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The government's emergency stockpile of masks, gloves and other medical supplies is running low, leaving the Trump administration and states to compete for gear in a global marketplace rife with price-gouging, say Homeland Security officials.
Florida is now a hotspot, with cases nearly doubling in four days. Gov. Ron DeSantis had previously said he would take action if the White House told him to.
While stressing they are willing to help New York City, local leaders in Buffalo — where the number of coronavirus cases has doubled every three days — are realizing they may need help themselves sooner than they could have imagined.
The Dow slid nearly 1,000 points and Wall Street descended deeper into its month-long funk as the nation entered one of its most dire periods in memory.
Americans on Social Security now have to file a "simple" tax return to receive a stimulus check. Most high school seniors and college students won't get any money.
How Europe is weathering the crisis, from the United Kingdom to Hungary. The federal government's internal debate over whether to tell all Americans to cover their faces in public. And the linen company that's making medical masks.
Covid-19 is poised to engulf nations plagued by fraying health-care systems, fragile governments and impoverished populations for whom social distancing is impossible.
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In a tweet, the president provided no specifics. U.S. officials have been wrestling with how to respond to stepped-up hostilities directed at American military personnel.
The state is the only one of the 11 originally scheduled to hold contests in April that has not postponed or dramatically altered voting amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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