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US stocks open sharply lower, yields drop in virus worries

NEW YORK - Stocks are opening sharply lower on Wall Street and bond yields are sinking to more record lows as investors fear that economic damage from the spreading coronavirus outbreak will be longer...

Mar 6, 2020

US added robust 273K jobs in February before virus escalated

WASHINGTON - Hiring jumped in February as employers added 273,000 jobs, evidence that the economy was in strong shape before the coronavirus began to sweep through the United States. The Labor Departm...

Mar 6, 2020

Suicide bombers wound 5 police in Tunisian capital

TUNIS, Tunisia - Tunisia's interior ministry says two suicide bombers blew themselves up near the U.S. Embassy in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, Friday, wounding five police officers. A ministry stateme...

Mar 6, 2020

Iran warns it could use 'force' to halt travel amid virus

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran said Friday the new coronavirus has killed 124 people amid 4,747 confirmed cases in the Islamic Republic as authorities warned they may use "force" to limit travel between cities. ...

Mar 6, 2020

Bethlehem's storied Nativity Church closes amid virus fears

BETHLEHEM, Palestinian Territory - Palestinian officials on Thursday closed the storied Church of the Nativity in the biblical city of Bethlehem indefinitely over fears of the new coronavirus, weeks a...

Mar 6, 2020

Lawyer says award-winning Iran filmmaker summoned to prison

TEHRAN, Iran - An Iranian filmmaker who just won the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear has been summoned to serve a one-year prison sentence over his movies, his lawyer said Wednesday. Mohammad Rasou...

Mar 6, 2020

'Bob Durst killed his wife,' prosecutor says at his trial

LOS ANGELES - Robert Durst has never been charged in the 1982 New York disappearance of his wife Kathie Durst, who was later declared dead despite no body being found, but on Wednesday a prosecutor in...

Mar 5, 2020

Ending campaign, Bloomberg says defeating Trump his priority

NEW YORK - In just over 100 days, Mike Bloomberg spent over $500 million of his own fortune in a quixotic bid for the presidency that collapsed in stunning fashion on Super Tuesday, when he won just o...

Mar 5, 2020

Democrats: Judge extends Tennessee voting in storm-hit area

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A judge has extended voting hours in a Nashville-area county after four Democratic presidential candidates sued to keep Super Tuesday polls open after tornado damage there, a Democrat...

Mar 5, 2020

Virus ripples through travel, energy, financial markets

The economic affects of the coronavirus have preceded the spread of the virus itself, with financial markets swinging wildly, companies closing offices or asking employees work from home in affected a...

Mar 5, 2020