The Latest: Merkel urges caution in restarting public life

The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe ill…

NYC nixes June events, including 3 major parades

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is barring its famous summer street celebrations for the month of June, and the state is exploring new ways to expand coronavirus testing. Amid hopeful trends in virus-related deaths a…

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Iran, Syria call for lifting sanctions during pandemic

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Iran's foreign minister used a meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad Monday to call on the U.S. to lift sanctions imposed on both countries, during his first visit to the war-ravaged cou…

Stocks sink under weight of another collapse in oil prices

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are falling in early trading on Wall Street Monday, as energy stocks get hammered by the latest collapse in the price of oil.

Wall Street opens lower as US oil contract slides

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening lower on Wall Street as momentum from last week’s rally faded and oil prices collapse. Crude prices are plummeting amid concerns that storage facilities were close to being full. …

Deputies: Florida man charged for pointing BB gun at golfers

PALM COAST, Fla. (AP) — Deputies have arrested a 74-year-old Florida man who allegedly pointed a BB gun at golfers in Palm Coast.

Belarus reopens schools, leader rejects 'coronapsychosis'

MINSK (AP) — Schools reopened Monday in Belarus following an extended spring break, but authorities allowed parents to keep their children at home even though the country specifically steered clear of closures and …

White House to hold call with governors on testing supplies

WASHINGTON (AP) — After insisting it was up to governors to ramp up

The Latest: Demonstrators in Russia protest lockdowns

The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe ill…

AP Entertainment Digest for Monday, April 20

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Boeing and other manufacturers around the U.S. pressed ahead Monday with plans to resume production this week amid pressure from President Donald Trump to reopen the economy and resistance from governors who say th…

Lockdowns ease worldwide, but political heat rises in US

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Tattoo parlors and hair salons in Denmark. Beaches in Australia. Bookstores in Germany. Countries around the world that have seen coronavirus infections flatten out began easing their loc…

1 killed by suspected tornado as storms rake South

HEADLAND, Ala. (AP) — A suspected tornado overturned a mobile home in south Alabama, killing one person, as severe weather blasted a wide area across the Deep South.

NYC mayor wants hundreds of thousands of daily virus tests

NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers would need to be tested for the coronavirus daily before city officials could start to loosen restrictions that have shuttered most workplaces and forced residen…