Coronavirus roils every segment of US child welfare system
NEW YORK — Child welfare agencies across the U.S., often beleaguered in the best of times, are scrambling to confront new challenges that the coronavi...
AP Interview: Roger Penske talks postponing Indianapolis 500
Roger Penske, at 83 and considered high risk for the coronavirus as a 2017 kidney transplant recipient, still makes the daily three-minute commute to ...
Rosneft hands Venezuelan oil business to Russian state firm
MOSCOW — Russia’s Rosneft oil company said Saturday that it's halting operations in Venezuela and selling its assets there to a company fully owned by...
NCAA’s greatest hits: Austin Carr’s record 61 points in 1970
Austin Carr played for Notre Dame in an era when prolific scorers dominated college basketball.
AP Was There: Villanova shoots lights out to upend Hoyas
A panel of Associated Press sports writers voted in March 2020 on the top 10 men's basketball games in the history of the NCAA Tournament. They are be...
Brazil’s Bolsonaro makes life-or-death coronavirus gamble
RIO DE JANEIRO — Even as coronavirus cases mount in Latin America’s largest nation, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has staked out the most deliber...
Locked up: No masks, sanitizer as virus spreads behind bars
Something was wrong. The chow hall line at New York’s Rikers Island jail had halted. For three hours, the men stood and waited, without food, until a ...
Texts, not door-knocks: Census outreach shifts amid virus
ORLANDO, Fla. — In tiny Munfordville, Kentucky, the closure of the public library has cut people off from a computer used only for filling out census ...
Analysis: Virus pulls federalism debate into 21st Century
WASHINGTON — A flu pandemic was ravaging the world, killing indiscriminately in almost every country, including more than 600,000 deaths in the United...
Players and musicians in Spanish festival to fight virus
MADRID — Soccer players and celebrities will take part in a global music festival on Saturday organized by the Spanish league in order to raise funds ...
On Wall Street, some optimism penetrates the uncertainty
Stocks rallied this week as Washington acted to provide $2.2 trillion of relief to an economy shocked by the coronavirus outbreak, leaving some on Wal...
Living outside lockdown: Barbers, beauty shops still open
ELGIN, S.C. — With South Carolina's first coronavirus hot spot just a short jaunt up the highway, Johellen Lee hadn't been out for anything but grocer...
Hawks no more: Fiscal conservatives embrace rescue package
NEW YORK — Republicans who have spent the past decade howling about the danger of ballooning deficits embraced the coronavirus rescue package approved...
Virus prevention measures turn violent in parts of Africa
JOHANNESBURG — Police fired tear gas at a crowd of Kenyan ferry commuters as the country’s first day of a coronavirus curfew slid into chaos. Elsewher...
A walk through town: Families, coronavirus and togetherness
GLEN ALLEN, Va. — In a quiet suburb just north of Richmond, Virginia, a mother and her three children spend a weekday afternoon planting a small garde...
Indian authorities send buses to take unemployed to villages
NEW DELHI — Authorities sent a fleet of buses to the outskirts of India's capital on Saturday to meet an exodus of migrant workers desperately trying ...
The Latest: UN says 86 staffers around world reported cases
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and pe...
Students provide sanitizers to daily workers to fight virus
JAKARTA, Indonesia — They toil on the fringes, without any job security or set hours or decent wages. And the coronavirus has made their already diffi...
NYC subway driver killed in fire being investigated as crime
NEW YORK — A New York City subway driver was killed and several other people were injured early Friday in a fire on a train that is being investigated...
Trump boosts virus aid, warns governors to be ‘appreciative’
WASHINGTON — After days of desperate pleas from the nation’s governors, President Donald Trump took a round of steps Friday to expand the federal gove...
NOT REAL NEWS: Debunking yet more false coronavirus content
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...
‘The day the music died’: Coronavirus tests New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — There were the great fires of 1788 and 1794 and the multiple yellow fever outbreaks of the 1800s. Hurricane Betsy hit in 1965, Hurricane...
Eiffel Tower says “Merci” to health workers fighting virus
PARIS — Health workers racing to save lives as France contends with one of the world's worst coronavirus outbreaks have received a huge show of gratit...
PG&E to use wildfire victims fund to pay for past crimes
BERKELEY, Calif. — Pacific Gas & Electric is warning its elaborate plan for getting out of bankruptcy might collapse if the utility can’t pay for ...
UN health agency settles in for long fight with virus
GENEVA — The World Health Organization’s emergencies chief said Friday that widespread testing for the new coronavirus is crucial and countries should...
Closed caskets, empty chairs at funeral home in virus center
NEW YORK — The caskets are often closed these days, the chairs for mourners largely empty at the Gerard J. Neufeld Inc. funeral home.
Column: As we battle virus, don’t forget 1919 Stanley Cup
Anyone who scoffs at all these drastic measures to deal with the coronavirus outbreak, who wonders if it's really necessary to shut down sports around...
Florida orders Louisiana arrivals into quarantine
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday ordered anyone arriving in the state from Louisiana to self-quarantine like those arriving...
Trump signs $2.2T stimulus after swift congressional votes
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an unprecedented $2.2 trillion economic rescue package into law Friday, after swift and near-unanimous acti...
Meadows toggles between legislator, White House roles
WASHINGTON — When it came time to heave the largest aid package in U.S. history over the finish line, Republican Rep. Mark Meadows was the closer, wor...