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AP News Digest 6:30 p.m.
Here are the AP’s latest coverage plans, top stories and promotable content. All times EDT. For up-to-the minute information on AP’s coverage, visit Coverage Plan at https://newsroom.ap.org.
AP News in Brief at 6:04 p.m. EDT
Fauci warns of 'suffering and death' if US reopens too soon
Michigan woman at center of transgender rights case dies
DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit-area woman who was fired by a funeral home after she no longer wanted to be recognized as a man died Tuesday before the U.S. Supreme Court could rule on whether federal civil rights law protects transgender people.
Former state legislator Hood dies from virus complications
WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (AP) — Morris Hood III, a former Democratic state legislator from Detroit, has died of COVID-19. He was 54.
US choir outbreak called 'superspreader event' in report
SHORELINE, Wash. (AP) — Disease trackers are calling a choir practice in Washington state a superspreader event that illustrates how easily the coronavirus can pass from person to person.
AP Lifestyles Digest
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AP Exclusive: Chicago morgue coping despite surge in deaths
CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago area’s chief medical examiner starts her day with a numbers problem: how to manage three times the number of deaths as before the coronavirus pandemic with the same number of pathologists.
Militants storm maternity clinic in Afghan capital, kill 16
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Militants stormed a maternity hospital in the western part of Kabul on Tuesday, setting off an hours-long shootout with the police and killing 16 people, including two newborn babies, their mothers and an unspecified number of nurses, Afghan officials said.
2 Hispanic churches and too many tears: 100 COVID-19 deaths
NEW YORK (AP) — One is a Roman Catholic church in Queens; the other, a Lutheran church in Manhattan. But the COVID-19 pandemic has united the two Hispanic congregations in grief.
Afghan gunmen storm maternity clinic in Shiite area of Kabul
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Gunmen stormed a maternity hospital in the western part of Kabul on Tuesday, setting off a shootout with the police and killing four people as Afghan forces carried out newborn babies and their mothers to evacuate the facility under fire, officials said.
Afghan official: Gunmen storm clinic in Shiite area of Kabul
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Gunmen stormed a maternity hospital in the western part of the Afghan capital on Tuesday, setting off a gun battle with police, officials said. Afghan forces carried out newborn babies and their mothers as they evacuated the hospital; at least four people were reported wounded.
Israeli army: Soldier killed by rock during West Bank raid
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli soldier was killed early Tuesday during a West Bank arrest raid when a rock thrown off a rooftop struck him in the head, the military said.
Lives Lost: Victims of the virus, remembered for tomorrow
Across the world, the devastation caused by the coronavirus is told in the voices of those left behind.
'The grief is so unbearable': Virus takes toll on Navajo
TUBA CITY, Arizona (AP) — The virus arrived on the reservation in early March, when late winter winds were still blowing off the mesas and temperatures at dawn were often barely above freezing.
Lives Lost: Victims of the virus, remembered for tomorrow
Across the world, the devastation caused by the coronavirus is told in the voices of those left behind.
'The grief is so unbearable': Virus takes toll on Navajo
TUBA CITY, Arizona (AP) — The virus arrived on the reservation in early March, when late winter winds were still blowing off the mesas and temperatures at dawn were often barely above freezing.
Funeral delayed: tiaras, white outfits, turquoise face masks
WASHINGTON (AP) — When the time finally came, they laid Joanne Paylor to rest the finest way they could during a pandemic. A church service was out. The viewing had to be socially distanced. Golden chairs for the outdoor memorial service were carefully spaced apart.
The Latest: PM Johnson names baby for grandfathers, doctors
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End of lockdown to uncork pent-up mourning for the lost
PARIS (AP) — As body after body has passed through his rubber-gloved hands, sealed in double-layered bags for disposal, Paris undertaker Franck Vasseur has become increasingly concerned about the future after the coronavirus pandemic.
Air travel wanes, but bodies still fly to Israel for burial
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Air travel to Israel has come to a near standstill due to coronavirus restrictions, but one type of voyage still endures: the final journey of Jews wishing to be buried in Israel.