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...
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 ...
Judge: Dubai ruler threatened wife, had daughters abducted
LONDON — A British court found that the ruler of Dubai conducted a campaign of fear and intimidation against his estranged wife and ordered the abduct...
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 ...
Chief: Brewery attacker friendly with some victims
MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee's police chief said a man who killed five co-workers at a Wisconsin brewery was friends or at least friendly with some of the vi...
Rendon, Betts, Cole among baseball’s big offseason movers
Anthony Rendon won a World Series in Washington and then left the Nationals to join Mike Trout and Albert Pujols with the Los Angeles Angels. Gerrit C...
A record low on average 30-year fixed mortgage: 3.29%
WASHINGTON — The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage has hit a record low of 3.29%, driven down by investors shifting money into the safety of U....
Survival stories: Amid tornado devastation, beacons of hope
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. — Moments after a tornado tore through his quiet Tennessee neighborhood, Darrell Jennings walked out his front door and heard scream...
OPEC calls for big production cut, but will Russia agree?
VIENNA — The oil-producing countries of the OPEC cartel are calling for a deep production cut of 1.5 million barrels per day to support prices that ar...
Is Idaho turning a little blue? Primary might provide clues
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho last year was the fastest-growing state in the nation, with close to 37,000 new residents boosting its population to nearly 1.8 m...
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 ...
Michigan Gov. Whitmer endorses Biden days before primary
LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is backing Joe Biden for president days before the state's Democratic primary, giving the former vice ...
Spreading virus could deal big blow to malls
NEW YORK — The growing fear over a new virus has transformed busy streets and shopping centers into ghost towns in parts of China, Japan and Italy.
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...
Spanish fans disapprove of stadium closures to stem virus
BARCELONA, Spain — Measures to stem the spread of the virus in Spain have some of the country's soccer fans complaining that they will not be able to ...
Five years on, ill-prepared EU sees migrants on its borders
Brussels — Thousands of migrants massed on Greece’s borders with Turkey, and security forces struggling to keep them at bay. Five years on it feels li...
Shiffrin returns to World Cup ski circuit amid family grief
VAIL, Colo. — Mikaela Shiffrin is returning to the World Cup ski circuit in Europe, even though she might not be ready to race after a month-long abse...
UK airline Flybe collapses as virus hits weakened company
LONDON — The struggling British airline Flybe collapsed Thursday amid drops in demand caused by the new coronavirus, leaving passengers stranded and t...
International court approves Afghanistan investigation
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court gave the green light Thursday for prosecutors to open an investigation tar...
N. Korea’s Kim expresses condolences over virus in S. Korea
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a personal letter to South Korean President Moon Jae-in to express his condolences over a so...
AP PHOTOS: Venice a shell of itself as tourists flee virus
VENICE, Italy — The Carnival period in Venice usually marks the start of peak season in one of the world’s most visited cities, with hordes of tourist...
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...
Dogs, cats can’t pass on coronavirus, but can test positive
HONG KONG — Pet cats and dogs cannot pass the new coronavirus on to humans, but they can test positive for low levels of the pathogen if they catch it...
Abu Dhabi’s long-troubled Etihad reports $870M loss in 2019
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Abu Dhabi's long-troubled national carrier Etihad on Thursday reported losses of $870 million in 2019 after losing billi...
Miami’s Duncan Robinson on a record path from 3-point land
MIAMI — Duncan Robinson is about to collect a whole slew of records.
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...
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...
Flare-up in Afghan violence shows fragility of peace deal
WASHINGTON — Less than 24 hours after President Donald Trump said he had a “very good talk” with a top Taliban leader and insisted the group wants to ...
Doncic breaks Mavs’ triple-double record, beats Williamson
DALLAS — Luka Doncic scored 30 points and broke Dallas' career triple-double record with his 22nd, helping the Mavericks hold off the New Orleans Peli...
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...