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FBI arrests Energy Department employee on charge of trying to support Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Department of Energy electrical engineer has been arrested on charges of providing support to …
Science Says: How risky is that virus? Your mind may mislead
NEW YORK (AP) — Anna Alexander, a property manager in Virginia Beach, Virginia, started the day Monday thinking that she might avoid shaking hands because of the coronavirus outbreak. Then somebody stuck out a hand…
British airline Flybe collapses, stranding travellers
LONDON (AP) — The struggling British airline Flybe has collapsed, leaving passengers stranded and told to find their own way home.
China’s Uighurs trapped in factory toiling for tech titans
NANCHANG, China (AP) — In a lively Muslim quarter of Nanchang city, a sprawling Chinese factory turns out computer screens, cameras and fingerprint scanners for a supplier to international tech giants such as Apple…
How winning turned Biden into a confident candidate
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joe Biden strode confidently to the podium, shutters clicking, a bank of cameras beaming to a national audience.
Biden's victories unleash something he's never had: Money
WASHINGTON (AP) — Strapped for cash and badly outspent by his rivals, Joe Biden barely had enough money to air television ads in critical Super Tuesday battlegrounds.
Black voters power Biden's Super Tuesday success
DETROIT (AP) — Joe Biden's presidential campaign spent the past month on the verge of collapse after disappointing finishes in the overwhelmingly white states that launched the Democratic primary. As he watched the…
Flare-up in Afghan violence shows fragility of peace deal
WASHINGTON (AP) — Less than 24 hours after President Donald Trump said he had a “very good talk” with a top Taliban leader and insisted the group wants to cease violence, a U.S. military drone on Wednesday targeted…
AP News in Brief at 12:04 a.m. EST
Sanders refocusing his campaign after Biden's super Tuesday
OPEC looks to cut production as virus outbreak hits demand
VIENNA (AP) — The oil-producing countries of the OPEC cartel are considering slashing output to contain a plunge in prices that has been worsened by concerns about the virus outbreak's disruption to the world econo…
ICC set to rule on Afghanistan investigation appeal
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) —
AP News in Brief at 11:04 p.m. EST
Sanders refocusing his campaign after Biden's super Tuesday
Peru's foreign ministry: Two-term UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuellar dies at 100
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru's foreign ministry: Two-term UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuellar dies at 100.
Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian two-term UN chief, dies at 100
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, the two-term United Nations secretary-general who brokered a historic cease-fire between Iran and Iraq in 1988 and who in later life came out of retirement to help re-esta…
Asian shares rise following surge in US on stimulus measures
TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares rose Thursday, taking their cue from a surge on Wall Street as governments and central banks took more aggressive measures to fight the virus outbreak and its effects on the economy.
Forced online by virus, China's schools run into censorship
BEIJING (AP) — Less than 30 minutes into a lecture on bioinformatics, Chu Xinjian's class was abruptly cut short.