Despite risks, auto workers step up to make medical gear
DETROIT — Cindy Parkhurst could have stayed home collecting most of her pay while the Ford plant where she normally works remains closed due to coronavirus fears. Instead, she along with hundreds of workers at Ford, General Motors, Toyota and other companies has gone back to work to make face...
Gov. Cuomo says antibody survey shows wide exposure to coronavirus in N.Y.Video
NEW YORK — More evidence is emerging that far more New Yorkers have had the coronavirus than the number confirmed by lab tests, officials said Thursday, offering insight that could help authorities decide how and how quickly to let people stop isolating from friends and return to work. Blood samples...
Social media games can open the door to cyber crime
A lot of people are relying on social media to stay connected while ordered to stay at home, but the FBI warns that those games you’re playing online could benefit identity thieves. “This is a hard time for everyone and we know social media has been a boon to help...
Elizabeth Warren’s oldest brother dies of coronavirus
BOSTON — The oldest brother of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Donald Reed Herring, has died from the coronavirus, the Massachusetts senator said Thursday. The former Democratic presidential candidate said her brother died Tuesday evening. He spent his career in the military after joining the U.S. Air Force at the age of...
Health official: 1 million in New York City possibly exposed to coronavirus
NEW YORK — As many as 1 million people in New York City may have been exposed to the coronavirus, the city’s health commissioner said Thursday. More than 142,000 people in the city have tested positive for the virus, “but that really is, I think, the tip of the iceberg,”...
‘We’ve been ignored’: Nursing homes plead for more coronavirus testing
NEW YORK — After two months and more than 10,000 deaths that have made the nation’s nursing homes some of the most terrifying places to be during the coronavirus crisis, most of them still don’t have access to enough tests to help control outbreaks among their frail, elderly residents. Neither...
8 big cats at Bronx Zoo test positive for coronavirus
NEW YORK — Another seven big cats at the Bronx Zoo have tested positive for coronavirus, just weeks after a Malayan tiger named Nadia was found to have the disease that is ravaging New York. Zoo officials announced the test results Wednesday, saying five tigers and three lions have coronavirus....
Virus warnings back safety over tradition during RamadanVideo
ISLAMABAD — The coronavirus pandemic is cutting off the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims from their cherished Ramadan traditions as health officials battle to ward off new infections during Islam’s holiest month, haunted by multiple outbreaks traced to religious gatherings around the world. Ramadan, a month of daytime fasting, overnight festivity...
Coronavirus pushes U.S. unemployment toward highest since DepressionVideo
WASHINGTON — Unemployment in the U.S. is swelling to levels last seen during the Great Depression of the 1930s, with 1 in 6 American workers thrown out of a job by the coronavirus. More than 4.4 million laid-off Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, the government said Thursday. In...
Iran Guard commander threatens U.S. Navy after Trump tweetVideo
TEHRAN, Iran — The leader of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard warned Thursday he ordered his forces to potentially target the U.S. Navy after President Donald Trump’s tweet a day earlier threatening to sink Iranian vessels. Iran separately summoned the Swiss ambassador, who looks out for America’s interests in the country, to...
Greenland ready to take U.S. aid but won’t accept conditions
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Greenlanders said Thursday they welcome reports that the United States wants to invest in their island, but the money has to come without conditions. The U.S administration is expected to announce the opening of a U.S. Agency for International Development office at the new American consulate in...
At least 7 dead as storms hit Oklahoma, Texas and LouisianaVideo
MADILL, Okla. — Severe weather blew through the South on Thursday after killing at least seven people in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana, including a worker at a factory hit by an apparent tornado, a man whose car was blown off the road and a man who went outside to grab...
China buys crude oil as prices collapse, adding to stockpiles
BEIJING — China, the world’s biggest energy consumer, is building up stockpiles of crude oil as global prices plunge because of the coronavirus outbreak. Imports rose 4.5% in March over a year earlier even as the world’s second-largest economy shut down to fight the virus and demand collapsed. For the...
Under pressure, Harvard says it will reject U.S. relief aid
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University announced Wednesday it will turn down $8.7 million in federal coronavirus relief, a day after President Donald Trump excoriated the wealthy Ivy League school over taxpayer money it stood to receive. It followed similar actions at Stanford and Princeton universities, which said they will too...
Bloomberg to fund $10M coronavirus tracking program for New York
NEW YORK — Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that Michael Bloomberg will fund a pilot program to test and trace coronavirus infection rates as the state’s daily death rate dipped slightly to 474. The former New York City mayor will fund a $10 million initial plan to trace people who...
Trump signs immigration order as part of pandemic crackdown
WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday that will temporarily halt the issuance of certain green cards as he uses the coronavirus pandemic to push long-stalled immigration measures during an election year. While Trump says the move is designed to preserve jobs for American workers in an economy...
Poll: Few Americans support easing coronavirus protectionsVideo
WASHINGTON — Americans remain overwhelmingly in favor of stay-at-home orders and other efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus, a new survey finds, even as small pockets of attention-grabbing protests demanding the lifting of such restrictions emerge nationwide. The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research...
Trump campaign tests lines of attack against Biden
NEW YORK — Air Force One is mostly grounded. Fundraisers are canceled. And the closest thing to a campaign rally is President Trump’s nightly coronavirus briefing. The president’s reelection campaign has been thoroughly upended by the coronavirus. But Trump’s team has revived a plan to quickly define Joe Biden, painting...
Top health official says he was ousted over Trump-touted drugVideo
WASHINGTON — A top U.S. health official who was helping lead efforts to find a coronavirus vaccine said he was removed from his post because he insisted on limiting the use of a drug President Donald Trump has pushed as a COVID-19 treatment despite little clinical evidence it works. Rick...
U.S. to boost aid to Greenland in bid to counter Russia, China
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is poised to announce an expanded diplomatic presence in Greenland and a new assistance package for the vast island aimed at thwarting growing Chinese and Russian influence in the Arctic. The announcement, expected Thursday, will come less than a year after President Donald Trump drew...
U.S. adds cameras at Mexico border despite drop in crossings
SAN DIEGO — The Trump administration has been quietly adding military surveillance cameras at the U.S.-Mexico border in response to the coronavirus pandemic, though fewer people appear to be crossing illegally. It’s the latest move as operations at the U.S.-Mexico border have become increasingly militarized and secretive. Documents obtained by...
Florida Rep. Donna Shalala failed to disclose stock sales in 2019 in violation of federal lawVideo
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Donna Shalala, the lone House Democrat on the committee set up to oversee $500 billion in taxpayer money being used for coronavirus-related payouts to large businesses, violated federal law when she failed to disclose stock sales while serving in Congress. Shalala, of Florida, told the Miami...
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman wants all the city’s casinos to open — then close if they’re infectedVideo
An argument from the mayor of Las Vegas about opening the city’s casinos has hit a fever pitch. Carolyn Goodman, who has been the Sin City mayor since 2011, has demanded that the businesses that want to open should be allowed to and called Nevada’s nonessential business shutdowns “total insanity”...
2 cats in New York become first U.S. pets to test positive for coronavirusVideo
NEW YORK — Two pet cats in New York state have tested positive for coronavirus, marking the first confirmed cases in companion animals in the United States, federal officials said Wednesday. The cats, which had mild respiratory illnesses and are expected to recover, are thought to have contracted the virus...
Man driving truck stolen in Pennsylvania wounded in Florida shootout, sheriff says
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — A man who was driving a stolen pickup truck was wounded Wednesday afternoon during a shootout with a deputy near a shopping center in Florida, authorities said. Deputies had been searching for a Toyota Tundra that was reported stolen in Pennsylvania this week when a...
