make a name for himself scratching vinyl just like he did sacking quarterbacks.
5:53 11 April 2020

Rivera aims to start changing culture around Redskins

WASHINGTON — Ron Rivera made plenty of mistakes as a first-time NFL head coach that he hopes not to repeat this time around.
5:51 11 April 2020

AP Was There: Future arrives with Tiger’s record Masters win

A panel of 15 golf writers were asked to vote on the top five Masters in history. They are being republished this week because the Masters has been po...
5:49 11 April 2020

Indonesian starts business to make hazmat suit for hospitals

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Her friends who worked in hospitals cried, and Indonesian businesswoman Maryati Dimursi listened: They did not have the protectiv...
5:13 11 April 2020

20,000: US death toll overtakes Italy’s as Midwest braces

CHICAGO — The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus eclipsed Italy's for the highest in the world Saturday at about 20,000, as Chicago and other cities...
5:09 11 April 2020

Lives Lost: An Egyptian doctor, the ‘backbone’ of his family

CAIRO — Dr. Ahmed el-Lawah liked to gather the whole family every week at his home in the Egyptian city of Port Said — his parents, his wife and child...
5:03 11 April 2020

Calling Trump: When connections help steer virus supplies

WASHINGTON — It was early on a Friday when Jared Kushner said he received a call from his father-in-law, President Donald Trump. Trump was hearing fro...
4:18 11 April 2020

The Latest: Electric bands for Koreans who break quarantine

The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and pe...
3:58 11 April 2020

New York area walloped as global virus deaths pass 100,000

NEW YORK — The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus surged past 100,000 Friday as the epidemic in the U.S. cut a widening swath through not just ...
2:53 11 April 2020

Airlines and Trump administration haggle over payroll grants

The Trump administration is proposing that a significant amount of the $25 billion in cash that airlines expected to keep workers on the job will inst...
0:52 11 April 2020

Court lifts part of order blocking Texas abortion ban

AUSTIN, Texas — A federal appeals court on Friday partially rescinded a lower-court order that had largely blocked the enforcement of an abortion ban ...
0:31 11 April 2020

The Latest: Pacers’ Oladipo hosts Instagram show on artists

The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world:
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Ex-ambassador says Trump campaign fanning hatred with new ad

WASHINGTON — Former U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke is denouncing President Donald Trump for a new campaign ad that seems to falsely imply Locke w...
22:04 10 April 2020

Column: What’s wrong with UFC ruler Dana White?

What's wrong with Dana White?
21:51 10 April 2020