By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — The orders seem prudent in the bid to thwart the spread of the novel coronavirus: Don't go out, don't gather with others and keep your stores closed. But growing segments of the U.S. population say state and federal governments are ...
By JILL COLVIN and ELANA SCHOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's "beautiful" idea to reopen the U.S. economy by Easter Sunday and pack church pews that day was dreamed up during a conference call among business leaders desperate to get the country back up and ...
By BASSEM MROUE and ZEINA KARAM Associated Press 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. The coronavirus pandemic, ...
By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press LE VESINET, France (AP) — In France, the fight against COVID-19 is being waged one baguette at a time. No longer just a mere staple, the iconic loaf and the French daily ritual of buying it have become loaded with moral, civic and public health ...
By MICHELLE R. SMITH and DEE-ANN DURBIN Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — President Donald Trump wants the country open for business by mid-April, but some experts warn it's not as easy as flipping a switch: Economies run on confidence, and that is likely to be in short supply for ...
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska's initial claims for unemployment benefits skyrocketed with the nation's last week amid the coronavirus pandemic, rising to nearly 16,000 from a little less than 800 the week before, according to a federal report released Thursday. Nationally, 3.3 million ...
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts' highest court will hear arguments over the telephone next Tuesday in a case seeking the release of inmates amid the coronavirus pandemic. An emergency petition filed by public defenders and defense attorneys in the Supreme Judicial Court this week asks the ...
By BEN FOX, PHILIP MARCELO and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Pressure was mounting on the Trump administration Wednesday to release people from immigration detention facilities where at least one detainee has tested positive for COVID-19 and advocates fear tight ...
By REBECCA SANTANA and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Barely a week ago, David McGraw was cooking daily for hundreds of fine diners at one of New Orleans' illustrious restaurants. Today, he's cooking for himself, at home — laid off along with hundreds of thousands ...
By MITCH WEISS, HOLBROOK MOHR and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press A 33-year-old American woman running out of her life-saving medication to treat her auto-immune disease finally boarded a flight home Wednesday after being stuck in Peru for about 10 days, but hundreds of other U.S. citizens ...
By JOSHUA GOODMAN and SCOTT SMITH Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Nicolás Maduro effectively converted Venezuela into a criminal enterprise at the service of drug traffickers and terrorist groups as he and his allies stole billions from the South American country, the Justice Department ...
PARIS (AP) — What's that sound beneath the Eiffel Tower? It's silence — a rare phenomenon in big cities like Paris, but one that's increasingly common now that tourism is banned and millions of people in and around the French capital are confined at home. Some 150 monitoring stations ...
By JULIE WATSON and AMY TAXIN Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Immigration attorneys have sported swim goggles and masks borrowed from friends to meet with clients in detention centers. Masked judges are stocking their cramped courtrooms with hand sanitizer for hearings they want to do ...
By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer OAKLAND, California (AP) — "When are we going to the playground, Mama?" she asks again today, like she did yesterday and the day before that. I tell her we are not going to the playground today, that we can go for a walk, remember the virus we ...
By COLLEEN LONG, DAVID RISING and EMILY SCHMALL Associated Press The human and economic toll of the lockdowns against the coronavirus mounted Thursday as India struggled to feed the multitudes, Italy shut down most of its industry, and a record-shattering 3.3 million Americans applied for ...
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has the biggest megaphone, but it's governors and local officials who will decide when to begin reopening their economies after shuttering them to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The Constitution largely ...
By PETER DEJONG Associated Press LISSE, Netherlands (AP) — The manicured lawns and pathways winding the flower beds at the Keukenhof spring garden, normally crowded with thousands of visitors on any given sun-splashed spring day, were deserted Thursday. A lonely worker pushed his ...
By JONA KALLGREN Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Locked down due to the coronavirus pandemic, the nightclubs in the German capital have decided to keep the beat going — at least online. Berlin's nightclubs were closed March 13 to help slow the spread of the virus. In response, some of ...
By ROBERT BURNS and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The coronavirus is taking a growing toll on the U.S. military, and commanders and senior officials are bracing for worse. From nuclear missile fields at home to war zones abroad, from flight lines to ships at sea, ...
By ALEXANDRA OLSON, CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and CATHY BUSSEWITZ AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — With record-high numbers of Americans seeking unemployment benefits after losing their jobs because of the coronavirus, Congress is set to significantly enhance the program. The $2.2 ...
