Wednesday's Headlines: Trump to suspend U.S. immigration for 60 days, citing pandemic, jobs shortage
U.S. is deporting infected migrants back to vulnerable countries; Senate passes $484 billion bill that would expand aid for businesses, hospitals ; CDC director warns second wave of coronavirus is likely to be even more devastating; In two states, a vast testing gap shows what it means to have no national strategy; The Bronx, long a symbol of American poverty, is now New York City's coronavirus capital; I'm an Asian American doctor on the front lines of two wars: Coronavirus and racism; The pandemic didn't come out of nowhere. The U.S. ignored the warnings.; Georgia leads the race to become America's No. 1 Death Destination; Harvard, do what Shake Shack did: Give back the money; How to avoid a pandemic Patriot Act; I saw the best of America at a peaceful reopen rally; Oil prices went negative. Here's what that means long-term.; Joe Biden to name VP selection panel by May 1; 50 years later, Earth Day's unsolved problem: How to build a more sustainable world; Senate committee endorses finding that Russia interfered in 2016 election in bid to help Trump; 'Empire' didn't get the sendoff it deserved. But the drama's finale stayed true to its heart.
The president provided a rationale for the unprecedented decision that was primarily economic, arguing that he wants Americans to have access to work as millions of people have lost their jobs amid the coronavirus crisis.
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Immigration authorities have deported dozens of infected migrants, leaving governments and nonprofits across Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean struggling to respond.
The vote comes just a few weeks after Congress passed a broader $2 trillion law that aimed to address economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. The House plans to vote on the measure Thursday.
The nation's top public health official warned that a second wave of the novel coronavirus would probably coincide with the start of flu season and could overwhelm the health system.
Kentucky and Rhode Island have done nearly the same number of coronavirus tests — but with vastly different sized populations. And that makes all the difference.
As the city rallies around a mantra of "New York Tough," the marginalized people in this borough, which leads the city in covid-19 cases per capita, know that New Yorkers are not truly all in this together.
The first event was an unprecedented demonstration on behalf of nature, a declaration that people could not thrive unless the planet did, too. Now today what does it mean to be a good Earthling?
The Senate Intelligence Committee's unanimous endorsement of the report is the first extensive bipartisan affirmation of the U.S. intelligence agencies' conclusion that Russia conducted a sweeping campaign to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
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