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US Supreme Court blocks Trump rule limiting mail voting, sides with Dem states
25 years after Oklahoma City bombing, anxiety remains high
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — In the 25 years since a truck bomb ripped through a federal building in downtown Oklahoma City and killed 168 people, the United States has suffered through foreign wars, a rise in mass shootin…
Guatemala official: 44 deportees tested positive for virus
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Forty-four Guatemalans deported on one flight from the United States this week have tested positive for COVID-19, a Guatemalan government official with knowledge of the situation said, amid ri…
The Latest: Coronavirus hits world's largest economies hard
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…
US job losses mount as Trump presses plan to reopen business
WASHINGTON (AP) — The ranks of America's unemployed swelled toward Great Depression-era levels Thursday, and President Donald Trump reacted to the pressure on the economy by outlining a phased approach to reopening…
AP Week in Pictures, Latin America & Caribbean
April. 9-16, 2020
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No plan in sight: Test troubles cloud Trump recovery effort
‘I am so afraid’: India’s poor face world’s largest lockdown
The street peddler watched the prime minister’s speech on a battered TV with her family of five crowded around her, in a one-room house with no toilet and no running water. It’s squeezed in a shanty town controlled…
What you need to know today about the virus outbreak
President Donald Trump
Lives Lost: Holocaust survivor was Israel’s 1st virus victim
JERUSALEM (AP) — As a child in Hungary, Arie Even survived the Holocaust by taking shelter along with his mother and brother after his father was shipped to a notorious concentration camp.
Chinese epicenter Wuhan raises number of virus dead by 1,290
BEIJING (AP) — At least 50% more people died in China's virus epicenter of Wuhan than previously counted, with state media on Friday attributing the initial undercount to how overwhelmed the health system was copin…
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AP News in Brief at 11:04 p.m. EDT
No plan in sight: Test troubles cloud Trump recovery effort
China's economy in worst downturn since '70s in virus battle
BEIJING (AP) — China faces a drawn-out struggle to revive its economy after it suffered its biggest contraction since at least the 1970s after ordering hundreds of millions of people to stay home to fight the coron…
Poorer countries face big risks in easing virus restrictions
BEIRUT (AP) — As some wealthier Western nations begin easing coronavirus restrictions, many developing countries, particularly in the Middle East and Africa, want to do it too, but they cannot afford the luxury of …
Draft UN resolution urges global access to COVID-19 material
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly has until Monday to consider a draft resolution calling for global action to rapidly scale up development, manufacturing and access to medicine, vaccines and medical …