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Board of Regents to discuss coronavirus response at meeting
Apr. 03, 2020 02:08 AM EDT
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Board of Regents says it plans to discuss colleges' responses to the coronavirus pandemic and consider two dozen proposed...
A currency trader wearing a face mask works at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, April 3, 2020. Asian stocks were mixed Friday after Wall Street gained for the first time in three days on stronger oil prices despite enduring uncertainty about how long the global economic decline due to the coronavirus pandemic will last. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Asian stocks tumble after Wall Street rises on pricier oil
By Joe Mcdonald
Apr. 03, 2020 02:01 AM EDT
In this Thursday, April 2, 2020, photo, a woman holding a child walks away from the expressway gate at the border of Wuhan city in central China's Hubei province. Millions of Chinese workers are streaming back to factories, shops and offices but many still face anti-coronavirus controls that add to their financial losses and aggravation. In Wuhan police require a health check and documents from employers for returning workers. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Chinese struggle to return to work as virus controls ease
By Ng Han Guan And Joe Mcdonald
Apr. 03, 2020 01:59 AM EDT
Tiffany Pinckney poses for a portrait in the Harlem neighborhood of New York on April 1, 2020. After a period of quarantine at home separated from her children, she has recovered from COVID-19. Pinckney became one of the nations first donors of "convalescent plasma." Using the blood product is experimental but scientists hope it could help treat the seriously ill and plan to test if it might offer some protection against infection for those at high risk. (AP Photo/Marshall Ritzell)
Coronavirus survivor: 'In my blood, there may be answers'
By Lauran Neergaard And Marshall Ritzel
Apr. 03, 2020 01:38 AM EDT
Pat Marmo, owner of Daniel J. Schaefer Funeral Home, walks through his body holding facility Thursday, April 2, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The company is equipped to handle 40-60 cases at a time. But amid the coronavirus pandemic, it was taking care of 185 Thursday morning. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
'Surreal': NY funeral homes struggle as virus deaths surge
By Jake Seiner And John Minchillo
Apr. 03, 2020 01:11 AM EDT
FILE - This file aerial photo, date not known, shows Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M. The U.S. government's efforts to clean up decades worth of Cold War-era waste from nuclear research and bomb making at federal sites around the country has chugged along, often at a pace that watchdogs and other critics say threatens public health and the environment. Now, fallout from the global coronavirus pandemic is resulting in more challenges as the nation's only underground repository for nuclear waste, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, finished ramping down operations Wednesday, April 1, 2020, to keep workers safe. (The Albuquerque Journal via AP, File)
Cleanup of US nuclear waste takes back seat as virus spreads
By Susan Montoya Bryan
Apr. 03, 2020 01:08 AM EDT
A woman wears a mask while crossing the street in front of Moscone Center West in San Francisco, Thursday, April 2, 2020. Officials are setting up 400 beds at the center to house homeless people who are currently in shelters to allow for more social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
California homeless advocate: 'We're moving way too slowly'
By Janie Har
Apr. 03, 2020 01:06 AM EDT
Vice President Mike Pence speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, April 2, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Trump admin moves toward promoting broader use of face masks
By Zeke Miller And Mike Stobbe
Apr. 03, 2020 12:54 AM EDT
A ventilator is displayed during a news conference, Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at the New York City Emergency Management Warehouse, where 400 ventilators have arrived and will be distributed. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has sounded his most dire warning yet about the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday, saying the infection rate in New York is accelerating and the state could be two to three weeks away from a crisis. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
States demand ventilators as feds ration limited supply
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Robert Burns And Ben Fox
Apr. 03, 2020 12:51 AM EDT
President Donald Trump listens as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, April 2, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Memo: Some in US may not get stimulus checks until August
By Matthew Daly
Apr. 03, 2020 12:47 AM EDT
In this April 1, 2020, photo, President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. At a time of social distancing,Trump is leaning into his plea to Congress to restore full tax benefits prized by business for fine dining and schmoozing. Trump is seizing on the pandemic crisis to target an item on his wish list: full tax deductions for business meals in restaurants and for other entertainment expenses. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Boost the schmooze? Trump wants tax dining deduction back
By Marcy Gordon
Apr. 03, 2020 12:47 AM EDT
FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump look to the first lady's box before delivering his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker Nancy Pelosi watch. Trump and Pelosi have not spoken in five months at a time when the nation is battling its worst health crisis in a century. (Leah Millis/Pool via AP)
In time of crisis, Trump-Pelosi relationship remains broken
By Jonathan Lemire And Laurie Kellman
Apr. 03, 2020 12:44 AM EDT
In this Wednesday, April 1, 2020 photo, Ryan Eble, left, and his father, Chris, talk in their milk house while fresh milk gushes down a drain at the Eble family's Golden E Dairy near West Bend, Wis. Many dairy processing plants across Wisconsin have more product than they can handle and that's forced farmers to begin dumping their milk down the drain. The Eble's are forced to dump 25,000 gallons of milk a day from their 2400 milling cows. The coronavirus has dried up the marketplace for dairy products as restaurants, schools and business in food service have been closed. (Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP)
The Latest: India's PM looks to boost country's morale
By The Associated Press
Apr. 03, 2020 12:37 AM EDT
First responders who were scheduled to be tested earlier for COVID-19, get test kits at a drive-up testing site in Elysian Park, Los Angelas Thursday, April 2, 2020. Officials say hand-washing and keeping a safe social distance are priorities in battling the COVID-19 virus. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Testing issues cloud scope of California's virus outbreak
By Brian Melley
Apr. 03, 2020 12:31 AM EDT
FILE - This Wednesday, April 1, 2020 file photo shows the marquee for the Iowa Theater, closed in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, on John Wayne Drive in Winterset, Iowa. The $349 billion program approved by Congress to help small businesses devastated by the coronavirus outbreak is expected to be spent quickly after it opens on Friday, April 3, 2020, in part because large franchisees and multi-property companies are poised to claim a disproportionate share as soon as the money starts flowing. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Bank expect deluge of desperate businesses seeking loans
By Ken Sweet And Ryan J. Foley
Apr. 03, 2020 12:02 AM EDT
FILE - In this May 29, 2018, file photo, Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens announces his resignation during a news conference in Jefferson City. Greitens has re-emerged in public in recent months, leading to speculation that he might be open to running for office again. The Republican resigned as governor in June 2018 after facing charges connected to an extramarital affair and campaign finance issues. The charges were dropped when Greitens resigned. (Julie Smith/The Jefferson City News-Tribune via AP, File)
Greitens' re-emergence fuels speculation of a comeback
By Jim Salter
Apr. 02, 2020 11:55 PM EDT
In this photo taken from video provided by the New York Stock Exchange, Robert Glorioso, Chief, Building Engineering Operations, rings the opening bell at the NYSE, Thursday, April 2, 2020. Stocks are wavering between small gains and losses early Thursday after a report showed a record number of Americans lost their jobs last week due to the coronavirus outbreak. (New York Stock Exchange via AP)
Asian stocks mixed after Wall Street rises on pricier oil
By Joe Mcdonald
Apr. 02, 2020 11:53 PM EDT
UN adopts resolution urging global cooperation on COVID-19
By Edith M. Lederer
Apr. 02, 2020 11:26 PM EDT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly unanimously approved a resolution Thursday recognizing “the unprecedented effects” of the coronavirus pandemic...
Pat Marmo, owner of Daniel J. Schaefer Funeral Home, speaks on two phones at once in his office while handling the overflow of clients stemming from COVID-19 deaths, Thursday, April 2, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. His office phone and two mobiles are ringing constantly. He's apologizing to families at the start of every conversation for being unusually terse and insensitive, and begging them to insist hospitals hold their loved ones as long as possible. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
'Surreal': NY funeral homes struggle as virus deaths surge
By Jake Seiner And John Minchillo
Apr. 02, 2020 11:04 PM EDT
Pat Marmo, owner of Daniel J. Schaefer Funeral Home, walks through a viewing room set up to respect social distancing, Thursday, April 2, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. He and other funeral directors are seeing a surge of clients because of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
'We need help': Economic, health crises grow as cases top 1M
By Michael R. Sisak, Lori Hinnant And Mark Sherman
Apr. 02, 2020 11:04 PM EDT