By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and ADAM GELLER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The resurgence of the coronavirus in the United States ignited fierce debate Monday about whether to reopen schools, as global heal…
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Judge blocks federal executions; administration appeals
By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — A U.S. district judge on Monday ordered a new delay in federal executions, hours before the first lethal injection was scheduled to be carr…
Legal experts review Black Minnesota teen’s life sentence
By ROBIN MCDOWELL Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An independent panel of national legal experts will review the conviction of an African American man sentenced as a teenager to life in prison for…
Virus spread, not politics should guide schools, doctors say
By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer As the Trump administration pushes full steam ahead to force schools to resume in-person education, public health experts warn that a one-size-fits-all reopening co…
Churches amid the pandemic: Some outbreaks, many challenges
By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Crowded bars and house parties have been identified as culprits in spreading the coronavirus. Meat packing plants, prisons and nursing homes are known…
Biden forges brand of liberal populism to use against Trump
By BILL BARROW and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden stood in a Pennsylvania metal works shop, just miles from his boyhood home, and pledged to define his presidency by a swee…
Coronavirus deaths take a long-expected turn for the worse
By MIKE STOBBE and NICKY FORSTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A long-expected upturn in U.S. coronavirus deaths has begun, driven by fatalities in states in the South and West, according to data o…
Trump’s defiant help for Stone adds to tumult in Washington
By JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s intervention into a criminal case connected to his own conduct drew fierce rebukes Saturday from Democrats and a few lone…
US bets on untested company to deliver COVID-19 vaccine
By MARTHA MENDOZA and JULIET LINDERMAN Associated Press When precious vats of COVID-19 vaccine are finally ready, jabbing the lifesaving solution into the arms of Americans will require hundreds of mi…
AP: Catholic Church lobbied for taxpayer funds, got $1.4B
By REESE DUNKLIN and MICHAEL REZENDES Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in ta…