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Puerto Rico power company gives T&D reins to private firms

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico officials said Monday that a consortium of Canadian and U.S. firms will take over the transmission and distribution system of the island’s public power company in a long-awa…

The Latest: 2 more Trump staffers at rally test positive

Two more members of President Donald Trump’s campaign working on his rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma have tested positive for the coronavirus.

Police in Central Texas fatally shoot stabbing suspect

GIDDINGS, Texas (AP) — Police fatally shot a man suspected of stabbing at least three people in a Central Texas city early Monday, authorities said.

NYPD officer in 'chokehold' video is focus of criminal probe

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City police officer suspended from duty after he was recorded Sunday putting a man in what the police commissioner said was a banned chokehold could face criminal charges for the second t…

Trump: US doing 'too good a job' on testing

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday the United States has done “too good a job” on testing for cases of COVID-19, even as his staff insisted the president was only joking when he said over the week…

Trump rails against mail voting. His aides have embraced it

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence and a half-dozen other senior advisers to President Donald Trump have repeatedly voted by mail, according to election records obtained by The Associated Press. That under…

Online registrar threatens to drop anti-immigration website

SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — An internet registrar is threatening to delist a website that is a leading promoter of white nationalist and anti-immigration views, a move that could make the site accessible only to dieh…

Saudis say Yemen's government, separatists agree to truce

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The Saudi-led coalition embroiled in a years-long conflict in Yemen announced on Monday that Emirati-backed southern separatists and the country’s internationally recognized government have agre…

Support flips after police added to Georgia hate crimes bill

ATLANTA (AP) — Opposition to proposed hate crimes legislation in Georgia is building from lawmakers and civil rights groups previously in favor of it after Republicans in the state Senate added police as a protecte…

Embed-Table-Virus Outbreak-Global Case Count, ADVISORY

VIRUS OUTBREAK-GLOBAL CASE COUNT — A searchable table of confirmed cases of COVID-19, including recoveries and deaths, by country. This table is updated each hour. Source: Johns Hopkins University; Esri.

Nurse punched after protesters say she drove into crowd

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — Police in Northern California say a nurse driving home from her shift at a hospital was punched in the face and her vehicle was vandalized after she encountered a group of protesters who s…

The Latest: Demand for tests grows in Arizona communities

PHOENIX — Demand for tests has been growing especially in underserved communities of color in Arizona, which the COVID Tracking Project says has now has a 7-day average positive test rate above 20 percent.

3 dead, 6 wounded in shooting at North Carolina block party

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Three people were killed and six others were wounded early Monday when multiple people fired into a crowd at an impromptu celebration in North Carolina, police said. Five others were hit by v…

NASCAR rallies around Wallace as FBI investigates noose

Bubba Wallace steered the No. 43 to the front of pit road, NASCAR champion Kyle Busch pushing the famous car on one side and close friend Ryan Blaney pushing on the other.