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The outbreak of the coronavirus has dealt a shock to the global economy with unprecedented speed. Following are developments Thursday related to the national and global response, the work place and the spread of the virus. ________________________ FINANCI...

JERUSALEM (AP) - The family of a Palestinian man with autism who was fatally shot by Israeli police said on Thursday that it took a month for authorities to confirm the existence of security-camera footage of the shooting, raising concerns that no one wil...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Thursday turned away pleas from anti-abortion activists to make it easier for them to protest outside clinics, declining to wade back into the abortion debate just days after striking down a Louisiana law regulating ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - Deserted during months of quarantine, the streets of Bolivia are roiling again with protests that have forced the government into an uncomfortable challenge: trying to resolve the country's long-term political crisis with electi...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Nearly 22,000 Louisiana residents filed new claims for unemployment last week, the state's labor department reported Thursday. The number of initial claims was up from fewer than 20,000 a week earlier. The figures show the continued...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Bismarck police who asked for help in finding the person who shot a man Wednesday now say his gunshot wound was accidental and self-inflicted. A 22-year-old Mandan man had a gunshot wound to his upper thigh and was treated at Sanford...

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) - The Wisconsin Department of Justice has been called to investigate a shooting involving a police officer in Sheboygan Thursday. Police say the shooting happened shortly before 6 a.m. when officers responded to a report of a disturba...

ROME (AP) - An international arbitration court has sided with Italy and decided the European country, not India, has jurisdiction to prosecute two Italian marines accused of killing two Indian fishermen in 2012. The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitrat...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukraine's president on Thursday accepted the resignation of the country's top banker, who has complained of political pressure. National Bank head Yakiv Smolii cited...

DALLAS (AP) - American Airlines and four smaller carriers have reached agreement with the government for billions more in federal loans, a sign of the industry's desperate fight to survive a downturn in air travel caused by the virus pandemic. The Tre...

LONDON (AP) - An accident requiring two screws in his ankle nearly prevented Scott Eastwood from portraying a real life soldier in Afghanistan in...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - The state of Maine canceled tens of thousands of fraudulent unemployment claims during a period of less than a month, its labor department said Thursday. The Maine Department of Labor has spent weeks investigating unemployment impos...

ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) - The FBI says a teenage boy who made online threats that led to the lockdown of Roswell High School is facing a federal charge. FBI officials said in a news release Wednesday that the 18-year-old has been charged with interstate commun...

BOSTON (AP) - School committess across Massachusetts are asking the state to cover all associated with protecting students and staff from the coronavirus when classes restart. More than 100 school committees have passed identical resolutions seeking full ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - US-based analysts tell the AP they believe fire at Iran nuclear site struck new centrifuge production facility....

MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's Foreign Ministry said Thursday that Moscow has never delivered weapons to the Taliban movement in Afghanistan, countering U.S. allegations. Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova rejected the claim by U.S. Secretary of State Mike ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Anchorage officials and trade groups have announced new suggested guidelines they hope bars and restaurants will adopt to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Anchorage health officials said several entertainment and hospitality bu...

Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite who was accused by many women of helping procure underage sex partners for Jeffrey Epstein, was arrested in New Hampshire, the FBI said Thursday. Maxwell, who lived for years with Epstein, was taken into custody arou...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is denying Congress access to secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation through the November election. The justices agreed on Thursday to hear the Trump administration...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court keeps hold on secret grand jury testimony from Russia investigation, likely through election....

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A military court in Somalia sentenced a police officer to death on Thursday in the fatal shooting of two civilians while enforcing coronavirus restrictions in April. The shootings sparked protests in the capital, Mogadishu, for more ...

NEW YORK (AP) - FBI says British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested in New Hampshire on charges related to Jeffrey Epstein scandal....

BRUSSELS (AP) - EU and U.K. negotiators in charge of finding a post-Brexit compromise resumed in-person talks this week, but the result remained the same, with no progress achieved on a range of key issues preventing a new trade agreement to be sealed. Di...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A woman's body has been found inside the home lived in by a man who was fatally shot by a state trooper last weekend, according to Little Rock police. The body of Shavone Deshia Williams, 40, was found Sunday under a pile of c...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Four Burlington bars have been warned for not following rules intended to limit the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19, the city's mayor said. In a Wednesday statement, Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger did not identify the...

PARIS (AP) - A collective of French health care workers said Thursday it is seeking a broad legal inquiry into France's failure to protect its members and their colleagues by providing adequate masks, gloves and other protective equipment as the coron...

ISLAMABAD (AP) - Washington's peace envoy told Pakistani officials that Afghanistan's Taliban and Kabul's political leaders were close to starting negotiations to decide the face of a post-war Afghanistan, a crucial next step in a U.S. deal si...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - An Algerian court on Thursday granted prominent opposition figure and leader of the anti-government protest movement Karim Tabbou release from jail. Tabbou's lawyer, Abdelghani Badi, said in a Facebook post that the Algiers cou...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Law enforcement agencies have spent at least $2.2 million responding to protests that occurred in Raleigh, North Carolina, following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. WRAL reported Wednesday that it obtained cost figures from ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Police in Kansas City are investigating two separate shooting deaths that occurred only minutes apart. The first shooting happened around 7:15 p.m. Wednesday in a residential neighborhood at Chestnut Avenue and East 27th Street, po...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Unemployment falls to 11.1% as US added a record 4.8 million jobs in June, but pandemic dims outlook for further gains....

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Police are investigating an overnight shooting in Providence that left one man dead. The shooting occurred in the city's Silver Lake neighborhood at about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday. The 37-year-old victim was taken to Rhode Island H...

ST. LOUIS (AP) - St. Louis police are investigating a fatal shooting after the victim's body was found at sunrise Thursday. Police have not identified the victim, found about 5:30 a.m. in north St. Louis. Police say he had been shot several times, but...

WASHINGTON (AP) - El presidente Donald Trump le est pidiendo a los estadounidenses que le permitan seguir en el cargo. Sus detractores estn cuestionando qu tanto cumple realmente con sus responsabilidades. Los cuestionamientos se han vuelto ms sonoros en ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A demonstration against the end of the moratorium on evictions put in place in Virginia due to the coronavirus pandemic led to a courthouse window being smashed and chemical irritants released on the crowd by deputies. The incident ca...

ROME (AP) - Aid group SOS Mediterranee says it waiting for a port to disembark 180 migrants rescued at sea, and says five requests to Italian and Maltese port authorities have gone unanswered. The Ocean Viking ship resumed rescue operations in the Mediter...

PARIS (AP) - The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Thursday that France violated the rights of three asylum-seekers who lived for months on the streets with no means to meet basic needs such as food, housing and health care. The court considered tha...

BERLIN (AP) - The United States and South Africa have both reported record new daily coronavirus infections, with U.S. figures surpassing 50,000 cases a day for the first time, underlining the challenges still ahead as nations press to reopen their virus-...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Dutch and French police cracked an encrypted communications network used by organized crime gangs, allowing them to covertly watch...

BELGRADO, Serbia (AP) - Novak Djokovic y su esposa han dado negativo en coronavirus, segn su equipo, 10 das despus de anunciar que se haban contagiado. El tenista nmero uno del mundo dio positivo en el virus tras jugar en un torneo de exhibicin que l haba...

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - Novak Djokovic and his wife have tested negative for the coronavirus, his media team said Thursday, 10 days after announcing they had contracted the disease. The top-ranked player tested positive for the virus after playing in an e...

MILWAUKEE (AP) - Five people have died in shootings in Milwaukee within 20 hours between Tuesday night and Wednesday evening, including a 16-year-old girl. The latest victim of gun violence is a 20-year-old Brown Deer man who died shortly before 7 p.m. We...

LONDRES (AP) - Un juez britnico rechaz el jueves dar a Venezuela el control sobre ms de 1.000 millones de dlares en oro depositados en una cmara del Banco de Inglaterra, alegando que es ilegal entregrselo a Nicols Maduro dado que Gran Bretaa no lo reconoc...

MADRID (AP) - La pandemia de coronavirus le ha costado al sector turstico espaol ms de 15.000 millones de euros (17.000 millones de dlares) en apenas dos meses, segn estadsticas publicadas el jueves. Ningn turista entr en el pas en abril o mayo, segn los ...

LONDON (AP) - A British judge on Thursday refused to give Venezuela control of over $1 billion in gold sitting in a Bank of England vault, ruling that it is unlawful to give it to the President Nicols Maduro since Britain does not recognize him as the pre...

SRINAGAR, India (AP) - A photo of a toddler sitting on the chest of of his dead grandfather has outraged residents of Indian-controlled Kashmir after the victim's family accused government forces of shooting the 65-year-old man during a clash with reb...

CAIRO (AP) - A leading rights group Thursday accused secessionist Yemeni authorities of holding detainees at an overcrowded detention center in the country's south, exposing them to...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - The unemployment rate in the 19 countries that use the euro currency inched higher to 7.4 % in May from 7.3% in April as governments used active labor market support programs to cushion the impact of the virus outbreak on workers...

BRUSSELS (AP) - Unemployment rate in 19-country eurozone edges up to 7.4% in May from 7.3% in April amid pandemic....

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has agreed to debate Democratic challenger Ben Salango before they face off in the November elections, the incumbent Republican's campaign said Wednesday. The announcement comes after Justice dec...