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Washington, DC, gets its first coronavirus pop-up shop

WASHINGTON — The nation's capital has pop up shops for food and drink, even marijuana. And now, coronavirus prevention supplies.
7:47 6 March 2020

Trump set to sign $8.3B bill to fight coronavirus outbreak

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is expected to sign an $8.3 billion measure to help tackle the coronavirus outbreak. The legislation would provide...
5:08 6 March 2020

Alabama executes man convicted in killing of 3 officers

ATMORE, Ala. — A man convicted as an accomplice in the 2004 killings of three police officers in Alabama who were shot by another man was executed Thu...
4:50 6 March 2020

Asian shares drop as virus fears grip markets again

TOKYO — Asian shares slipped Friday as fears about the virus outbreak once again dominated financial markets.
4:12 6 March 2020

Judge sharply rebukes Barr’s handling of Mueller report

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday sharply rebuked Attorney General William Barr's handling of the special counsel's Russia report, saying Barr ...
23:52 5 March 2020

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s mislaid blame on Obama for virus test

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his officials are falsely asserting that they’ve accelerated coronavirus testing by easing a restrictive polic...
23:47 5 March 2020

The Latest: Dems haven’t requested Secret Service protection

WASHINGTON — The Latest on the 2020 presidential election (all times local):
23:38 5 March 2020

Esper says new virus won’t prevent military operations

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military and its warfighting command centers in the Pentagon are prepared to continue operations even if there is a local outbre...
23:12 5 March 2020

‘Simple greed’: Ex-UAW leader Jones charged with corruption

DETROIT — Prosecutors on Thursday charged the former president of the United Auto Workers with corruption, alleging he conspired with others to embezz...
20:37 5 March 2020

Virus cancels exams and jeopardizes Chinese students’ plans

HARTFORD, Conn. — Universities that rely on international enrollment are expected to take a big hit in the next academic year as canceled entrance exa...
19:26 5 March 2020

Worries over virus prompt changes in many worship services

NEW YORK — A rising number of churches across the United States are making changes in response to the coronavirus outbreak, including a decision by nu...
18:13 5 March 2020

Critics of Oprah book club title put new novel on trial

TUCSON, Arizona — When Oprah Winfrey chose the novel “American Dirt” for her book club, she imagined engaging in an impassioned television dialog abou...
17:02 5 March 2020

Cruise ship is held off California coast for virus testing

SAN FRANCISCO — Scrambling to keep the coronavirus at bay, officials ordered a cruise ship to hold off the California coast Thursday to await testing ...
16:58 5 March 2020

Civil rights: The road to Bloody Sunday began 30 miles away

MARION, Ala. — Della Simpson Maynor remembers the mounted police officer cracking her elbow with a baton. She recalls the panicked marchers unable to ...
16:29 5 March 2020

EU’s Barnier warns of big divergences with UK in talks

BRUSSELS — The EU's chief negotiator in trade talks with former member Britain warned Thursday of “serious divergences" between the two sides after th...
13:50 5 March 2020

Biden: Maybe it’s time to consider Secret Service protection

WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Joe Biden says that he's worried that protesters have stormed the stage when he's been speaking at campaign events ...
13:46 5 March 2020

Trump cheers Bloomberg implosion, but Biden worries linger

WASHINGTON — While Super Tuesday left the Democrats with a pair of front-runners President Donald Trump believes he can define and defeat, there are s...
12:50 5 March 2020

Airstrike in northwest Syria kills 15 ahead of Moscow summit

BEIRUT — An airstrike on a rebel-held village in northwest Syria hit a poultry farm where several displaced families were sheltering early Thursday, k...
8:23 5 March 2020

Gadgets for tech giants made with coerced Uighur labor

NANCHANG, China — In a lively Muslim quarter of Nanchang city, a sprawling Chinese factory turns out computer screens, cameras and fingerprint scanner...
6:03 5 March 2020

Biden’s victories unleash something he’s never had: Money

WASHINGTON — Strapped for cash and badly outspent by his rivals, Joe Biden barely had enough money to air television ads in critical Super Tuesday bat...
5:49 5 March 2020

Asian shares rise following stimulus-led surge on Wall St

TOKYO — Asian shares rose Thursday, taking their cue from a surge on Wall Street as governments and central banks took more aggressive measures to fig...
4:39 5 March 2020

The Latest: Australia bans travel from S Korea over virus

BANGKOK — The Latest on the virus outbreak (all times local):
3:18 5 March 2020

Forced online by virus, China’s schools run into censorship

BEIJING — Less than 30 minutes into a lecture on bioinformatics, Chu Xinjian's class was abruptly cut short.
2:31 5 March 2020

Warren reassesses path forward after dismal Super Tuesday

WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Warren huddled with her campaign advisers on Wednesday to determine if there was a reason to stay in the Democratic presidentia...
0:44 5 March 2020

California delegate wave didn’t quite break as expected

LOS ANGELES — While Sen. Bernie Sanders mined the motherlode of delegates from California on Super Tuesday, it wasn’t nearly enough and isn’t getting ...
23:14 4 March 2020

The Latest: Biden pledges unity as nomination fight narrows

WASHINGTON — The Latest on the 2020 presidential election (all times local):
22:59 4 March 2020

Feds investigate nursing home as U.S. death toll hits 11

SEATTLE — The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus climbed to 11 on Wednesday with a patient succumbing in California — the first reported fatality ou...
22:31 4 March 2020

Ending campaign, Bloomberg says defeating Trump his priority

NEW YORK — In just over 100 days, Mike Bloomberg spent over $500 million of his own fortune in a quixotic bid for the presidency that collapsed in stu...
21:22 4 March 2020

Warren reevaluates, Bloomberg drops out after Super Tuesday

LOS ANGELES — New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg suspended his presidential campaign and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren was reassessing her cand...
19:58 4 March 2020

Virus death rate still uncertain as mild cases are missed

WASHINGTON — How deadly is the coronavirus that exploded from China? The answer reflects a hard reality about fast-moving outbreaks: As cases pop up i...
17:58 4 March 2020