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Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
For Peace Corps evacuees, there wasn't even time for goodbye

DUMFRIES, Va. (AP) — After two weeks alone in a hotel room in the Virginia suburbs, 40 minutes outside Washington, Kelsea Mensh was ready to go home.

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
The Latest: India announces easing of lockdown restrictions

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Mexico says auto factories to reopen with virus safeguards

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government said Friday it plans to reopen automotive factories in conjunction with the United States and Canada.

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
Chicago's horse-drawn carriages to end next year

CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago City Council voted Friday to end horse-drawn carriage rides in the city after Dec. 31.

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
Asia Today: Sri Lanka reimposes curfew; 12 cases in China

BANGKOK (AP) — Sri Lanka has reimposed a countrywide 24-hour curfew after a surge in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases, most of them navy sailors who were hunting those evading quarantine.

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
The Latest: South Korea has 10 new cases and no new deaths

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Boy Scouts suit filed as Hawaii shuts abuse claims window

HONOLULU (AP) — Eight men were sexually abused when they were Boy Scouts in Hawaii in the 1960s and 1970s, they alleged in a lawsuit filed Friday as the state's window closed on allowing child sex abuse claims that…

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
On Anzac Day, services in lockdown replaced by home vigils

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Traditional crowds at dawn services for the Anzac Day memorial holiday in Australia were replaced with candlelit vigils in driveways and neighbors gathering to listen to buglers play “The…

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
Taxpayers to fund restaurants to feed seniors in California

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Taxpayers will pay restaurants to make meals for millions of California's seniors during the coronavirus pandemic, an initiative that could pump billions of dollars into a devastated indus…

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
California man guilty of killing 4 in race-related rampage

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A man who said he was fed up with racism against black people was convicted of killing four white men in a race-related rampage in California's Central Valley, prosecutors announced Friday.

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
AP News in Brief at 9:04 p.m. EDT

3 states partly reopen, despite health officials' warnings

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
Brazil becoming coronavirus hot spot as testing falters

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Cases of the new

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
3 states partly reopen, despite health officials' warnings

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Even as the confirmed U.S. death toll from

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
The Latest: China says no new deaths for 10th straight day

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Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
Mexico receives 2nd group of Cuban doctors for virus help

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Another group of Cuban doctors has arrived in Mexico to help with the coronavirus outbreak, the second such delegation the country has welcomed.