By BERNARD McGHEE Associated Press In a year defined by a devastating pandemic, the world lost iconic defenders of civil rights, great athletes and entertainers who helped define their genres. Many of…
AP: States spent over $7B competing for early virus supplies
By DAVID A. LIEB and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press Ray Bellia had a good business before the coronavirus pandemic. He topped $4 million in annual sales from his New Hampshire store that specialized…
With Trump silent, reprisals for hacks may fall to Biden
By ERIC TUCKER, FRANK BAJAK and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — All fingers are pointing to Russia as the source of the worst-ever hack of U.S. government agencies. But President Donald…
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
By BEATRICE DUPUY, ARIJETA LAJKA and ALI SWENSON Associated Press Here’s a look at false and misleading claims circulating as the United States rolled out the newly authorized Pfizer-BioNTech CO…
Jupiter, Saturn merging in night sky, closest in centuries
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Jupiter and Saturn will merge in the night sky Monday, appearing closer to one another than they have since Galileo’s time in the 17th ce…
Browns’ Garrett still not all the way back after COVID
By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Myles Garrett still hasn’t completely recovered from being sacked by COVID-19. Cleveland’s star defensive end has played two games since mi…
Hacked networks will need to be burned ‘down to the ground’
By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer It’s going to take months to kick elite hackers widely believed to be Russian out of the U.S. government networks they have been quietly rifling through since as fa…
US clears Moderna vaccine for COVID-19, 2nd shot in arsenal
By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. added a second COVID-19 vaccine to its arsenal Friday, boosting efforts to beat back an outbreak so dire that the na…
1 in 5 prisoners in the US has had COVID-19, 1,700 have died
BETH SCHWARTZAPFEL and KATIE PARK of The Marshall Project and ANDREW DEMILLO of The Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — One in every five state and federal prisoners in the United States has tes…
Iran builds at underground nuclear facility amid US tensions
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has begun construction on a site at its underground nuclear facility at Fordo amid tensions with the U.S. over its atomic progr…