The weekend's victims include a 16-year-old boy killed Saturday in Washington Park and a man fatally shot in a Lawndale attack that injured three others.

The CDC has warned that rats have become more aggressive. Reports of rats swarming deserted streets as they desperately scavenge for food.

BALTIMORE (AP) - U.S. retail sales tumbled by a record 16.4% from March to April as business shutdowns caused by the coronavirus kept shoppers away, threatened stores across the country and...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Nearly 3 million laid-off workers applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week as the viral outbreak led more companies to slash jobs even though most states have begun to...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. unemployment rate hit 14.7% in April, the highest rate since the Great Depression, as 20.5 million jobs vanished in the worst monthly loss on record. The figures are...

Stormtrooper trying to get customers' attention taken down by officers

Callers reported seeing a weapon being carried by an employee who had been trying to drum up business for a restaurant hit hard by the coronavirus.

Frontier Airlines is dropping plans to charge passengers extra to sit next to an empty middle seat after congressional Democrats accused the airline of trying to profit from fear over the new...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. economy shrank at a 4.8% annual rate last quarter as the coronavirus pandemic shut down much of the country and began triggering a recession that will end the longest...

Another 4.4 million Americans filed for new unemployment claims, the Labor Department said Thursday in its weekly report.

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Switzerland's famed Matterhorn mountain was illuminated with an American flag for a few hours as a symbol of solidarity during the coronavirus pandemic.

TORONTO (AP) - A 51-year-old man went on a shooting rampage across the northern part of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia Sunday, killing at least 10 people, including a policewoman. Officials...

"Today's demonstration happened after other avenues were exhausted, and after infection rates have been climbing daily in Florida's prisons, jails, and detention centers," advocates said.

WASHINGTON (AP) - New York's coronavirus death toll topped 10,000 even as the lack of fresh hot spots in the U.S. or elsewhere in the world yielded a ray of optimism and fueled discussions Monday...

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Friday said it's possible that Americans could eventually carry around certificates of immunity to the coronavirus once proper testing is widespread enough.

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Weeks before the coronavirus spread through much of the world, parts of Africa were already threatened by another kind of plague, the biggest locust outbreak some countries...

Prints show the tracks of three 'titanosaurs' that took a seaside stroll more than 165 million years ago.

Sen. Bernie Sanders said Wednesday he is ending his 2020 presidential campaign, leaving former Vice President Joe Biden as the party's only remaining candidate.

The British prime minister revealed that he tested positive for the virus on March 27.

WASHINGTON (AP) - 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...

For the second week in a row, a record number of Americans filed for unemployment benefits as the coronavirus pandemic causes mass layoffs.

NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus climbed past 3,500 Tuesday, eclipsing China's official count, as the deepening crisis in New York hit close to home for the governor when...

NEW YORK (AP) - New York state's death toll from the coronavirus outbreak surged Sunday above 1,000, less than a month after the first case was detected in the state. New York City reported...