With rural Kansas close to reopening, doctor remains nervous
TOPEKA, Kan. — Dr. Beth Oller would like Kansas to remain under a stay-at-home order a while longer, even as some neighbors in her rural northwest cou...
NYPD cracks down on another big funeral, stoking tensions
NEW YORK — Tensions between police and members of New York City’s Hasidic Jewish community flared again Thursday as officers interrupted a crowded fun...
Beachgoers seen carrying virus more than sand or surf
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — Maureen Osborne is torn by the state's decision to close the sweeping, scenic beach just a 10-minute walk from her home.
Mari Winsor, Pilates guru and celebrity trainer, dies at 70
LOS ANGELES — Mari Winsor, a celebrity trainer for Hollywood’s elite who became known as a Pilates guru, has died. She was 70.
Review: In ‘All Day and a Night,’ a circular crime drama
Joe Robert Cole’s “All Day and a Night” is a tough and anguished drama that somberly spirals around the circular tragedies of crime and incarceration.
Trump says US can never declare ‘total victory’ over virus
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he believes the U.S. can never declare “total victory” over the coronavirus because too many pe...
Ex-prosecutor reprimanded for appealing to jurors’ emotions
PHOENIX — A former prosecutor best known for winning a murder conviction against Jodi Arias in the gruesome killing of her former boyfriend was reprim...
Economic figures show grim toll in Europe and US from virus
NEW YORK — Bleak new figures Thursday underscored the worldwide economic pain inflicted by the coronavirus: The number of Americans filing for unemplo...
NASA goes private for 1st astronaut lunar landers in decades
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA is turning to private industry for the first lunar landers for astronauts in a half-century, with three competing, quite c...
‘And then, boom’: Outbreak shows shaky ground as Texas opens
PARIS, Texas — Barely a week ago, rural Lamar County could make a pretty good argument for Texas' reopening on Friday.
Sex assault allegation raises questions for Biden, Democrats
WASHINGTON — A sexual assault allegation is Joe Biden's first big challenge as the Democrats' presidential nominee, fueling Republican attacks and lea...
Navy hospital ships, once thought critical, see few patients
About a month ago, with Los Angeles girding for a potentially crippling surge of coronavirus cases, a massive white Navy hospital ship chugged into po...
Coronavirus and other causes driving surge in US deaths
NEW YORK — The U.S. has seen at least 66,000 more deaths than usual so far this year, according to government data, and the new coronavirus accounts f...
Virus-related delays for Universal parks in Florida, Japan
ORLANDO, Fla. — The company that owns Universal theme parks around the world said it's delaying construction on a fourth theme park in Florida and tha...
Brazilians start defying isolation, egged on by Bolsonaro
RIO DE JANEIRO — Divina Baldomero awoke, looked out the window at Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana beach under a cloudless sky, and decided to take her fir...
US can soon start sending people seeking asylum to Honduras
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has finalized an agreement with Honduras that would allow some people seeking asylum in the United States to be ...
NYC subway halting overnight service for virus cleaning
NEW YORK — New York City's subway system will shut down each day from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. to increase cleaning of trains and stations during the coronavi...
A coronavirus drug seems to work. What’s next?
News that an experimental drug seems to be the first effective treatment for the new coronavirus has unleashed a flurry of interest from doctors and p...
KC uses 5th-year option on Mahomes, works on long-term deal
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs insist Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes will play for them for the foreseeable future.
NASCAR to resume season May 17 with seven races in 10 days
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR announced Thursday that it will resume its season without fans starting May 17 at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina with t...
‘Unconscionable’ body overflow at funeral home prompts probe
NEW YORK — A New York City funeral home that resorted to storing dozens of bodies on ice in rented trucks after it was overwhelmed by coronavirus deat...
New Orleans musicians find way to soothe the city with music
NEW ORLEANS — On Saturday afternoons, pianist Harry Mayronne wheels a piano onto the front porch of the home of jazz singer Anais St. John for their w...
Army defends decision to have West Point graduation
WASHINGTON — The Army's top leaders on Thursday defended their decision to bring 1,000 cadets back to the Military Academy at West Point for graduatio...
New jobless hope seeds of tourism can be resown in Big Apple
For New York City tour guide Megan Marod, the first warning of the pandemic's financial toll came weeks before Broadway’s theaters and Manhattan’s mus...
Twitter stock slips amid pandemic-caused revenue uncertainty
OAKLAND, Calif. — Twitter's stock tumbled Thursday after the company failed to show that it's weathering the pandemic-borne digital advertising slump ...
This time, Pence wears mask as he tours Indiana plant
WASHINGTON — This time, he wore a mask.
Serbia opposition stage curfew protest against government
BELGRADE, Serbia — A group of Serbian opposition leaders on Thursday staged a protest during an evening curfew to voice their criticism of the populis...
Workers must risk infection or losing unemployment payments
ATLANTA — Some of the millions of American workers laid off because of the coronavirus are beginning to face a tough choice — return to work and risk ...
Pork producer says it needs flexibility on virus guidelines
O'FALLON, Mo. — The world's largest pork producer told a judge in Missouri on Thursday that it was working as quickly as it can to comply with federal...
Germany relaxes lockdown for playgrounds, churches and zoos
BERLIN — German authorities agreed Thursday to reopen playgrounds, churches and cultural institutions such as museums and zoos that have been shuttere...