Many field hospitals went largely unused, will be shut down
NEW YORK — Gleaming new tent hospitals sit empty on two suburban New York college campuses, never having treated a single coronavirus patient. Convent...
Bad hair days: Virus confounds stylists in a fashion capital
NEW YORK — Sara Gilmore has swapped out her hairbrush for a paintbrush.
Trump says he won’t extend social distancing guidelines
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Wednesday the federal government’s coronavirus social distancing guidelines will be “fading out” when they ex...
Review: A six-decade romance story in ‘A Secret Love’
Terry Donahue, the subject of the new Netflix documentary “ A Secret Love,” was a catcher for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Yes...
Protective orders issued to ‘Duck Dynasty’ star’s family
WEST MONROE, La. — Three members of “Duck Dynasty” star Willie Robertson's family have received protective orders against a man charged with shooting ...
Goodell reduces salary to $0, NFL workers taking pay cuts
Commissioner Roger Goodell has reduced his salary to $0 and other NFL employees will be taking pay cuts or furloughs due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Secretariat is 7-2 early favorite in virtual Kentucky Derby
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Secretariat is the early 7-2 favorite for this weekend’s virtual Kentucky Derby, an animated race between all 13 Triple Crown winner...
AP Exclusive: Texas AG helped donor fight virus lockout
AUSTIN, Texas — When a small county in the Colorado mountains banished everyone but locals to blunt the spread of the coronavirus, an unlikely outside...
Making public transit safe a next hurdle in easing lockdowns
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — In cities around the world, public transportation systems are key to getting workers back on the job and restarting devastate...
Brees, Brady give ‘Quarterback South’ top 2 all-time passers
ATLANTA — Dan Quinn says the NFC South has earned a new moniker.
Curtain lowers on nuke plant a stone’s throw from Manhattan
ALBANY, N.Y. — With the push of a red button, one of the two operating reactors at an aging nuclear plant serving millions of people in the New York C...
No ‘Black Widow’ or ‘F9’ leaves a muted summer movie season
LOS ANGELES — The six-year fan campaign for a standalone Black Widow movie was paying off: at long last, a film would put Scarlett Johansson’s popular...
Virus leaves New York City artists in a ‘tailspin’
NEW YORK — Dancer and choreographer Netta Yerushalmy has built a career in movement and community. Both are gone now. Her world is still, isolated — a...
‘U ok?’ Virus-era friendships can be both crucial & fraught
A single mother hunkering down at home with a teenage daughter, Sharon Litwin sees her friends, like most people these days, only virtually. Even so, ...
Laid-off US workers face foreign world of insurance shopping
Mass layoffs are pushing many Americans into an unfamiliar role: shopping for health insurance that isn’t offered by an employer.
VIRUS DIARY: A positive test, then a Mumbai hotel quarantine
MUMBAI, India — I was on assignment April 20 outside Mumbai, India’s financial center. My phone rang nonstop. Fellow news photographers checked whethe...
COVID-19 showing suburbs are just as vulnerable as cities
NEW YORK — Haunting images of an empty Times Square and the daily accounting of hundreds of fatalities in New York City have reinforced the idea of th...
NYC mayor takes heat after lashing out at Jewish funeral
NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio oversaw the dispersal of a large, tightly packed Hasidic Jewish funeral and lashed out at the mourners w...
Police file reveals suspicions of Blatter in FIFA TV deal
GENEVA — Swiss investigators concluded Sepp Blatter knew that a World Cup broadcasting contract was breached illegally and that it would cost FIFA mil...
UK leader Boris Johnson, fiancee announce birth of baby boy
LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his fiancee Carrie Symonds announced the birth of a son on Wednesday, just two days after Johnson re...
IOC official disagrees COVID-19 vaccine needed for Olympics
SYDNEY — The head of the IOC’s coordination commission for the Tokyo Olympics said Wednesday he disagrees with suggestions by some scientists and doct...
Virus lockdown worsens suffering for Johannesburg beggars
JOHANNESBURG — Inock Mukanhairi shows the small amount of food that he has for himself, his wife, Angeline, and five children — barely enough to make ...
VW car sales, profits plunge during coronavirus crisis
FRANKFURT, Germany — Automaker Volkswagen saw car sales and operating profit plunge in the first quarter as the coronavirus outbreak closed dealership...
UK climate activists stranded in historic town in Kosovo
PRIZREN, Kosovo — British climate activists Rosie Watson and Mike Elm were on an international bicycle and running tour to promote their green campaig...
Pandemic impacts prospects of non-elite basketball recruits
PHOENIX — Jake Murphy expected this summer to be his showcase for college coaches, a chance to catch an eye, hopefully earn a Division I basketball sc...
Senior Bowl was added personal touch for NFL scouts
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — NFL teams didn’t know when they left the Senior Bowl in January that they wouldn’t get all that much more time with prospects befor...
Groups sow doubt about COVID vaccine before one even exists
NEW YORK — A coronavirus vaccine is still months or years away, but groups that peddle misinformation about immunizations are already taking aim, pote...
In NYC it’s ‘survival of fittest for fashion brands’
NEW YORK — Felicia Lynch started a dream job last November as an assistant knitwear designer for a luxury brand working in lower Manhattan before the ...
China silent amid global calls to give Africa debt relief
KAMPALA, Uganda — African leaders are asking what China can do for them as the coronavirus pandemic threatens to destroy economies and wipe out some 2...
‘Trolls’ went straight to homes. Movie theaters are fuming.
NEW YORK — The most controversial movie of the year is ... “Trolls World Tour”?