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Shanghai lockdown tests 'zero-COVID' limits, shakes markets 03/29/2022 11:16am • BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities sought to reassure companies and jittery investors on Tuesday as a two-phase lockdown of Shanghai’s 26 million people entered its second day, casting an unusual quiet over the normally bustling center of finance, manufacturing and trade. The omicron outbreak in AP Top U.S. News at 11:58 p.m. EDT 03/29/2022 12:00am • US opens second COVID boosters to 50 and up, others at risk Calif. group votes to limit reparations to slave descendants EXPLAINER: What's entrapment? What its role at kidnap trial? EXPLAINER: Alopecia 'strips people of their identity' Americans ease up on masks, virus safeguards: AP-NORC poll 'Groo AP Top Political News at 10:55 p.m. EDT 03/29/2022 12:00am • 8-hour gap in Trump's Jan. 6 White House phone records Civilian Army leader led child porn ring, risked US security Navy barred from acting against religious vaccine refusers Biden signs bill making lynching a federal hate crime EXPLAINER: What's behind the new federal anti-lynching law? Americans e Myanmar's Suu Kyi misses court hearings due to quarantine 03/28/2022 08:21pm • BANGKOK (AP) — Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi did not attend recent court hearings in which she is a defendant because she has been quarantined due to possible exposure to the coronavirus, a legal official said Monday. Suu Kyi is being tried in the capital, Naypyitaw, in several cases invo Shanghai starts China's biggest COVID-19 lockdown in 2 years 03/28/2022 12:04pm • BEIJING (AP) — China began its most extensive coronavirus lockdown in two years Monday to conduct mass testing and control a growing outbreak in Shanghai as questions are raised about the economic toll of the nation's “zero-COVID” strategy. Shanghai, China's financial capital and largest city South Korea's omicron surge has likely peaked, officials say 03/28/2022 03:26am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's daily average of new COVID-19 cases declined last week for the first time in more than two months, but the number of critically ill patients and deaths will likely continue to rise amid the omicron-driven outbreak, officials said Monday. South Korea repor Biden spokesperson tests positive for COVID-19 after trip 03/27/2022 10:30pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said she tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday after returning from Europe with President Joe Biden, in the latest infiltration of the coronavirus into the West Wing's protective bubble around Biden. Jean-Pierre, the principal deputy pr US-backed group gets lifesaving meds to Ukrainians amid war 03/27/2022 08:20am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of patients in Ukraine are receiving lifesaving medicines to treat HIV and opioid addiction through a U.S.-funded group still operating despite the Russian invasion. Supplies are running short and making deliveries is a complicated calculus with unpredictable risks. Off New video shows assault on 14th Street Bridge involving alleged trucker convoy participants 03/25/2022 08:41pm • Video footage shows a fight between a motorcyclist and alleged members of the trucker convoy demonstration that happened on the 14th Street Bridge last week. An Alexandria, Virginia, man named Logan confirmed to WTOP that he was the one in the video on March 16, wearing a helmet and pinned down o Fauci urges vaccination as new omicron variant could cause spike in cases as soon as next week 03/25/2022 04:53pm • Though coronavirus caseloads, deaths and hospitalizations are declining in the U.S., the nation's top infectious disease expert is urging Americans to get vaccinated and boosted as a new variant has cases rising across Europe. Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, sa COVID-19 rates plunge as decision nears on US asylum limits 03/25/2022 04:50pm • SOMERTON, Ariz. (AP) — One by one, a voice called out the names of 169 people just released by U.S. Border Patrol. Migrants rose from folding chairs in a clinic warehouse and walked to a table of blue-robed workers, who swabbed their mouths. All but two Cuban women tested negative for COVID-19 Chip shortage forces GM to pause production at Indiana plant 03/25/2022 01:54pm • DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is shutting down its pickup truck factory in Fort Wayne, Indiana, for two weeks next month because the company has run short of computer chips. The auto industry continues to face supply chain issues more than a year after a global chip shortage first emerged in late Experts worry about how US will see next COVID surge coming 03/25/2022 01:40pm • NEW YORK (AP) — As coronavirus infections rise in some parts of the world, experts are watching for a potential new COVID-19 surge in the U.S. — and wondering how long it will take to detect. Despite disease monitoring improvements over the last two years, they say, some recent developments don' Greece: Independence Day parade held with spectators allowed 03/25/2022 09:25am • ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Thousands of people lined the streets in central Athens as fighter jets flew overhead and tanks rolled down the street outside Parliament during Greece’s independence day parade Friday, the first to be open to spectators in two years as coronavirus restrictions ease. Due to 'Girl from the North Country' sets Broadway return dates 03/25/2022 09:02am • NEW YORK (AP) — “Girl from the North Country,” the Depression-era drama set to the songs of Bob Dylan, will reopen on Broadway this spring, a little more than three months after going on hiatus because of virus concerns. The cast announced in a social video Friday that the mus