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Louis Armstrong org starts COVID-19 fund for jazz musicians

NEW YORK - The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation has launched a $1 million emergency fund to support freelance New York City-area jazz musicians during the coronavirus pandemic. The organization'...

Apr 16, 2020

Brian Dennehy, Tony-winning stage, screen actor, dies at 81

NEW YORK - Brian Dennehy, the burly actor who started in films as a macho heavy and later in his career won plaudits for his stage work in plays by William Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, Eugene O'Neill a...

Apr 16, 2020

Putin postpones World War II victory parade due to virus

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered the postponement Thursday of a Victory Day parade marking the 75th anniversary of Nazi Germany's defeat in World War II, an event planned ...

Apr 16, 2020

Amid lockdown, Danes find way to celebrate queen's birthday

COPENHAGEN - Observing social distancing, Danes on Thursday sang birthday songs from homes, balconies, parks and public gardens to honour popular Queen Margrethe II, who turned 80 amid the pandemic lo...

Apr 16, 2020

Government closing in on small business lending limit

NEW YORK - The government is closing in on the $349 billion lending limit on its Paycheck Protection Program that is sending relief money to the nation's small businesses. The Small Business Administr...

Apr 16, 2020

US job losses mount as economic pain deepens worldwide

WASHINGTON - The ranks of Americans thrown out of work by the coronavirus ballooned Thursday to more than 20 million in just four weeks, an unprecedented collapse fueling widening protests and propell...

Apr 16, 2020

Leading in pandemic becomes part of audition for Biden's VP

CHICAGO - California Sen. Kamala Harris is raising money for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden while speaking out about the disproportionate number of African Americans with COVID-...

Apr 16, 2020

US home construction collapsed 22.3% in March

U.S. home-building activity collapsed in March as the coronavirus spread, with housing starts tumbling 22.3% from a month ago. The Commerce Department said Thursday that ground breakings occurred last...

Apr 16, 2020

'Dreary summer' expected in California as virus dims plans

LOS ANGELES - In these dark times, clouded by fears of an enemy we can't see and sheltered in homes we're itching to leave, it's reassuring to know that California's sunsets over the Pacific are just ...

Apr 16, 2020

US unemployment applications are set to shoot up again

WASHINGTON - The U.S. government is poised Thursday to announce the latest alarming report on the layoffs that have been sweeping across the economy since the coronavirus outbreak struck hard last mon...

Apr 16, 2020