Divided Senate confirms Ratcliffe as intelligence chief
WASHINGTON — A sharply divided Senate confirmed John Ratcliffe as director of national intelligence on Thursday, with Democrats refusing to support th...
Lace them up: Boxing set for June 9 return in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS — Add boxing to the list of sports on the comeback trail.
Trump counting on Supreme Court to block probes, lawsuits
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump won at least a temporary reprieve from the Supreme Court earlier this week in keeping secret grand jury materials ...
Clinton and Patterson again team up for political thriller
NEW YORK — After co-writing the best-selling adult novel of 2018, Bill Clinton and James Patterson have teamed up for another political thriller.
US seeking industry cooperation on future medical supplies
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials are invoking a rarely used provision of American law that would shield companies from antitrust regulations to help the co...
AP-NORC poll: State and U.S. government virus approval dips
WASHINGTON — Views of how government at all levels is handling the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. have deteriorated somewhat over the past month, as...
AP-NORC poll: Trump approval remains steady during pandemic
WASHINGTON — As the coronavirus pandemic stretches on, Americans’ views of the federal and state government response to the crisis are starting to sou...
Homebuilders climb even as housing outlook remains cloudy
LOS ANGELES — The U.S. economy and housing market had set homebuilders up for a strong 2020.
DA: 91 more drug cases tied to ex-Texas cop to be dismissed
HOUSTON — Prosecutors announced Thursday they expect to dismiss at least 91 more drug convictions tied to an indicted ex-Houston police officer whose ...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s false ‘Choice’ on vets’ health care
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is putting forth a false “Choice" when he boasts about a program aimed at improving veterans' health care by steer...
Job market remains grim even as U.S. tentatively reopens
WASHINGTON — Signs of renewed activity are surfacing across the country as states gradually reopen economies and some businesses call a portion of the...
Brady’s Super Bowl journeys to be part of 2021 ESPN series
Tom Brady's journey to each of his nine Super Bowls with the New England Patriots will be the subject of an ESPN series released next year.
US long-term mortgage rates ease; 30-year at 3.24%
WASHINGTON — Long-term U.S. mortgage rates eased this week in a housing market battered by the shutdown spurred by the coronavirus pandemic. Rates hov...
Vanderbilt’s Lee becomes SEC’s 1st woman athletic director
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Vanderbilt has removed the interim title, making Candice Storey Lee the first woman to become an athletic director in the Southeast...
Virus cases spike in California county on Mexican border
EL CENTRO, Calif. — As much of California begins reopening businesses amid improved coronavirus conditions, a farming region on the state's border wit...
News executive, ex-US Rep William Keating remembered warmly
CINCINNATI — Bill Keating is remembered widely as gentlemanly, considerate and modest. Underneath that genial exterior was a fiercely competitive and ...
Locusts, COVID-19, flooding pose ‘triple threat’ in Africa
KAMPALA, Uganda — Locusts, COVID-19 and deadly flooding pose a “triple threat” to millions of people across East Africa, officials warned Thursday, wh...
Film: ‘Roe’ plaintiff says her anti-abortion switch was act
WASHINGTON — Norma McCorvey loved the limelight. Better known as “Jane Roe,” her story was at the center of the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade th...
NASA, SpaceX bringing astronaut launches back to home turf
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — For the first time in nearly a decade, U.S. astronauts are about to blast into orbit aboard an American rocket from American so...
AP Interview: Opposition leader says PM embarrassing Israel
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel’s new opposition leader said Thursday that Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming corruption trial is “embarrassing” the country and ...
Gone fishing? Thrower’s Olympic dreams capsized by silly fib
It makes no difference whether Mark Dry was at the fishing hole or at his parents' house on the day that all but pulverized what's left of his Olympic...
‘Very unprepared:’ DEA shakeup followed mounting criticism
MIAMI — It's an agency with a critical mission of keeping American streets safe from narcotics. But in recent years, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Adminis...
US existing home sales plunge 17.8% in April
WASHINGTON — Sales of existing homes plunged 17.8% in April with the real estate market still in the grips of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Who’s Roger Daltrey concerned about teens with cancer
NEW YORK — Roger Daltrey worries that the coronavirus pandemic will have a devastating effect on a special group of people in need — teens with cancer
‘Invisible demon’: Virus hits even top-rated nursing homes
HARTFORD, Conn. — The Abbott Terrace Health Center in Waterbury, where 41 residents have died from the coronavirus, has been cited by regulators for i...
Loughlin, Giannulli to serve prison time for college scam
“Full House” Actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, agreed to serve prison time as part of a plea deal in the coll...
Cape Town is virus hot spot for South Africa and continent
JOHANNESBURG — Cape Town has become the center of the COVID-19 outbreak in South Africa and one of Africa's hot spots.
The Latest: Another Dynamo Dresden player tests positive
The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world:
VIRUS DIARY: When you prefer it anyway, staying in isn’t bad
PHOENIX — Like you, I’ve been locked away at home for two months. But for me, not much has changed.