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Tourists stranded in Asia by canceled flights, shut bordersVideo

PHUKET, Thailand — From the sun-soaked beaches of Thailand to the foothills of Mount Everest in Nepal, tourists across Asia are finding their dream vacations have turned into travel nightmares as airlines cancel flights and countries close their borders in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Thousands of tourists escaping...
Pedestrian bridge falls onto Detroit freeway; no injuries

DETROIT — A portion of a pedestrian bridge fell early Friday onto a Detroit freeway, blocking traffic, police said. No one was injured in the collapse onto westbound Interstate 94, Lt. Mike Shaw, a Michigan State Police spokesman, said in an email. State police reported on Twitter that the agency...
In Iran, false belief a poison fights virus kills hundredsVideo

TEHRAN, Iran — Standing over the still body of an intubated 5-year-old boy wearing nothing but a plastic diaper, an Iranian health care worker in a hazmat suit and mask begged the public for just one thing: Stop drinking industrial alcohol over fears about the new coronavirus. The boy, now...
Appeals grow to close U.S. national parks during pandemicVideo

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is sticking with its crowd-friendly waiver of entrance fees at national parks during the coronavirus pandemic, as managers at some parks try and fail to keep visitors a safe distance apart and communities appeal for a shutdown at other parks that are still open. While...
If you don’t laugh, you cry: Coping with virus through humor

BOSTON — Neil Diamond posts a fireside rendition of “Sweet Caroline” with its familiar lyrics tweaked to say, “Hands … washing hands.” A news anchor asks when social distancing will end because “my husband keeps trying to get into the house.” And a sign outside a neighborhood church reads: “Had...
Bill Bartholomay, who moved Braves to Atlanta, dies at 91Video

ATLANTA — Bill Bartholomay, the former baseball owner who moved the Braves from from Milwaukee to Atlanta in 1966 to become MLB’s first team in the South, has died. He was 91. Bartholomay died Wednesday at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, according to his daughter, Jamie. Braves Hall of Famer Hank Aaron...
NFL keeping draft in April as scheduledVideo

NEW YORK — Commissioner Roger Goodell told NFL teams Thursday that the draft will go on as originally scheduled for next month. The draft will still take place April 23-25. It was originally scheduled for a big outdoor production in Las Vegas, but those plans were scrapped because of the...
Florida’s number of coronavirus cases jumps sharplyVideo

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Miami-area hospitals were treating about a dozen crew members from two cruise ships and Florida’s second-largest county ordered residents to stay home as the state’s number of coronavirus cases jumped sharply on Thursday. The state health department said more than 2,350 people had tested positive for...
MLB players keep service time in new deal; draft could be trimmedVideo

NEW YORK — Players agreed to a deal with MLB that would preserve service time in the event this season is canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, a person familiar with the agreement told the Associated Press. As part of the agreement Thursday night, management was given the right to...
MLB uniform maker switches to producing medical masks, gownsVideo

PHILADELPHIA — The Bryce Harper jersey that could have been worn this baseball season by the biggest Philadelphia Phillies fan is now a protective mask in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Fanatics, the company that manufactures uniforms for MLB, has suspended production on jerseys and is instead using the...
Doubleheaders? Winter windup? Baseball’s 2020 could be creativeVideo

PHOENIX — It has been another ideal week of March weather in central Arizona, with highs in the 70s and plenty of sunshine. Perfect for an Opening Day baseball game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Atlanta Braves that isn’t happening as planned because of the coronavirus pandemic. That reality was...
U.S. leads world in confirmed coronavirus cases

NEW YORK — The number of people around the world who have contracted the coronavirus has surged past 535,000, and the United States tops the list, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally. U.S. deaths have now topped 1,200, in another grim update for a global outbreak that has wreaked...
Tim Dahlberg: Enough greed, just shorten the baseball seasonVideo

Major league owners and players seem to be in rare agreement. They want to play as many games as possible, as soon as possible. Ordinarily that would be something to cheer for. But one look at the line of people in masks stretching outside Costco at 7 a.m. is evidence...
Signing college free agents is rare NHL business going onVideo

Colton Poolman had a good feeling about what was to come. He and his North Dakota teammates were ranked third in the country with the conference tournament coming up. They felt they had as good a chance as anyone to win the NCAA title until the season was abruptly canceled...
Brazil’s governors rise up against President Jair Bolsonaro’s coronavirus stanceVideo

SAO PAULO — Brazil’s governors are defying President Jair Bolsonaro over his call to reopen schools and businesses, dismissing his argument that the “cure” of widespread shutdowns to contain the spread of the new coronavirus is worse than the disease. Bolsonaro contends that the clampdown already ordered by many governors...
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker seeks federal disaster declaration; help for homelessVideo

BOSTON — Gov. Charlie Baker on Thursday submitted a request to the federal government for a major disaster declaration for Massachusetts. If approved, the declaration would provide Massachusetts with additional assistance beyond what was included in an emergency declaration issued by President Donald Trump on March 13, the Republican governor...

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