Background checks for firearms remain high amid pandemic
The number of April background checks to purchase a firearm showed Americans flocking to gun stores in high numbers for the second month in a row amid...
Intel buys Moovit app for $900M to boost bet on robotic cars
BERKELEY, Calif. — Intel is buying transportation-planning service Moovit for $900 million as the world's largest computer chip maker moves further do...
‘Riveting’ coverage of Alaska policing wins Pulitzer Prize
NEW YORK — The Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica won the Pulitzer Prize in public service Monday for illuminating public safety gaps in Alaska, reve...
The Latest: 1st audio Pulitzer prize goes to ‘The Out Crowd’
NEW YORK — The Latest on the announcement of the 2020 Pulitzer Prizes (all times local):
Shula remembered by peers for “playing within the rules”
MIAMI — Don Shula often said he wanted to be remembered for playing within the rules, and that's what happened Monday.
3 charged in killing of store security guard over virus mask
DETROIT — A woman, her adult son and husband have been charged in the fatal shooting of a security guard who refused to let her daughter enter a Famil...
Senate reopens despite risks as House preps more virus aid
WASHINGTON — The Senate reopened Monday in a Capitol largely shuttered by the coronavirus, but prospects for quick action on a new aid package are unc...
Fed enters a risky new world with ‘Main Street’ loan program
WASHINGTON — With the U.S. economy sinking into a severe recession, the Federal Reserve is set to launch a high-risk program through which it will len...
Nicolas Cage to star as Joe Exotic in limited TV series
LOS ANGELES — The Joe Exotic phenomenon keeps growing, with Nicolas Cage to star in a TV miniseries about the colorful wild animal owner made famous b...
Italy eases virus lockdown, and gets first reckoning of toll
ROME — Italians strolled in the park, grabbed take-out cappuccinos and paid their respects to the astonishing number of dead Monday as the European ep...
AP wins feature photography Pulitzer for Kashmir coverage
NEW YORK — The story of India’s crackdown on Kashmir last August was difficult to show to the world. The unprecedented lockdown included a sweeping cu...
Malls, movies and more: A look at reopenings by state in US
The reopening of the economy and loosening of coronavirus-prompted restrictions remain uneven and varied throughout the U.S. as governors watch case n...
Column: A long month of May without racing at Indianapolis
It is finally May and time to declare this a crummy year to have purchased Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
NCAA accuses Louisville basketball of recruiting violations
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Louisville has received a notice of allegations from the NCAA that accuses the men’s basketball program of committing a Level I viol...
J.Crew files for Chapter 11 as pandemic chokes retail sector
NEW YORK — Struggling fashion brand J.Crew has filed for bankruptcy protection, the first major retailer to do so since the coronavirus pandemic force...
New this week: A Bieber reality show, comics and their moms
Bored with your surroundings? Justin and Hailey Bieber are showing off their lives in their Toronto home in a new series, while Hulu this week is prem...
Illinois man who put crosses at sites of mass shootings dies
AURORA, Ill. — An Illinois man man who spent years making crosses and bringing them to the sites of mass shootings and other disasters around the Unit...
Zoos turn to social media to delight, raise money amid virus
PHOENIX — The Phoenix Zoo, struggling like others worldwide during coronavirus closures, has found an unlikely savior in a sloth.
Taika Waititi to direct new ‘Star Wars’ film
NEW YORK — Taika Waititi, the New Zealand filmmaker of “Jojo Rabbit” and “Thor: Ragnarok," will direct a new “Star Wars” film.
New book aims to portray ‘real’ Prince Harry and Meghan
LONDON — Freed from the constraints of life as full-time royals — and enmeshed in a feud with Britain’s tabloid press — Prince Harry and his wife Megh...
Secluded Chesapeake Bay island keeps eye on virus from afar
NORFOLK, Va. — Inez Pruitt has watched the coronavirus spread throughout the world from the relative safety of Tangier Island, a small fishing communi...
AP Courtside: Supreme Court wraps up its 1st phone arguments
WASHINGTON — The coronavirus pandemic has forced the tradition-bound Supreme Court into some big changes. Starting Monday, the justices are hearing ar...
Brussels going greener amid coronavirus crisis
BRUSSELS — As European cities gradually relax lockdown measures, Brussels authorities intend to take advantage of the coronavirus health crisis to tur...
Scientists fault UK’s pandemic strategy as deaths rise
LONDON — As the coronavirus continues to infect people across Britain in what will likely turn out to be Europe’s worst outbreak, the government has c...
Wall Street pauses after April’s surge, airline stocks fall
Stock indexes are down slightly in midday trading on Wall Street Monday, as the market takes a pause following its best month in decades.
VIRUS DIARY: For her, virus-era New York is a story in sound
NEW YORK — Sirens. Birds. The ice cream truck. Sirens. Sirens. Sirens. The stall of a delivery vehicle. The downstairs neighbor telling her dog to do ...
Called to order: Supreme Court holds 1st arguments by phone
WASHINGTON — It's a morning of firsts for the Supreme Court, the first time audio of the court's arguments was heard live by the world and the first a...
Virus fear turns deportees into pariahs at home in Guatemala
GUATEMALA CITY — Migrants returning from the United States were once considered heroes in Guatemala, where the money they send back to their hometowns...
40 songs about the coronavirus pandemic. Listen here.
NEW YORK — Musicians can’t perform on the road but they’re still able to create music during the coronavirus pandemic. Here’s a list of songs released...