USA | Joe Biden has another big primary night, wins four more states

Joe Biden decisively won Michigan’s Democratic presidential primary, seizing a key battleground state that helped propel Bernie Sanders’ insurgent candidacy four years ago. The former vice president’s victory there, as

The Buzz | FAA waives rules that led airlines to fly empty planes

Federal regulators waived a rule yesterday that was causing airlines to fly nearly empty planes just to avoid losing takeoff and landing rights at major airports. The Federal Aviation Administration said

Mideast | Iran VP, two Cabinet members have new virus

Iran’s senior vice president and two other Cabinet members have contracted the new coronavirus, a semiofficial news agency reported yesterday as the death toll in the Islamic Republic from the

World Briefs

CHINA The province at the center of China’s virus outbreak began allowing factories and some other businesses to reopen yesterday in a show of confidence that Beijing is gaining control

World Views | Bank of England and UK show how to deal with virus

Despite losing an empire and the sterling as the world’s reserve currency, the U.K. managed for years to punch well above its weight on international economic and financial issues, often

WHO declares that virus crisis is now a pandemic

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who heads the U.N. agency, said the WHO is "deeply concerned by the alarming levels of spread and severity" of the outbreak. He also expressed concern about

Flu and coronavirus: Similar symptoms, different fears

Is it the flu, a cold or the new coronavirus? Patients and doctors alike are parsing signs of illness to figure out who needs what tests or care and how

The Latest: Merkel: Virus will infect up to 70% of Germans

  The Latest on the coronavirus outbreak sweeping the globe: German Chancellor Angela Merkel is citing expert estimates that up to 70% of the population could be infected by the new coronavirus

Italy | Premier locks down entire country to stop virus

Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte put his entire country on lockdown yesterday to combat the coronavirus, banning all but the most important travel and putting the final

This Day in History | 1985 – Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader

There is a new man in charge at the Kremlin - Mikhail Gorbachev has taken over following the death of Konstantin Chernenko. Chernenko, 73, died yesterday after

World briefs

ITALY Premier Giuseppe Conte put his entire country on lockdown to combat the coronavirus, banning all but the most important travel and putting the final kibosh on

Dutch prosecutors: Russia wants to thwart MH17 investigation

A Dutch prosecutor said yesterday that there are “strong indications” Russia wants to undermine investigations into the downing of Malaysia Flight 17 and told judges at

The Latest: Italy puts 60 million in lockdown

BEIJING (AP) — The Latest on the coronavirus outbreak sweeping the globe (all times local): 4 p.m. The Italian government is assuring its citizens that supermarkets will remain open and stocked after

USA | Thousands prepare to get off ship hit by virus in California

Federal and state officials in California were preparing yesterday to receive thousands of people from a cruise ship that has been idling off the coast of

This Day in History | 1969 – Martin Luther King’s killer gets life

His guilty plea was made on the understanding he was spared the electric chair. It also brought a swift end to the trial, which otherwise might

World briefs

MARKETS Global stock markets and oil prices plunged yesterday after a fight among major crude-producing nations jolted investors who already were on edge about the surging costs

The Buzz | Prison riots hit Italy amid virus; six die in overdose

Tensions in Italy’s overcrowded prisons erupted yesterday over new coronavirus containment measures, with riots in at least two dozen lock-ups and the deaths of six inmates who broke

Experts: Cruise ships no place for a quarantine

Cruise ships hit by coronavirus outbreaks have quickly found themselves with no ports for thousands of passengers as countries on four continents have quarantined vessels or kept

This Day in History | 1967 – Stalin’s daughter defects to the West

The daughter of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin has requested political asylum at the United States Embassy in India. The American Mutual Radio network broke

World briefs

CHINA At least 10 people were killed in the collapse of Chinese hotel that was being used to isolate people who had arrived from other parts of China

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