Friday's Headlines: Trump seeks to reopen much of U.S. next month
Barr says he supports Trump's ouster of intelligence watchdog; Cash-starved hospitals and doctor groups cut staff amid coronavirus crisis; This hospital was built for a pandemic; The coronavirus was spreading. The parties went on. Now comes the pain.; He's delivering your groceries to you. He's also risking his life.; Grandmother famous for accidentally inviting teen to Thanksgiving loses husband to covid-19; Why the coronavirus models aren't totally accurate; How the coronavirus is changing how we think about warfare; How Trump is sabotaging the coronavirus rescue plan; The dangerous conservative campaign against expertise; Trump is wrong about the dangers of absentee ballots; The Fed's pragmatic plan to help banks make loans to Main Street; U.S. unemployment rate is now 13 percent, the worst since the Great Depression; Biden moves closer to Sanders on health care and student debt; U.S. has expelled 10,000 migrants at border during coronavirus outbreak; After the pandemic, how will the economy bounce back?
Experts fear a possible covid-19 resurgence if Americans return to their normal lives before the virus is truly stamped out. But President Trump wants a strategy for resuming business activity by May 1, if not sooner.
By Matt Zapotosky, Josh Dawsey, Jose Del Real and William Wan ●Read more »
Attorney General William P. Barr said in an interview with Fox that Trump "did the right thing" in removing Michael Atkinson as the intelligence community inspector general.
Hospitals across the country have deferred or canceled non-urgent surgeries. But that triage maneuver cut off a main source of income, causing huge losses that have forced some hospitals to let go of health-care workers as they struggle to treat infected patients.
By Shane Harris, Justin Sondel and Gregory S. Schneider ●Read more »
Chicago's Rush University Medical Center, built in the shadow of 9/11 and the anthrax attacks, was designed to handle waves of patients, expand its bed capacity and control airflow to prevent cross-contamination. Now the facility faces its first major test.
Large get-togethers that continued after a pandemic was declared have left the country dealing with the fallout: covid-19 clusters that were seeded before officials shut down gatherings that medical experts had warned would be perfect vehicles for the disease's spread.
The chosen family that joined Wanda Dench each Thanksgiving came together this week to comfort her as her husband Lonnie died after contracting coronavirus, said Jamal Hinton, the young man whom Wanda once accidentally invited to dinner.
More than 17 million Americans have filed for unemployment benefits in the past four weeks, a rapid and unprecedented deterioration in the U.S. economy.
Emergency public health measures have led to a 56 percent drop in unlawful border crossings from Mexico, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection now has fewer than 100 people in custody.
After the coronavirus pandemic passes, a new economic reality. What happens when you can't wash your hands in the midst of a public health crisis? And a look into Wuhan as the lockdown lifts.
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