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Brazil's President Bolsonaro tests positive for COVID-19

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro says he has tested positive for COVID-19 after months of downplaying the virus' severity. Bolsonaro confirmed the test results while wearing a mask a...

Jul 07, 2020

At libel trial, Depp blasts Amber Heard's 'sick' abuse claim

LONDON - Johnny Depp said Tuesday that his ex-wife Amber Heard had made "sick" claims of abuse and falsely branded him a monster, as the actor testified in a U.K. libel case that hinges on who was the...

Jul 07, 2020

Death toll from flooding in Japan rises to 50, dozen missing

TOKYO - Japan's disaster management agency says the death toll from recent flooding has risen to 50 and at least a dozen others are still missing. Pounding rain since late Friday in Japan's southern r...

Jul 06, 2020

California Assembly delays session after virus outbreak

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A coronavirus outbreak in the California Legislature has indefinitely delayed the state Assembly's return to work from a scheduled summer recess, highlighting the rapid spread of ...

Jul 06, 2020

Native American groups ask NFL to force Redskins name change

WASHINGTON - More than a dozen Native American leaders and organizations sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday calling for the league to force Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder ...

Jul 06, 2020

Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms contracts COVID-19

Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced Monday that she had tested positive for COVID-19. "COVID-19 has literally hit home. I have had NO symptoms and have tested positive," Bottoms, a potential ...

Jul 06, 2020

Small business aid went beyond hard-hit companies, data show

WASHINGTON - The government on Monday identified roughly 650,000 mostly small businesses and nonprofits that received taxpayer money from a federal program that probably softened job losses from the c...

Jul 06, 2020

Trump lashes out at NASCAR, Wallace over flag and noose

WASHINGTON - NASCAR's layered relationship with President Donald Trump took a sharp turn Monday when Trump blasted the racing organization for banning the Confederate flag and wrongly accused the spor...

Jul 06, 2020

Trump criticizes Redskins, Indians for weighing name changes

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Monday criticized a pair of sports teams that are considering name changes in the wake of a national reckoning over racial injustice and inequality. Trump tweete...

Jul 06, 2020

White woman charged after racist Central Park confrontation

NEW YORK - A white woman who called the police during a videotaped dispute with a Black man over walking her dog without a leash in Central Park was charged Monday with filing a false police report. I...

Jul 06, 2020