Terrorist attacks

In this courtroom artist sketch Tahawwur Rana, appears during an extradition hearing in federal US court in Los Angeles, Thursday, June 24, 2021. A federal judge is weighing whether Rana, a former Chicago businessman, will be extracted to India in connection with his alleged involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack in which 166 people, including six Americans were killed. (Bill Robles for AP)

Judge keeps India terror attack suspect in US custody

By Stefanie Dazio Jun. 24, 2021 08:00 PM EDT

Europol: Extremists sought to use pandemic to spread hate

By Mike Corder Jun. 22, 2021 08:23 AM EDT
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Extremists sought to use the global pandemic to “spread hate propaganda and exacerbate mistrust in public institutions” in 2020,...

FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2021, file photo, a registered nurse tends to a COVID-19 patient as another puts on her protective gear in Orange, Calif. With more than 600,000 Americans dead of COVID-19 and questions still raging about the origin of the virus and the government's response, a push is underway on Capitol Hill and beyond for a full-blown investigation of the crisis by a national commission like the one that looked into 9/11. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

As COVID-19 crisis ebbs, some seeking 9/11-style commission

By Jay Reeves And Michael Kunzelman Jun. 17, 2021 12:19 PM EDT

Producer Lin-Manuel Miranda, right, and wife Vanessa Nadal attend the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival opening night premiere of "In The Heights" at the United Palace theater on Wednesday, June 9, 2021, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Curtain rises on the Tribeca Festival, and on New York, too

By Jake Coyle Jun. 09, 2021 03:02 PM EDT

Khalida Ashram and her daughter Anila mourn at the scene of an attack on Monday, involving a driver accused of plowing a pickup truck into an immigrant family of five in London, Ontario, Tuesday, June 8, 2021. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has denounced the attack as police say the attack targeted Muslims. (Geoff Robins/The Canadian Press via AP)

Trudeau denounces truck attack that targeted Muslim family

By Rob Gillies Jun. 08, 2021 02:56 PM EDT

This May 22, 2020, photo provided by Samuel Slavin shows Slavin an internal medicine resident in Boston. The Library of Congress has acquired a digital archive of the real-time impressions of more than 200 frontline health care workers, including Slavin, documenting the country’s descent into the coronavirus pandemic. Slavin reflected on the “unpredictable way these patients go down fast” and “how this is weighing on us as doctors.” (Samuel Slavin via AP)

Library of Congress gets health workers' audio COVID diaries

By Ashraf Khalil Jun. 08, 2021 12:35 PM EDT

FILE— In this Dec. 11, 2006, file photo, top cleric Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour, center, speaks during a conference on the Holocaust with Rabbi Moishe Arye Friedman, left, from Austria, and Rabbi Ahron Cohen, right, from England, in Tehran, Iran. Mohtashamipour, a Shiite cleric who as Iran's ambassador to Syria helped found the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and lost his right hand to a book bombing reportedly carried out by Israel, died Monday, June 7, 2021, of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Iran cleric who founded Hezbollah, survived book bomb, dies

By Jon Gambrell Jun. 07, 2021 05:21 AM EDT

University of Mississippi reopens the Grove for 2021 games

Jun. 01, 2021 03:06 PM EDT
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — The Grove at the University of Mississippi will reopen for pregame and postgame parties during the 2021 football season after being closed...

Indoor events bring virus outbreak in Republic, Washington

May. 01, 2021 07:19 PM EDT
REPUBLIC, Wash. (AP) — About 10% of the population of Republic, a small city in north-central Washington, has tested positive for COVID-19 in an outbreak...

A demonstrator with the Brazilian flag painted on his face, shouts slogans during a caravan backing President Jair Bolsonaro’s anti-coronavirus-lockdown stance, marking May Day, or International Workers' Day, in Brasilia, Brazil, Saturday, May 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

The Latest: 10% of Washington town positive for COVID-19

By The Associated Press May. 01, 2021 05:42 AM EDT

Dr. Mysheika W. Roberts, the health commissioner for Columbus Public Health, poses for a portrait in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday, April 14, 2021. Public health officials who have juggled bare-bones budgets for years are happy to have the additional money prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet they worry it will soon dry up as the pandemic recedes, continuing a boom-bust funding cycle that has plagued the U.S. public health system for decades. If budgets are slashed again, they warn, that could leave the nation where it was before covid: unprepared for a health crisis. “We need funds that we can depend on year after year,” says Roberts. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon)

Public health seeks steady funding, not feast or famine

By Michelle R. Smith, Lauren Weber And Hannah Recht Apr. 19, 2021 10:22 AM EDT

Billions spent on coronavirus fight, but what happens next?

By Michelle R. Smith, Lauren Weber And Hannah Recht Apr. 19, 2021 10:00 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: US

By The Associated Press Apr. 14, 2021 08:51 PM EDT
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ April 14 The Chicago Tribune...

Sept. 11 tribute to once again include live reading of names

Mar. 11, 2021 01:44 PM EST
NEW YORK (AP) — A year after a disagreement over coronavirus protocols spawned competing Sept. 11 ceremonies in New York, the 20th anniversary of the 2001...