By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An American military airstrike in Somalia more than a year ago killed two civilians and injured three others, U.S. Africa Command acknowledged in…
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Pelosi, top House progressive give Biden twin endorsements
By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden renewed his party unification efforts Monday with bookend endorsements from Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the lead…
Small business loan program restarts, runs into snags
By JOYCE M. ROSENBERG AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The second round of loan applications for the government’s small business relief program has been slowed by computer issues at the Small …
‘You are a miracle’: Home care is new front in virus fight
By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Ruth Caballero paused outside an unfamiliar apartment door, preparing to meet her new patient. She covered the knob with a plastic bag. Put on a surg…
Virus is expected to reduce meat selection and raise prices
By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Meat isn’t going to disappear from supermarkets because of outbreaks of the coronavirus among workers at U.S. slaughterhouses. But as the m…
Asian celebs work to combat racist attacks amid pandemic
By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Actress Olivia Cheng was recently volunteering in Vancouver when she says she witnessed a man drive up to an elderly Chinese woman, roll down his wi…
Health officials ready new guidelines as restrictions ease
By KEVIN FREKING and MIKE STOBBE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Businesses should close break rooms. Restaurants should consider disposable menus and plates. Schools should have students eat lunch…
Virus spreads fear through Latin America’s unruly prisons
By EVA VERGARA and MARIA VERZA Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The spreading specter of the new coronavirus is shaking Latin America’s notoriously overcrowded, unruly prisons, threatening to t…
Census says restart to field operations will be in phases
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. Census Bureau’s return to field operations for the 2020 national head count will take place in phases based on a region’s l…
Out of pandemic crisis, what could a new New Deal look like?
By MICHAEL TACKETT and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The New Deal was really a series of new deals, spread out over more than six years during the Great Depression — a menu of nationall…