Shiffrin returns to World Cup ski circuit amid family grief
VAIL, Colo. — Mikaela Shiffrin is returning to the World Cup ski circuit in Europe, even though she might not be ready to race after a month-long abse...
UK airline Flybe collapses as virus hits weakened company
LONDON — The struggling British airline Flybe collapsed Thursday amid drops in demand caused by the new coronavirus, leaving passengers stranded and t...
International court approves Afghanistan investigation
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court gave the green light Thursday for prosecutors to open an investigation tar...
N. Korea’s Kim expresses condolences over virus in S. Korea
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a personal letter to South Korean President Moon Jae-in to express his condolences over a so...
AP PHOTOS: Venice a shell of itself as tourists flee virus
VENICE, Italy — The Carnival period in Venice usually marks the start of peak season in one of the world’s most visited cities, with hordes of tourist...
Airstrike in northwest Syria kills 15 ahead of Moscow summit
BEIRUT — An airstrike on a rebel-held village in northwest Syria hit a poultry farm where several displaced families were sheltering early Thursday, k...
Dogs, cats can’t pass on coronavirus, but can test positive
HONG KONG — Pet cats and dogs cannot pass the new coronavirus on to humans, but they can test positive for low levels of the pathogen if they catch it...
Abu Dhabi’s long-troubled Etihad reports $870M loss in 2019
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Abu Dhabi's long-troubled national carrier Etihad on Thursday reported losses of $870 million in 2019 after losing billi...
Miami’s Duncan Robinson on a record path from 3-point land
MIAMI — Duncan Robinson is about to collect a whole slew of records.
Gadgets for tech giants made with coerced Uighur labor
NANCHANG, China — In a lively Muslim quarter of Nanchang city, a sprawling Chinese factory turns out computer screens, cameras and fingerprint scanner...
Biden’s victories unleash something he’s never had: Money
WASHINGTON — Strapped for cash and badly outspent by his rivals, Joe Biden barely had enough money to air television ads in critical Super Tuesday bat...
Flare-up in Afghan violence shows fragility of peace deal
WASHINGTON — Less than 24 hours after President Donald Trump said he had a “very good talk” with a top Taliban leader and insisted the group wants to ...
Doncic breaks Mavs’ triple-double record, beats Williamson
DALLAS — Luka Doncic scored 30 points and broke Dallas' career triple-double record with his 22nd, helping the Mavericks hold off the New Orleans Peli...
Asian shares rise following stimulus-led surge on Wall St
TOKYO — Asian shares rose Thursday, taking their cue from a surge on Wall Street as governments and central banks took more aggressive measures to fig...
Azubuike scores career-high 31, No. 1 Kansas beats TCU 75-66
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Imagine what Kansas center Udoka Azubuike would have accomplished against TCU on Wednesday night if he was healthy.
Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian two-term UN chief, dies at 100
LIMA, Peru — Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, the two-term United Nations secretary-general who brokered a historic cease-fire between Iran and Iraq in 1988 a...
Senators reach $2B deal to boost conservation, parks
WASHINGTON — Senate leaders and the Trump administration have reached an election-year deal to double spending on a popular conservation program and d...
3′s are wild: Heat set record from deep, top Magic 116-113
MIAMI — It took a record-setting night from 3-point range for the Miami Heat to beat the Orlando Magic.
Forced online by virus, China’s schools run into censorship
BEIJING — Less than 30 minutes into a lecture on bioinformatics, Chu Xinjian's class was abruptly cut short.
Bloomberg’s hope for Super Tuesday splash lands in Pacific
PAGO PAGO, American Samoa — What does more than $500 million get you? For Mike Bloomberg, it was 175 winning votes in this U.S. territory — a group of...
‘Bob Durst killed his wife,’ prosecutor says at his trial
LOS ANGELES — Robert Durst has never been charged in the 1982 New York disappearance of his wife Kathie Durst, who was later declared dead despite no ...
Warren reassesses path forward after dismal Super Tuesday
WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Warren huddled with her campaign advisers on Wednesday to determine if there was a reason to stay in the Democratic presidentia...
AP sources: Montana Gov. Bullock considering Senate race
WASHINGTON — Democrat Steve Bullock, the Montana governor who has insisted he won’t run for the Senate, is poised to do just that, according to two pe...
Democrats eye more gains after Texas stars on Super Tuesday
AUSTIN, Texas — Democrats' plans to win Texas in 2020 sharpened into focus Wednesday amid the familiar uncertainty of whether the party's presidential...
California delegate wave didn’t quite break as expected
LOS ANGELES — While Sen. Bernie Sanders mined the motherlode of delegates from California on Super Tuesday, it wasn’t nearly enough and isn’t getting ...
Met Opera institutes 14-day quarantine for some due to virus
NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Opera has instituted quarantines for artists and employees traveling to New York from areas affected by the new coronaviru...
The Latest: Biden pledges unity as nomination fight narrows
WASHINGTON — The Latest on the 2020 presidential election (all times local):
US defense leaders: Taliban peace deal results mixed
WASHINGTON — Just hours after the U.S. military launched an airstrike targeting Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, top defense leaders told Congress tha...
Feds investigate nursing home as U.S. death toll hits 11
SEATTLE — The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus climbed to 11 on Wednesday with a patient succumbing in California — the first reported fatality ou...
Mainstream Democrats relieved by Biden’s Super Tuesday boost
WASHINGTON — Mainstream Democrats were rejoicing over Joe Biden's rousing Super Tuesday performance that bolstered his bid for the Democratic presiden...