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A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts: CLAIM: A photo from this week shows House Speaker Nancy Pelosi huddled with other

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An Arkansas woman pleaded guilty to helping her boyfriend, the leader of a white supremacist gang that has been accused of a string of brutal tactics, and another inmate escape from a local jail. Kennan Gililland, 27, pleaded guilty to two counts of aiding and abetting escape, admitting she helped Wesley

Stock indexes closed mostly higher on Wall Street after a wobbly day of trading Friday as the S&P 500 notched its third straight weekly gain. Health care, technology and utilities stocks accounted for much of the gains, outweighing losses in financial, energy and other sectors. Stocks overseas, oil and gold made relatively modest moves. Treasury

A prominent rabbi who met with Nick Cannon says the television host and producer is “genuinely concerned about the hurt” he caused by making anti-Semitic remarks, and they intend to work together to reject hate. Cannon apologized to the Jewish community this week for his “hurtful and divisive” words, a day after ViacomCBS cut ties

NEW YORK — Stocks that moved heavily or traded substantially on Friday: J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc., up $4.27 to $136.82. The trucking and logistics company handily beat Wall Street’s second-quarter profit forecasts. Citizens Financial Group Inc., down 30 cents to $25.15. The bank handily beat Wall Street’s second-quarter profit forecasts. First Horizon National Corp.,

MORINE, Kosovo — A cheering crowd welcomed Kosovo’s president on Friday upon his return from The Netherlands, where he was questioned by prosecutors at a special international court on alleged crimes during the 1998-1999 war that led to his country’s independence from Serbia. Hashim Thaci’s supporters gathered at the Morine border crossing to neighboring Albania

ATLANTA — One of the white men charged with murder in the slaying of Ahmaud Arbery while he was running in a neighborhood near Georgia’s coast struck the Black man with his vehicle and had messages on his phone that were “replete” with racist remarks, a prosecutor said in court Friday. Cobb County prosecutor Jesse

Rihanna, Jay-Z, Charlize Theron and other celebrities are calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the death of 20-year-old Danroy “DJ” Henry Jr., a Black football player at Pace University killed by a white police officer in New York nearly a decade ago. In a letter sent this week to Attorney General William

SAO PAULO — The first deaths from COVID-19 have come to a vast, remote region of the Amazon that Brazil’s government says is home to greatest concentration of isolated Indigenous groups in the world. Experts fear the new coronavirus could spread rapidly among peoples with lesser resistance even to already common diseases and limited access

LONDON — One London police officer was suspended and another given restricted duties Friday after a video of an arrest appeared to show an officer kneeling on a Black man’s neck. Footage of the arrest in north London on Thursday shows two officers holding down the handcuffed man. At the beginning of the 2 minute

COCHABAMBA, Bolivia — Long lines form every morning in one of the Bolivian cities hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic as desperate people wait to buy small bottles of chlorine dioxide, a toxic bleaching agent that has been falsely touted as a cure for COVID-19 and myriad other diseases. The rush in the city of

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — The United States Treasury sanctioned a son of Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo Friday, as well as his communications company,for alleged ties to drug trafficking. The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control added Juan Carlos Ortega to its list of “Specially Designated Nationals.” The designation means his assets

EDMONTON, Alberta — The Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League reportedly will change their name. The team would not confirm the two reports. TSN and Postmedia say the team will make a switch following this week’s decision to do the same by Washington’s NFL team. A spokeswoman for the Edmonton club said the team

Fresh studies give more information about what treatments do or don’t work for COVID-19, with high-quality methods that give reliable results. British researchers on Friday published their research on the only drug shown to improve survival — a cheap steroid called dexamethasone. Two other studies found that the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine does not help people

NEW YORK — Christopher Dickey, a veteran foreign correspondent and author who was a Paris-based editor for The Daily Beast, has died. The Daily Beast reports that he died Thursday at 68. The son of novelist James Dickey, he also worked for The Washington Post and Newsweek in a globe-trotting reporting career that took him

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California added a record 558,000 jobs in June as many more businesses reopened but the gains announced Friday by the state are expected to be short-lived because of new closures put into effect in July as the coronavirus surged. The unemployment rate fell to 14.9%, a staggeringly high figure that remains above

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s government is being deterred by the coronarvirus from holding the usual mass celebration to mark the victory of the country’s revolution July 19. Instead, it will unveil a new addition to its collection of monuments in the old city center of Managua on Friday. The 3½-ton Peace Bell

WASHINGTON — Former Federal Reserve Chairs Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen urged Congress on Friday to do more to help the economy deal with the devastating coronavirus pandemic, such as extending increased unemployment benefits and providing assistance to hard-hit states and local governments, something many Republicans oppose. The two former Fed leaders, making their first

NEW YORK — Five more baseball players tested positive for COVID-19 in the past week, raising the total to 80 since testing started in late June. Major League Baseball and the players’ association said six of 10,548 samples were new positives in the week ending Thursday, a rate of 0.05%. In addition to players, one

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Denver guard Will Barton said Friday that he decided against wearing a social justice message on the back of his jersey at the NBA restart because he does not believe it those actions will make enough of a real impact. Many NBA players took advantage of the chance to wear

A $17.3 billion buyout creating the world’s biggest casino company won final approval Friday, with New Jersey gambling regulators agreeing to let Nevada-based Eldorado Resorts Inc. acquire Caesars Entertainment Corp. It comes after an antitrust analyst had assured the New Jersey Casino Control Commission that the deal affecting four of the nine casino-resorts in Atlantic

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Michigan sought a pledge Friday from Enbridge Inc. to cover costs that would arise if oil were to leak from its dual pipelines that extend across a channel linking two of the Great Lakes. Department of Natural Resources Director Dan Eichinger asked the Canadian pipeline company to carry $900 million of

INDIANAPOLIS — Former Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma announced Friday he will formally resign from the Legislature at the end of July. Bosma stepped down as the House leader in March after saying months earlier that he wouldn’t seek reelection in 2020 after 34 years as a lawmaker. The Republican is the longest-serving House speaker

ROME — Italy’s anti-Mafia investigators issued a warning Friday that mobsters will try to get some of hundreds of billions of euros in European Union recovery aid after the pandemic. As EU country leaders were huddling in Brussels about the amount and conditions for aid, the paramilitary general heading Italy’s anti-Mafia investigative agency DIA said

INDIANAPOLIS — At least two more Indiana counties on Friday joined the growing list of local governments in the state mandating the wearing of face masks while in public as the state has seen recent growth in the number of coronavirus hospitalizations. The new requirements were adopted by officials in Monroe County, home to Bloomington