By DAVID PORTER Associated Press An extraordinary number of coronavirus-related deaths overwhelmed a nursing home in northern New Jersey where police found 18 bodies in what the governor called a “mak…
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US relief checks begin arriving as economic damage piles up
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, PAUL WISEMAN and KELLI KENNEDY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Government relief checks began arriving in Americans’ bank accounts as the economic damage to the U.S. from th…
Mnuchin, Schumer rev up talks as small business aid runs dry
By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With a key coronavirus rescue fund nearly exhausted, negotiations are accelerating in Washington over President Donald Trump’s $250 billion emergenc…
WHO, allies lament Trump cut to US funding as virus rages
By JAMEY KEATEN and MARIA CHENG GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization on Wednesday lamented the U.S. decision to halt funding for the U.N. agency, promising a review of its decisions…
Feds under pressure to publicly track nursing home outbreaks
By CANDICE CHOI and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal health officials are coming under increasing pressure to start publicly tracking coronavirus infections and deaths in nursing h…
American schools may look radically different as they reopen
By JOCELYN GECKER and CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — School administrators across America are trying to re-imagine classrooms — and the prospect of reopening schools — in the e…
States map out reopening of economies, say crisis not over
By ERIC TUCKER, LORI HINNANT and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Governors around the U.S. began sketching out plans Tuesday to reopen their economies in a slow and methodical process…
Health care workers are 10%-20% of US coronavirus cases
By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Between 10% and 20% of U.S. coronavirus cases are health care workers, though they tended to be hospitalized at lower rates than other patients, offici…
Obama endorses Biden as the best leader for ‘darkest times’
By ALEXANDRA JAFFE, JULIE PACE and BILL BARROW Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Barack Obama endorsed Joe Bidenon Tuesday, giving the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee a b…
Trump directs halt to payments to WHO during virus pandemic
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he was cutting off U.S. payments to the World Health Organization during the coronavirus pandemic, acc…