An investigation at a Seattle-area nursing home concluded that symptoms aren't enough to identify who is infected once the coronavirus enters a long-term care facility. People without symptoms could have...
March 27, 2020
Gov. Tom Wolf on Friday followed through on his threat to veto a bill to provide potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks for petrochemical plants that use...
March 27, 2020
A military hospital ship that arrived in Los Angeles on Friday will provide 1,000 beds for non-coronavirus patients to relieve over-burdened medical centers expected to be hit with a surge...
March 27, 2020
As the Covid-19 pandemic rages on, Germany has shut its borders – but asylum seekers are still being accepted, even if they may have moved through the worst-affected countries. Is...
March 27, 2020
Four passengers have died aboard the Zaandam as it awaits permission to transit the Panama Canal. Almost 150 people are sick with flu-like symptoms, according to a release from Seattle-based...
March 27, 2020
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday said the state was ordering the closure of certain businesses, such as some retail stores, gyms and entertainment venues as the state tries to...
March 27, 2020
Miami-Dade businesses allowed to remain open during the coronavirus emergency must make “reasonable efforts” to make sure customers and workers maintain social distance as recommended by the CDC. Mayor Carlos...
March 27, 2020
The Santa Fe Plaza is empty. So are the narrow streets of the adobe-laden historic district in the heart of Albuquerque. The ski lifts are idle, the galleries are shuttered,...
March 27, 2020
An NFL draft handled remotely because the coronavirus pandemic is the latest twist to an event that has become as popular as any pro football happening short of the Super...
March 27, 2020
Looking for some good news in these unprecedented times? There are already signs that the Covid-19 crisis will lead to a glorious flowering of great art. In the autumn of...
March 27, 2020
Asian democracies like South Korea, Japan and India are doing a better job than Europe and the US in combating the coronavirus pandemic. Deep social divisions and poor leadership in...
March 27, 2020
A survey of factory owners in Bangladesh found that major fashion retailers that are closing shops and laying off workers in Europe and the U.S. are also canceling their sometimes...
March 27, 2020
As the coronavirus claims lives, ruins livelihoods and wreaks economic havoc, tensions are rising between European Union countries over how best to respond as the pandemic overwhelms some member nations,...
March 27, 2020
On the coast of Maine, Eric Baldwin and his staff of two usually spend their days selling, repairing and washing sails for boats. They transform their surplus sailcloth into tote...
March 27, 2020
The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: ___ Top-ranked tennis player Novak Djokovic, his wife and their foundation are donating 1 million euros...
March 27, 2020
Mississippi businesses and residents who were hurt by Pearl River flooding in February are now eligible to receive disaster assistance. Gov. Tate Reeves, in a news release Thursday, said the...
March 27, 2020
The chief of South Carolina's public health agency is taking temporary medical leave to combat high blood pressure, an absence officials said would not affect response to the coronavirus pandemic....
March 27, 2020
Legislation sending just under $400,000 to a state board to use to kill problem wolves in Idaho has been signed into law by Gov. Brad Little. The Republican governor signed...
March 27, 2020
A shuttered reform school for boys in suburban Philadelphia may be used as a medical overflow facility as coronavirus cases increase and hospitals are pressed for space. The Glen Mills...
March 27, 2020
Idaho Gov. Brad Little has signed into law legislation making abortion a crime in Idaho if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the Roe v. Wade decision that legalizing the procedure...
March 27, 2020
Debt matters. In Washington's swamp, no one CARES about debt. Big government has become more addicted to debt than drug addicts to a pipe full of crack. In October 2019,...
March 27, 2020
Hundreds of Waffle Houses across the country, including the Key Largo location, have temporarily closed because of COVID-19 and for the first time has activated the Waffle House Index for...
March 27, 2020
Missouri has recorded its ninth coronavirus death as the outbreak continues to spread, hitting nursing homes particularly hard. St. Louis County officials said Thursday that the latest victim is a...
March 27, 2020
America's coronavirus infections have surged to the most in the world. Italy shut down its industry. Masses of unemployed Indian laborers got food handouts and South Africa began a three-week...
March 27, 2020
The spread of the coronavirus across Kansas is swelling the ranks of the unemployed, hitting the state's finances and leading officials to set some inmates free. The state reported Thursday...
March 27, 2020
One week in isolation. Two families. Only a few miles away, yet a world apart. For San Francisco lawyer Rebecca Biernat, a mother of three, "sheltering in place" started out...
March 27, 2020
A Longview, Washington, wireless network supplier lost $160,000 of equipment to someone suspected of posing as an international construction company, according to a police report. Last Mile Gear reported the...
March 27, 2020
In the battle to keep their New York City restaurant going despite sharp restrictions during the coronavirus outbreak, the owners of Il Posto Accanto are relying on something Beatrice Tosci...
March 27, 2020
Owners of a southwest Florida restaurant are trying to figure out who left a $10,000 tip for his employees just before the state's eateries were ordered to close their dining...
March 27, 2020
While many companies are shutting offices and telling staff to work from home, local co-working spaces are still open. Co-working facilities run by Venture X, WeWork, CIC, The Lab, Pipeline...
March 27, 2020
Barcelona will reduce the salaries of its players amid the coronavirus outbreak. The Spanish club said late Thursday that its executive board decided to temporarily suspend player contracts, which leads...
March 27, 2020
The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: ___ Spanish soccer club Barcelona says it will reduce the salaries of its players amid the...
March 27, 2020
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it...
March 27, 2020
When a federal correction officer geared up for duty recently at a Florida prison complex, he added an N95 mask amid coronavirus fears. He has a sister who had an...
March 27, 2020
While French Covid-19 lockdown rules declare fines of nearly €4,000 for citizens repeatedly flouting quarantine, a Secretary of State has reportedly admitted poor, gang-riddled suburbs will be left to their...
March 27, 2020
Transforming the Covid-19 pandemic into a mental health problem has created opportunities for a variety of therapeutic ‘experts' and psychopharmaceutical companies to exploit anxiety and uncertainty. The UK is a...
March 27, 2020
Kathrin Kana juggles a few jobs: She's a voice-over actor, a yoga instructor and a home organizer. But after the coronavirus outbreak and the shelter-in-place order implemented to contain it...
March 27, 2020
The prognosis for restaurants and other retailers forced to close by the novel coronavirus pandemic is so grim that many are expected to skip rent payments on April 1. Many...
March 27, 2020
General Motors CEO Mary Barra will take home one-third less in compensation for at least six months. GM's 69,000 other salaried workers will defer 20% of their cash compensation for...
March 27, 2020
When Kevin Kelly woke up on March 11, he glanced at his phone, saw a stock market in free-fall, and gently shook his head. "Overreaction," he thought. "I was a...
