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Anchorage names businesses visited by customers with virus

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Anchorage Department of Health released a list of businesses where people who later tested positive for COVID-19 spent extended...

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2019, file photo, The White House is seen from the Ellipse in Washington. Forty lobbyists with ties to President Donald Trump helped their clients secure over $10 billion in federal coronavirus aid. Among them are five former administration officials whose lobbying work potentially violates an ethics order Trump issued after taking office. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Trump-connected lobbyists reap windfall in federal virus aid

By Brian Slodysko

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FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2020, file photo, a W-4 form is viewed in New York. As the coronavirus pandemic took hold this spring, the federal government postponed the traditional April 15 filing deadline until July 15. The move provided some economic and logistic relief for taxpayers dealing with the disruptions and uncertainty brought on by lockdowns, school closures and shuttered businesses. But now that new deadline is rapidly approaching. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)

No more delays: What to know about the July 15 deadline

By Sarah Skidmore Sell

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FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015 file photo, Tom Meighan from British band, Kasabian performs on stage during V Festival 2015 at Hylands Park in Chelmsford, Essex, England. British rockers Kasabian said in a statement Monday July 6, 2020, that frontman Tom Meighan has left the band to deal with personal issues. (Photo by Jonathan Short/Invision/AP, File)

Singer Tom Meighan leaves Kasabian amid 'personal issues'

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A pupil's hands are sanitised on returning to school in Johannesburg, Monday July 6, 2020, as more learners were permitted to return to class. Schools were shut down in March prior to a total country lockdown in a bid to prevent the spread of coronavirus and are now slowly being re-opened. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

South Africa begins second phase of reopening of schools

By Mogomotsi Magome And Farai Mutsaka

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An electoral official wears a protective mask as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, while counting ballots after polls closed during the presidential elections, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Sunday, July 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Tatiana Fernandez)

Businessman wins Dominican presidency in virus-marked vote

By Martín José Adames Alcántara

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Opposition leader Davor Bernardic of the liberal-left Restart coalition addresses his supporters in Zagreb, Croatia, Sunday, July 5, 2020. The ruling conservatives overwhelmingly won Croatia's parliamentary elections held Sunday amid a spike in new coronavirus cases as the latest European Union member state leaned further to the right. SDP leader Bernardic conceded the defeat and suggested he would resign the leadership position. (AP Photo/Daniel Kasap)

Croatia's opposition leader stepping down after vote defeat

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FILE - In this May 15, 2020 file photo, an Uber sign is displayed inside a car in Chicago. Uber finally got its food delivery company, acquiring Postmates in a $2.65 billion all-stock deal, the ride-hailing giant confirmed Monday, July 6. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Uber buys Postmates in $2.65 billion all-stock deal

By Matt Ott

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A woman wearing a face mask stands in front of a bank's electronic board showing the Hong Kong share index at Hong Kong Stock Exchange Monday, July 6, 2020. Asian stock markets rose Monday as investors looked ahead for data they hope will support optimism about a global economic recovery. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Global stocks rise as investors look to economic data

By Joe Mcdonald

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Serbian soldiers set up beds for treatment of possible COVID-19 infected patients inside of the Belgrade Arena, in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, July 6, 2020. Serbian authorities have declared an emergency in the capital Belgrade because of a surge in the new coronavirus cases. Emergency measures also have been introduced in several other towns in Serbia where hospitals have been overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients in recent days. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Serbian military opens field hospital amid coronavirus spike

By Dusan Stojanovic And Mike Corder

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FILE - In this March 30, 2017, file photo, actor Nick Cordero, left, and Amanda Kloots attend the premiere of "Going in Style" in New York. Tony Award-nominated actor Cordero, who specialized in playing tough guys on Broadway in such shows as “Waitress,” “A Bronx Tale” and “Bullets Over Broadway,” has died in Los Angeles after suffering severe medical complications after contracting the coronavirus. He was 41. Cordero died Sunday, July 5, 2020, at Cedars-Sinai hospital after more than 90 days in the hospital, according to his wife, Amanda Kloots. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Broadway veteran Nick Cordero dies from virus complications

By Mark Kennedy

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A man lowers his mask to smoke as he passes by a statue in the likeness of The Thinker in Beijing, China on Monday, July 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

The Latest: Flights from UK to Greece can resume July 15

By The Associated Press

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FILE - In this June 21, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, after stepping off Marine One as he returns from a campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Trump's leadership is tested in time of fear, pandemic

By Jonathan Lemire And Calvin Woodward

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FILE - In this June 1, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump holds a Bible as he visits outside St. John's Church across Lafayette Park from the White House in Washington. Part of the church was set on fire during protests on Sunday night. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Trump's leadership is tested in time of fear, pandemic

By Jonathan Lemire And Calvin Woodward

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Relatively few confirmed COVID-19 cases have been reported in Africa. Less air travel might be a factor after most countries closed their borders. But more are starting to resume passenger flights.;

Africa starts opening airspace even as COVID-19 cases climb

By Cara Anna

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In this undated photo provided by Biobot in June 2020, a technician holds a wastewater sampling tube. Across the U.S. and in Europe, researchers and health officials say they can track the course of a community outbreak by studying the waste flushed from its bathrooms. And that can provide a valuable addition to public health tools, they say. (Biobot via AP)

Waste-watching: Sewage can help track pandemic virus trends

By Malcolm Ritter

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Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, left, talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the prime minister's office in Tokyo Monday, July 6, 2020. Gov. Koike, who won her second term to head the Japanese capital in Sunday's election, met with her political rival, Prime Minister Abe and agreed to cooperate in their effort to fight against the coronavirus and to safely achieve the Olympics next year. (Yoshitaka Sugawara/Kyodo News via AP)

Tokyo governor, Abe say they'll cooperate on virus, Olympics

By Mari Yamaguchi

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French drug company accused of favoring profits over lives

By Nicolas Vaux-Montagny

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FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2020 file photo, models wait before the presentation of Chanel Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2020 fashion collection, in Paris. The coronavirus pandemic has instilled extra unpredictability into the already fickle Paris Fashion Week. After first canceling the July shows for menswear and Haute Couture, the French fashion federation has now organized an unprecedented schedule of digital-only events instead. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

As Paris Fashion Week is streamed, critics look to future

By Thomas Adamson

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FILE - This Tuesday, March 24, 2020 file photo shows The National Gallery in a deserted Trafalgar Square in London. The British government has announced more than 1.5 billion pounds (almost $2 billion) to help the country’s renowned arts and cultural institutions recover from the coronavirus pandemic, after some theaters and music venues warned that without support they might never open again. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

UK's lockdown-hit arts venues to get $2B rescue package

By Jill Lawless

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