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UK interest rates cut, funds freed up to ease virus impact
LONDON - Britain took bold steps on Wednesday to cushion the economic shock of the coronavirus outbreak, as the government announced a 30 billion-pound ($39 billion) stimulus package and the Bank of E...
Mar 14, 2020
'Very much alive': Biden victorious in 4 more primary states
WASHINGTON - Joe Biden decisively won Michigan's Democratic presidential primary, seizing a key battleground state that helped propel Bernie Sanders' insurgent candidacy four years ago. The former vic...
Mar 14, 2020
Virus prompts late shows to drop audiences, ‘Survivor’ delay
LOS ANGELES - The ripple effect of the new coronavirus on the entertainment industry reached late-night and daytime television, a TV fan festival and far beyond to the series "Survivor" in Fiji. Nicke...
Mar 14, 2020
Only essential staff and limited family at NCAA tournaments
The buzzer-beaters, upsets and all the other shining moments of this year's NCAA tournaments will be played in mostly empty arenas. Trying to avoid spreading the new coronavirus that has become a glob...
Mar 14, 2020
Trump announces delay of tax deadline for virus victims
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump announced Wednesday night that he will instruct the Treasury Department to allow individuals and businesses negatively affected by the coronavirus to defer their ta...
Mar 14, 2020
Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson test positive for coronavirus
NEW YORK - Tom Hanks and his actress-singer wife Rita Wilson have tested positive for the coronavirus, the actor said in a statement Wednesday. Hanks said the couple were in Australia and felt tired, ...
Mar 14, 2020
WHO declares coronavirus a pandemic, urges aggressive action
GENEVA - The World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic and urged aggressive action from all countries to fight it, as U.S. stocks plunged into bear market territory and several Ame...
Mar 14, 2020
Asian shares sink after Dow hits bear level on pandemic news
TOKYO - Asian shares plunged Thursday after the World Health Organization declared a coronavirus pandemic and indexes sank on Wall Street. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 dived 4.9% to 18,468.99. Austral...
Mar 14, 2020
3 former track athletes suing NCAA, coach over alleged abuse
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Former Olympic high jumper Erin Aldrich planned to die with a secret she kept quiet for two-plus decades: an affair with a college coach she began falling in love with as a teenager...
Mar 14, 2020
NBA suspends season until further notice, over coronavirus
MIAMI - The NBA has suspended its season "until further notice" after a Utah Jazz player tested positive Wednesday for the novel coronavirus, a move that came only hours after the majority of the leag...
Mar 14, 2020