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Tech giants are embracing remote work. Others may follow

OAKLAND, Calif. — For a preview of the future of office work, watch how the biggest tech companies are preparing for a post-pandemic world.
20:56 21 May 2020

Forecasters predict busy 2020 Atlantic hurricane season

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — With forecasters predicting another intense Atlantic hurricane season with as many as 13 to 19 named storms, disaster prepared...
19:23 21 May 2020

Divided Senate confirms Ratcliffe as intelligence chief

WASHINGTON — A sharply divided Senate confirmed John Ratcliffe as director of national intelligence on Thursday, with Democrats refusing to support th...
18:51 21 May 2020

Clinton and Patterson again team up for political thriller

NEW YORK — After co-writing the best-selling adult novel of 2018, Bill Clinton and James Patterson have teamed up for another political thriller.
18:32 21 May 2020

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s false ‘Choice’ on vets’ health care

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is putting forth a false “Choice" when he boasts about a program aimed at improving veterans' health care by steer...
17:48 21 May 2020

Job market remains grim even as U.S. tentatively reopens

WASHINGTON — Signs of renewed activity are surfacing across the country as states gradually reopen economies and some businesses call a portion of the...
17:28 21 May 2020

Film: ‘Roe’ plaintiff says her anti-abortion switch was act

WASHINGTON — Norma McCorvey loved the limelight. Better known as “Jane Roe,” her story was at the center of the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade th...
16:08 21 May 2020

NASA, SpaceX bringing astronaut launches back to home turf

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — For the first time in nearly a decade, U.S. astronauts are about to blast into orbit aboard an American rocket from American so...
15:45 21 May 2020

‘Very unprepared:’ DEA shakeup followed mounting criticism

MIAMI — It's an agency with a critical mission of keeping American streets safe from narcotics. But in recent years, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Adminis...
14:47 21 May 2020

Restaurant chains see sales improving as dining rooms reopen

Fast food restaurants — well equipped for drive-thru and takeout service — have fared better than sit-down restaurants as the coronavirus pandemic gri...
14:45 21 May 2020

Colleges plan fall opening, but campuses won’t look the same

Growing numbers of U.S. colleges are pledging to reopen this fall, with dramatic changes to campus life to keep the coronavirus at bay. Big lectures w...
11:23 21 May 2020

‘We’re expendable’: Russian doctors face hostility, mistrust

MOSCOW — There are no daily public displays of gratitude for Russian doctors and nurses during the coronavirus crisis like there are in the West. Inst...
6:42 21 May 2020

Detective, nurse, confidant: Virus tracers play many roles

SALT LAKE CITY — Health investigator Mackenzie Bray smiles and chuckles as she chats by phone with a retired Utah man who just tested positive for the...
5:33 21 May 2020

As virus swamps Peru, Venezuelan migrants collect the dead

LIMA, Peru — Faustino López was terrified after his wife, Angélica, was hospitalized with the coronavirus last month.
4:03 21 May 2020

Michigan dam had repeated safety violations before flooding

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — A hydroelectric dam that failed to hold back floodwaters this week in Michigan was the target of lengthy investigations by fede...
3:43 21 May 2020

Back to business, but not business as usual as nations open

NEW YORK — This is what “normal” will look like for the foreseeable future.
2:10 21 May 2020

Recession-hit Japan’s exports, imports fall due to pandemic

TOKYO — Recession-hit Japan's exports plunged nearly 22% in April, the country's worst drop in more than a decade as the coronavirus pandemic slammed ...
2:04 21 May 2020

Michigan flood displaces thousands, threatens Superfund site

MIDLAND, Mich. — Floodwaters surging through Central Michigan on Wednesday were mixing with containment ponds at a Dow Chemical Co. plant and could di...
23:31 20 May 2020

Trump to mark Memorial Day at ceremony at Baltimore monument

WASHINGTON — Many Americans may be staying in this Memorial Day weekend, but President Donald Trump is hitting the road, set to visit Baltimore’s Fort...
23:17 20 May 2020

Astronauts arrive for NASA’s 1st home launch in decade

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The two astronauts who will end a nine-year launch drought for NASA arrived at Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, exactly one w...
22:39 20 May 2020

Review: In ‘Painter and the Thief,’ an unlikely friendship

The documentary “The Painter and the Thief” has a few wrinkles to add to the old Picasso adage that great artists steal.
22:27 20 May 2020

Supreme Court blocks House from Mueller grand jury material

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily prevented the House of Representatives from obtaining secret grand jury testimony from special...
21:12 20 May 2020

Shut-in stars rally for Red Nose TV show for kids in need

LOS ANGELES — “Love Actually” filmmaker Richard Curtis, who never lacks for Red Nose Day star power, found the pandemic only boosted the fundraising t...
21:04 20 May 2020

Pelosi: ‘Morbidly obese’ was taste of Trump’s ‘own medicine’

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that she called President Donald Trump “morbidly obese” because he's put down women for their w...
20:47 20 May 2020

Q&A: Safety a big concern as workers return to their jobs

NEW YORK — With more businesses across the country easing back to life, the new challenge will be how to keep workers safe during the pandemic.
19:51 20 May 2020

2 accused of smuggling ex-Nissan boss out of Japan in a box

WASHINGTON — A former Green Beret and his son were arrested Wednesday in Massachusetts on charges they smuggled Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn...
19:18 20 May 2020

AP Analysis: NFL taking baby steps toward reopenings

The NFL is taking baby steps toward full reopenings for its teams. It has no other choice.
16:59 20 May 2020

Democrats decry ‘pandemic of pollution’ under Trump’s EPA

WASHINGTON — Democrats on Wednesday blasted the Trump administration's moves to roll back environmental regulations during the coronavirus crisis, wit...
16:35 20 May 2020

Sept. 11 convict now says he renounces terrorism, bin Laden

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The only man ever convicted in a U.S. court for a role in the Sept. 11 attacks now says he is renouncing terrorism, al-Qaida and the...
15:18 20 May 2020

Review: A night gone very wrong in ‘The Lovebirds’

“ The Lovebirds ” stars Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani are two of the most exiting voices working in film and television today, as actors, writers and c...
14:14 20 May 2020