Italy begins to grapple with how to ease virus restrictions
SOAVE, Italy — With warmer weather beckoning, Italians are straining against a strict lockdown to halt the coronavirus that is just now showing signs ...
Broncos star polishing both his deejay and pass rush skills
Von Miller longs to make a name for himself scratching vinyl just like he did sacking quarterbacks.
Rivera aims to start changing culture around Redskins
WASHINGTON — Ron Rivera made plenty of mistakes as a first-time NFL head coach that he hopes not to repeat this time around.
AP Was There: Future arrives with Tiger’s record Masters win
A panel of 15 golf writers were asked to vote on the top five Masters in history. They are being republished this week because the Masters has been po...
Indonesian starts business to make hazmat suit for hospitals
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Her friends who worked in hospitals cried, and Indonesian businesswoman Maryati Dimursi listened: They did not have the protectiv...
20,000: US death toll overtakes Italy’s as Midwest braces
CHICAGO — The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus eclipsed Italy's for the highest in the world Saturday at about 20,000, as Chicago and other cities...
Lives Lost: An Egyptian doctor, the ‘backbone’ of his family
CAIRO — Dr. Ahmed el-Lawah liked to gather the whole family every week at his home in the Egyptian city of Port Said — his parents, his wife and child...
Calling Trump: When connections help steer virus supplies
WASHINGTON — It was early on a Friday when Jared Kushner said he received a call from his father-in-law, President Donald Trump. Trump was hearing fro...
The Latest: Electric bands for Koreans who break quarantine
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and pe...
New York area walloped as global virus deaths pass 100,000
NEW YORK — The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus surged past 100,000 Friday as the epidemic in the U.S. cut a widening swath through not just ...
Airlines and Trump administration haggle over payroll grants
The Trump administration is proposing that a significant amount of the $25 billion in cash that airlines expected to keep workers on the job will inst...
Court lifts part of order blocking Texas abortion ban
AUSTIN, Texas — A federal appeals court on Friday partially rescinded a lower-court order that had largely blocked the enforcement of an abortion ban ...
The Latest: Pacers’ Oladipo hosts Instagram show on artists
The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world:
Ex-ambassador says Trump campaign fanning hatred with new ad
WASHINGTON — Former U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke is denouncing President Donald Trump for a new campaign ad that seems to falsely imply Locke w...
1st results in on Gilead coronavirus drug; more study needed
More than half of a group of severely ill coronavirus patients improved after receiving an experimental antiviral drug, although there’s no way to kno...
GAO: Border Patrol needlessly spent $12M at Texas facility
EL PASO, Texas — U.S. Customs and Border Protection needlessly spent around $12 million last year to guard, house and feed as many as 2,500 people in ...
NOT REAL NEWS: A week of false news around the coronavirus
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...
Trump winery eligible for bailout in virus relief law
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s Virginia vineyard could be eligible for a federal bailout under the $2.2 trillion coronavirus stimulus he signed...
DeVos reaches settlement in lawsuit over loan relief program
The U.S. Education Department is promising to process student loan forgiveness claims for nearly 170,000 borrowers within 18 months as part of a propo...
US officials: Missile defense systems now operating in Iraq
WASHINGTON — New air defense systems are now protecting American and allied forces at military bases in Iraq where troops have been attacked by Irania...
White House points to hopeful signs as deaths keep rising
WASHINGTON — At the end of a week officials had warned would be this generation's Pearl Harbor, White House officials pointed to hopeful signs Friday ...
Doctors, nurses in Good Friday procession at Vatican
VATICAN CITY — Nurses and doctors wearing their white hospital coats joined a torch-lit Good Friday procession in an hauntingly almost empty St. Peter...
Los Angeles adds new sexual battery count against Weinstein
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles prosecutors have charged imprisoned former film producer Harvey Weinstein with an additional count of felony sexual battery ...
Masters heartaches walk the fairways with green jackets
For every fist pump from Tiger Woods, there are images of Greg Norman's lonely walk across Hogan Bridge as he loses the last of his six-shot lead and ...
In Mexico, beach towns block themselves off because of virus
MEXICO CITY — In Mexico, beach towns have begun blocking off roads — in some cases, constructing barricades of rubble across roadways — to seal themse...
Gurley says deal with Falcons ‘like a little homecoming’
ATLANTA — Todd Gurley can't think of a better way to prove he is still one of the NFL's elite running backs than a homecoming to the state of Georgia.
Trump feels no need for crisis counsel from predecessors
WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush turned to one of the world's most exclusive clubs for help raising money after an Indian Ocean tsunami killed mo...
Iowa’s Garza enters draft, keeps college eligibility for now
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa All-America center Luka Garza announced he'll enter the NBA draft process without an agent so he can maintain his college eligi...
Schumer: Trump administration OKs talks on virus aid bill
WASHINGTON — Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer says the Trump administration has agreed to pursue bipartisan House-Senate talks on an interim bill to ...