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Stocks closed broadly lower on Wall Street Tuesday for the second straight day amid another steep skid in oil prices. The S&P 500 fell about 3%. Markets across Europe and Asia had similar drops. The selling came as oil prices crumbled again as demand for energy withers because of shutdowns related to the coronavirus pandemic.

BEST FIRST-ROUND DRAFT PICK: John Elway’s first draft pick was his best: Texas A&M LB Von Miller with the second overall selection in 2011, one spot behind Cam Newton. Five years later, the two squared off in Super Bowl 50, where Miller got the best of Carolina’s QB with a pair of sacks that led

CHICAGO — Hundreds, sometimes thousands, of posts fly in the new Facebook groups daily. The coronavirus numbers are fake, some of the social media videos claim. “Social distancing is the new way to control you, your family and your behavior,” another commenter warns. Others say the pandemic is an overblown hoax. The loose network of

Tim Finchem was in his second month as the newly appointed commissioner of the PGA Tour, not paying a great deal of attention to the U.S. Amateur being played down the street from his office at the TPC Sawgrass. It was only when he arrived for the World Series of Golf at Firestone that he

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Former coach Bill Parcells, defensive lineman Richard Seymour and linebacker Mike Vrabel were named Tuesday as the three finalists for induction into the New England Patriots team Hall of Fame. They were selected by a 27-person nomination committee. Fans now have until May 8 to vote online for one of them. Parcells

The White Buffalo, “On the Widow’s Walk” (Snakefarm/Spinefarm Records) The White Buffalo is Jake Smith’s stage and recording name, one of the most accurate monikers in the business, seemingly preordained. His rumbling voice carries emotion and authority, his songs are tales of loss, loneliness and desires, and his music digs deep into the earth. On

NEW ORLEANS — BEST FIRST-ROUND DRAFT PICK: LT Willie Roaf. Drafted eighth overall out of Louisiana Tech in 1993, he became just the second Saints player enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame after linebacker Rickey Jackson. Roaf played nine seasons with the Saints, followed by four more with Kansas City. He was an

CHICAGO — Mike Nutter is surrounded by questions everywhere he goes these days. So the longtime president of the Fort Wayne TinCaps is planning for each scenario he can imagine, one at a time. What does minor league baseball look like in the COVID-19 age? What happens if his Class A team plays only half

LONDON — Hilary Mantel’s Tudor blockbuster “The Mirror and the Light” and Bernardine Evaristo’s tapestry of black women’s stories, “Girl, Woman, Other,” are among six finalists for the international Women’s Prize for Fiction. The finalists announced Tuesday also include Natalie Haynes’ female-centered retelling of the Trojan War, “A Thousand Ships,” and Maggie O’Farrell’s Shakespeare-inspired “Hamnet.”

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — BEST FIRST-ROUND DRAFT PICK: Offensive lineman Bruce Matthews in 1983. This franchise, previously the Houston Oilers, has picked some Hall of Famers in the first round, including Matthews’ close friend and fellow offensive lineman Mike Munchak just the year before. But the No. 9 pick overall out of Southern Cal wound up

NEW YORK — New York Life Insurance Co. and Cigna Corp. said Tuesday they are setting up a $100 million fund to support the families of health care workers who have died treating COVID-19 patients. The philanthropic arms of the two insurers will contribute $25 million each to the Brave of Heart Fund, which will

BEST FIRST-ROUND DRAFT PICK: C/LB Chuck Bednarik. Concrete Charlie was the No. 1 overall pick in the 1949 NFL draft and is the league’s last full-time two-way player. He missed three games his rookie season and started every game over the next 13 years. Bednarik helped the Eagles win two NFL titles and was inducted

NEW YORK — BEST FIRST-ROUND DRAFT PICK: QB Joe Namath. Who else? Broadway Joe was the No. 1 overall pick in the AFL draft in 1965 and went on to deliver the franchise its only Super Bowl victory — and still its only appearance in the big game. (RB Freeman McNeil — No. 3, 1982

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s president on Tuesday announced an “extraordinary budget” of $500 billion rand ($26 billion) to address the huge socioeconomic effects of the coronavirus pandemic, saying that “our country and the world we live in will never be the same again.” President Cyril Ramaphosa in a national address said the amount is roughly

OWINGS MILLS, Md. — It’s been a busy offseason for reigning NFL MVP Lamar Jackson, who’s thrown footballs on the practice field without regard to social distancing, added a massive chest tattoo and exchanged tweets with President Donald Trump. Jackson set several NFL records and led the Baltimore Ravens to a 14-2 record last season

Small businesses have, like much of the U.S. economy, been walloped by the coronavirus. In response, Congress created the Paycheck Protection Program to infuse small businesses, which typically have less access to quick cash and credit, with hundreds of billions of dollars in emergency loans so they can keep workers employed. The U.S. Small Business

Starbucks is introducing plant-based food and drinks in China as part of a decade-long effort to reduce the environmental impact of its offerings. The Seattle-based coffee chain on Tuesday began selling lasagna, pasta and a wrap filled with Beyond Meat grounds, which are made from pea protein. It’s the first time Beyond Meat products are

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana officials refused Tuesday to identify nursing homes around the state where coronavirus outbreaks have occurred, even as they disclosed that at least 43 more deaths linked to those facilities have happened in the past week. The 162 deaths from 74 facilities that the state health commissioner said had occurred represent nearly 26%

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — We call them “Madad,” my siblings and I: So inseparable, not to say indistinct, have my parents become during 66 years of marriage. When they call it’s a twofer, dueling voices on separate extensions cheerfully greeting the new arrival on the line. But they don’t call often. Depression babies, I suspect they

LOS ANGELES — Maya Rudolph loves stories about unconventional families. It’s why her daughter brought Lois Lowry’s “The Willoughbys” to her attention well before she knew that there was a planned film adaptation. The novel, from 2010, is a gently macabre Lemony Snicket-meets-Roald Dahl cocktail of terrible parents and quirky children who’d prefer to be

PHILADELPHIA — Transporting bodies from a hospital to the medical examiner’s office in Philadelphia in the back of a pickup truck is “unacceptable,” a city Department of Public Health spokesman said after images of a contractor stepping on the bodies while unloading them from the truck bed were captured over the weekend. A photographer for

INDIANAPOLIS — A southern Indiana prosecutor launched a Republican nomination challenge on Tuesday against state Attorney General Curtis Hill, whose law license is threatened over allegations that he drunkenly groped a state legislator and three other women. Decatur County Prosecutor Nate Harter gained the endorsement of Adam Krupp, a former official in Gov. Eric Holcomb’s

The outbreak of the coronavirus has dealt a shock to the global economy with unprecedented speed. Following are developments Tuesday related to the global economy, the work place and the spread of the virus. ________________________ OPEN: There has been a lot of controversy over when it will be safe for businesses to reopen. In some

TORONTO — Canadian police said Tuesday they believe there are 22 victims after a gunman went on a rampage in rural communities across Nova Scotia over the weekend. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they have recovered remains from some of the locations of the fires. Earlier, authorities had said at least 18 people were

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Two police officers shot and critically wounded a man in a northwestern Indiana parking lot early Tuesday after he pointed a handgun at them during a foot chase, police said. No officers were injured in the shooting near downtown Lafayette, which came after a reported domestic disturbance, Lt. Matt Gard of the