By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Passage of the House Democrats’ far-reaching police overhaul bill returned attention to the Senate on Friday, as the divided Cong…
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Mueller report witness gets 10 years on child sex charges
By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A Lebanese American businessman who was a key witness in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report and who helped broker the release of A…
Virus testing, tracking still plagued by reporting delays
By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — As part of the plan to restart its season next month, the NBA is preparing to test hundreds of players, coaches and others for the coronavirus e…
Law enforcement struggles with policing in reckoning moment
By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As calls for police reform swell across America, officers say they feel caught in the middle: vilified by the left as violent racists, fatally ambush…
US health officials estimate 20M Americans have had virus
By ZEKE MILLER and MARILYNN MARCHIONE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials estimate that 20 million Americans have been infected with the coronavirus since it first arrived in the United …
Some states pause reopening as virus cases near record high
By JENNIFER PELTZ and CARLA K. JOHNSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The coronavirus crisis deepened in Arizona on Thursday, and the governor of Texas began to backtrack after making one of the mos…
Colorado reexamines Elijah McClain’s death in police custody
By PATTY NIEBERG and THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The Colorado governor on Thursday ordered prosecutors to reopen the investigation into the death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Bla…
The Arctic is on fire: Siberian heat wave alarms scientists
By DARIA LITVINOVA and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Arctic is feverish and on fire — at least parts of it are. And that’s got scientists worried about what it means for the rest …
Virus cases surge among the young, endangering older adults
By CARLA K. JOHNSON and TAMARA LUSH Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Coronavirus cases are climbing rapidly among young adults in a number of states where bars, stores and restaurants have…
Isolated and afraid, detained migrant kids worry about virus
By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — In the isolation wing of a U.S. detention center for immigrant families, a woman from El Salvador says her 8-year-old son asks her if they are going …