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Prince Charles opens fast-tracked London hospital

LONDON - Prince Charles on Friday remotely opened the new Nightingale Hospital at London's main exhibition and conference centre, a temporary facility that will soon be able to treat 4,000 people who ...

Apr 03, 2020

Cardboard cutouts pose as guests for wedding amid COVID-19

DOWAGIAC, Mich. - Cardboard cutout wedding guests will make for a not-so-cookie-cutter wedding as a Michigan couple prepares to tie the knot during the coronavirus pandemic. After Amy Simonson and Dan...

Apr 02, 2020

Judge lets rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine go home, citing COVID-19

NEW YORK - Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine was ordered immediately freed from a Manhattan federal lockup four months early Thursday by a judge who cited his asthma and the greater danger he would face behind b...

Apr 02, 2020

Navy fires captain who sought help for virus-striken ship

WASHINGTON - The captain of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier facing a growing outbreak of the coronavirus was fired Thursday by Navy leaders who said he created a panic by sending his memo pleading for he...

Apr 02, 2020

AP source: Ex-Dallas police chief to lead Chicago police

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday will name former Dallas Police Chief David Brown to lead the police force in the nation's third largest city, a city official told The Associated Press. Lightf...

Apr 02, 2020

Judge won't delay Wisconsin election but extends voting

MADISON, Wis. - A federal judge on Thursday declined to postpone Wisconsin's presidential primary over the health threat from the new coronavirus, but he ordered that people be given an extra six days...

Apr 02, 2020

Hockey players in the minors face uncertainty, job fears

Tim Harrison made the long drive from South Carolina to his home just south of Boston with a lot on his mind. The ECHL season had just been cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic, and the 26-ye...

Apr 02, 2020

Andrew Lloyd Webber shares musicals online; actor diagnosed

From finding ways to help others cope to sheltering in place to cancelling events, here's a look at some of the ways the entertainment industry is reacting to the spread of the coronavirus, which most...

Apr 02, 2020

Trump says he expects Russia, Saudis to cut oil production

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Thursday that he expects Saudi Arabia and Russia will end an oil war and dramatically cut production. The price for U.S. benchmark crude surged 24%. A global g...

Apr 02, 2020

UN: 95% of Europe's virus dead over 60 but young not immune

GENEVA - More than 95% of those who have died of coronavirus in Europe have been over 60 but young people should not be complacent, the head of the World Health Organization's office in Europe said Th...

Apr 02, 2020