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The Latest: 3rd meat plant shut down in UK local outbreak
10:17 06/19
LONDON — A meat processing plant in West Yorkshire has been shut down amid a localized outbreak of COVID-19, the third such site to shut down in the U.K. in recent days.
MLB
Japan opens baseball season after 3-month pandemic delay
09:38 06/19
TOKYO — Japanese baseball managed to do what American baseball has not — play ball.
Virus Outbreak
Last batch of joint aid lands in Yemen amid UN funding cuts
09:37 06/19
The last of three large shipments of medical supplies landed in Yemen on Friday, organizers of the cargo flights said, following a joint initiative by the world organization and multinational...
International News
India’s prime minister to meet with opposition on China row
09:30 06/19
NEW DELHI — India's prime minister is meeting top opposition leaders Friday as the government tries to lower tensions with China after 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a clash in a Himalayan...
Beijing
Singapore opens gyms, dining out as China outbreak steadies
08:42 06/19
SINGAPORE — Singaporeans can wine and dine at restaurants, work out at the gym and socialize with no more than five people at a time as of Friday, when the city-state removed most of its...
Beijing
China moves vast trade fair online, but few buyers follow
08:36 06/19
BEIJING — Standing in front of shelves laden with colorful backpacks, a saleswoman promoted bags on the Canton Trade Fair’s website without knowing whether anyone was watching as the world’s...
General News
Asia Today: South Korean cases rise, Singapore reopening
05:24 06/19
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea has reported 49 cases of COVID-19 as the virus continues to spread in the densely populated capital area where half of the country’s 51 million people...
Race and ethnicity
Lives Lost: South African activist targeted apartheid, HIV
05:03 06/19
JOHANNESBURG — Clarence Mini's life was marked by battles against formidable foes. The South African doctor fought apartheid — receiving his medical training in exile — the government's...
Beijing
Asian stocks mixed amid concern over coronavirus hotspots
03:47 06/19
BEIJING — Asian stock markets were mixed Friday after Wall Street closed little-changed amid as optimism about a possible global economic recovery was tempered by concern over rising...
Michael Pence
The Latest: Coronavirus still spreading in 2nd S Korea wave
03:30 06/19
SEOUL, South Korea — The coronavirus continues to spread in South Korea, particularly in the densely populated Seoul metropolitan region, which is home to half the country’s 51 million people....
Shopping
JD.com racks up $38B in sales in annual online shopping fest
03:21 06/19
HONG KONG — JD.com's annual “618” online shopping extravaganza racked up a total of 269.2 billion yuan ($38 billion) worth of transactions, as consumers splurged during China's first major...
Global trade
US official says China not forthcoming in talks with Pompeo
01:32 06/19
WASHINGTON — A senior State Department official said Thursday that the United States was disappointed by China’s attitude at a meeting between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and a top Chinese...
Ballet
Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center cancel fall schedules
23:52 06/18
NEW YORK — Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts have canceled their fall schedules due to the coronavirus pandemic, and the New York City Ballet called off its annual...
MLB
Players at 70 games, MLB at 60, Manfred says deadline near
23:15 06/18
NEW YORK — Baseball players proposed a 70-game regular-season schedule Thursday, a plan immediately rejected by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred with the sides 10 games and about $275...
U.S. News
Heat, virus no deterrent for Trump fans camped outside arena
22:35 06/18
TULSA, Okla. — Rick Frazier drove more than 750 miles from Ohio to Tulsa to be one of the first campers in line for President Donald Trump's first rally in months, undeterred by a days-long...
Alejandro Villanueva
Steelers’ Heyward: team will be united if it opts to protest
22:24 06/18
PITTSBURGH — Cam Heyward is well-versed in the sometimes messy optics associated with taking a stand against social injustice.
Virus Outbreak
Trump team seeks 4th debate with Biden, cites voting by mail
21:42 06/18
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's campaign is requesting a fourth debate with his presumptive Democratic rival, citing an expected surge in mail and absentee voting this fall because of...
Galveston
AP Explains: Juneteenth marks day last enslaved people freed
21:37 06/18
Juneteenth commemorates when the last enslaved African Americans learned they were free 155 years ago. Now, with support growing for the racial justice movement, 2020 may be remembered as the year...
Minnesota Vikings
Vikings, Cook present NFL’s latest RB contract standoff
21:31 06/18
MINNEAPOLIS — Dalvin Cook logged off last week from virtual team activities with the Minnesota Vikings, no longer willing to participate until he has secured a new...
U.S. News
Curtains for Camelot: Last Kennedy sibling’s death ends era
20:40 06/18
BOSTON — Camelot's inner circle is just about gone — though its spirit, some say, is very much alive.
George Floyd
For now, Virginia still can’t remove massive Lee statue
20:38 06/18
RICHMOND, Va. — A judge on Thursday extended a court order preventing Virginia’s governor from removing a historic statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee from a famed avenue in the former capital of...
Michigan Wolverines men's basketball
The Latest: 1 Michigan St, 2 Michigan athletes test positive
20:15 06/18
The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world:
General News
A model for 2020? Candidates once let voters come to them
19:43 06/18
MENTOR, Ohio — Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden are wrestling with how to campaign safely during the coronavirus pandemic. Historians offer up precedent that might come with some lessons:...
General News
Facebook removes Trump ads with symbols once used by Nazis
19:33 06/18
WASHINGTON — Facebook has removed campaign ads by President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence that featured an upside-down red triangle, a symbol once used by Nazis to designate...
General News
Decline in new US virus deaths may be temporary reprieve
19:26 06/18
The number of deaths per day from the coronavirus in the U.S. has fallen in recent weeks to the lowest level since late March, even as states increasingly reopen for business. But scientists are...
Virus Outbreak
California orders people to wear masks in most indoor spaces
19:22 06/18
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California will require people to wear masks in most indoor settings and outdoors when distancing isn't possible under a statewide order issued Thursday....
General News
India seeks eased tensions with China after Himalayas clash
18:20 06/18
NEW DELHI — India said Thursday it was using diplomatic channels with China to de-escalate a military standoff in a remote Himalayan border region where 20 Indian soldiers were killed this...
Juneteenth
Juneteenth: A day of joy and pain - and now national action
18:14 06/18
In just about any other year, Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the day in 1865 that all enslaved black people learned they had been freed from bondage, would be marked by African American...
General News
AP-NORC poll: Trump adds to divisions in an unhappy country
18:12 06/18
WASHINGTON — Americans are deeply unhappy about the state of their country — and a majority think President Donald Trump is exacerbating tensions in a moment of national crisis, according to...
International News
UK’s recession ‘less bad’ than feared, Bank of England
17:55 06/18
LONDON — The Bank of England unveiled another big stimulus package for the U.K. economy as it tries to limit the scale of the coronavirus recession, which it now believes will be “less...
General News
Persistently high layoffs suggest a slow US economic rebound
17:48 06/18
WASHINGTON — Three months after the viral outbreak shut down businesses across the country, U.S. employers are still shedding jobs at a heavy rate, a trend that points to a slow and prolonged...
U.S. News
US mortgage rates fall; 30-year at all-time low of 3.13%
15:34 06/18
WASHINGTON — Long-term U.S. mortgage rates fell this week as the benchmark 30-year home loan reached a new all-time low.
General News
Pandemic gives businesses lessons in survival, innovation
15:33 06/18
NEW YORK — When the coronavirus outbreak forced Sean Giovanni to shut down his recording studio in for two months, he dropped off mobile equipment at staffers’ and artists’ homes. He hoped...
International News
European Central Bank hands out 1.3 trillion euros in loans
15:30 06/18
FRANKFURT, Germany — The European Central Bank has handed out 1.31 trillion euros ($1.46 trillion) in long-term, ultra-cheap credit to hundreds of banks as part of its emergency support aimed...
Business
‘Adapt or die’ -- Restaurants find ways to evolve amid virus
14:55 06/18
NEW YORK — When the coronavirus roared into New York, chef Anna Klinger wouldn't let it put a fork in her restaurant.
Prince Charles
Macron marks appeal that gave birth to French Resistance
14:52 06/18
LONDON — French President Emmanuel Macron marked Gen. Charles De Gaulle’s famed World War II appeal to resist the Nazis on Thursday in a special ceremony intended to invoke the deep...
Lifestyle
VIRUS DIARY: Jumbled scenes from an isolated life, captured
14:38 06/18
PHOENIX — Working from home is a blissful reprieve from the many sounds of the office. The gum-smacking, the open-mouth chewing, the drink-slurping, the hand-sneezers that haunt my...
Health
Official: German slaughterhouse virus outbreak untenable
14:19 06/18
BERLIN — Germany's agriculture minister said Thursday that conditions at a slaughterhouse where hundreds of workers tested positive for COVID-19 were untenable and backed an official...
Hong Kong
Hong Kong Disneyland reopens, consumers using less cash
14:04 06/18
The outbreak of the coronavirus has dealt a shock to the global economy with unprecedented speed. Following are developments Thursday related to the national and global response, the work place...
Health
Test maker targeted by FDA says it responded to US concerns
13:53 06/18
WASHINGTON — A company targeted by the Food and Drug Administration for selling unauthorized coronavirus antibody tests says it has responded to regulators' concerns, though it has no...
Religion
Vatican: Climate change efforts go forward even without US
13:42 06/18
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican stressed Thursday that the movement to combat climate change is unstoppable and worldwide, although it said it would welcome a U.S. return to the Paris...
U.S. News
Lives Lost: For man with Down syndrome, a college dream
13:06 06/18
NEW YORK — Right up to the end, the status message on Saadya Ehrenpreis’ WhatsApp profile read: “Having the time of my life.”
Virus Outbreak
This Father’s Day, dads have new respect for duties at home
12:42 06/18
NEW YORK — Rahul Gandhi's twin girls were born dangerously premature, with a slim chance they would have normal lives after barely surviving birth eight years ago.