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Coronavirus measures trigger prison riot in Indonesia
MANADO, Indonesia – Angry inmates set fire to an overcrowded prison on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island…
Rogers Cup women’s tennis tournament in Montreal off schedule for 2020
MONTREAL – The Rogers Cup women’s tennis tournament will not be played this year due…
White House points to hopeful signs as deaths keep rising
WASHINGTON – At the end of a week officials had warned would be this generation’s…
Nurses, lauded for virus efforts, find their tires slashed
CORTLANDT, N.Y. – Some nurses at a New York hospital who had just been lauded…
UN urges religious leaders to work for peace, fight virus
TANZANIA, Tanzania – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to religious leaders of all faiths on…
Alaska agency criticized over $35M mining road approval
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The largest private landowner in Alaska has criticized a state agency for…
‘Air of calmness’ is promised for ‘Killing Eve’ new season
NEW YORK – When we last saw the TV character Eve Polastri, she was crumpled…
Magnitude 5.2 quake rattles California-Nevada state line
BODIE, Calif. – An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.2 rattled the remote California-Nevada…
75th anniversary of Buchenwald liberation affected by virus
WEIMAR, Germany – The 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis’ Buchenwald concentration camp…
Hogan, Cuomo call for additional $500B in aid to states
ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Govs. Larry Hogan of Maryland and Andrew Cuomo of New York issued…
Deserted icons: No College World Series hits Omaha hard
OMAHA, Neb. – Rich Tokheim’s sports apparel shop is right across the street from TD…
More Disney workers reach deals on coronavirus furloughs
ORLANDO, Fla. – Two more unions have reached agreements with Walt Disney World over furloughs…
Alaska villages implement travel restrictions amid pandemic
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – About 70 Alaska tribes have implemented travel restrictions to reduce the spread…
Dakotas fishing resorts approach crunch time due to virus
The reservation line at Woodland Resort in northeastern North Dakota, home to some of the…
Congo, weary from Ebola, must also battle the coronavirus
BENI, Congo – Congo has been battling an Ebola outbreak that has killed thousands of…
Politics mixes with science as states turn to virus models
State leaders are relying on a hodgepodge of statistical models with wide-ranging numbers to guide…
Crime drops around the world as COVID-19 keeps people inside
CHICAGO – The coronavirus pandemic that has crippled big-box retailers and mom and pop shops…
Virus sends Holocaust survivors behind doors, back in time
OAK PARK, Ill. – For Olga Weiss, the order to stay at home is about…
African nations, US decry racism against blacks in China
JOHANNESBURG – African officials are confronting China publicly and in private over racist mistreatment of…
Doctor gambles on clot-busting drug to save virus patients
WASHINGTON – The woman was dying. New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital was about to call…
Every 15 seconds: Outbreak overwhelms NYC’s emergency system
NEW YORK – The coronavirus crisis is taxing New York City’s 911 system like never…
He led a neo-Nazi group linked to bomb plots. He was 13.
HELSINKI – He called himself “Commander” online. He was a leader of an international neo-Nazi…
Yemen’s Houthi rebels sentence 4 reporters to death
SANAA, Yemen – A court run by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Saturday sentenced four journalists…
Swiss prosecutors intend to drop 1 FIFA case against Blatter
GENEVA – In a legal victory for former FIFA president Sepp Blatter, federal prosecutors in…