Republican-controlled legislatures are increasingly trying to strip Democratic governors of their executive authority to close businesses and schools, a power grab by lawmakers that channels frustration over the economic toll...
May 9, 2020
The Seattle City Council will halt deliberating a proposal to tax large corporations, council leaders said this week, citing a statewide coronavirus-emergency proclamation that limits what public agencies can discuss...
May 9, 2020
While low prices for ‘black gold' keep shaking the world's economies, and major oil-exporting nations are trying to weather the trend, the Russian national currency has proven it still has...
May 9, 2020
Victory Day has always been a big deal in Russia. But whatever you think of the political and military side of it, for many it's a deeply personal day of...
May 9, 2020
Frustrated by scarce supplies and a chaotic marketplace amid the coronavirus outbreak, some U.S. governors are seeking to bolster their home-state production of vital medical and protective equipment to ensure...
May 9, 2020
Ron Harrist, who covered Elvis Presley, black separatists, white supremacists and college football legends during his 41 years as a reporter and editor in Mississippi for The Associated Press, died...
May 9, 2020
An Oregon ranching couple, fined nearly $18,000 for creating an illegal burn pile that included 40 dead animals, contested the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality's penalty and won. A judge...
May 9, 2020
The patient's fever was so high that paramedic Tim Mumford could feel the heat radiating off the man's skin through two layers of latex gloves. He fought for air in...
May 9, 2020
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can...
May 9, 2020
Kansas harvester Mike Keimig is growing increasingly anxious about whether the foreign seasonal workers he needs to run his nine combines and drive his grain trucks will arrive in time...
May 9, 2020
The South Carolina Legislature returns again Tuesday to assure the state can keep running during the coronavirus and with a long list of requests for laws to deal with the...
May 9, 2020
The Soviet death toll in the Second World War is mind-boggling, yet, shamefully, the enormous sacrifices made by the people of the USSR 75 years ago are being airbrushed out...
May 9, 2020
Nearly 400 people in Miami-Dade County have died of complications of the novel coronavirus over the last few months. Now, one of those deaths is being investigated as a murder....
May 9, 2020
PRO BASKETBALL MIAMI (AP) — The NBA took tiny steps toward a return to normalcy as a small number of practice facilities reopened for workouts and at least one team...
May 9, 2020
The flight from Italy was one of the last arrivals that day at the Stockholm airport. A Swedish couple in their 50s walked up and loaded their skis into Razzak...
May 9, 2020
The Los Angeles Rams finally have a date and an opponent for the long-awaited opening of SoFi Stadium, the multibillion-dollar reason for their return to California over four years ago....
May 9, 2020
Like a principal walking through a hushed hallway on the first day of school, Cheryl Nygaard felt the emotional surge of relief and pride last week as the Minnesota Vikings...
May 9, 2020
Hiking to the Hollywood sign and hitting the links is being allowed Saturday as the California county hardest hit by the coronavirus cautiously reopened some sites to recreation-starved stay-at-homers. Los...
May 9, 2020
The global coronavirus pandemic has shut down businesses around the world. It also has shut down travel around the world, so for those whose business is travel, this has been...
May 9, 2020
South Korea on Saturday reported 18 new coronavirus cases after a spate of infections prompted authorities to urge bars and nightclubs to close, while U.S. job losses surged and China...
May 9, 2020
South Korea on Saturday reported 18 new coronavirus cases after a spate of infections prompted authorities to urge bars and nightclubs to close, while U.S. job losses surged and China...
May 9, 2020
The record unemployment rate reported on Friday captured the pain of a nation where tens of millions of jobs suddenly vanished, devastating the economy and forcing President Donald Trump to...
May 9, 2020
The record unemployment rate reported on Friday captured the pain of a nation where tens of millions of jobs suddenly vanished, devastating the economy and forcing President Donald Trump to...
May 9, 2020
This was going to be the breakthrough year for Jermail and Brandi Shelton and their burgeoning Just Add Honey Tea Company empire. The couple was raking in revenue from national...
May 9, 2020
Weeks after state and local stay-at-home orders closed their businesses, hair stylists and barbers in Mississippi are struggling financially. And frustration grows as some owners and workers navigate the state's...
May 9, 2020
The U.S. government has awarded a $275 million border wall contract for construction that would begin in South Texas in January, at the start of President Donald Trump's second term...
May 9, 2020
Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy, the duo whose extraordinary magic tricks astonished millions until Horn was critically injured in 2003 by one of the act's famed white tigers, has...
May 9, 2020
Kyle Larson has returned to racing for the first time since he was fired by Chip Ganassi Racing for using a racial slur in an iRacing event last month. Larson...
May 9, 2020
NCAA President Mark Emmert says the coronavirus is making it unlikely all schools will be ready to begin competing in college sports at the same time. The goal, he said...
May 9, 2020
American women's soccer players want to delay a trial until after an appellate court reviews last week's decision to throw out their claim of unequal pay while allowing allegations of...
May 9, 2020
The Mohave Valley Daily News will stop printing its Monday edition paper, instead producing a digital-only publication because of the financial effects of the coronavirus. The newspaper said this week...
May 9, 2020
With the end of this virus-disrupted school year drawing nearer, a predictably bleak financial outlook for major college sports has emerged from the budgeting process. The West Virginia athletic department...
May 9, 2020
Dallas officials announced Friday that around 500 of the city's approximately 13,000 workers will be furloughed for 2 1/2 months starting next week because the coronavirus pandemic has decimated municipal...
May 9, 2020
The NBA took tiny steps toward a return to normalcy Friday, as a small number of practice facilities reopened for workouts and at least one team received permission from the...
May 9, 2020
Betty Wold Johnson, the mother of New York Jets owners Christopher Johnson and Woody Johnson, has died. She was 99. The Jets announced her death Friday night on their website,...
May 8, 2020
Fifteen crew members on Royal Caribbean's Navigator of the Seas cruise ship say they are on a hunger strike until the company agrees to send them home. After nearly two...
May 8, 2020
The most significant reopening of the California economy during the coronavirus pandemic started Friday with tens of thousands of businesses cleared to open with limitations and Gov. Gavin Newsom expressing...
May 8, 2020
North Carolina revenue collections fell dramatically in April, the state's chief bookkeeper says, as tax filing deadlines were delayed and commercial transactions slowed due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The State...
May 8, 2020
A Democratic-led subcommittee overseeing federal coronavirus aid is demanding that five companies return loans the panel says should have gone to smaller businesses. The subcommittee led by Rep. James Clyburn,...
May 8, 2020
The decision to shelve detailed advice from the nation's top disease control experts for reopening communities during the coronavirus pandemic came from the highest levels of the White House, according...
