Storms, tornadoes damage homes, businesses in Midwest, South
Strong storms that brought tornadoes, high winds, hail and rain to parts of the Midwest and South caused extensive damage in some areas but no deaths,...
Brooks, Trisha Yearwood to perform requests on live special
LOS ANGELES — Garth Brooks and wife Trisha Yearwood will be taking viewer requests during a live prime-time show this week filmed at their home.
Largest US dam removal stirs debate over coveted West water
KLAMATH, Calif. — The second-largest river in California has sustained Native American tribes with plentiful salmon for millennia, provided upstream f...
Legislatures meet remotely, limit public as virus spreads
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Members of the Arkansas House met in a college basketball arena, spaced out among 5,600 seats, as they voted on ways to cover a ...
States scramble to arrange child care for essential workers
ALBANY, N.Y. — A nurse and a single mother, Becca Rosselli had a choice to make when her daughter's school and care programs closed for the coronaviru...
The Latest: Spanish league raises $740,000 for virus relief
The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world:
Uganda’s Bobi Wine sings against virus, criticizes leaders
KAMPALA, Uganda — Ugandan pop star and opposition leader Bobi Wine, who released a song urging Africa's people to wash their hands to stop the spread ...
US-led forces pull out of 3rd Iraqi base this month
BAGHDAD — The U.S.-led coalition withdrew on Sunday from a military base in northern Iraq that nearly launched Washington into an open war with neighb...
Counties without coronavirus are mostly rural, poor
SANTA FE, N.M. — As the coronavirus rages across the United States, mainly in large urban areas, more than a third of U.S. counties have yet to report...
The Latest: Michigan executive order restores water service
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and pe...
IndyCar goes iRacing as latest series to offer fans content
The walk to the starting grid for Tony Kanaan began in his Indianapolis kitchen, through the foyer, past the trophy case, up the stairs, down the hall...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
‘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...
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 ...