Are gun shops ‘essential’ businesses during a pandemic?
In some parts of the U.S., authorities say gun shops aren't essential businesses and should close during stay-at-home orders meant to slow the coronav...
Congress locks Trump oversight into $2.2 trillion package
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump declared that "I'll be the oversight" as lawmakers were in the final days of drafting what became a $2.2 trillion ...
Staying afloat: $2.2 trillion bill offers economic lifeline
WASHINGTON — In the coronavirus crisis, even doctors can face a cash crunch.
Asian shares advance after stimulus surge on Wall Street
BANGKOK — Shares advanced on Friday in Asia after Wall Street logged a third straight day of gains with the approaching congressional approval of a ma...
The Latest: Singapore penalizing social distancing violators
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults an...
Virus relief package could help Trump, Kushner businesses
WASHINGTON — The $2 trillion legislative package moving through Congress to shore up the U.S. economy devastated by the coronavirus was carefully writ...
Lowe’s hiring, McMenu shrinks, top Ford execs to defer pay
The outbreak of the coronavirus has dealt a shock to the global economy with unprecedented speed as it continues to spread across the world. Here is a...
On NYC’s front lines, health workers worry they will be next
NEW YORK — A nurse died from coronavirus after working nonstop for weeks at a hospital where staffers frustrated with dwindling supplies posed in gown...
NY wants the nation’s breathing machines, but supply is low
New York's scramble to find enough breathing machines to treat its rapidly expanding legion of coronavirus patients illustrates a problem vexing hospi...
None of the ‘Big Five’ publishers will attend BookExpo
NEW YORK — All of the so-called “Big Five” publishers have dropped out of BookExpo, the industry's annual national convention. Hachette Book Group and...
Lawyers, judges push to close immigration courts amid virus
SAN DIEGO — Immigration attorneys have sported swim goggles and masks borrowed from friends to meet with clients in detention centers. Masked judges a...
5 earthquakes rattle West Texas; largest is magnitude 5.0
EL PASO, Texas — A series of five earthquakes centered near the same remote area of West Texas rattled the region on Thursday.
Half-million infected worldwide as economic toll rises
The human and economic toll of the lockdowns against the coronavirus mounted Thursday as India struggled to feed the multitudes, Italy shut down most ...
Review: Eef Barzelay leads Clem Snide to serene devastation
Clem Snide, “Forever Just Beyond” (Ramseur/Thirty Tigers)
Trump says feds developing new guidelines for virus risk
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday that federal officials are developing guidelines to rate counties by risk of virus spread, as he aim...
The Latest: Caterpillar, Deere profits to feel virus impact
NEW YORK — The Latest on the action in the financial markets (all times local):
Taylor Swift surprises some of her fans with money donations
From finding ways to help others cope to sheltering in place to canceling events, here’s a look at some of the ways the entertainment industry is reac...
Pelosi forecasts House OK of Senate’s $2.2T virus aid plan
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the massive $2.2 trillion coronavirus economic relief bill approved by the Senate will pass the House on ...
Jobless after virus lockdown, India’s poor struggle to eat
NEW DELHI — Some of India's legions of poor and people suddenly thrown out of work by a nationwide stay-at-home order began receiving aid distribution...
US hospitals rush to find beds for surge of virus patients
SEATTLE — With her due date fast approaching, Kelly McCarty packed a bag with nursing tops, a robe, slippers and granola bars. Last week's ultrasound,...
New York mobilizes against virus, Trump urges action on aid
NEW YORK — New York authorities mobilized to head off a potential public health disaster in the nation's largest city Wednesday, with its emergence as...
‘The whole city laid off’: US jobless claims climb sky high
NEW ORLEANS — Barely a week ago, David McGraw was cooking daily for hundreds of fine diners at one of New Orleans’ illustrious restaurants.
Review: `Kilo’ paints a harrowing picture of cocaine trade
“Kilo: Inside the Deadliest Cocaine Cartels – From the Jungles to the Streets,” William Morrow/Harper Collins, by Toby Muse
Review: Rollins’ Sigma Force returns in `The Last Odyssey’
``The Last Odyssey,'' Morrow, by James Rollins
Veterinarians donate vital supplies to coronavirus fight
RALEIGH, NC — Veterinary hospitals are donating breathing machines, masks, gowns and other vital equipment and supplies purchased with Fido in mind, b...
Citing virus, Putin delays vote that would extend his rule
MOSCOW — Citing the coronavirus, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday postponed a nationwide vote on proposed constitutional amendments that ...
Police struggle to enforce India’s sweeping virus lockdown
NEW DELHI — Indians struggled to comply with the world's largest coronavirus lockdown on Wednesday as the government began the gargantuan task of keep...
Of America and sacrifice: Is the country ready to step up?
WASHINGTON — For most Americans alive today, the idea of shared national sacrifice is a collective abstraction, a memory handed down from a grandparen...
Olympics delayed as Europe, US struggle with surging virus
NEW YORK — The Tokyo Olympics were postponed a year as coronavirus deaths and infections surged in Europe and the U.S. on Tuesday, with New York warni...
In pandemic, rumors of martial law fly despite reassurances
NEW YORK — Millions of Americans have been ordered to stay home. Businesses and schools are shuttered. And National Guard units have been activated in...