Stocks slide on Wall Street, extending steep drops this week
Feb 26, 2020
By ALEX VEIGA AP NEWS - U.S. stocks shed the modest gains they had made in early trading and veered mostly lower in Wednesday afternoon, deepening the market’s losses for the week. Worry about economic…
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Desperate to stop virus’ spread, countries limit travel
Feb 25, 2020
By KIM TONG-HYUNG and MATT SEDENSKY SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Police manned checkpoints in quarantined towns, guests were confined to their rooms in a hotel in the Canary Islands, governments issued travel warnings and…
Harvey Weinstein found guilty in landmark #MeToo moment
Feb 24, 2020
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and TOM HAYS NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein was convicted Monday of rape and sexual assault against two women and was immediately handcuffed and led off to jail, sealing his…
US: Taliban’s ‘reduction of violence’ deal to start tonight
Feb 21, 2020
By KATHY GANNON and MATTHEW LEE ISLAMABAD (AP) — The countdown to the signing of a peace agreement between the Taliban and the United States to end the 18 years of war in Afghanistan will…
Fear returns to stock market, S&P 500 falls from record
Feb 20, 2020
By STAN CHOE NEW YORK (AP) — Fear swept back through the stock market on Thursday as worries about the viral outbreak in China knocked the S&P 500 off its record high and had it…
Passengers depart docked ship after virus quarantine ends
Feb 19, 2020
By MARI YAMAGUCHI and FOSTER KLUG YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — About 500 passengers left the cruise ship Diamond Princess on Wednesday at the end of a much-criticized two-week quarantine aboard the vessel, docked in Japan,…
Boy Scouts’ future uncertain after bankruptcy filing
Feb 18, 2020
By DAVID CRARY AP - Barraged with sex-abuse lawsuits, the Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday in hopes of working out a potentially mammoth victim compensation plan that will allow the 110-year-old…
GM plans to pull out of Australia, New Zealand and Thailand
Feb 17, 2020
By TOM KRISHER DETROIT (AP) — General Motors decision to pull out of Australia, New Zealand and Thailand as part of a strategy to exit markets that don’t produce adequate returns on investments raised dismay…
Amid coronavirus fears, a second wave of flu hits US kids
Feb 14, 2020
By MIKE STOBBE NEW YORK (AP) — A second wave of flu is hitting the U.S., turning this into one of the nastiest seasons for children in a decade. The number of child deaths and…
China reports spike in virus cases with new way of counting
Feb 13, 2020
By YANAN WANG BEIJING (AP) — China on Thursday reported a sharp spike in deaths and infections from a new virus after the hardest-hit province of Hubei applied a new classification system that broadens the…