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RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) - More than 28,000 New Mexico residents have applied for unemployment benefits - over 50% the amount filed the previous record week - amid the widespread economic shutdown caused by the coronavirus, new federal numbers showed. The co...

NEW YORK (AP) - Sam Hunt's sophomore album opens and closes with two of the most personal songs he's ever written, as he draws from his own life to paint candid portraits for listeners. But the country star admits he wavers when it comes to spilli...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A man was arrested Thursday after shooting a 5-month girl and a 10-year-old boy, killing the grade-schooler, said authorities in Florida. Police officers arrested Terrance Young less than two hours after he fled the scene of the...

BILLINGS, Montana, EE.UU. (AP) - Importantes proyectos de construccin que se llevan a cabo a lo largo de las fronteras con Canad y Mxico avivan los temores de que el nuevo coronavirus pueda abrirse paso en los campamentos temporales y los trabajadores pue...

Pennsylvania businesses face a Friday deadline for seeking an exemption from Gov. Tom Wolf's shutdown order. Wolf has ordered all...

LOS NGELES (AP) - Leonardo DiCaprio est ayudando a lanzar el America's Food Fund, que ya ha recaudado 12 millones de dlares para proveer alimento a comunidades impactadas por el coronavirus. La organizacin dijo el jueves que los fondos beneficiarn a f...

BRESCIA, Italia (AP) - El presidente del club Brescia de la Serie A italiana dijo que su equipo no jugar el resto de los partidos de la liga si la temporada se reanuda. Brescia es la tercera provincia ms afectada en Italia, con ms de 8.500 casos y ms de 1...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's parliament says speaker Ali Larijani has tested positive for the new coronavirus and is in quarantine....

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - University of Wisconsin President Ray Cross cautioned Thursday that the coronavirus outbreak that has already led to the suspension of all in-person spring classes could also force changes to the fall semester, which is scheduled to b...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska saw another record-setting surge in unemployment claims last week as the new coronavirus forced more businesses to close and lay off workers, according to new data released Thursday. The state received 24,572 unemployment cla...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's...

COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) - A police chief in northeast Mississippi says a 19-year-old man has been shot to death by an officer after a chase in a stolen vehicle. Lowndes County Coroner Greg Merchant identified the dead man as Austin Hines of Columbus, the Com...

The outbreak of the coronavirus has dealt a shock to the global economy with unprecedented speed. Following are developments on Thursday related to the global economy, the work place and the spread of the virus. ____________ ZOOM: At the end of last year,...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut officials are struggling to handle an overwhelming number of unemployment claims stemming from the coronavirus outbreak, Gov. Ned Lamont said Thursday. The governor said during an MSNBC interview that hundreds of retired...

YAZOO CITY, Miss. (AP) - A body found in the Big Black River has been identified as a Mississippi man who had been missing since February. Yazoo County Coroner Rickey Shivers says an autopsy will be done on 36-year-old Phillip Dunn. WLBT-TV reports that a...

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. business regulators are suing to break up the multibillion-dollar deal between tobacco giant Altria and e-cigarette startup Juul Labs, saying their partnership amounted to an agreement not to compete in the U.S. vaping market. The a...

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) - A homicide investigation was launched by the Everett Police Department after a body was found in Skagit County. Police believe Howard Benzel, 67, of Mukilteo was killed over the weekend after visiting a tenant he was renting to in Ev...

La pandemia del coronavirus ha impactado la economa global con una velocidad sin precedentes. Un vistazo a los sucesos del jueves, relacionados con la economa, el empleo y la propagacin del virus. VIDEOCONFERENCIA A fines del ao pasado, la empresa de vide...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said Thursday that he expects Saudi Arabia and Russia will end an oil war and dramatically cut production. The global gut in production, coupled with a slowing economy from the coronavirus pandemic, has sent energy...

A man attempting to flee police hit another car, killing a woman and her 7-year-old niece on Wednesday night in Daytona, the Florida Highway Patrol said. Daytona Beach police attempted to stop Nelson Reed, 33, on Wednesday night, according to Lt. Kim Mont...

BEIJING (AP) - Toyota Motor Co. y la empresa automotriz china BYD Co. anunciaron el jueves que se asociarn para fabricar vehculos elctricos, el ejemplo ms reciente de la tendencia de compaas de asociarse para compartir los gastos de ese tipo de desarrollo...

AUBURN, Maine (AP) - A Maine woman died in a single-vehicle car crash when her vehicle left the road and struck a utility pole and tree in Auburn, police said. Police said Jessica Faunce, 25, of Turner, was traveling on Tuesday night when the crash happen...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Law enforcement is investigating several pop-up coronavirus test sites in Louisville that the Metro Council president called...

HONOLULU (AP) - Hawaii's state government is attempting to determine how to make more workers productive amid prohibitions on less essential work that cannot be done during the coronavirus outbreak. Some state senators were frustrated after learning e...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - More than 1.5 million Michigan students will not return to K-12 school buildings the rest of the academic year due to the coronavirus pandemic and instead will learn remotely, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ordered Thursday. All public and pr...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The COVID-19 outbreak has reached into North Carolina's Legislative Building, where a cafeteria employee tested positive for the virus, the building's manager said. The unidentified worker was sent home March 26 after showing ...

HONOLULU (AP) - A school on Hawaii island has distributed laptops to students who need the computers to take part in online education during the coronavirus outbreak. Hawaii News Now reported Wednesday that Pahoa High and Intermediate School distributed a...

LONDRES (AP) - Opositores, cientficos e incluso peridicos que generalmente lo apoyan, criticaron el jueves al primer ministro britnico Boris Johnson por las promesas incumplidas de su gobierno de realizar ms pruebas para detectar el coronavirus. El gobier...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Thirteen more people have died in Indiana from coronavirus-related illnesses, raising the state's virus death toll to 78 while its confirmed cases surged past 3,000, state health officials said Thursday. Indiana's number of con...

MADRID (AP) - La Liga espaola gesta un plan detallado para preparar a los equipos para el reinicio de la temporada, recomendando una minipretemporada y numerosas pruebas de coronavirus para los jugadores, sus familiares cercanos y los empleados de los clu...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A coalition of labor unions and social justice organizations in Rhode Island is calling on state leaders to pass their own coronavirus relief package to help workers and the newly unemployed. The federal government's relief pac...

PIKE TOWNSHIP, Ohio (AP) - The deaths of two people whose remains were recently found in two adjacent eastern Ohio counties are not related, authorities said, but their identities remain a mystery.. The first discovery came March 21, when a landowner ridi...

NEW YORK (AP) - Cooped up at her Bronx home with her daughter and a niece because of the coronavirus pandemic, Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli says she has lowered the...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - The Latest on the coronavirus outbreak in South Dakota (all times local): 9:30 a.m. The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe said it is setting up checkpoints on roads going into tribal land on Thursday to prevent the spread of the new coro...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - South African police wearing riot gear forced their way into a church in central Cape Town on Thursday to remove hundreds of foreign migrants who had been sheltering there for months. The operation at the Central Methodist C...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Raymond Scheppach, University of Virginia (THE CONVERSATION) Just after every gubernatorial election, but before inaugurations, the National ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - As nationwide demand for health protection equipment surges, New Mexico's health care system has a limited statewide stock of about 44,000 snug-fitting N95 face masks that protect medical workers from the coronavirus by filtering...

NUEVA YORK (AP) - Los precios de las acciones oscilaban el jueves por la maana al inicio de transacciones en la Bolsa de Valores de Nueva York al informarse que una enorme cantidad de estadounidenses perdieron sus empleos la semana pasada a raz de la cris...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Unemployment claims in Maine have reached a new record high, surpassing a previous high mark attributed to the outbreak of coronavirus. There were about 23,800 initial claims for unemployment compensation during the week that ended ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) - A second Red Cross trailer loaded with emergency supplies has been stolen from a Southern California office of the organization, police said. Two men in a pickup drove into a Red Cross parking lot in Riverside on Sunday, pried a l...

NEW YORK (AP) - James Patterson has a history of helping independent bookstores. The best-selling novelist has donated millions in recent years to booksellers, while also giving millions to schools and libraries and literacy programs. Now, with stores clo...

ALBUQUERQUE, Nuevo Mxico, EE.UU. (AP) - Por aos, el programa de Estudios Chicanos de la Universidad de Nuevo Mxico languideci olvidado y escaso de fondos. Los sueldos bajos de la universidad impedan la contratacin de acadmicos de renombre y la falta de cl...

MOSC (AP) - El presidente ruso, Vladimir Putin, orden que la mayora de los trabajadores del pas no acudan a laborar durante todo abril a fin de contener la propagacin del nuevo coronavirus. En un mensaje a la nacin por televisin, Putin inform el jueves qu...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The Latest on the coronavirus outbreak in Wisconsin (all times local): 9:30 a.m. The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Thursday it will not offer any in-person classes during its summer term, instead moving to online only beca...

PARIS (AP) - The worldwide race to protect people against being infected by unwitting coronavirus carriers intensified Thursday, pitting governments against each other as they buy protective gear and prompting new questions about who should wear masks, ge...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The Buffalo National River was temporarily closed to recreational use Thursday because of coronavirus concerns following complaints from Arkansas' governor and local officials about large numbers of people crowding the area du...

WASHINGTON (AP) - El gobierno estadounidense anunci el jueves la distribucin de unos 3.000 millones de dlares para ayudar a los desamparados a encontrar alojamiento e impulsar a las comunidades en la aplicacin de pruebas y tratamientos para el COVID-19. G...

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in the Middle East, Afghanistan & Pakistan Region between March 26 - April 1, 2020. This week's selection includes scenes across the r...