Nearly 39 million have sought US jobless aid since virus hit
May 21, 2020
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 2.4 million people applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week in the latest wave of layoffs from the viral outbreak that triggered widespread business shutdowns two months…
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Thousands evacuated as river dams break in central Michigan
May 20, 2020
MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) — Rapidly rising water overtook dams and forced the evacuation of about 10,000 people in central Michigan, where flooding struck communities along rain-swollen waterways and the governor said one downtown could be…
5 things to know today - that aren’t about the virus
May 19, 2020
By The Associated Press Your daily look at nonvirus stories in the news: 1. VIDEO SURFACES OF POLICE CONFRONTATION WITH ARBERY A video from 2017 shows police in Georgia attempting to search Ahmaud Arbery’s parked car, and…
Moderna: Early coronavirus vaccine results are encouraging
May 18, 2020
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP - An experimental vaccine against the coronavirus showed encouraging results in very early testing, triggering hoped-for immune responses in eight healthy, middle-aged volunteers, its maker announced Monday. Study volunteers given either a…
What you need to know today about the virus outbreak
May 15, 2020
By The Associated Press Defying a wave of layoffs that has sent the U.S. job market into its worst catastrophe on record, at least one major industry is making a comeback. Tens of thousands of…
Trump ramps up expulsions of migrant youth, citing virus
May 13, 2020
By NOMAAN MERCHANT and SONIA PÉREZ D. HOUSTON (AP) — The young migrants and asylum seekers swim across the Rio Grande and clamber into the dense brush of Texas. Many are teens who left Central…
Fauci warns of ‘suffering and death’ if US reopens too soon
May 12, 2020
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and LAURAN NEERGAARD WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, is warning Congress that if the country reopens too soon during the coronavirus pandemic, it will result in…
Restart or re-stop? Countries reopen amid second-wave fears
May 11, 2020
By LORI HINNANT and NICK PERRY PARIS (AP) — Plastic spacing barriers and millions of masks appeared Monday on the streets of Europe’s newly reopened cities, as France and Belgium emerged from lockdowns, the Netherlands…
5 things to know today - that aren’t about the virus
May 08, 2020
By The Associated Press Your daily look at nonvirus stories in the news: 1. ‘THE FIRST STEP TO JUSTICE’ Georgia authorities arrest a white father and son and charge them with murder in the shooting death of…
AP Exclusive: US shelves detailed guide to reopening country
May 07, 2020
By JASON DEAREN and MIKE STOBBE GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Trump administration has shelved a document created by the nation’s top disease investigators with step-by-step advice to local authorities on how and when to…