Author Archives: Associated Press

The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus topped 200,000 Tuesday, a figure unimaginable eight months ago when the scourge first reached the world's richest nation with its sparkling laboratories, top-f...

WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a diminutive yet towering women's rights champion who became the court's second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington. She was 8...

NEW YORK - Americans commemorated 9/11 on Friday as a new national crisis -- the coronavirus pandemic -- reconfigured anniversary ceremonies and a presidential campaign carved a path through the obser...

KENOSHA, Wis. - President Donald Trump stood at the epicentre of the latest eruption over racial injustice Tuesday and came down squarely on the side of law enforcement, blaming "domestic terror" for ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. - Hundreds of thousands of people across Louisiana were still without power or water Friday, a day after Laura sawed a devastating path through the state, while the hurricane's remna...

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - Another day of the NBA playoffs will be postponed, a person with knowledge of the details told The Associated Press on Thursday. The three games will join the three that weren...

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - All three NBA playoff games scheduled for Wednesday have been postponed, with players around the league choosing to boycott in their strongest statement yet against racial inj...

KENOSHA, Wis. - The father of Jacob Blake, a Black man who was shot by police in Kenosha, Wis., says his son was left paralyzed from the waist down. Blake's father told the Chicago Sun-Times that he w...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The Republican Party formally nominated President Donald Trump for a second term in the White House on Monday, one of the first acts of a GOP convention that has been dramatically sc...

KENOSHA, Wis. - Protesters set cars on fire, smashed windows and clashed with officers in riot gear after Kenosha police shot and wounded a Black man, apparently in the back, while responding to a cal...