Mississippi governor tests negative for COVID-19 after scare

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has tested negative for the coronavirus, a day after announcing he was going into isolation after being in contact with a lawmaker who tested positive.

The Latest: Spain extends social spending through September

MADRID — The Spanish government is extending through September social spending to help families weather the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.

Iowa's Grassley to skip GOP convention due to virus concerns

Sen. Chuck Grassley will not attend the Republican National Convention for the first time in his 40-year Senate career due to concerns about the coronavirus.

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Stocks slink back as virus outbreaks dim recovery hopes

NEW YORK (AP) — Most U.S. stocks are slipping in early trading on Tuesday, giving back some of their big gains from the past couple weeks.

Police find 211 migrants crammed in truck in North Macedonia

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Authorities in North Macedonia found 211 migrants, including 63 minors, packed into a truck near the country's southern border with Greece, during a routine check on a regional road, …

Wall Street slips as virus outbreaks dim rebound hopes

U.S. stocks are falling in early trading Tuesday as expanding coronavirus outbreaks dim hopes for a speedy recovery. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average followed benchmarks in France, Germany and Britain l…

Mexico president negative for COVID-19 ahead of US visit

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Tuesday that he had tested negative for COVID-19 in advance of his trip to Washington to meet with President Donald Trump.

Movement for Black Lives seeks sweeping legislative changes

DETROIT (AP) — Proposed federal legislation that would radically transform the nation's criminal justice system through such changes as eliminating agencies like the Drug Enforcement Administration and the use of s…

Confederate flag emblem removed in South Dakota community

GETTYSBURG, S.D. (AP) — Officials have confirmed that a logo that included a Confederate flag has been removed from police department cars, buildings and patches in a small South Dakota community named for the 1863…

Slovakia drug bust yields huge shipment of methamphetamines

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia has seized 1.5 tons of methamphetamines, with an estimated street value of some 2 billion euros ($2.26 billion), which was being smuggled into the country and originated in Mexi…

Virus Outbreak, ADVISORY

The personal protective gear that was in dangerously short supply during the early weeks of the coronavirus crisis in the U.S. is running low again. That’s according to doctors, nurses and some lawmakers. The new s…

AP Entertainment Digest for Tuesday, July 7, 2020

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Dutch police arrest 6 men, uncover makeshift torture chamber

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch police arrested six men after discovering sea containers that had been converted into a makeshift prison and sound-proofed “torture chamber” complete with a dentist's chair, tool…

Suicide bombing, attack in Afghanistan kill 7 policemen

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide car bomber targeted an Afghan police convoy in eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday morning, killing four officers, including a police commander, a local official said. Three ot…