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July 9, 2020 3:30 a.m.

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Schools or bars? Opening classrooms may mean hard choices

July 9, 2020 1:03 a.m.

25 years on, Srebrenica dead still being identified, buried

SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A quarter of a century after they were killed in Europe’s worst massacre since World War II, eight Bosnian men and boys will be laid to rest Saturday in a cemetery just outside of Srebrenica — their marble gravestones joining thousands more, each with the same month and year of death.

July 9, 2020 12:03 a.m.

Spaghetti Western movie composer Ennio Morricone dead at 91

ROME (AP) — Ennio Morricone, the Oscar-winning Italian composer who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and often haunting soundtracks for such classic Hollywood gangster movies as “The Untouchables” and the epic “Once Upon A Time In America,” died Monday. He was 91.

July 9, 2020 12:03 a.m.

The Latest: China easing into reopening as local cases wane

BEIJING — China says it has nine new confirmed coronavirus cases, all of them brought from outside the country, and no new deaths.

July 9, 2020 12:03 a.m.

Tyler Perry to pay funeral expenses for girl shot in Atlanta

ATLANTA (AP) — Tyler Perry has offered to pay the funeral expenses for an 8-year-old girl who was

July 8, 2020 8:27 p.m.

The Latest: China easing into reopening as local cases wane

BEIJING — China says it has nine new confirmed coronavirus cases, all of them brought from outside the country, and no new deaths.

July 8, 2020 7:03 p.m.

The Latest: Australia state bars entry from locked down area

BRISBANE, Australia — An Australian state has closed its doors to people fleeing a second lockdown in Australia’s second-largest city.

July 8, 2020 4:03 p.m.

The Latest: Fauci cautiously optimistic on COVID vaccine

UNITED NATIONS — The leading U.S. infectious disease expert says he is cautiously optimistic that a coronavirus vaccine with some degree of effectiveness will be successfully developed by the end of the year or the beginning of 2021.

July 8, 2020 4:03 p.m.

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July 8, 2020 3:27 p.m.

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Trump threatens to cut federal aid if schools don't reopen

July 8, 2020 3:03 p.m.

The Latest: Official says Tulsa rally likely led to surge

OKLAHOMA CITY — President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa in late June that drew thousands of people, along with large protests that accompanied it, “likely contributed” to a dramatic surge in coronavirus cases, health officials said Wednesday.

July 8, 2020 2:33 p.m.

Tyler Perry to pay funeral expenses for girl shot in Atlanta

ATLANTA (AP) — Tyler Perry has offered to pay the funeral expenses for an 8-year-old girl who was

July 8, 2020 1:03 p.m.

The Latest: South Africa prepares 1.5 million gravesites

JOHANNESBURG — A health official in South Africa’s new coronavirus hot spot of Gauteng province says authorities are preparing over 1.5 million gravesites as confirmed cases rise.

July 8, 2020 5:27 a.m.

Two COVID-19-ravaged churches take different recovery paths

NEW YORK (AP) — The paths of two New York City churches diverged this week — one reopened and one stayed closed. But they have shared a tragic fate, together losing at least 134 members of their mostly Hispanic congregations to the coronavirus.

July 8, 2020 4:30 a.m.

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July 8, 2020 4:30 a.m.

Two COVID-ravaged NY churches take different recovery paths

NEW YORK (AP) — The paths of two New York City churches diverged this week — one reopened and one stayed closed. But they have shared a tragic fate, together losing at least 134 members of their mostly Hispanic congregations to the coronavirus.

July 8, 2020 3:27 a.m.

AP News in Brief at 6:04 a.m. EDT

Window into virus surge: Death, recovery at Houston hospital

July 8, 2020 3:03 a.m.

Mourners attend funeral mass for retired pope's brother

BERLIN (AP) — A memorial mass was held Wednesday in Germany for the Rev. Georg Ratzinger, the older brother of Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI.

July 8, 2020 12:03 a.m.

Wedding season brings new virus outbreak in West Bank

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — By the end of May, the Palestinian Authority appeared to have quashed a coronavirus outbreak in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, with only around 400 confirmed cases and just two fatalities in the territory, following a nearly three-month lockdown.