Spanish league keeps plan to resume despite 5 positive tests
MADRID — The Spanish league is not changing its plan to resume competing after five players from clubs in the first and second divisions tested positi...
Italian woman returns home after 18-month African kidnapping
ROME — Wearing a surgical mask, disposable gloves and booties to guard against COVID-19, a young Italian woman returned to her homeland Sunday after 1...
Trump asking justices to bar demands for taxes, bank records
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is hoping to persuade a Supreme Court with two of his appointees to keep his tax and other financial records from ...
A big-city orchestra salvages a student’s canceled recital
Devastated after her graduate recital was canceled due to coronavirus concerns, Brooke Mead nearly gave up. Faced with recording the concert alone, at...
Coronavirus complicates safety for families living together
CHICAGO — At the age of 24, Francy Sandoval has unwittingly become the sole breadwinner for her family, after her mom, dad and brother — a nanny, a pa...
New Iraq PM releases protesters, promotes respected general
BAGHDAD — Iraq's judiciary ordered courts on Sunday to release anti-government protesters, carrying out one of the first decisions of the recently ina...
Profits up for Emirates Air, but revenue down amid pandemic
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The Middle East's biggest carrier, Emirates, announced on Sunday profits of $288 million over the past year even as reve...
Virus delay, early ice melt challenge Arctic science mission
BERLIN — They prepared for icy cold and trained to be on the watch for polar bears, but a pandemic just wasn't part of the program.
UFC 249 ushers in fan-free, mask-filled era of sports
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Kicks, punches and grunts echoed through the empty arena. Coaches, commentators and camera clicks resonated like never before. Bl...
Taliban say they don’t have missing US contractor
ISLAMABAD — Taliban leaders searched their ranks, including the much-feared Haqqani network, and on Sunday told The Associated Press they are not hold...
Virus prevents diaspora Venezuelans from sending money home
CARACAS, Venezuela — After fleeing Venezuela along with millions of others amid the country's grueling humanitarian crisis, Misael Cocho made his way ...
In Japan, pandemic brings outbreaks of bullying, ostracism
TOKYO — The coronavirus in Japan has brought not just an epidemic of infections, but also an onslaught of bullying and discrimination against the sick...
Visitors flock to Smoky Mountains park on reopening day
GATLINBURG, Tenn. — The reopening of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was a little too tempting of a draw Saturday as scores of nature lovers f...
The Latest: Airline trade group OK with temperature checks
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and pe...
Jagger, Dylan, Quincy Jones react to death of Little Richard
Reaction to the death of rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Little Richard, who died Saturday at 87.
Hamlin closes NASCAR’s iRacing Series with another victory
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Denny Hamlin closed NASCAR's iRacing Series with a victory at a simulation of throwback North Wilkesboro Speedway.
A distinct possibility: ‘Temporary’ layoffs may be permanent
WASHINGTON — In late March, Britney Ruby Miller, co-owner of a small chain of steakhouse restaurants, confidently proclaimed that once the viral outbr...
Musk threatens to exit California over virus restrictions
Tesla CEO Elon Musk threatened Saturday to pull the company’s factory and headquarters out of California in an escalating spat with local officials wh...
The Latest: Dynamo Dresden return on hold after positives
The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world:
Crash Course: Steelers rookies adapting to “virtual” path
PITTSBURGH — This isn't quite the way Anthony McFarland expected his NFL career to begin. Then again, the rookie running back knows he's not the only ...
Harlem figure skating gala pivots from ice to internet
Unable to stage its big fundraiser because of the pandemic, Figure Skating in Harlem is going from the ice to the internet.
NY’s Cuomo criticized over highest nursing home death toll
NEW YORK — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has won bipartisan praise for rallying supplies for his ravaged hospitals and helping slow the coronavirus,...
Little Richard, flamboyant rock ‘n’ roll pioneer, dead at 87
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Little Richard, the self-proclaimed “architect of rock ‘n’ roll” whose piercing wail, pounding piano and towering pompadour irrevoc...
Small tribes seal borders, push testing to keep out virus
PICURIS PUEBLO, N.M. — On a dusty plaza in a Native American village that dates back nearly a millennium, a steady trickle of vehicles inched through ...
Andre Harrell, music exec who discovered Diddy, dies at 59
NEW YORK — Andre Harrell, the Uptown Records founder who shaped the sound of hip-hop and R&B in the late ’80s and ’90s with acts such as Mary J. B...
Hamilton gets empty feeling thinking about F1 without fans
PARIS — Driving around Formula One tracks without fans cheering at Silverstone and Monza would literally feel “very empty” for world champion Lewis Ha...
Belarus holds Victory Day parade, disregarding coronavirus
MINSK, Belarus — The eastern European nation of Belarus held a full-fledged military parade Saturday to mark Victory Day, shrugging off safety concern...
Egypt’s president expands powers, citing virus outbreak
CAIRO — Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has approved amendments to the country's state of emergency that grant him and security agencies addit...
Harvesters struggle to recruit foreign crews during pandemic
BELLE PLAINE, Kan. — Kansas harvester Mike Keimig is growing increasingly anxious about whether the foreign seasonal workers he needs to run his nine ...
Georgia man’s death raises echoes of US racial terror legacy
BRUNSWICK, Ga. — Many people saw more than the last moments of Ahmaud Arbery's life when a video emerged this week of white men armed with guns confro...