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Stocks soar on plans for more stimulus measures, Biden wins

The Dow Jones Industrial Average soared more than 1,100 points, or 4.5%, Wednesday as governments and central banks around the globe took more aggressive measures to fight the virus outbreak and its e...

Mar 06, 2020

Australian composer Brett Dean hospitalized with coronavirus

ADELAIDE, Australia - Musician and composer Brett Dean has been hospitalized in Australia with the new coronavirus. British agent Intermusica confirmed on Thursday that the violist and conductor was i...

Mar 06, 2020

US stocks open sharply lower, yields drop in virus worries

NEW YORK - Stocks are opening sharply lower on Wall Street and bond yields are sinking to more record lows as investors fear that economic damage from the spreading coronavirus outbreak will be longer...

Mar 06, 2020

US added robust 273K jobs in February before virus escalated

WASHINGTON - Hiring jumped in February as employers added 273,000 jobs, evidence that the economy was in strong shape before the coronavirus began to sweep through the United States. The Labor Departm...

Mar 06, 2020

Suicide bombers wound 5 police in Tunisian capital

TUNIS, Tunisia - Tunisia's interior ministry says two suicide bombers blew themselves up near the U.S. Embassy in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, Friday, wounding five police officers. A ministry stateme...

Mar 06, 2020

Iran warns it could use 'force' to halt travel amid virus

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran said Friday the new coronavirus has killed 124 people amid 4,747 confirmed cases in the Islamic Republic as authorities warned they may use "force" to limit travel between cities. ...

Mar 06, 2020

Bethlehem's storied Nativity Church closes amid virus fears

BETHLEHEM, Palestinian Territory - Palestinian officials on Thursday closed the storied Church of the Nativity in the biblical city of Bethlehem indefinitely over fears of the new coronavirus, weeks a...

Mar 06, 2020

Lawyer says award-winning Iran filmmaker summoned to prison

TEHRAN, Iran - An Iranian filmmaker who just won the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear has been summoned to serve a one-year prison sentence over his movies, his lawyer said Wednesday. Mohammad Rasou...

Mar 06, 2020

'Bob Durst killed his wife,' prosecutor says at his trial

LOS ANGELES - Robert Durst has never been charged in the 1982 New York disappearance of his wife Kathie Durst, who was later declared dead despite no body being found, but on Wednesday a prosecutor in...

Mar 05, 2020

Ending campaign, Bloomberg says defeating Trump his priority

NEW YORK - In just over 100 days, Mike Bloomberg spent over $500 million of his own fortune in a quixotic bid for the presidency that collapsed in stunning fashion on Super Tuesday, when he won just o...

Mar 05, 2020