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Democratic presidential candidate former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg poses for a photo as he visits a caucus site Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
The Latest: Nevada is center stage with SC in the wings
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on the 2020 presidential campaign (all times local): 9:15 a.m. The political focus Saturday is on the 200 locations across Nevada that are hosting presidential … more
Police officers wearing face masks stand guard during a rally in downtown Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020. South Korea on Saturday reported a six-fold jump in viral infections in four days to 346, most of them linked to a church and a hospital in and around the fourth-largest city where schools were closed and worshipers and others told to avoid mass gatherings. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
New virus has infected more than 77,000 people globally
A viral outbreak that began in China has infected more than 77,000 people globally. The World Health Organization has named the illness COVID-19, referring to its origin late last year and the … more
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Supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., cheer as members of the Culinary Workers Union watch during a Democratic presidential caucus at the Bellagio hotel-casino, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Democrats face an important test in Nevada caucuses
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Just past the roulette wheel and slot machines, the smoky bars and blinking lights, Nevada Democrats are preparing to weigh in on their party's presidential nomination … more
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FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2020, file photo, national security adviser Robert O'Brien, listens as President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the White House in Washington. President Donald Trump's national security adviser says he has not seen any intelligence indicating that Russia is doing anything to try to get the president re-elected. The comments by O'Brien were released Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020, in a transcript of an interview with ABC's “This Week with George Stephanopoulos" set to air on Sunday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Security adviser: I've seen no intel of Moscow helping Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's national security adviser said he's seen no intelligence indicating that Russia is doing anything to try to help get the president re-elected. Robert … more
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A bus rolled down an embankment off Interstate 15 in North San Diego County Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020, killing several people and injuring others. Emergency crews rescued several people trapped in the wreckage after the bus crashed around 10:20 a.m. on State Route 76, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) north of San Diego, the North County Fire Protection District said. (Don Boomer/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)
Charter bus rollover kills 3, injures 18 outside San Diego
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A charter bus rolled down an embankment off a Southern California highway Saturday, killing three people and injuring 18 others, authorities said. Emergency crews rescued … more
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A deserted road in the town of Codogno, near Lodi, Northern Italy, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020. A dozen northern Italian towns were on effective lockdown Saturday after the new virus linked to China claimed two fatalities in Italy and sickened an increasing number of people who had no direct links to the origin of the virus. The secondary contagions prompted local authorities in towns in Lombardy and Veneto to order schools, businesses and restaurants closed, and to cancel sporting events and Masses. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
Italy towns on effective lockdown after virus clusters form
ROME (AP) — A dozen towns in northern Italy were on effective lockdown Saturday after the new virus linked to China claimed a first fatality in Italy and sickened an increasing number of people who … more
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FILE - In this April 15, 2015, file photo the Fairview Developmental Center is seen in Costa Mesa, Calif. A judge has put on hold a U.S. plan to quarantine up to 50 people infected with a new virus from China in a Southern California city. Costa Mesa officials asked for a court to intervene Friday, Feb. 21, 2020, after learning that federal authorities planned to move patients to the facility in the city as early as Sunday. (Leonard Ortiz/The Orange County Register/SCNG via AP, File)
Judge halts plan to move virus patients to California city
COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — A court temporarily blocked the U.S. government from sending up to 50 people infected with a new virus from China to a Southern California city for quarantine after local … more
A reveler dressed in Spider-Man costume strikes a pose at the "Ceu na Terra" or Heaven on Earth street party in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020. From very early in the morning revelers take the streets of the bohemian neighborhood Santa Teresa for one of the many block parties during the Carnival celebrations in the city. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
In Brazil, fears that violent police strike could spread
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A violent police strike in northeastern Brazil that led to a senator being injured by gunfire has shed light on dissatisfaction among cops elsewhere in the country who have … more
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People wait to cast their votes in the presidential election in Lome, Togo, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020. The West African nation of Togo is voting Saturday in a presidential election that is likely to see the incumbent re-elected for a fourth term despite years of calls by the opposition for new leadership. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
Togo vote could see Gnassingbes extend decades-long rule
LOME, Togo (AP) — The West African nation of Togo is voting Saturday in a presidential election that is likely to see the incumbent re-elected for a fourth term despite years of calls by the … more
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Janet Uhlar sits for a photo at her dining room table with an arrangement of letters and pictures she received through her correspondence with imprisoned Boston organized crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger, Friday, Jan. 31, 2020, in Eastham, Mass. Uhlar was one of 12 jurors who found Bulger guilty in a massive racketeering case, including involvement in 11 murders. But now she says she regrets voting to convict Bulger on the murder charges, because she learned he was an unwitting participant in a secret CIA experiment in which he was dosed with LSD on a regular basis for 15 months. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
"Whitey" Bulger juror says she regrets murder conviction
EASTHAM, Mass. (AP) — The notorious crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger terrorized Boston from the 1970s into the 1990s with a campaign of murder, extortion, and drug trafficking, then spent 16 … more
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FILE - In this March 12, 2005 file photo, farmers rest in Aguilares, El Salvador, beside a monument dedicated to the Rev. Rutilio Grande, a Jesuit priest who inspired St. Oscar Romero and was himself a victim of El Salvador’s right-wing death squads. Pope Francis approved a decree Friday, Feb.22, 2020, proclaiming Grande a martyr for the Catholic faith, as well as two Salvadorans who were killed along with him. (AP Photo/Edgar Romero, File)
Pope OKs beatification for Rutilio Grande, Salvadoran martyr
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has moved the Rev. Rutilio Grande, a Jesuit priest who inspired St. Oscar Romero and was himself a victim of El Salvador’s right-wing death squads, a step closer … more
A man pass past one of illuminated sculptures during a concert at Belgrade's Kalemegdan Fortress, Serbia, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020. Several dozen people have attended a concert in Serbia in support of China in its struggle to contain a new virus that started in the Asian country but has spread globally. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
Serbia offers support to China in 'battle' with new virus
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Waving Chinese flags, several dozen people gathered Saturday in Serbia's capital to show support for China as it struggles to contain a new virus that started in the Asian … more
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The president of South Sudan, Salva Kiir Mayardit, left, swears in Dr. Riek Machar as the first Vice President of South Sudan, in Juba, South Sudan Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020. South Sudan opened a new chapter in its fragile emergence from civil war Saturday as rival leaders formed a coalition government. (AP Photo/Charles Atiki Lomodong )
South Sudan's rival leaders form coalition government
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan opened a new chapter in its fragile emergence from civil war Saturday as rival leaders formed a coalition government that many observers prayed would last this … more
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FILE - In these undated photos released by the Marin County Sheriff's Office are Carol Kiparsky and Ian Irwin. The academic couple who vanished during a getaway in the woods of Northern California were found Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020, by search-and-rescue workers who spent almost a week looking for them and gave up hopes of finding them alive. The Marin County Sheriff's office tweeted that two helicopter crews airlifted Kiparsky, 77, and Irwin, 72, to a hospital. Authorities did not immediately provide details on their conditions and where they were located. (Marin County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
Couple who vanished during California getaway found alive
INVERNESS, Calif. (AP) — An academic couple who vanished during a getaway in the woods of Northern California was found Saturday by search-and-rescue workers who spent almost a week looking for … more
FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2020, file photo sign in on tablet computers at an early voting location in the Chinatown Plaza, in Las Vegas. Nevada Democrats are hoping to avoid a repeat of the chaos that ensnared the Iowa caucuses, as voters gather across the Silver State on Saturday to make their presidential preferences known. Iowa's process cratered this month following a rushed effort by state Democrats to deploy a mobile app for caucus volunteers to report results. Democrats in Nevada were going to use the same app developer as Iowa did, but quickly sidelined those plans. They will still be relying to some extent on technology to assist in counting and reporting results, though, and like Iowa, they will have paper backups. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
Looking to Nevada, will Dems avoid mistakes of Iowa?
UNDATED (AP) — Nevada Democrats are hoping to avoid a repeat of the as voters gather across the Silver State on Saturday to make their presidential preferences known. Iowa's process cratered this … more
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North Macedonia police find 47 migrants in abandoned truck
SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Police in North Macedonia say officers on border patrol found 47 migrants in an abandoned truck in the country’s southeast, near the borders with Bulgaria and … more
Authorities: Charter bus crashes outside San Diego, killing 3 people and injuring 18 others
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Authorities: Charter bus crashes outside San Diego, killing 3 people and injuring 18 others. more
FILE - In this May 28, 2019 file photo, Suhail Shaheen, spokesman for the Taliban's political office in Doha, speaks to the media in Moscow, Russia. The countdown to the signing of a peace agreement between the Taliban and the United States to end the 18 years of war in Afghanistan will begin on Friday night, when the seven-day “reduction of violence" promised by the Taliban will go into effect, a senior U.S. State Department official said. The deal will be signed on Feb. 29. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
Afghan deal will be hard to assess, fraught with pitfalls
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hopes for ending America's longest war hinge on maintaining a weeklong fragile truce in Afghanistan that U.S. officials and experts agree will be difficult to assess and fraught … more
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FILE - In this Oct. 2, 2002, file photo, Joyce Brown, president of the Fashion Institute of Technology, stands in one of FIT's student workrooms, in New York. In a Feb. 21, 2020 statement, the college apologized for accessories donned by models at a Feb. 7, 2020, runway show that reminded some observers of blackface. The accessories included large prosthetic ears and oversize plastic red lips, but the college said Friday they were not "aimed at invoking or provoking racial implications." (AP Photo/Joe Kohen, File)
Fashion college probes runway show criticized as racist
NEW YORK (AP) — The Fashion Institute of Technology has commissioned an investigation into a controversial runway show that reminded some observers of blackface. The college apologized for the … more
No felony conviction in ex-athlete's sexual assault trial
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The second trial of a former University of Delaware baseball player accused of sexually assaulting six women has ended with a jury convicting him of misdemeanor unlawful … more
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