Providing a glimpse of normalcy for an auto industry and world gripped by fear of the coronavirus, Honda Motor's car assembly plant in Wuhan, China – the city at the...
March 13, 2020
DETROIT – As General Motors and Ford Motor Co. bet the farm on electric vehicles, European manufacturers are pulling vehicles from the U.S. market for lack of demand. BMW confirmed...
March 13, 2020
On Wednesday, Wells Fargo & Co. issued a report, predicting "a mild contraction in U.S. GDP" in this year's second quarter, "with a return to growth in the following quarter."...
March 13, 2020
Stepping into the massive greenhouse of Superior Fresh – 6 acres under one roof – the gentle embrace of warm, humid air is quickly followed by the smell of lush,...
March 13, 2020
Amid the spreading coronavirus and uncertainty over the fate of the Tokyo Olympics, many Japanese may be more concerned about the virus, what happens to their schools, and the state...
March 13, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has taken over daily lives around the globe, overwhelming hospitals, shuttering schools and offices, halting U.S. presidential campaign rallies and world sports while increasing fears about the...
March 13, 2020
Asian shares plunged, then recovered slightly as Friday the 13th brought still more turmoil to markets reeling from uncertainty over the coronavirus crisis. Benchmarks in Japan, Thailand and India sank...
March 13, 2020
VIRUS OUTBREAK The world's sports schedule cratered at warp speed Thursday, with one of the biggest events on the U.S. calendar, the fun-filled and colorful college basketball tournament known as...
March 13, 2020
The games are over, at least for now. There's only so much you can say about that when people are dying and the world is in danger. The playground has...
March 13, 2020
New Yorkers will awake Friday to find the coronavirus has left their their famously bustling city with no Broadway, no basketball games, no big gatherings, and a populace unnerved by...
March 13, 2020
The good news for Kansas public colleges: 1,000 more Latino students will be enrolled a decade from now, enough to fill the seats left empty by fewer white students. The...
March 13, 2020
Before June 2018, finding cattle that were potentially exposed to diseases was time-consuming and complicated, requiring a patchwork of information from auction houses, feedlots, producers and meatpacking plants. That's when...
March 13, 2020
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Thursday mandated that events of 1,000 or more people be canceled or postponed for 30 days, and asked the owners of all the state's major...
March 13, 2020
The world's sports schedule cratered at warp speed Thursday, with one of the biggest events on the U.S. calendar, the fun-filled and colorful college basketball tournament known as March Madness,...
March 13, 2020
Carlos Cordeiro resigned as U.S. Soccer Federation president on Thursday night, three days after the organization filed legal papers in a gender discrimination claiming women players had less physical ability...
March 13, 2020
Theme parks at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida and Disneyland Paris Resort will be closing through the end of the month, starting at the close of business Sunday, the...
March 13, 2020
If there was any semblance of normalcy remaining in Miami-Dade County on Thursday morning, it vanished throughout the day as major events were canceled, cities declared emergencies and high-ranking officials...
March 13, 2020
Much of California is shutting down, with theme parks, horse-racing tracks and concert halls locking their doors while some people postpone their weddings as the nation's largest state attempts to...
March 13, 2020
Doctors and medical students won't be able to perform pelvic exams on unconscious patients without their informed consent under a bill the Florida Senate sent to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis...
March 13, 2020
Miami paywall drop embed Walt Disney World is closing down its four Florida parks starting Sunday through the rest of March amid concerns of COVID-19, which causes the coronavirus, according...
March 13, 2020
Florida is poised to raise the minimum age for smoking and vaping to 21. The state Senate on Thursday joined the House in approving a measure that would also ban...
March 13, 2020
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said Thursday night that the league's hiatus because of the coronavirus pandemic will likely last at least a month, or roughly what would have been the...
March 13, 2020
Public employers and companies that contract with them will have to use the federal e-Verify database to determine employees' eligibility to work in the U.S. under a bill sent to...
March 13, 2020
A bill that would require employers to verify new hires' immigration status passed the Senate Thursday night, sending Gov. Ron DeSantis a fairly dialed-back version of a legislative priority and...
March 13, 2020
Kansas has seen its first COVID-19 death, a man in his 70s who lived in a nursing home in the Kansas City, Kansas, area, state health officials announced Thursday. The...
March 13, 2020
A JetBlue passenger who landed in Palm Beach International Airport Wednesday and was later found to have tested positive for coronavirus knew he was potentially carrying it but boarded the...
March 12, 2020
The Washington Legislature has approved a revised bill to repeal a tax break for Boeing, a measure that was requested by the aerospace giant to resolve a long-running international trade...
March 12, 2020
Facebook and Twitter revealed evidence Thursday suggesting that Russian efforts to interfere in the U.S. presidential election are getting more sophisticated and harder to detect. The companies said they have...
March 12, 2020
March Madness came to a screeching halt before a bracket could even be filled out. The NCAA canceled its men's and women's basketball tournaments Thursday because of the spread of...
March 12, 2020
A person familiar with the decision confirms to The Associated Press that the Buffalo Bills have agreed to re-sign offensive lineman Quinton Spain to a three-year contract. The person spoke...
March 12, 2020
The head of Gannett, the nation's largest newspaper chain, on Thursday urged employees able to telecommute to “refrain from coming into the office unless absolutely necessary” because of the coronavirus...
March 12, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Thursday called for a sweeping national response to the coronavirus outbreak, chiding President Donald Trump for a response he said was woefully insufficient and...
March 12, 2020
Gov. Brad Little and leaders in the Idaho House and Senate said Thursday they've made contingency plans for a hasty end to the legislative session should someone in the Statehouse...
March 12, 2020
A federal jury in Arkansas on Thursday found a prison transport driver guilty of sexually assaulting two female inmates. Jurors found 52-year-old Eric Scott Kindley guilty of two counts of...
March 12, 2020
There's still darts. Or New Zealand cricket. The fast-spreading coronavirus has led to an unprecedented slew of cancellations or suspensions of most major professional and college sports events in the...
March 12, 2020
The cancellation of the NCAA basketball tournaments shook the nation Thursday, but 27 other men's and women's championships won't be contested this winter and spring, either — and that doesn't...
March 12, 2020
Workers lost their jobs, parents came up with impromptu home lesson plans for children kept home from shuttered schools. People fretted over dwindling retirements accounts, the health of elderly parents,...
March 12, 2020
Mounting concerns about the coronarvirus spread to state capitols across the country Thursday, as some lawmakers halted their sessions, shut out the public and scrambled to finish work on essential...
March 12, 2020
A King County Superior Court judge issued a ruling Thursday saying the car-tab tax cuts included in Initiative 976, with the exception of using Kelley Blue Book to calculate the...
March 12, 2020
With North Carolina and U.S. cases of the coronavirus increasing, Gov. Roy Cooper on Thursday strongly discouraged large meetings and gatherings statewide to limit the magnitude of the outbreak. Cooper...
