By AMY FORLITI, LEAH WILLINGHAM and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The baseball season descended deeper into crisis Tuesday, states like Mississippi and South Carolina ca…
NBA restart likely to provide TV audience new sights, sounds
By KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer During a normal NBA season, the sights and sounds of arenas serve as both a showy backdrop and home court advantage for its teams. But with no fans allowed in the st…
Ohio prohibits county fairs, will expand day care capacity, Columbus City Schools PreK-12 to start year with virtual learning
By FARNOUSH AMIRI and ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Day cares can return to normal staffing ratios, but county fairs will be reduced to junior fairs fe…
National teacher union supports strikes over reopening plans
By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer One of the nation’s largest teachers unions is authorizing its members to strike if their schools plan to reopen without proper safety measures in the middl…
GOP tucks $8 billion for military weaponry in virus bill
By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new $1 trillion COVID-19 response package by Senate Republicans is supposed to give the government more weapons to battle the surging coronavirus …
GOP’s jobless benefit plan could mean delays, states warn
By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A Republican proposal to slash the $600 weekly benefit boost for those left jobless because of the coronavirus shutdown could result in weeks or even months of dela…
Ohio House sets Thursday vote to remove disgraced speaker
By FARNOUSH AMIRI and JULIE CARR SMYTH Report for America/Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio House plans to vote Thursday on the removal of the disgraced House speaker arrested last week …
Experimental COVID-19 vaccine is put to its biggest test
By LAURAN NEERGAARD, MICHAEL HILL and JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press The biggest test yet of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine got underway Monday with the first of some 30,000 Americans rolling up th…
Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis lies in state at Capitol
By BILL BARROW and ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a solemn display of bipartisan unity, congressional leaders praised Democratic Rep. John Lewis as a moral force for the nation on…
US won’t expel migrant children detained in Texas hotel
By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The Trump administration has agreed not to expel a group of immigrant children it detained in a Texas hotel under an emergency declaration citing the…