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The Cuomo show, Andrew and Chris, enliven coronavirus TV

NEW YORK - With all their familial love and drama, the Cuomo brothers - Andrew during the daytime, Chris at night - have become compelling figures in the plague-driven landscape of American television...

Apr 3, 2020

Carnegie Hall projects $9M deficit, expects cuts next season

Carnegie Hall is projecting a $9 million operating deficit on its $104 million budget after cancelling the rest of its season because of the coronavirus pandemic and anticipates making changes to its ...

Apr 3, 2020

Jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli dies from coronavirus

SADDLE RIVER, N.J. - Jazz guitarist John "Bucky" Pizzarelli, who was inducted to the New Jersey Hall of Fame, has died at the age of 94. The virtuoso who had played for presidents at the White House d...

Apr 3, 2020

US sheds 701,000 jobs, ending a record-long hiring streak

WASHINGTON - A record-long streak of U.S. job growth ended suddenly in March after nearly a decade as employers cut 701,000 jobs because of the viral outbreak that's all but shut down the U.S. economy...

Apr 3, 2020

Prince Charles opens fast-tracked London hospital

LONDON - Prince Charles on Friday remotely opened the new Nightingale Hospital at London's main exhibition and conference centre, a temporary facility that will soon be able to treat 4,000 people who ...

Apr 3, 2020

Cardboard cutouts pose as guests for wedding amid COVID-19

DOWAGIAC, Mich. - Cardboard cutout wedding guests will make for a not-so-cookie-cutter wedding as a Michigan couple prepares to tie the knot during the coronavirus pandemic. After Amy Simonson and Dan...

Apr 2, 2020

Judge lets rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine go home, citing COVID-19

NEW YORK - Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine was ordered immediately freed from a Manhattan federal lockup four months early Thursday by a judge who cited his asthma and the greater danger he would face behind b...

Apr 2, 2020

Navy fires captain who sought help for virus-striken ship

WASHINGTON - The captain of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier facing a growing outbreak of the coronavirus was fired Thursday by Navy leaders who said he created a panic by sending his memo pleading for he...

Apr 2, 2020

AP source: Ex-Dallas police chief to lead Chicago police

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday will name former Dallas Police Chief David Brown to lead the police force in the nation's third largest city, a city official told The Associated Press. Lightf...

Apr 2, 2020

Judge won't delay Wisconsin election but extends voting

MADISON, Wis. - A federal judge on Thursday declined to postpone Wisconsin's presidential primary over the health threat from the new coronavirus, but he ordered that people be given an extra six days...

Apr 2, 2020