By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, CATHY BUSSEWITZ, JOHN FLESHER, MATTHEW BROWN and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press Thousands of oil and gas operations, government facilities and other sites won permission to stop m…
Trump announces plasma treatment authorized for COVID-19
By JONATHAN LEMIRE and MIKE STOBBE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced emergency authorization to treat COVID-19 patients with convalescent plasma — a move he called “a…
Republicans nominate Trump to take on Biden in the fall
By JILL COLVIN Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Republican Party formally nominated President Donald Trump for a second term in the White House Monday, one of the first acts of a GOP conven…
Takuma Sato wins his second Indianapolis 500 at empty track
By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — At an eerily empty Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Takuma Sato snatched a second Indianapolis 500 victory in an odd and unsatisfying finish to “Th…
NFL has 77 apparently false positive COVID-19 tests from lab
By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL had 77 positive COVID-19 tests from 11 teams re-examined by a New Jersey lab after false positives, and all those tests came back negativ…
Molina gets 4 hits as Cardinals beat Reds 6-2
By WARREN MAYES Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Yadier Molina had four hits and top prospect Dylan Carlson hit his first career homer, helping the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Cincinnati Reds 6-2 on…
Ohio Republicans try to regroup in crucial state for Trump
By DAN SEWELL and JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — Complications pummeled Ohio Republicans this week as they sought to put up a united front headed into the GOP’s national con…
Police: Man, woman hospitalized after train strikes SUV
WILLOUGHBY, Ohio (AP) — Authorities in Ohio say a man and woman were hospitalized after a train struck their sport utility vehicle in the Cleveland suburb of Willoughby. Willoughby police say the cras…
Former sailor details misconduct by SEALs pulled from Iraq
By JAMES LAPORTA and JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. Navy intelligence specialist Colleen Grace was asleep on a remote air base in Iraq in 2019 when she was woken up by knocking on…
Mounting US deaths reveal an outsize toll on people of color
By ANNA FLAGG and DAMINI SHARMA of The Marshall Project and MIKE STOBBE and LARRY FENN of The Associated Press As many as 215,000 more people than usual died in the U.S. during the first seven months …