Legislation in New York aims to ban live animal markets — where fowl and other animals are sold and butchered — in hopes of preventing the next coronavirus.
The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus hit 100,000 Wednesday, a heartbreaking reminder of the scale of the pandemic as the nation gingerly tries to revive economic activity and normal life without suffering a devastating “second wave.”
The San Jose Sharks will have plenty of time to stew over the franchise’s worst season in 17 years.
By Saturday, he’ll be Inmate No. 19579-104.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Thursday announced plans to allow bars and nightclubs to reopen, overnight summer camps and summer schools to begin and professional and amateur sports to resume operations and practices, all with social distancing and sanitation restrictions in place.
Upscale department store retailer Nordstrom reported Thursday that its sales plunged nearly 40% in its fiscal first quarter when the pandemic forced a temporary shutdown of its stores.
Demonstrators chanting “I can't breathe" and “Black lives matter" took to Manhattan's streets on Thursday in protest of the death of a black Minnesota man who died after a police officer spent minutes kneeling on his neck.
Mike McCarthy has spent most of his first offseason as coach of the Dallas Cowboys at home in Green Bay.
Social gatherings are fueling the spread of the new coronavirus in parts of Mississippi, the governor and the state health officer said Thursday.
Alaska reported its first double-digit increase in COVID-19 cases in more than six weeks, state figures released Thursday show.
The Grand Canyon is expanding access to its more popular South Rim entrance and planning to let visitors in around the clock next month after it shuttered temporarily over coronavirus concerns.
West Virginia is down to one county with no confirmed coronavirus cases.
At least 44 meatpacking workers in the U.S. have died from the new coronavirus and another 3,000 have tested positive, according to an estimate released Thursday by the largest union representing workers.
San Francisco will allow outdoor dining and indoor shopping, religious services and sporting events without spectators as of June 15 and give barbershops and hair salons permission to reopen in mid July, the city's mayor announced Thursday.
The U.N. chief on Thursday warned the largest gathering of world leaders since the coronavirus pandemic began that it will cause “unimaginable devastation and suffering around the world,” with historic levels of hunger and famine and up to 1.6 billion people unable to earn a living unless action is taken now.
The Trump administration may soon expel thousands of Chinese graduate students enrolled at U.S. universities and impose other sanctions against Chinese officials in the latest signs of tensions between Washington and Beijing that are raging over trade, the coronavirus pandemic, human rights and the status of Hong Kong.
“Feisty" is the way Shelley Gunn describes her 103-year-old grandmother.
Trout season was allowed to open Thursday in the Eastern Sierra’s Inyo County after a delay due to concerns that an influx of anglers would spread COVID-19 in the region, which has some of California’s most prized stream and lake fishing.
The status of European soccer's major men's leagues following their suspension in March due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Detroit Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman is sticking to his rebuilding plan, which includes not making a coaching change or attempting to pull off a splash in free agency.
As he prepares to welcome his players back to campus, Georgia coach Kirby Smart insisted Thursday that they'll be safer working out under the school's supervision than on their own.
The Frauen-Bundesliga is an outlier in European soccer: a women’s league resuming during the coronavirus pandemic.
