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Julie Foudy poses for photos on the red carpet at the Women's Sports Foundation's Annual Salute to Women in Sports, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)
Alexis Ohanian gets sports award, calls for reforms in NWSL

By Melissa Murphy Oct. 13, 2022 10:44 AM EDT

A resident wearing a face mask walks under red lanterns setup for the Lunar New Year holidays in Beijing, China, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022. As China gets back to business after a muted Chinese New Year holiday that coincided with the start of the pandemic-restricted Beijing Olympic Winter Games, the feeling inside and out of the bubble in this auspicious Year of the Tiger is that festivities for the most sacred and important holiday for the country were limited and underwhelming. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
A muted Lunar New Year, inside and outside Olympic bubble

By Sally Ho And Ken Moritsugu Feb. 07, 2022 04:53 AM EST

FILE - United States' assistant coach Jennifer Rizzotti watches during the second half of an exhibition basketball game in Hartford, Conn., in this Monday, Jan. 27, 2020, file photo. Rizzotti, who was the point guard on UConn's first national championship team before playing professionally and then embarking on a career as a college basketball coach, has been named president of the WNBA's Connecticut Sun, the team announced Tuesday, April 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
Connecticut Sun's Rizzotti to continue as Olympic assistant

By Pat Eaton-Robb Apr. 27, 2021 05:26 PM EDT

A closed chairlift in Cortina D'Ampezzo , Italy, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. The granite peaks that majestically encircle the northern Italian winter resort of Cortina glimmer with one of the most prolific snowfalls in years, a cruel joke of nature as Italy’s ski areas have been laid silent by the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
Mountain heartbreak: Italy has deep snow, closed ski resorts

By Colleen Barry Feb. 03, 2021 03:47 AM EST

Tugboats move a symbol installed for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 on a barge from its usual spot off the Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020. The five Olympic rings floating on a barge in Tokyo Bay were removed on Thursday for what is being called “maintenance,” and officials says they will return to greet next year's Games. The Tokyo Olympics have been postponed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic and are to open on July 23, 2021. The Paralympics follow on Aug. 24. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
Two employees of Tokyo Olympic organizers positive for COVID

Aug. 08, 2020 06:52 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 01:56 AM EDT

City workers fumigate a street to help contain the spread of the new coronavirus in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, April 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Virus deaths, unemployment accelerating across Europe, US

By Michael R. Sisak, Lori Hinnant And Mark Sherman Apr. 03, 2020 01:41 AM EDT

"For Sale By Owner" and "Closed Due to Virus" signs are displayed in the window of Images On Mack in Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich., Thursday, April 2, 2020. The coronavirus outbreak has triggered a stunning collapse in the U.S. workforce with 10 million people losing their jobs in the past two weeks and economists warn unemployment could reach levels not seen since the Depression, as the economic damage from the crisis piles up around the world. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
You've just lost your job? Here's what you need to know

By Christopher Rugaber And Sarah Skidmore Sell Apr. 02, 2020 05:35 PM EDT

In this March 30, 2020 photo, a sign saying that the Jobs Center at the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development office in midtown Anchorage, Alaska, is closed through the end of April is shown. About half of all working Americans say they or a member of their household have lost some kind of income due to the coronavirus pandemic, with low-income Americans and those without college degrees especially likely to have lost a job. That's according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
What you need to know today about the virus outbreak

By The Associated Press Apr. 02, 2020 02:32 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 02:16 PM EDT

A new AP-NORC poll finds deep support for economic policies to protect hospitals, small businesses and individuals. Support is thin for policies supporting airlines and tourism industries.;
AP-NORC poll: About half of workers lose income due to virus

By Josh Boak And Emily Swanson Apr. 02, 2020 02:03 PM EDT

FILE - In this March 13, 2020 file photo, unionized hospitality workers wait in line in a basement garage to apply for unemployment benefits at the Hospitality Training Academy in Los Angeles. More than 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, far exceeding a record high set just last week, a sign that layoffs are accelerating in the midst of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
A record 10 million sought US jobless aid in past 2 weeks

By Christopher Rugaber Apr. 02, 2020 11:57 AM EDT