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April 9, 2020 12:03 a.m.

Housing market chills, layoffs, companies boost virus fight

The outbreak of the coronavirus has dealt a shock to the global economy with unprecedented speed. Following are developments Wednesday related to the global economy, the work place and the spread of the virus.

March 25, 2020 11:28 p.m.

Coronavirus delivers tough blow to Lebanon’s dying economy

BEIRUT (AP) — Through 15 years of civil war and various bouts of violence since, Lebanon's Barbar eatery never closed its doors, serving up sandwiches to customers even if it meant doing so from behind sandbags.

April 11, 2020 9:06 a.m.

COVID-19 and AIDS crisis: NYC gays see parallels, contrasts

NEW YORK (AP) — LGBT New Yorkers who lived through the AIDS crisis of the 1980s see some bleak parallels in the COVID-19 pandemic now wracking their city. But more so, they stress the differences.

April 11, 2020 11:06 a.m.

US death toll overtakes Italy's as the Midwest braces

CHICAGO (AP) — The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus eclipsed Italy's for the highest in the world Saturday at more than 19,700, as Chicago and other cities across the Midwest braced for a potential surge in victims and moved to snuff out smoldering hot spots of contagion before they erupt.

April 12, 2020 12:03 a.m.

COVID-19 and AIDS crisis: NYC gays see parallels, contrasts

NEW YORK (AP) — LGBT New Yorkers who lived through the AIDS crisis of the 1980s see some bleak parallels in the COVID-19 pandemic now wracking their city. But more so, they stress the differences.

May 12, 2020 11:03 a.m.

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.

April 16, 2020 11:03 p.m.

Bleak figures from China and US show economic hit from virus

BEIJING (AP) — Bleak figures from the world's two largest economies underscore how quickly the coronavirus is delivering a massive economic blow.

April 17, 2020 12:03 a.m.

Bleak figures from China and US show economic hit from virus

BEIJING (AP) — Bleak figures from the world's two largest economies underscore how quickly the coronavirus is delivering a massive economic blow.

April 27, 2020 7:27 p.m.

Brazil edges toward being next big coronavirus hot spot

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil is emerging as potentially the next big hot spot for the coronavirus amid President Jair Bolsonaro’s insistence that it is just a "little flu” and that there is no need for the sharp restrictions that have slowed the infection’s spread in Europe and the U.S.

April 28, 2020 12:03 a.m.

Brazil edges toward being next big coronavirus hot spot

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil is emerging as potentially the next big hot spot for the coronavirus amid President Jair Bolsonaro’s insistence that it is just a "little flu” and that there is no need for the sharp restrictions that have slowed the infection’s spread in Europe and the U.S.

April 28, 2020 12:27 a.m.

`Infecting our dreams': Pandemic sabotages sleep worldwide

For millions of people around the world dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, sleep brings no relief.

April 25, 2020 6:03 a.m.

India reopens stores as some virus lockdowns ease globally

NEW DELHI (AP) — A tentative easing around the world of coronavirus lockdowns gathered pace Saturday with the reopening in India of neighborhood stores that many of the country's 1.3 billion people rely on for everything from cold drinks to mobile phone data cards.

April 30, 2021 1:03 p.m.

All aboard! Biden celebrates Amtrak's 50 years on the rails

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Joe Biden, once a regular Amtrak rider, helped the nation's passenger rail system celebrate 50 years of service Friday.

January 24, 2020 7:05 a.m.

NFL’s Saints fight to shield emails in Catholic abuse crisis

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Saints are going to court to keep the public from seeing hundreds of emails that allegedly show team executives doing public relations damage control for the area's Roman Catholic archdiocese to help it contain the fallout from a burgeoning sexual abuse crisis.

January 24, 2020 11:35 a.m.

NFL's Saints seek to shield PR help to church in sex crisis

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Saints are going to court to keep the public from seeing hundreds of emails that allegedly show team executives doing public relations damage control for the area's Roman Catholic archdiocese to help it contain the fallout from a burgeoning sexual abuse crisis.

February 17, 2020 12:05 a.m.

Writer AE Hotchner, friend to Hemingway, Newman, dead at 102

A.E. Hotchner, a well-traveled author, playwright and gadabout whose street smarts and famous pals led to a loving, but litigated memoir of Ernest Hemingway, business adventures with Paul Newman and a book about his Depression-era childhood that became a Steven Soderbergh film, died Saturday at age 102.

February 17, 2020 9:05 a.m.

Leaked data shows China's Uighurs detained due to religion

BEIJING (AP) — When a Chinese government mass detention campaign engulfed Memtimin Emer's native Xinjiang region three years ago, the elderly Uighur imam was swept up and locked away, along with three of his sons.

February 18, 2020 12:05 a.m.

Leaked data shows China's Uighurs detained due to religion

BEIJING (AP) — When a Chinese government mass detention campaign engulfed Memtimin Emer's native Xinjiang region three years ago, the elderly Uighur imam was swept up and locked away, along with three of his sons.

February 18, 2020 12:05 a.m.

Writer AE Hotchner, friend to Hemingway, Newman, dead at 102

A.E. Hotchner, a well-traveled author, playwright and gadabout whose street smarts and famous pals led to a loving, but litigated memoir of Ernest Hemingway, business adventures with Paul Newman and a book about his Depression-era childhood that became a Steven Soderbergh film, died Saturday at age 102.

February 16, 2020 12:05 a.m.

Writer AE Hotchner, friend to Hemingway, Newman, dead at 102

A.E. Hotchner, a well-traveled author, playwright and gadabout whose street smarts and famous pals led to a loving, but litigated memoir of Ernest Hemingway, business adventures with Paul Newman and a book about his Depression-era childhood that became a Steven Soderbergh film, died Saturday at age 102.