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Correction: Books-Winfrey-A Novel On Trial story
TUCSON, Arizona (AP) — In a story March 4, 2020, about an interview between Oprah Winfrey and author Jeanine Cummins, The Associated Press erroneously reported…
Former UAW President Gary Jones charged with corruption
DETROIT (AP) — Prosecutors on Thursday charged the former president of the United Auto Workers with corruption, alleging he conspired with others at the union …
Virus ripples through travel, energy, financial markets
TRAVEL: An industry group says the spreading coronavirus could cost airlines as much as $113 billion in lost revenue. That figure, released Thursday, is four t…
AP PHOTOS: Venice a shell of itself as tourists flee virus
VENICE, Italy (AP) — The Carnival period in Venice usually marks the start of peak season in one of the world’s most visited cities, with hordes of tourists pi…
China's factories try to shield workers as output revives
BEIJING (AP) — To keep his 40 employees indoors and away from China’s virus outbreak, the manager of an electronics factory in Dongguan, near Hong Kong, says h…
FDA bans shock device used on mentally disabled patients
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials on Wednesday banned electrical shock devices used to discourage aggressive, self-harming behavior in patients with mental d…
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Companies trim outlooks, travel and staff as virus spreads
GROUNDED AIRPLANES: United Airlines will cut international and U.S. flying, freeze hiring and ask employees to volunteer for unpaid leave as it struggles with …
Doctors try 1st CRISPR editing in the body for blindness
Scientists say they have used the gene editing tool CRISPR inside someone's body for the first time, a new frontier for efforts to operate on DNA, the chemical…
Clashes erupt on Greece-Turkey border as migrants seek entry
KASTANIES, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities fired tear gas and stun grenades to drive away a crowd of migrants making a push to cross the border from Turkey on …
Twitter preps ephemeral tweets, starts testing in Brazil
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter is starting to test tweets that disappear after 24 hours, although initially only in Brazil.
Looking for hand sanitizer? Good luck finding it
NEW YORK (AP) — The hand sanitizers on Amazon were overpriced. A Walmart this weekend was completely sold out. Only on his third try was Ken Smith able to find…
The Latest: New York reports 6 virus cases, including family
BANGKOK (AP) — The Latest on the virus outbreak (all times local):
Fed's Powell faces a puzzling crisis with no simple solution
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jerome Powell is confronting his stiffest test yet as head of the Federal Reserve in an atmosphere vastly altered from what his predecessors …
Virus crisis ebbs in China, spreads fear across the West
PARIS (AP) — The coronavirus epidemic shifted increasingly westward toward the Middle East, Europe and the United States on Tuesday, with governments taking em…