Think tanks
Fidel Martinez stands for a portrait at one of his former worksites in Minneapolis on Sunday, April 18, 2021. Martinez worked for a demolition contractor in the fall of 2020, demolishing several Walgreens stores and other structures. Martinez said the contractor owed him and his co-workers more than $20,000. His boss kept telling him the money was coming, but he would get his paychecks weeks late, and many of them he didn't get at all. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
How companies rip off poor employees — and get away with it

By Alexia Fernández Campbell And Joe Yerardi May. 04, 2021 12:12 AM EDT

In this still image from video, Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Raphael Bostic speaks from Atlanta during a webinar sponsored by the 12 regional Fed banks to address the lack of racial disparity in the field of economics on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. (AP Photo)
Fed leaders agree: Economics has a racial-disparity problem

By Christopher Rugaber Apr. 13, 2021 04:36 PM EDT

FILE - In this Saturday, April 12, 2003, file photo, talk radio host G. Gordon Liddy speaks at a rally for troops in Washington. In Washington, 10 blocks from an anti-war demonstration, supporters of the war effort drew thousands to their own rally. Liddy, a mastermind of the Watergate burglary and a radio talk show host after emerging from prison, has died at age 90. His son, Thomas Liddy, confirmed the death Tuesday, March 30, 2021, but did not reveal the cause. (AP Photo/Lisa Nipp, File)
G. Gordon Liddy, Watergate mastermind, dead at 90

By Will Lester Mar. 31, 2021 12:07 AM EDT

FILE - This Jan. 16, 2001, file photo shows G. Gordon Liddy, a Watergate conspirator, arriving at Baltimore's federal courthouse. Liddy, a mastermind of the Watergate burglary and a radio talk show host after emerging from prison, has died at age 90. His son, Thomas Liddy, confirmed the death Tuesday, March 30, 2021, but did not reveal the cause. (AP Photo/Roberto Borea, File)
G. Gordon Liddy, Watergate mastermind, dead at 90

By Will Lester Mar. 30, 2021 08:41 PM EDT

Watchdog: Mideast arms imports grew by a quarter in a decade

Mar. 15, 2021 08:25 AM EDT
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Arms imports to the Middle East rose by a quarter in the decade to 2020 even though arms sales globally remained stable over the same period,...

Mass 2020 exodus from California did not happen, study says

Mar. 05, 2021 12:01 PM EST
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — A popular notion that there was a mass exodus from California last year is wrong, according to research from a nonpartisan think tank. ...

Editorial Roundup: Texas

By The Associated Press Feb. 22, 2021 10:00 AM EST
Dallas Morning News. Feb. 18, 2021. Editorial: ‘Only the strong survive?’ That isn’t the society we want. Former Colorado City Mayor Tim...

FILE—In this March 9, 2007 file photo, a Guinea worm is extracted by a health worker from a child's foot at a containment center in Savelugu, Ghana. A new report on Friday, Jan. 29, 2021 says just over two dozen people in the world are infected with Guinea worm, and community programs are close to eradicating the disease in which a meter-long worm slowly emerges from a blister in a person’s skin. (AP Photo/Olivier Asselin, File)
Guinea worm closer to eradication as cases halve in a year

By Carley Petesch And Alex Sanz Jan. 29, 2021 06:43 AM EST

FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2020, file photo President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington before boarding Marine One. Unemployment benefits for millions of Americans struggling to make ends meet were set to lapse at midnight Saturday night unless Trump signed an end-of-year COVID relief and spending bill that had been considered a done deal before his sudden objections. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
Unemployment benefits for millions in limbo as Trump rages

By Alexandra Olson And Jill Colvin Dec. 26, 2020 03:55 PM EST

Neera Tanden, president of Center for American Progress, speaks during an introduction for New Start New Jersey at NJIT in Newark, NJ, Monday, Nov. 10, 2014. President-elect Joe Biden will have an all-female senior communications team at his White House, led by campaign communications director Kate Bedingfield. Tanden will be director of the Office of Management and Budget, according to a person familiar with the transition process granted anonymity to speak freely about internal deliberations. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
Biden names liberal econ team as pandemic threatens workers

By Christopher Rugaber And Aamer Madhani Dec. 01, 2020 12:07 AM EST

Neera Tanden, president of Center for American Progress, speaks during an introduction for New Start New Jersey at NJIT in Newark, NJ, Monday, Nov. 10, 2014. President-elect Joe Biden will have an all-female senior communications team at his White House, led by campaign communications director Kate Bedingfield. Tanden will be director of the Office of Management and Budget, according to a person familiar with the transition process granted anonymity to speak freely about internal deliberations. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
Biden names liberal econ team as pandemic threatens workers

By Christopher Rugaber And Aamer Madhani Nov. 30, 2020 12:44 AM EST

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, third from right, and his wife Susan, third from left, speak with Jacques Jouslin de Noray of France's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, second from left, and U.S. Ambassador to France Jamie McCourt, second from right, after stepping off a plane at Paris Le Bourget Airport, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2020, in Le Bourget, France. Pompeo is beginning a 10-day trip to Europe and the Middle East. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)
US sec'y of state begins difficult 7-nation tour in France

Elaine Ganley Nov. 14, 2020 12:09 PM EST

Amid China's bumpy rise, Xi faces delicate moment at UN

By Foster Klug Sep. 22, 2020 08:23 AM EDT
TOKYO (AP) — The descriptions that China’s state media rolled out ahead of leader Xi Jinping’s speech Tuesday at the annual gathering of world leaders at the...

French and U.S. flags decorate a house front near Omaha Beach, Thursday, June 4, 2020, in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Normandy, France. France has avoided echoing U.S. President Donald Trump’s criticism of Beijing’s handling of the coronavirus, but legislators applauded Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian mid July 2020 when he condemned abuses of minority Uighurs in China’s northwest. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)
US-China spats rattle world, prompting calls for unity

By Joe Mcdonald Jul. 28, 2020 06:07 AM EDT

FILE - President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the White House in Washington on July 21, 2020. The countries which top the rankings of COVID-19 deaths globally are led by populist, mold-breaking leaders like Trump. The U.S., Brazil, the United Kingdom and Mexico all are led by leaders who have been skeptical of the scientists and who initially minimized the disease. And their four countries alone account for half of the total 585,000 COVID-19 deaths worldwide so far, according to statistics tracked by Johns Hopkins University. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
In struggle against pandemic, populist leaders fare poorly

By John Daniszewski Jul. 23, 2020 03:05 AM EDT

FILE - In this Saturday, May 30, 2020 file photo, a protester poses for photos next to a burning police vehicle in Los Angeles during a demonstration over the death of George Floyd. a black man who was killed in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
Behind virus and protests: A chronic US economic racial gap

By Paul Wiseman Jun. 08, 2020 02:54 PM EDT

Indians line up to buy liquor outside one the liquor shops which was reopened Monday after six weeks lockdown in New Delhi, India, Monday, May 4, 2020. India’s six-week coronavirus lockdown, which was supposed to end on Monday, has been extended for another two weeks, with a few relaxations. Locking down the country’s 1.3 billion people has slowed down the spread of the virus, but has come at the enormous cost of upending lives and millions of lost jobs. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
India's virus lockdown eased while infection rate speeds up

By Emily Schmall May. 04, 2020 02:56 AM EDT

In this April 21, 2020, photo, Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., right, has a photo taken with a youngster during a ReopenNC demonstration in Raleigh, N.C., urging Gov. Roy Cooper to allow businesses to reopen during the coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
As hundreds protest Wisconsin restrictions, some in GOP skip

By Scott Bauer And Sara Burnett Apr. 24, 2020 12:44 AM EDT

People wear masks as they walk near Britain's Houses of Parliament as the country is in lockdown to help curb the spread of coronavirus, in London, Tuesday, April 21, 2020. Britain's Parliament is going back to work, and the political authorities have a message for lawmakers: Stay away. U.K. legislators and most parliamentary staff were sent home in late March as part of a nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the new coronavirus. With more than 16,500 people dead and criticism growing of the government’s response to the pandemic, legislators are returning Tuesday — at least virtually — to grapple with the crisis.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Surge in UK benefits applications reinforces jobless fears

By Pan Pylas Apr. 21, 2020 10:42 AM EDT

FILE - In this April 10, 2020, file photo, a pedestrian is reflected with a temporary closed sign in the window of a wax museum where a statue of Pope Francis is on display in San Antonio. For libertarians the very thought of massive government aid or the enforced closings of businesses is usually indefensible. But those beliefs can change in a time of crisis, like now. The spread of the coronavirus has renewed a long-running debate among libertarians over such core beliefs as private enterprise and individual autonomy. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
Libertarians debate: How to respond to coronavirus pandemic?

By Hillel Italie Apr. 11, 2020 03:02 AM EDT