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NOT REAL NEWS: Falsehoods around the virus and politics

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared wid...
20:44 13 March 2020

AP FACT CHECK: Trump misrepresents Obama’s actions on H1N1

WASHINGTON — One day, President Donald Trump boasted of “smooth” coronavirus testing across the country. The next day, he pronounced the testing syste...
20:05 13 March 2020

Louisiana governor to move primary because of coronavirus

BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana's governor said Friday that he intended to postpone the state's presidential primaries due to fears of the coronavirus, w...
19:29 13 March 2020

Census faces challenges as it aims to hire up to 500,000

ORLANDO, Fla. — The U.S. Census Bureau said it has reached its goal of recruiting more than 2.6 million applicants for the once-a-decade head count th...
19:17 13 March 2020

Canada shuts Parliament, Trudeau in quarantine, no travel

TORONTO — Canada shut down Parliament and advised against all nonessential travel outside the country while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau governed rem...
16:28 13 March 2020

US general: US strikes destroy weapons depots, more remain

WASHINGTON — The U.S. retaliatory airstrikes against militants in Iraq destroyed five weapons depots, but the top U.S commander for the Middle East ac...
15:09 13 March 2020

Iraq army says US strikes kill 5 security forces, 1 civilian

BAGHDAD — Iraq's military said five security force members and a civilian were killed early Friday in a barrage of U.S. airstrikes launched hours afte...
13:24 13 March 2020

Asian shares plunge after Wall Street’s worst day since ’87

NEW YORK — Shares have plunged in Asia, with Japan’s benchmark sinking 10% after Wall Street suffered its biggest drop since the Black Monday crash of...
1:55 13 March 2020

Biden pivots focus to Trump amid coronavirus concerns

WILMINGTON, Del. — Joe Biden blasted President Donald Trump's response to the coronavirus outbreak on Thursday and outlined how he would combat the th...
23:25 12 March 2020

As central banks intervene to calm markets, few see solution

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank moved Thursday to try to calm financial markets and restore some degree of confidence. ...
22:08 12 March 2020

Coronavirus brings entertainment world to a standstill

NEW YORK — The entertainment industry prepared Thursday for an unprecedented shutdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus, canceling upcoming movies...
21:41 12 March 2020

The Latest: Investors unsure how virus will impact profits

NEW YORK — The Latest on the action in the financial markets (all times local):
20:42 12 March 2020

Talking to kids about virus? Experts say be calm and honest

It was a routine game of schoolyard tag — except the children had dubbed this version “coronavirus.” The kids ran around and tagged one another, but i...
18:10 12 March 2020

Nervous consumers around world pull back amid viral outbreak

WASHINGTON — Buffeted by fears of the fast-spreading coronavirus, consumers in the United States and overseas are showing increasing signs of cutting ...
16:23 12 March 2020

Heartbreak hotel: No Elvis or Route 66 for barred Europeans

PARIS — A Las Vegas wedding with an Elvis impersonator: Canceled. A 3,500-kilometer (2,200-mile) trans-America road trip, a voyage of a lifetime that ...
15:25 12 March 2020

Trump clamps limits on travel from Europe to US for 30 days

WASHINGTON — Taking dramatic action, President Donald Trump announced he is sharply restricting passenger travel from 26 European nations to the U.S. ...
13:16 12 March 2020

Iraq will investigate attack on base that killed US troops

BAGHDAD — Iraq's military Thursday said it opened an investigation into a rocket attack hours earlier that killed three servicemen, including two Amer...
9:29 12 March 2020

The new mask: Wave of global revolt replaced by virus fear

BEIRUT — As 2019 gave way to 2020 in a cloud of tear gas, and in some cases a hail of bullets, from Hong Kong to Baghdad, from Beirut to Barcelona and...
6:28 12 March 2020

Asian shares sink after Dow hits bear level on pandemic news

TOKYO — Asian shares plunged Thursday after the World Health Organization declared a coronavirus pandemic and indexes sank on Wall Street.
4:46 12 March 2020

The Latest: US advises Americans to reconsider travel abroad

The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic:
4:30 12 March 2020

Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson test positive for coronavirus

NEW YORK — Tom Hanks and his actress-singer wife Rita Wilson have tested positive for the coronavirus, the actor said in a statement Wednesday.
3:39 12 March 2020

NCAA tournaments are on _ for now _ but mostly without fans

The NCAA basketball tournaments are on — for now — though the buzzer-beaters, upsets and all the other shining moments will take place in mostly empty...
3:32 12 March 2020

The Latest: Stock futures signal more losses in US markets

NEW YORK — The Latest on the action in the financial markets (all times local):
2:11 12 March 2020

Iditarod’s oldest musher quits, another gives dogs CBD oil

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A musher reached an Iditarod milestone and was feted with prizes made from beaver and moose.
0:37 12 March 2020

Will heat stop the spread of new virus? No one really knows

JAKARTA, Indonesia — As outbreaks of the new coronavirus that first emerged in China continue to spread in more than 100 countries — particularly thos...
0:15 12 March 2020

Tiger Woods elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Already among the greatest on the golf course, Tiger Woods will join them in the World Golf Hall of Fame.
21:38 11 March 2020

Trump, GOP allies move quickly to discredit, attack Biden

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his allies are planning sustained personal and reputational attacks against Joe Biden, casting him as ill-equi...
21:35 11 March 2020

House votes to tighten oversight of federal surveillance

WASHINGTON — Congress has taken a first step toward addressing errors made by the FBI during its investigation of the Trump campaign and Russia, with ...
21:18 11 March 2020

What’s Happening: Pandemic declared, virus survival studied

New clusters of the novel coronavirus are expanding in the United States and Europe as Italy replaces China as the current epicenter of a worldwide ou...
21:02 11 March 2020

US appeals judges hear Down syndrome abortion arguments

CINCINNATI — Federal judges on Wednesday sharply questioned attorneys on both sides of an Ohio law that faces doctors with a felony charge if they per...
20:59 11 March 2020