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Amid coronavirus news, many need to step away

NEW YORK - Heidi Van Roekel makes instructional art videos for YouTube when coronavirus news overwhelms her. Bill Webb takes his boat out. Stacy Mitchell searches her TV for something - anything - to ...

May 10, 2020

A big-city orchestra salvages a student's cancelled recital

Devastated after her graduate recital was cancelled due to coronavirus concerns, Brooke Mead nearly gave up. Faced with recording the concert alone, at home, the 23-year-old viola student stopped prac...

May 10, 2020

Jay-Z's Team Roc calls for fast action in Ahmaud Arbery case

ATLANTA - The social justice arm of Jay-Z's Roc Nation entertainment company on Sunday called on Georgia officials to take quick action in the case of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who authorities say wa...

May 10, 2020

3 members of White House virus task force in quarantine

WASHINGTON - Three members of the White House coronavirus task force, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, placed themselves in quarantine after contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19, another ...

May 09, 2020

President Trump congratulates UFC for restarting sports

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - President Trump congratulated UFC for restarting the sports world Saturday night after a nearly two-month hiatus. Trump's taped message was played during ESPN's broadcast of the U...

May 09, 2020

Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy dies from coronavirus at 75

rldLAS VEGAS - Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy, the duo whose extraordinary magic tricks astonished millions until Horn was critically injured in 2003 by one of the act's famed white tigers, has died....

May 09, 2020

Little Richard, flamboyant rock ‘n’ roll pioneer, dead at 87

NASHVILLE - Little Richard, the self-proclaimed "architect of rock 'n' roll" whose piercing wail, pounding piano and towering pompadour irrevocably altered popular music while introducing black R&...

May 09, 2020

Robert Caro writes, and waits, during the COVID-19 outbreak

NEW YORK - On most days since the coronavirus spread through Manhattan, Robert Caro has held to a familiar routine. He rises early, walks to his office down the street, spends hours on the fifth and f...

May 09, 2020

Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy dies from coronavirus at 75

LAS VEGAS - Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy, the duo whose extraordinary magic tricks astonished millions until Horn was critically injured in 2003 by one of the act's famed white tigers, has died. He...

May 09, 2020

2 arrested in slaying of Michigan guard over face mask order

FLINT, Mich. - Two men were arrested Friday in the fatal shooting of a security guard who demanded a woman wear a mask while shopping at a store. Genesee County authorities said Ramonyea Bishop, 23, w...

May 08, 2020