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FILE - In this March 25, 2021, file photo, diners eat in isolated dining rooms outside the Townhouse restaurant, in Birmingham, Mich. Nearly half of new coronavirus infections nationwide are in just five states, including Michigan — a situation that puts pressure on the federal government to consider changing how it distributes vaccines by sending more doses to hot spots. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)
US setting up $1.7B national network to track virus variants

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar And Zeke Miller Apr. 16, 2021 10:30 AM EDT

White House deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger speaks during a press briefing, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Suspected Russian hack fuels new US action on cybersecurity

By Ben Fox And Alan Suderman Feb. 19, 2021 01:16 AM EST

California COVID-19 benefits fraud could reach $9.8 billion

Jan. 15, 2021 09:18 PM EST
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California may have paid out nearly $10 billion in phony coronavirus unemployment claims — more than double the previous estimate — with...

Young men scroll on their smart phones in the Old City of Jerusalem, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. In the early days of the pandemic, a panicked Israel began using a mass surveillance tool on its own people, tracking civilians’ mobile phones to halt the spread of the coronavirus. But months later, the tool’s effectiveness is being called into question and critics say its use has come at an immeasurable cost to the country’s democratic principles. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
Israel's virus surveillance tool tests its democratic norms

By Tia Goldenberg Jan. 01, 2021 01:19 AM EST

The construction of a planned vaccination center is presented by the Berlin authorities during a media event at the 'Arena Berlin' event venue in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. Berlin city authorites will set up six vaccine center until the end of the month. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Germany readies vaccine centers amid security concerns

Dec. 04, 2020 09:32 AM EST

People wearing face mask walk along Bourke Street Mall in Melbourne, Friday, Nov. 6, 2020. Australia’s highest court on Friday upheld a state’s border closure and dismissed billionaire businessman Clive Palmer’s argument that the pandemic measure was unconstitutional.(James Ross/AAP Images via AP)
Australia inquiry says police should guard hotel quarantine

Nov. 05, 2020 10:45 PM EST

In this undated photo courtesy of the Heath family, Matthew Heath navigates a boat near the Florida Keys. Heath's family says he kept a boat in Key West, Florida with the hope it would be his ticket to a new career on the water and free of the toils of private security work he had been doing for more than a decade. (Heath family via AP)
The mystery surrounding the former Marine held in Venezuela

Joshua Goodman Oct. 31, 2020 11:38 AM EDT

In this undated photo courtesy of the Heath family, Matthew Heath navigates a boat near the Florida Keys. Heath's family says he kept a boat in Key West, Florida with the hope it would be his ticket to a new career on the water and free of the toils of private security work he had been doing for more than a decade. (Heath family via AP)
Mystery surrounds former Marine's imprisonment in Venezuela

By Joshua Goodman Oct. 31, 2020 09:54 AM EDT

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2012 file photo, an Iranian clergyman stands next to missiles and army troops, during a manoeuvre, in an undisclosed location in Iran. A decade-long U.N. arms embargo on Iran that bared it from purchasing foreign weapons like tanks and fighter jets expired Sunday, Oct. 18, 20202, as planned under its nuclear deal with world powers, despite objections from the United States. (Majid Asgaripour/Mehr News Agency via AP, File)
Russia calls for collective security in Gulf, US blames Iran

By Edith M. Lederer Oct. 20, 2020 10:47 PM EDT

A woman holds a placard that reads, "go," right, and a child holds another reading, "bring our democracy back," during a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020 during a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus. The Israeli government has extended an emergency provision that bars public gatherings, including widespread protests against Netanyahu, for an additional week. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Israeli government extends ban that limits public protests

By Ilan Ben Zion Oct. 08, 2020 05:43 AM EDT

In this photo released by Kuwait News Agency, KUNA, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, talks to Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah, the new Emir of Kuwait, right, in Kuwait, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. The new emir replaced his half-brother, the late ruler Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, seen in portrait, who died in the United States at the age of 91 last month. (KUNA via AP)
Kuwaiti National Guard figure picked as next crown prince

By Isabel Debre Oct. 07, 2020 06:11 AM EDT

FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 5, 2016 file photo, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange appears at the window before speaking on the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. A London court has heard that Julian Assange’s conversations in the latter part of his seven-year stay at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London were systematically bugged, even in the toilet. Two anonymous witnesses who worked for a Spanish firm with a security contract at the embassy said the WikiLeaks founder faced an intensifying bugging operation after Donald Trump became U.S. president. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
Assange bugged while at Ecuadorian Embassy, UK court told

By Pan Pylas Sep. 30, 2020 12:43 PM EDT

The new Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sabah, waves after he performed the constitutional oath at the Kuwaiti National Assembly in Kuwait, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. Kuwait's Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sabah was sworn in Wednesday as the ruling emir of the tiny oil-rich country, propelled to power by the death of his half-brother after a long career in the security services. (AP Photo/Jaber Abdulkhaleg)
Sheikh Nawaf sworn in as Kuwait's new ruling emir

By Isabel Debre Sep. 30, 2020 08:01 AM EDT

Joe Luevano, left, helps his son, Che Luevano, move out of Whitney Hall at California State University, Chico, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020, in Chico, Calif. California State University, Chico canceled its limited number of in-person classes Monday and told students in an urgently toned message to vacate campus housing by the weekend after nearly 30 people tested positive for the coronavirus days after the fall semester started. (Carin Dorghalli/Chico Enterprise-Record via AP)
No in-person classes at Chico State due to virus infections

By Jocelyn Gecker And Olga R. Rodriguez Aug. 31, 2020 01:17 PM EDT

A beach is almost empty during a lockdown after a 48 hour lockdown was imposed following the discovery of the first local coronavirus cases in the Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
Hamas extends Gaza lockdown for 72 hours as virus spreads

By Fares Akram Aug. 26, 2020 05:26 PM EDT

FILE - In this file photo taken on Thursday, March 30, 2017, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, right, shows a V-sign for the media in court in Moscow, Russia. Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is in a coma and on a ventilator in an intensive care unit in Siberia after falling ill from suspected poisoning that his allies believe is linked to his political activity. (AP Photo/Evgeny Feldman, File)
Russia's Navalny in coma, allegedly poisoned by toxic tea

By Daria Litvinova Aug. 20, 2020 10:51 AM EDT

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, candidate for the presidential elections greets people waving old Belarus flags during a meeting to show her support , n Brest, 326 km (203,7 miles) southwest of Minsk, Belarus, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2020. The presidential election in Belarus is scheduled for Aug. 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
Ex-teacher hopes to free Belarus from president's iron fist

By Yuras Karmanau Aug. 04, 2020 05:09 AM EDT

Cafe owner Maria Iatrou stands at her empty coffee shop in Melbourne, Monday, July 6, 2020. As Australia is emerging from pandemic restrictions, the Victoria state capital Melbourne is buckling down with more extreme and divisive measures that are causing anger and igniting arguments over who is to blame as the disease spreads again at an alarming rate. (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill)
Australia's 2nd largest city foils nation's pandemic success

By Andy Brownbill And Rod Mcguirk Jul. 06, 2020 11:59 PM EDT

People wearing masks visit a food market that was shut down in order to reduce the spread of the coronavirus, as markets, shopping malls, gyms are reopen as Israel seeks to exit the virus lockdown in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, May 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Israeli security head calls for halt in virus phone tracking

Jun. 08, 2020 01:56 PM EDT

This undated image provided by Jason Nixon, shows a photo of Jason and his wife Kate Nixon, prior to last years shooting that took the life of Kate Nixon in Virginia Beach, Va. As the shooting's one-year anniversary approaches, some of the victim's family members say the rampage is effectively forgotten. “We were a flash in the pan,” Nixon said. “I think that we should have had a lot more attention. It’s not normal for someone to wake up and go murder 12 people.” (Jason Nixon via AP)
A year later, motive of Virginia mass shooting still unclear

By Ben Finley May. 30, 2020 07:53 AM EDT