By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The economic catastrophe caused by the viral outbreak likely sent the U.S. unemployment rate in April to its highest level since the Great …
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Sources: US investigating ex-Green Beret for Venezuela raid
By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press Writer MIAMI (AP) — A former Green Beret who has claimed responsibility for an ill-fated military incursion into Venezuela is under federal investigation for arms tr…
Israeli Supreme Court: Netanyahu may form government
By JOSEF FEDERMAN and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may form a new government while under indictm…
States with few virus cases get big share of relief aid
By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Alaska, Hawaii, Montana and Wyoming are not epicenters of the coronavirus pandemic. Yet these four states scored big this spring when Congress pumped out direct fed…
US infection rate rising outside New York as states open up
By NICKY FORSTER, CARLA K. JOHNSON and MIKE STOBBE Associated Press Take the New York metropolitan area’s progress against the coronavirus out of the equation and the numbers show the rest of the U.S.…
Trump tours, touts mask factory — but no mask for him
By ZEKE MILLER, JILL COLVIN and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Making himself Exhibit A for reopening the country, President Donald Trump visited an Arizona face mask factory Tuesd…
Whistleblower: US failed to prepare, sought quick virus fix
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, MICHAEL BALSAMO and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration failed to prepare for the onslaught of the coronavirus, then sought a quick fix…
Intel nominee faces skeptics, vows to resist Trump pressure
By MARY CLARE JALONICK and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s nominee for national intelligence director sought at his confirmation hearing Tuesday to shed h…
Where’s the beef? Production shutdown leads to shortages
By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer The effects of the coronavirus pandemic have moved beyond meat processing plants and are now hitting dinner plates. Several U.S. production plants have been tempor…
Trump denies ties to Venezuelan attack with 2 US men jailed
By SCOTT SMITH and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United States had nothing to do with an alleged incursion into Venezuela that …