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Today in History

By The Associated Press Apr. 30, 2021 12:00 AM EDT
Today in History Today is Friday, April 30, the 120th day of 2021. There are 245 days left in the year. Today’s...

FILE - In this April 3, 2016, file photo, Roman Reigns holds up the championship belt after defeating Triple H during WrestleMania 32 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. WWE is set to welcome back fans for the first time in more than a year when 25,000 fans are expected on both Saturday, April 10, 2021 and Sunday nights for WrestleMania at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla. (Jae S. Lee/The Dallas Morning News via AP, File)
Back in Business: WrestleMania ready to rumble with fans

By Dan Gelston Apr. 09, 2021 11:39 AM EDT

Parts of Mardi Gras floats created by Kern Studios sit stored inside Mardi Gras World in New Orleans, Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. New Orleans' annual pre-Lenten Mardi Gras celebration is muted this year because of the coronavirus pandemic. Parades canceled. Bars closed. Crowds suppressed. Mardi Gras joy is muted this year in New Orleans as authorities seek to stifle the coronavirus's spread. And it's a blow to the tradition-bound city's party-loving soul. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Virus-muffled Mardi Gras hits New Orleans' party-loving soul

By Kevin Mcgill, Rebecca Santana, And Janet Mcconnaughey Feb. 13, 2021 10:16 AM EST

Today in History

By The Associated Press Feb. 10, 2021 12:00 AM EST
Today in History Today is Wednesday, Feb. 10, the 41st day of 2021. There are 324 days left in the year. Today’s...

Nebraska linebacker JoJo Domann, top, and defensive back Marquel Dismuke, left, tackle Ohio State receiver Garrett Wilson during the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)
Fields, No. 5 Ohio St run away from Huskers in opener, 52-17

By Mitch Stacy Oct. 24, 2020 03:31 PM EDT

Seattle Seahawks free safety Quandre Diggs, left, consoles Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones in the end zone after intercepting a Falcons pass during an NFL football game Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020, in Atlanta. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
Falcons won't have star WR Julio Jones for Bears game

By The Associated Press Sep. 27, 2020 12:44 PM EDT

PM Prep-Segue

By The Associated Press Jul. 15, 2020 02:48 PM EDT
VIACOMCBS DROPS NICK CANNON, CITES ‘ANTI-SEMITIC’ COMMENTS LOS ANGELES (AP) —ViacomCBS says it’s cutting ties with Nick Cannon because of...

A mountain of 11,000 cubic yards of construction debris is piled in a parking lot as Ocracoke recovers from Hurricane Dorian flooding on Monday, Sept. 23, 2019. A secluded tourist destination on North Carolina’s Outer Banks is having an extremely tough year. Ocracoke Island is recovering from the most damaging hurricane in its recorded history and the near-economic paralysis wrought by one of the world’s worst pandemics. (Steve Earley/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)
Outer Banks island ravaged by storms and virus restrictions

By Ben Finley Jul. 13, 2020 09:20 AM EDT

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2010 file photo, a Middle East Airlines jet takes off at the Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon. On Wednesday, July 1, 2020, Beirut's airport is partially reopening after a three-month shutdown. Lebanon's cash-strapped government hopes thousands of Lebanese expatriates will return for the summer, injecting badly needed dollars into the sinking economy. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
Lebanon’s plea to skeptical expats: Come visit, bring cash

By Zeina Karam Jul. 01, 2020 02:06 AM EDT

In this undated photo provided by the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, the Field of Legends at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is viewed in Kansas City, Mo. The display features 10 life-size statues of Negro League greats cast in position as if they were playing a game. Former President Barack Obama tipped his cap. So did three other former presidents and a host of prominent civil rights leaders, entertainers and sports legends in a virtual salute to the 100-year anniversary of the founding of baseball’s Negro Leagues. The campaign launched Monday, June 29, 2020, with photos and videos from, among others, Hank Aaron, Rachel Robinson Derek Jeter, Colin Powell, Michael Jordan, Obama and presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter at tippingyourcap.com. (Negro Leagues Baseball Museum via AP)
A long-overdue 'Tip of the Cap' to baseball's Black pioneers

By Jim Litke Jun. 29, 2020 07:04 AM EDT

In this Sunday, May 31, 2020 photo, local visitors walk in a park next to the Antoni Gaudí's La Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona. Tourism is a pillar of Spain's economy. Eighty million annual visitors generate 12% of Spain's GDP and help employ 2.6 million people. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Retailers look to boost sales, German car sales weak

Jun. 04, 2020 11:05 AM EDT

Stocks mixed...Home building plunges...Walmart profit surges

May. 19, 2020 10:41 AM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are mixed in early trading on Wall Street, a day after the market had its biggest jump in more than five weeks. Banks were posting the...

A woman has her hair done at the Coppola hairstylist in Milan, Italy, Monday, May 18, 2020, as barber shops and hair stylists started operating again. Italy is slowly lifting sanitary restrictions after a two-month coronavirus lockdown. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
Business, government operate under new rules, market rallies

The Associated Press May. 18, 2020 01:13 PM EDT

In this May 12, 2020 photo, Adriano Cuzco, a relative of Manuel Dutan, tosses flowers into the grave of Dutan, who died of COVID-19, at St. John's Cemetery in the Queens borough of New York. The Rev. Joseph Dutan lost his mentor and the first Catholic priest in the United States to die from the coronavirus. Days later, Dutan's own father, Manuel Dutan, contracted COVID-19. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Companies begin to navigate a world that is vastly changed

The Associated Press May. 14, 2020 01:51 PM EDT

An elderly woman wears a face mask as she shops in an indoor food market, in Paris, Tuesday, May 12, 2020. Food markets reopened in Paris on Tuesday as France is cautiously easing the two-month lockdown across the country. Specific measures, such as more widely spaced stalls, have been implemented to enforce physical distancing. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Pants, bras are out, PJs in; travel industry layoffs begin

The Associated Press May. 12, 2020 11:46 AM EDT

A shop vendor wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus waits for customer outside headscarves shop in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Monday, May 11, 2020. Despite a sharp drop in infections, Malaysia's leader said restrictions to fight the coronavirus will be extended by four more weeks until June 9. The government has already let most businesses reopen with strict conditions to help revive a hard-hit economy. But mass gatherings are still barred, with schools, cinemas and houses of worship staying shut, group sports prohibited and interstate travel banned. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
Company earnings tell the story of the pandemic's early days

The Associated Press May. 11, 2020 10:57 AM EDT

In this image provided by Public Health Emergency, a department of Health and Human Services, Rick Bright is shown in his official photo from April 27, 2017, in Washington. Bright filed a complaint May 5, 2020, with the Office of Special Counsel, a government agency responsible for whistleblower complaints. He’s the former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. Bright alleges he was removed from his job and reassigned to a lesser role because he resisted political pressure to allow widespread use of hydroxychloroquine, a malaria drug favored by President Donald Trump. (Health and Human Services via AP)
Lawyers: Investigators recommend whistleblower is reinstated

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar May. 08, 2020 03:19 PM EDT

People waiting at a mobile testing and screening station get hand cleaner sprayed in the Diepsloot township north of Johannesburg Friday May 8, 2020. South Africa begun a phased easing of its strict lockdown measures on May 1, and its confirmed cases of coronavirus continue to increase as more people are being tested. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
US job losses are colossal, but push to come back goes on

The Associated Press May. 08, 2020 10:48 AM EDT

An old sign announcing they are hiring hangs in the window of a closed store along Broadway, Thursday, May 7, 2020, in the Soho neighborhood of Manhattan in New York. Nearly 3.2 million laid-off workers applied for unemployment benefits last week as the business shutdowns caused by the coronavirus outbreak deepened the worst U.S. economic catastrophe in decades. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Airlines crushed; IRS wants checks sent to the dead returned

The Associated Press May. 07, 2020 10:50 AM EDT

FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 10, 2018, file photo provided by DroneBase, waves crash along Avon, N.C., in Dare County, in the Outer Banks. Three counties on North Carolina’s tourist-reliant Outer Banks, including Dare County, announced plans Wednesday, May 6, 2020, to lift coronavirus-related visitor restrictions, although they warned of the need to continue to practice social distancing amid the ongoing pandemic. (DroneBase via AP, File)
Outer Banks counties announce date for reopening to visitors

By Tom Foreman Jr. May. 06, 2020 04:34 PM EDT