NHL camps to open July 10 if league, players agree to resume
The NHL and NHL Players' Association gave the go-ahead Thursday for teams to open training camp on July 10 in the next step forward toward completing ...
Promoter behind Fury-Joshua deal provokes outrage in Ireland
DUBLIN — The boxing promoter helping to arrange the all-British heavyweight fight between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua is the subject of dialogue bet...
Syria’s Assad fires his PM amid worsening economic crisis
DAMASCUS, Syria — Syrian President Bashar Assad on Thursday fired his prime minister, a month ahead of elections and as the economic crisis worsens an...
US long-term mortgage rates mostly steady; 30-year at 3.21%
WASHINGTON — Long-term U.S. mortgage rates were mostly steady this week, continuing to hover near all-time lows.
For tennis and golf, tournaments without fans come at a cost
When he first contemplated the prospect of a U.S. Open without fans because of the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. Tennis Association’s chief revenue o...
Protesters topple Jefferson Davis statue in Virginia capital
RICHMOND, Va. — Protesters pulled down a century-old statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in the former capital of the Confederacy, adding ...
Russia welcomes prospect of US troop pullback from Germany
MOSCOW — Russia's Foreign Ministry on Thursday welcomed President Donald Trump’s reported plan to withdraw more than a quarter of U.S. troops from Ger...
Former IAAF president turns on son at corruption trial
PARIS — Former IAAF president Lamine Diack pointed a finger of blame at his son, saying he behaved like “a thug,” as he was quizzed in detail for the ...
Trump OKs sanctions against international tribunal employees
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump lobbed a broadside attack Thursday against the International Criminal Court by authorizing economic sanctions and ...
Mexico doc visits, supports COVID-19 survivors in free time
MEXICO CITY — When Dr. Juan Antonio Salas finishes his shifts in coronavirus wards at two Mexico City public hospitals, his work is not done.
With measures lifted, Balkans hit by coronavirus case spike
BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbia’s president has canceled his party’s campaign rallies and officials in Bosnia, North Macedonia and Albania are appealing on ...
Queen Elizabeth takes part in first public video call
LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II has taken part in her first public video conference call to chat to four carers about the challenges they face looking aft...
EU urges states to reopen domestic borders from Monday
BRUSSELS — The European Union on Thursday urged all its member countries to start lifting travel restrictions on their common borders from next week, ...
Stolen Banksy honoring Bataclan victims found in Italy
L'AQUILA, Italy — Italian authorities on Thursday unveiled a stolen artwork by the British artist Banksy that was painted as a tribute to the victims ...
Going green: Swiss officials must take trains for some trips
GENEVA — For Swiss federal officials, it's no more jetting to Paris for business: They'll need to go greener.
China auto sales up 14.5% in May, recovering after pandemic
HONG KONG — China’s auto sales surged 14.5% in May, a second straight month of growth as the global industry’s biggest market gradually recovers from ...
Japan wants US to extradite Americans who helped Ghosn flee
TOKYO — A Japanese prosecutor on Thursday urged the U.S. to extradite two Americans accused of helping Nissan’s former chairman, Carlos Ghosn flee the...
Norwegian man gets 21 years for slaying, mosque attack
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A white nationalist Norwegian man who killed his stepsister and then stormed an Oslo mosque and opened fire, hitting no one, was...
Resurgence of virus threatens South Korea’s success story
SEOUL, South Korea — Just weeks ago, South Korea was celebrating its hard-won gains against the coronavirus, easing social distancing, reopening schoo...
Floyd killing finds echoes of abuse in South Africa, Kenya
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Collins Khosa was killed by law enforcement officers in a poor township in Johannesburg over a cup of beer left in his yard....
AP PHOTOS: 1 year on, tumult of Hong Kong protests echoes
HONG KONG — A year has passed since the beginning of anti-government protests in Hong Kong that brought hundreds of thousands of people into the stree...
NASCAR bans Confederate flag from its races, venues
For more than 70 years, the Confederate flag was a common and complicated sight at NASCAR races. Through the civil rights era right on through the sea...
Unemployment woes a mounting strain on Trump in Florida
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — When the tourists stopped coming in March, so did Lorin Lynch’s paychecks from a Tampa Bay hotel. She burned through her savings w...
Trump resumes fundraising to build cash lead against Biden
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is resuming in-person fundraising events after a three-month hiatus as his campaign works to maintain a cash advan...
Tables turned, Ocasio-Cortez plays defense in primary fight
WASHINGTON — It's Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's turn to defend her record and battle accusations that she's lost touch with her district.
Asian shares slide after Wall Street retreat
TOKYO — Asian shares were mostly lower Thursday, with Tokyo dropping more than 1% as the Japanese yen gained after the Federal Reserve said it would k...
California Assembly backs repealing affirmative action ban
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A decades-long push to let California's public universities and government agencies consider race when making admissions and hiri...
US Soccer repeals rule that banned kneeling during anthem
U.S. Soccer's board of directors has voted to repeal a 2017 policy that required national team players to stand during the national anthem, a rule ado...
Jon Ossoff wins Georgia Senate primary; will face Perdue
ATLANTA — Jon Ossoff, a young Georgia media executive known for breaking fundraising records during a 2017 special election loss for a U.S. House seat...
Headline-making missteps put focus on newsroom diversity
NEW YORK — Alexis Johnson figures she wasn't the loser when the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said she couldn't cover protests triggered by George Floyd's d...