WASHINGTON (AP) — Roughly 2.1 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week despite the gradual reopening of businesses around the country, bringing the running total since the coronavirus shutdowns took hold in mid-March to […]
NEW YORK (AP) — While faith and science face unprecedented challenges during the coronavirus pandemic, including to their relationship with each other, the two have worked in concert for several experts leading the U.S. government’s […]
DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan appeals court has ordered a barber who has been defying the state’s coronavirus restrictions to close his shop. Karl Manke reopened his shop in Owosso on May 4 in defiance […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Violent protests over the death of a black man in police custody rocked a Minneapolis neighborhood for a second straight night as angry crowds looted stores, set fires and left a path […]
HONG KONG (AP) — China has officially ratified a plan to write a national security law for Hong Kong, exerting Beijing’s broader, new control over the semi-autonomous territory in a bid to prevent a return […]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Federal courts have delivered a string of rebukes to the Trump administration over what they found were failures to protect the environment and address climate change. The rulings have challenged the […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The launch of a SpaceX rocket ship with two NASA astronauts on a history-making flight into orbit has been called off with less than 17 minutes to go in the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration may expel thousands of Chinese graduate students enrolled at U.S. universities in the latest sign of escalating tensions between Washington and Beijing. Four administration officials say President Donald Trump […]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A five-member Taliban team is in the Afghan capital to follow up on this week’s release of prisoners by the Kabul government. The release of hundreds of Taliban prisoners on Tuesday […]
TOKYO (AP) — The postponed Tokyo Olympics face lots of questions. Organizing committee CEO Toshiro Muto says many of them will not find answers until the coronavirus pandemic becomes clearer in the all. Muto says […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The Grammys is putting together an event featuring Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey, Herbie Hancock and Harry Connick, Jr. to honor essential workers across America. The Recording Academy, which puts on the […]
CVS Health will try delivering prescriptions with self-driving vehicles in a test that begins next month. The drugstore chain said Thursday it will partner with Silicon Valley robotics company Nuro on deliveries of medicines and […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is on the cusp of marking at least 100,000 deaths from the coronavirus. That was once an unthinkable toll but it could portend even more misery in the months ahead […]
