Medicare applications raise anxiety for seniors in pandemic
WASHINGTON — At greater risk from COVID-19, some seniors now face added anxiety due to delays obtaining Medicare coverage.
China to convene Congress, showing confidence in virus fight
BEIJING — China has decided to hold the annual meeting of its ceremonial parliament late next month after postponing it for weeks because of the coron...
Rep. Amash exploring 2020 run for Libertarian nomination
WASHINGTON — Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan said Tuesday that he is launching an exploratory committee for the 2020 Libertarian Party's presidential no...
FBI documents reveal communication between Stone, Assange
WASHINGTON — Weeks after Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel in the Russia investigation, Roger Stone, a confidant of President Donald Trump,...
Sailors head back to aircraft carrier hit by virus outbreak
WASHINGTON — Navy sailors who have been quarantined on Guam for weeks will begin moving back to the USS Theodore Roosevelt Tuesday night, U.S. officia...
Ex-NAACP leader Kweisi Mfume wins Maryland seat in Congress
BALTIMORE — Democrat Kweisi Mfume won a special election Tuesday to finish the term of the late Elijah Cummings, retaking a Maryland congressional sea...
Ford burns up billions of dollars in 1Q, posts $2B net loss
DETROIT — The coronavirus crisis is forcing Ford Motor Co. to burn through cash at an alarming rate, but its chief financial officer says there's enou...
Baffert rallies for return of live racing at Santa Anita
LOS ANGELES — Kentucky Derby-winning trainers Bob Baffert and Doug O'Neill joined horse racing advocates rallying outside a Los Angeles County Board o...
Money for meals for California seniors could end in 2 weeks
LOS ANGELES — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s first-in-the-nation plan to pay for and deliver three meals a day to vulnerable seniors during the corona...
Q&A: With rock-bottom prices, will the oil industry recover?
NEW YORK — With a barrel of crude oil costing less than a New York pizza, many U.S. shale producers are being pushed to the brink of bankruptcy and ex...
In rural US, fears of virus seem far away as stores reopen
ROUNDUP, Mont. — Traffic got a little busier along Main Street, but otherwise, it was hard to tell that coronavirus restrictions were ending in the ti...
Coast Guard, Ripley Entertainment criticized in boat crash
LIBERTY, Mo. — A duck boat sinking on a Missouri Lake that killed 17 people two summers ago likely would not have happened if the U.S. Coast Guard had...
Worried about virus, US House won’t return — for now
WASHINGTON — Facing the stark, startling reality that Congress may not be able to fully resume for a year, House leaders are desperately reaching for ...
Oklahoma, Utah face scrutiny over malaria drug purchases
OKLAHOMA CITY — Republican state leaders in Oklahoma and Utah are facing scrutiny for spending millions of dollars combined to purchase malaria drugs ...
Column: No fans means same sport, different arena
Rory McIlroy contemplated what golf would be like without fans. This was five days before there was no golf at all.
Easing lockdowns makes day-to-day choices more complicated
Things were so much clearer when just about everything was locked down.
Trump says US closer to testing international air travelers
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday his administration is considering requiring travelers on certain incoming international flights to un...
Gov’t OKs $50B in small biz loans, banks complain of snags
NEW YORK — The government says it has approved an additional $50 billion in loans to small businesses, although banks are complaining that a bottlenec...
Bolsonaro’s latest crisis threatens Brazil’s virus response
RIO DE JANEIRO — As Brazil careens toward a full-blown public health emergency and economic meltdown, President Jair Bolsonaro has managed to add a th...
Pence comes under fire for going maskless at Mayo Clinic
ROCHESTER, Minn. — Vice President Mike Pence chose not to wear a face mask Tuesday during a tour of the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, an apparent violatio...
Nearly 70 dead in ‘horrific’ outbreak at veterans’ home
Nearly 70 residents sickened with the coronavirus have died at a central Massachusetts home for aging veterans, as state and federal officials try to ...
Hillary Clinton becomes latest Democrat to endorse Biden
Hillary Clinton, the first woman to become a major party's presidential nominee, endorsed Joe Biden's White House bid on Tuesday, continuing Democrats...
New love for pretty, old-fashioned Grandmother’s Gardens
Even before the coronavirus crisis sparked renewed interest in vegetable gardens and victory gardens, there’s been a movement toward more traditional ...
Ryan Murphy’s ‘Hollywood’ miniseries is a woke ’40s fantasy
LOS ANGELES — Ryan Murphy has a clear-eyed fascination with the 20th-century Hollywood dream machine, so adroit at making stars and breaking the heart...
In a new podcast, Bogdanovich tries to make sense of it all
LOS ANGELES — Podcasts make sense to Peter Bogdanovich, even if so much else doesn’t.
Sanders advisers form Super PAC to back Biden, push him left
WASHINGTON — Top advisers to Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign are forming an outside political group to support the candidate who beat him in the...
UK mourns ‘fallen’ front-line workers, expands virus testing
LONDON — The U.K. held a minute's silence Tuesday for all front-line workers who have died from the coronavirus, as the government extended its testin...
Belgians urged to double down on fries, do national duty
BRUSSELS — In a country that claims to be the real birthplace of the finger food that Americans have the temerity to call French fries, rescuing the p...
Blood test helped detect cancer before symptoms, study finds
For the first time, a blood test has been shown to help detect many types of cancer in a study of thousands of people with no history or symptoms of t...
University of Michigan hopes to settle doctor abuse lawsuits
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The University of Michigan hopes to settle lawsuits from hundreds of people who say they were sexually abused by a sports doctor wh...