Asia Today: Tracing harder in S. Korea, Indian cases spike
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea has reported 45 new cases of COVID-19, all but two of them in the greater capital area, continuing a weekslong resurg...
Pelosi calls for removing Confederate statues from Capitol
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is demanding that statues of Confederate figures such as Jefferson Davis be removed from the U.S. Capitol.
Fed to keep providing aid and sees no rate hike through 2022
WASHINGTON — Confronted with an economy gripped by recession and high unemployment, the Federal Reserve signaled Wednesday that it expects to keep its...
Anna Wintour apologizes for race-related ‘mistakes’ at Vogue
NEW YORK — Vogue's Anna Wintour has apologized in an internal email for “mistakes" made in her 32-year tenure in not doing enough to elevate black voi...
‘Stop the pain,’ George Floyd’s brother pleads with Congress
WASHINGTON — Philonise Floyd challenged Congress on Wednesday to “stop the pain" as lawmakers consider a sweeping law enforcement overhaul, so his bro...
Minneapolis police chief takes on union, promises change
MINNEAPOLIS — The Minneapolis Police Department will withdraw from police union contract negotiations, Chief Medaria Arradondo said Wednesday, as he a...
Trump: No change at bases named for Confederate officers
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday said his administration will “not even consider” changing the name of any of the 10 Army bases that a...
US deficit racks up record deficit with 4 months still to go
WASHINGTON — The federal government recorded a budget deficit of $1.88 trillion for the first eight months of this budget year, larger than even any a...
Ex-judge says push to dismiss Flynn case is ‘abuse of power’
WASHINGTON — A former federal judge appointed to review the Justice Department's motion to dismiss criminal charges against former national security a...
Fired State Dept watchdog says he was bullied by officials
WASHINGTON — The independent State Department watchdog fired by President Donald Trump says top department officials tried to bully him and dissuade h...
Strange case of 2 kids who vanished in Idaho takes grim turn
BOISE, Idaho — It was the extended family who grew suspicious first, and then at their urging, local police: Seven-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and his...
‘Legendary’ heralds loud, proud ball culture
LOS ANGELES — FX’s fictionalized hit show “Pose” introduced many to the underground world of ballroom culture, in which historically black and Latino ...
‘Grief overload:’ Families absorb multiple virus deaths
It may seem hard to imagine the cruel toll of the coronavirus getting any worse than losing one of those closest to you. But Johnjalene Woods has been...
AMC aims to reopen theaters in July; nations eye economies
The outbreak of the coronavirus has dealt a shock to the global economy with unprecedented speed. Following are developments Wednesday related to the ...
HBO Max removes ‘Gone With the Wind,’ will add context
NEW YORK — HBO Max has temporarily removed “Gone With the Wind” from its streaming library in order to add historical context to the 1939 film long cr...
Surviving in America’s Black Belt amid pandemic and job loss
SELMA, Ala. — Life can be tough even on a good day in the Black Belt, where some of the poorest people in America are, as usual, depending on each oth...
Officials back off removing temporary fencing at White House
The Trump administration appears to be retreating from its commitment to quickly remove most of a new fence blocking demonstrators and other members o...
`He is going to change the world’: Funeral held for Floyd
HOUSTON — George Floyd was lovingly remembered Tuesday as “Big Floyd” — a father and brother, athlete and mentor, and now a force for change — at a fu...
Fired Atlanta officers file suit against mayor, police chief
ATLANTA — Two Atlanta police officers who were fired after video showed them using stun guns on two college students pulled from a car in traffic duri...
US challenges planned expedition to retrieve Titanic’s radio
NORFOLK, Va. — The U.S. government will try to stop a company's planned salvage mission to retrieve the Titanic’s wireless telegraph machine, arguing ...
Hundreds march in Hong Kong as leader urges stability
HONG KONG — Hundreds of people marched in Hong Kong's streets on Tuesday to mark a year since the start of anti-government protests, as the leader of ...
Yemen’s rebels crack down as COVID-19 and rumors spread
CAIRO — In the darkness, the bodies of suspected victims of coronavirus are carried in silence, one after the other, to be buried in several cemeterie...
Key Democrats spurn push to defund police amid Trump attacks
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his allies have seized on calls to “defund the police” as a dangerous example of Democratic overreach as the R...
Violence gives way to street fair vibe outside White House
WASHINGTON — That massive fence erected around Lafayette Park has become a do-it-yourself gallery of protest art. Messages, posters and portraits, ran...
Trump closer to resuming rallies that were halted by virus
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is aiming to resume campaign rallies in the coming weeks, though the locations and coronavirus precautions still a...
Review: Davidson steps up in ‘The King of Staten Island’
The protagonists in Judd Apatow movies don’t generally have their stuff together. They are emotionally stunted, occasionally underachieving, unmotivat...
‘A big test’: Hard-hit New York City begins reopening
NEW YORK — After three gloomy months and 21,000 deaths that made it the nation's most lethal hot spot, New York City slowly began reopening Monday in ...
Coast Guard Academy faulted on response to racial incidents
The U.S. Coast Guard Academy failed to properly address complaints of racial harassment, including the use of racial slurs by cadets, according to the...
K-pop fans become an unexpected ally to American protesters
SEOUL, South Korea — As American protesters took to the streets to mourn the death of George Floyd, they found an unexpected ally: K-pop fans.
A US recession began in February in the face of coronavirus
WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy entered a recession in February as the coronavirus struck the nation, a group of economists declared Monday, ending the ...