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About 50 bodies found in trucks outside NY funeral home

NEW YORK - Police were called to a Brooklyn neighbourhood Wednesday after a funeral home overwhelmed by the coronavirus resorted to storing dozens of bodies on ice in rented trucks, and a passerby com...

Apr 30, 2020

UK admits it could miss 100,000 daily virus tests target

LONDON - The British government has acknowledged that it may miss its self-imposed goal of conducting 100,000 tests for coronavirus a day by the end of Thursday. But officials insisted that the U.K. i...

Apr 30, 2020

Fauci warns states against 'tempting' a coronavirus rebound

WASHINGTON - The nation's top infectious disease expert said Thursday that new cases of the coronavirus are a certainty as states begin to roll back restrictions. States need to proceed carefully as t...

Apr 30, 2020

US jobless claims soar past 30 million; Europe reeling also

NEW YORK - The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits because of the coronavirus has soared past 30 million, worsening a crisis unmatched since the 1930s and turning up the pressure on p...

Apr 30, 2020

This is his quest: An actor serenades the front-line workers

NEW YORK - It's a stunning sound, emerging amid the clanging and the whooping and the banging and the honking at 7 p.m. each night as New Yorkers cheer front-line workers: the velvety, buttery bariton...

Apr 30, 2020

Harrison Ford piloting plane that wrongly crosses runway

HAWTHORNE, Calif. - Harrison Ford was piloting a plane that wrongly crossed a runway where another plane was landing, and federal authorities are investigating, officials and a representative for the ...

Apr 30, 2020

Netflix’s ‘The Half of It’ wins Tribeca Film Festival honour

LOS ANGELES - Alice Wu's "The Half of It," a teenage spin on Cyrano de Bergerac, has won the top award from the Tribeca Film Festival. Organizers announced winners Wednesday for the festival, which ha...

Apr 30, 2020

Virus leaves New York City artists in a 'tailspin'

NEW YORK - Dancer and choreographer Netta Yerushalmy has built a career in movement and community. Both are gone now. Her world is still, isolated - and fearful. "Dancers I know are in a muted, depres...

Apr 30, 2020

European economy suffers biggest hit on record amid pandemic

FRANKFURT - The European economy shrank by 3.8% in the first quarter as business activity was frozen by shutdowns aimed at preventing the spread of the coronavirus. It was the biggest drop since stati...

Apr 30, 2020

Memo says California governor will order all beaches closed

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gov. Gavin Newsom will order all beaches and state parks closed Friday after tens of thousands of people flocked to the seashore last weekend during a heat wave despite his stay-a...

Apr 29, 2020