AP Top Stories November 18
Here's the latest for Monday, November 18: Three people fatally shot at an Oklahoma Walmart; The Supreme Court orders delay in release of Trump's financial records; Hong Kong protesters continue to clash with police; Panda fans bid farewell to Bei...
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Wisconsin officer saves dog from burning house
Caught on camera: Wisconsin police officer rescues dog from burning house.
Penguins meet dinosaurs at Chicago museum
Izzy and Darwin, penguins who live at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium, visited the dinosaurs next door at the Field Museum.
Miami-Dade restaurants limited to outside seating
Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez announced Monday that restaurants will be limited to outside seating along with takeout and delivery to suppress recent spikes in the county's coronavirus cases.
Richmond removes another confederate statue
The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors statue was removed Wednesday. It's the sixth Confederate monument to be removed in Richmond amid national protests against police brutality and symbols many see as racist icons.
Top US officials follow Trump on schools reopening
With school districts across the country struggling on how to safely reopen as the coronavirus continues to surge in some states, top federal health and education officials are following President Trump in saying students must return to the classr...
Pompeo talks Tik Toc, Chinese aggression and more
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo rebuffed the Chinese social networking service Tik Tok Wednesday when asked about comments he made earlier in the week of banning Chinese social media apps, referring to that company.
Trump, Lopez Obrador visit about trade, politics
U.S. President Donald Trump’s meeting with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is being billed as a celebration of economic ties and the new North American trade agreement.
Schools, US virus surge are focus of WH Task Force
Vice President Mike Pence says the CDC will be issuing new guidance for the reopening of schools in the fall. Dr. Deborah Birx is urging residents in the southern US who are in the midst of a surge to fall back to Phase One protocols.
NYC schools to reopen in fall with hybrid learning
Most New York City students will return to their physical schools two or three days a week and learn online the rest of the time under a plan announced Wednesday by Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Mexican president visits memorials in US
Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador began his trip to the United States — his first foreign trip as president — with visits Wednesday to the Lincoln Memorial and the statue of Benito Juarez, a former president and national hero in Mexico.
Animation 'thrives and survives' during lockdown
The production house behind Disney animation "Ron's Gone Wrong" have been working hard from home during the coronavirus pandemic. We discover how they've been putting the upcoming film together remotely.
A look at upcoming Disney movie 'Ron's Gone Wrong'
The team behind upcoming Disney 'bot animation "Ron's Gone Wrong" give us an insight into the film's plot and how they've been working during lockdown.
ShowBiz Minute: Depp, Rowling, Starr
Johnny Depp takes stand in libel trial, claims Amber Heard hit him; JK Rowling, Margaret Atwood and Gloria Steinem among 150 writers, activists and academics who have signed a letter giving a warning over free speech; Ringo Starr celebrates his 80...
COVID-ravaged NY church reopens
After losing at least 74 parishioners to COVID-19, Saint Bartholomew Roman Catholic Church in Queens reopened for its first in-person services in nearly four months. In attendance was Claudia Balderas, who lost her brother to the coronavirus.
On This Day: 8 July 1998
Actor, musician and fashion designer Jaden Smith was born in Malibu.
First On-Screen Kiss: Stanley Tucci
Stanley Tucci recalls "the kiss of horror" in a George Romero movie.
First On-Screen Kiss: Rachel Brosnahan
Rachel Brosnahan says she can’t remember her first on-screen kiss but does have strong memories of a risqué costume she had to wear for a scene.
First On-Screen Kiss: Merab Ninidze
Georgian actor Merab Ninidze's first on-screen kiss was with "a heavy smoker."
AP Top Stories July 8
Here's the latest for Wednesday, July 8th: Trump pushes schools to open in the fall; Texas officials warn COVID-19 patients could overwhelm hospitals; Brazilian President says he has coronavirus; Reported Indiana attack investigated as hate crime.
Reported Indiana attack investigated as hate crime
The FBI says it’s investigating the reported assault of a Black man by a group of white men at a southern Indiana lake. Vauhxx Booker says the men pinned him against a tree, shouted racial slurs and one of them threatened to “get a noose."
Desperation science slows hunt for virus drugs
Six months after COVID-19 started spreading around the globe, desperation rather than information is still driving many decisions about how to treat the disease.
Window into Texas virus surge: A widow's death
COVID-19 hospitalizations in Texas have more than doubled in two weeks, and some city leaders warn health facilities could soon be overwhelmed. The Associated Press visited Houston's United Memorial Medical Center to see the effect of the surge.
Today in History for July 8th
Highlights of this day in history: Commodore Matthew Perry arrives in Tokyo Bay; Industrialist John D. Rockefeller born; Word of what becomes known as 'The Roswell Incident'; North Korea's Kim Il Sung dies; Ziegfeld stages first 'Follies.'
'Little Voice' hopes to enter with a crescendo
Although it shares a title with her major label debut album, Sara Bareilles says her new Apple TV+ series, “Little Voice,” which stars Brittany O’Grady, is not autobiographical but “an amalgamation of so many of the struggles that I’ve seen.”
