By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN, EVENS SANON and FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — From Mexico City to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and Santiago, Chile, the coronavirus is taking root in the world's most unequal region, where many of Latin America's first cases arrived ...
By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — "We are already ruined. What more harm can coronavirus do?" Irene Kampira asked as she sorted secondhand clothes at a bustling market in a poor suburb of Zimbabwe's capital, Harare. People in one of the world's most devastated ...
By ARITZ PARRA and DAVID RISING Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Bells tolled in Madrid's deserted central square and flags were lowered in a day of mourning Monday as Spain raced to build field hospitals to treat an onslaught of coronavirus patients. In the U.S., the government's top ...
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Before the Olympics were postponed, Japan looked like it had coronavirus infections contained, even as they spread in neighboring countries. Now that the games have been pushed to next year, Tokyo's cases are spiking, and the city's ...
By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press LE PECQ, France (AP) — Of a world in coronavirus turmoil, they may know little or nothing. Submariners stealthily cruising the ocean deeps, purposefully shielded from worldly worries to encourage undivided focus on their top-secret missions of nuclear ...
By FARES AKRAM Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — When Nima Amraa returned to the Gaza Strip from neighboring Egypt earlier this month, she was surprised to learn she was being placed in a makeshift quarantine center set up by the ruling Hamas group. But her initial jitters ...
By NG HAN GUAN and JOE McDONALD Associated Press WUHAN, China (AP) — Shopkeepers in the city at the center of China's virus outbreak were reopening Monday but customers were scarce after authorities lifted more of the anti-virus controls that kept tens of millions of people at home for ...
By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Twelve days ago, General Motors put hundreds of workers on an urgent project to build breathing machines as hospitals and governors pleaded for more in response to the coronavirus pandemic. But President Donald Trump, claiming the company ...
By ZEKE MILLER and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Bracing the nation for a coronavirus death toll that could exceed 100,000 people, President Donald Trump extended restrictive social distancing guidelines through April, bowing to public health experts who presented him ...
By JOCELYN NOVECK, LARRY NEUMEISTER and MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York's governor issued an urgent appeal for medical volunteers Monday amid a "staggering" number of deaths from the coronavirus, saying: "Please come help us in New York, now." And tens of ...
By JOYCE M. ROSENBERG AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When will the money arrive? That's the urgent question for small business owners who have been devastated by the coronavirus outbreak. They're awaiting help from the $2 trillion rescue package signed into law Friday. But with ...
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press HAMBURG, Pa. (AP) — The spring breezes of 2020 are carrying more than just tree pollen. There's a whiff of paranoia in the air. For millions of seasonal allergy sufferers, the annual onset of watery eyes and scratchy throats is bumping up against ...
By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sister love playing out in a living-room hair trim. A botched home dye job with a silver lining. Stylists shipping out kits of personalized color with promises to talk their regulars through the process via FaceTime. As the spread of ...
By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — With millions of people suddenly out of work and rent due at the first of the month, some tenants are vowing to go on a rent strike until the coronavirus pandemic subsides. New York, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and St. Louis are ...
By TAMARA LUSH and CHRIS O'MEARA Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Florida officials have arrested the pastor of a megachurch after detectives say he held two Sunday services with hundreds of people and violated a safer-at-home order in place to limit the spread of the ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Members of a church group gobbled fast food upon their return to West Virginia after becoming stuck in Honduras for two weeks during a mission trip. Sixteen members of the Morgantown Church of Christ arrived back home early Friday, The Dominion Post ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — Unable to wipe smiles off their faces, Carolyn and James Vigil posted a selfie to Facebook on Friday night with the caption: “We kicked COVID19’s a. Happy Hour for two at Casa de Vigil!” Reported cases Nos. 1 and 2 in the state, the Vigils were the first of the ...
The Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department Sunday said a seventh positive case of COVID-19 has been identified in Ohio County. Currently, the health department is monitoring 7 cases (one early case has been transferred to California). Meanwhile, on Saturday, the Marshall County Health ...
By ABDI GULED and MOHAMED SHEIKH NOR Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — At first, the coronavirus was just a fairy tale, a rumor along the dusty lanes of the displaced persons' camp that Habiba Ali calls home. It seemed fantastical: an illness sweeping the world far beyond ...
Editor’s note: Rabbi Joshua Lief of Temple Shalom in Wheeling is among a growing number of city natives who have returned to the area to raise their families and make Wheeling a better place to live. Lief is not shy in giving his opinion on a number of topics to make the city grow, as the ...
