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The Latest: Pakistan says 480 health workers test positive
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Virus Outbreak, ADVISORY
Scientists have announced the first effective treatment against the coronavirus — an experimental drug that can speed the recovery of COVID-19 patients — in a major medical advance that comes as the economic gloom …
What you need to know today about the virus outbreak
On a day of economic gloom, scientists offered a ray of hope: the first effective treatment
VIRUS DIARY: A positive test, then a Mumbai hotel quarantine
MUMBAI, India (AP) — I was on assignment April 20 outside Mumbai, India’s financial center. My phone rang nonstop. Fellow news photographers checked whether I’d heard about the COVID-19 tests we had taken days earl…
Making public transit safe next hurdle in easing lockdowns
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — In cities around the world, public transit systems are key to getting workers back on the job and restarting devastated economies, yet everything from trains and buses to ferries and b…
COVID-19 showing suburbs are just as vulnerable as cities
NEW YORK (AP) — Haunting images of an empty Times Square and the daily accounting of hundreds of fatalities in New York City have reinforced the idea of the coronavirus as an urban contagion.
AP Entertainment Digest for Wednesday, April 29, 2020
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US economy shrank at 4.8% rate last quarter as virus struck
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy shrank at a 4.8% annual rate last quarter as the coronavirus pandemic shut down much of the country and began triggering a recession that will end the longest expansion on record.
Joe Biden wins Ohio's mail-in primary delayed by coronavirus
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Joe Biden won Ohio’s presidential primary, clinching a contest that was less about the Democratic nomination and more about how states can conduct elections in the era of
South Korea construction fire kills 38
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — At least 38 people were killed Wednesday when one of South Korea’s worst fires in years broke out at a construction site near the capital, officials said.
The Latest: Italy doubles ventilators for possible 2nd wave
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NYC mayor takes heat after lashing out at Jewish funeral
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio defended his tweets criticizing a large Orthodox Jewish funeral. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said daily deaths are down but still “disgustingly high.” Front-line health care…
UN human rights expert accuse Myanmar army of fresh abuses
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — The U.N.’s human rights expert on Myanmar has called for a new investigation into allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity during recent fighting in the Southeast Asian country a…
From a loft studio on a farm, professor teaches painting
Fred Haag, an associate professor of visual arts at Penn State York, normally teaches his Art 50: Introduction to Painting course in a large studio at a state-of-the art performing arts center. But because of the C…
AP-SYNC 1, AP-SYNC 2 Wednesday Coverage
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