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Cars along the Massachusetts Turnpike drive past a giant "Black Lives Matter" mural, Wednesday evening, July 22, 2020, outside Fenway Park, at the rear, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Batter Up! Baseball, soundtrack of summer, is back - sort of

By Ben Walker Jul. 23, 2020 01:01 PM EDT

FILE - In this early Friday, May 29, 2020 file photo, a protester carries a U.S. flag upside, a sign of distress, next to a burning building in Minneapolis. Protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody Monday, broke out in Minneapolis and across the country. The U.S. has been dramatically disrupted in a matter of months, brought low by a global pandemic, Depression-era economic dislocation, and then, nationwide unrest over racial injustice. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
AMERICA DISRUPTED: Troubles cleave a nation, and a city

By Josh Boak And Kat Stafford Jul. 07, 2020 02:10 AM EDT

Michigan State Troopers talk with two Black men Monday, June 29, 2020, during a stop on the impoverished east side of Saginaw, Mich. Black residents have largely long been relegated to the east side of the city, where blighted and abandoned buildings line streets – remnants of the Great Recession from a decade ago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
AMERICA DISRUPTED: Troubles cleave a nation, and a city

By Josh Boak And Kat Stafford Jul. 07, 2020 02:08 AM EDT

Wall Street losses...Another aid package proposed...Counterfeit masks

May. 12, 2020 05:30 PM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street fell to its biggest loss since the start of the month on worries about the downside of reopening the economy too soon. The S&P...

FILE - This May 22, 2018 file photo shows PEN literary service award recipient Stephen King, left, and Simon & Schuster president Carolyn Reidy at the 2018 PEN Literary Gala in New York. Reidy died of a heart attack on Tuesday morning, May 12, 2020. She was 71. Her death was announced by company executive Dennis Eulau. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy dies at 71, company says

By Hillel Italie May. 12, 2020 01:53 PM EDT

FILE - In this March 1933, file photo, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his first radio "fireside chat" in Washington. The New Deal was a try-anything moment during the Great Depression that remade the role of the federal government in American life. (AP Photo)
Out of pandemic crisis, what could a new New Deal look like?

By Michael Tackett And Josh Boak Apr. 25, 2020 11:18 AM EDT

FILE - In this March 26, 1937, file photo, Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers make copper utensils for Pima County Hospital in Texas. The New Deal was a try-anything moment during the Great Depression that remade the role of the federal government in American life. (AP Photo, File)
Out of pandemic crisis, what could a new New Deal look like?

By Michael Tackett And Josh Boak Apr. 25, 2020 09:58 AM EDT