By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Kulule Amosa’s husband earns $17.70 an hour at a South Dakota pork plant doing a job so physically demanding it can only be performed in 30-…
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No plan in sight: Test troubles cloud Trump recovery effort
By MATTHEW PERRONE and MICHELLE R. SMITH Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is struggling to test enough people to track and control the spread of the novel coronavirus, a crucial fi…
White House moves to weaken EPA rule on toxic compounds
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump White House intervened to weaken one of the few public health protections pursued by its own administration, a rule to limit the use of…
Virus-fueled conspiracy theories take aim at hospitals
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press The video lasts just 13 seconds and shows nothing more than the view from a car quietly driving past a hospital entrance. But the person who posted it on Twitter …
Nurses push back on pressure to work without right equipment
By MARTHA MENDOZA and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press Nurse Mike Gulick was meticulous about not bringing the coronavirus home to his wife and their 2-year-old daughter. He’d stop at a hotel after w…
US job losses mount as Trump presses plan to reopen business
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and LORI HINNANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The ranks of America’s unemployed swelled toward Great Depression-era levels Thursday, and President Donald Trump react…
Facebook to warn users who ‘liked’ coronavirus hoaxes
By BARBARA ORTUTAY and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press Facebook will soon let you know if you shared or interacted with dangerous coronavirus misinformation on the site, the latest in a string of aggres…
EPA guts rule credited with cleaning up coal-plant toxic air
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday gutted an Obama-era rule that compelled the country’s coal plants to cut back emissions of merc…
Amid talk of restarting economy, virus keeps killing in NYC
By DAVID B. CARUSO, MICHAEL HILL and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Hopeful talk about getting people out of their homes and back to work in some parts of the country seems a far cr…
Pandemic provokes spike in demand for food pantries in US
By TERESA M. WALKER and ELANA SCHOR Associated Press FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) — Brooklyn Dotson needed food. Her first unemployment check had yet to arrive after she was let go by the warehouse where she …