BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Don Pijanowski was not surrounded by loved ones when he died. Instead, the 87-year-old father of four, the blue-collar guy from Buffalo, New York, died in a hospital with only a nurse who stood near him and passed on his sons’ final message. “We asked that the nurse who was going […]

EDINBURGH (JTA) — The Jewish owner of a bagel chain in Scotland said she was “shocked” after the landlord of one of her stores called her request for an alternative rent payment because of the coronavirus crisis “typical Jewish behavior.” Larah Bross, who owns Bross Bagels, told the Edinburgh News late last week that she […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A major California labor union that claimed to have discovered a stockpile of 39 million masks for health care workers fighting the coronavirus was duped in an elaborate scam uncovered by FBI investigators, according to a newspaper report Sunday. Investigators stumbled onto the scheme while looking into whether they could intercept […]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York is wrapping up its worst week in deaths so far of the coronavirus outbreak, but there were a few signs of hope. THE NUMBERS At the end of the day Friday, there were 18,654 people hospitalized with the virus in the state. That was up only 85 since the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — By the time President Donald Trump first spoke publicly about the coronavirus, it may already have been too late. Interviewed at Davos, a gathering of global elites in the Swiss Alps, the president on Jan. 22 played down the threat posed by the respiratory virus from China, which had just reached American […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States’ top infectious disease expert said Sunday that the economy in parts of the country could have a “rolling reentry” as early as next month, provided health authorities can quickly identify and isolate people who will inevitably be infected with the coronavirus. Dr. Anthony Fauci also said he “can’t guarantee” […]

NEW YORK (AP) — In 2010, AP National Writer Adam Geller filed an in-depth story about Hart Island, the island off New York City where the unclaimed, unidentified and indigent have long been buried. Last week, as New York City dealt with a mounting coronavirus death toll and dwindling morgue space, the city announced that […]

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was discharged from a London hospital where he was treated in intensive care for the coronavirus ahead of government figures Sunday in which the U.K. is expected to surpass 10,000 virus-related deaths. Johnson’s office said he left St. Thomas’ Hospital and will continue his recovery at Chequers, […]

CHICAGO (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic that has crippled big-box retailers and mom and pop shops worldwide may be making a dent in illicit business, too. In Chicago, one of America’s most violent cities, drug arrests have plummeted 42% in the weeks since the city shut down, compared with the same period last year. Part […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Stanley I. Chera, a prominent Jewish philanthropist and developer who succeeded in turning his father’s Brooklyn department store business into one of New York real estate’s biggest retail empires and later used his wealth to support the presidency bid of Donald Trump, has died from complications of the coronavirus at the […]