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Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson moved to intensive care

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved to the intensive care unit of a London hospital after his coronavirus symptoms dramatically worsened Monday, just a day after he was admitted for what we…

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
Virus puts event planning industry on brink of devastation

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona caterer Pat Christofolo has been orchestrating high-end events for over a quarter-century: A lavish spread for a wedding dinner back-dropped by red rocks in Sedona, a holiday party for 1,000 …

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
Navy leader calls fired carrier captain 'naive' or 'stupid'

WASHINGTON (AP) — In an extraordinary broadside punctuated with profanity, the Navy’s top leader accused the fired commander of the coronavirus-stricken USS Theodore Roosevelt of being “too naive or too stupid” to …

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
Virus is mostly mild and rarely fatal for US kids, data show

The first national data on COVID-19 in U.S. children suggest that while the illness usually isn’t severe in kids, some do get sick enough to require hospital treatment.

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
Federal Reserve to smooth lending to small businesses

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve will provide support to the government's new small business lending program in its latest attempt to smooth the flow of credit in the virus-stricken U.S. economy.

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
'Old school' technique helps expert ID remains from 1969

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Thanks to an old-fashioned fingerprint-matching technique, the remains of a shooting victim found alongside a New Hampshire highway 50 years ago have been identified as a Vermont man who had be…

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
AP News Digest 2:10 p.m.

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Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
Chicago mayor: Virus deaths in black community 'devastating'

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago is launching a health campaign focused on the city's black and brown communities, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday following a media report highlighting the disproportionate number of black r…

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
Prosecutors: Suspect in Iraq slayings should remain jailed

PHOENIX (AP) — An Iraqi immigrant who ran a Phoenix driving school and was arrested two months ago on charges of participating in the killings of two police officers in Iraq nearly 15 year ago should remain jailed …

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
Catch this week's supermoon, biggest and brightest of year

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A supermoon rises in the sky this week, looking to be the biggest and brightest of the year.

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
What to know about malaria drug and coronavirus treatment

Some politicians and doctors are sparring over whether to use

Updated 6 years, 5 months ago
ACLU seeks release of federal prison inmates where 5 died

A class-action lawsuit filed Monday seeks the release of hundreds of high-risk inmates at a federal lockup in Louisiana where the coronavirus has claimed the lives of five prisoners and infected nearly two dozen ot…