Wear a mask? Even with 20,000 dead, some New Yorkers don’t
NEW YORK — Eric Leventhal felt a sneeze coming and panicked.
Exhaustion, uncertainty mark coronavirus survivors’ journeys
An angelic voice singing “Hallelujah” echoes off the stately stone and brick canyons of a narrow Montmartre street.
GOP senators give Democrats’ $3T relief bill a cold shoulder
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled a more than $3 trillion coronavirus aid package, a sweeping effort with $1 trillion for states and ci...
Nebraska primary voters avoid polls, shatter mail-in record
OMAHA, Neb. — Nebraska's primary voters mostly steered clear of polling sites Tuesday while shattering the state record for absentee voting with nearl...
AP Exclusive: CDC docs stress plans for more virus flareups
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Advice from the nation’s top disease control experts on how to safely reopen businesses and institutions in the midst of the coron...
Fauci warns: More death, econ damage if US reopens too fast
WASHINGTON — The U.S. government’s top infectious disease expert issued a blunt warning Tuesday that cities and states could “turn back the clock” and...
Pelosi unveils $3T virus bill, warns inaction costs more
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled a more than $3 trillion coronavirus aid package Tuesday, providing nearly $1 trillion for states and ...
House rescue package includes $25 billion for Postal Service
WASHINGTON — A new coronavirus aid package released by House Democrats includes $25 billion for the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service, which is expect...
Coronavirus hits world superpowers as some look to reopen
As health officials issued warnings Tuesday against reopening economies too quickly, the coronavirus struck inside some of the world’s superpowers, wi...
Elon Musk becomes champion of defying virus stay-home orders
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has emerged as a champion of defying stay-home orders intended to stop the coronavirus from spreading, picking up support — as wel...
AP Courtside: Telephone arguments on Trump’s taxes run long
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is holding its second week of arguments by telephone because of the coronavirus pandemic, hearing cases about President...
Detroit-area residents lift spirits with costumed parades
FERNDALE, Mich. — Sarah Ignash spends her days looking after dogs in normal times. With her business temporarily shuttered because of the coronavirus,...
Cuomo: Wear a mask to respect nurses who died to save us
NEW YORK — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo called face masks a sign of respect for others on a day the state reported 195 new deaths. Other data released T...
Russian president’s spokesman hospitalized with coronavirus
MOSCOW — Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has been hospitalized with the coronavirus, the latest in a series of setbacks for President Vladimir Putin a...
Movie-related products still hit stores despite film delays
LOS ANGELES — Hollywood pressed pause on releasing most major films in theaters to combat the coronavirus outbreak, but that hasn’t necessarily been t...
India resumes limited train service as it eases lockdown
NEW DELHI — India reopened parts of its huge rail network on Tuesday, running a limited number of trains as it looks at easing a nearly seven-week loc...
Back in recession, Greece puts faith in digital overhaul
ATHENS, Greece — Greece plans to rapidly expand government digital services in 2020 to try and slim down its notoriously slow-moving bureaucracy and h...
Toyota profit drops on virus outbreak but recovery expected
TOKYO — Toyota Motor Corp. reported Tuesday a sharp plunge in fiscal fourth quarter profit as the global pandemic slammed vehicle sales and halted pro...
In some Olympic sports, training from home is almost routine
Less than a month after Nikhil Kumar qualified for the Olympics in table tennis, the Tokyo Games were postponed until 2021. Like so many other athlete...
Doctors and nurses suffered as Iran ignored virus concerns
CAIRO — They are regarded as heroes, their fallen colleagues as martyrs. But for doctors and nurses still dealing with Iran’s growing number of corona...
Lives Lost: Victims of the virus, remembered for tomorrow
Across the world, the devastation caused by the coronavirus is told in the voices of those left behind.
Report: Anti-Semitic incidents in US hit record high in 2019
SILVER SPRING, Md. — American Jews were targets of more anti-Semitic incidents in 2019 than any other year over the past four decades, a surge marked ...
Skipping a mask, Trump says he’s ‘met the moment’ on testing
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump insisted his administration has “met the moment” and “prevailed” on coronavirus testing, even as the White House i...
‘Express burials’ cast doubt on Nicaragua’s virus figures
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Roger Ordoñez was hospitalized with breathing problems last week.
As nations reopen, warning emerges about virus tracing voids
NEW YORK — A top world health official Monday warned that countries are essentially driving blind in reopening their economies without setting up stro...
Organ transplants dive amid virus crisis, start to inch back
WASHINGTON — Organ transplants plummeted as COVID-19 swept through communities, with surgeons wary of endangering living donors and unable to retrieve...
AP source: Tagovailoa signs $30.275 million, 4-year deal
MIAMI — Now Tua Tagovailoa can pay for that Cadillac Escalade he gave his mom.
Company earnings tell the story of the pandemic’s early days
The outbreak of the coronavirus has dealt a shock to the global economy with unprecedented speed. Following are developments Monday related to nationa...
The Latest: West Wing visitors, staff need to wear masks
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and pe...
Trump faces virus at White House amid push to ‘reopen’ US
WASHINGTON — As he encourages the country to “reopen,” President Donald Trump is confronting cases of the coronavirus in his own home, spotlighting th...