‘Way Too Late’: Inside Amazon’s Biggest Outbreak
A warehouse in the foothills of the Poconos has had more known Covid-19 cases than any of Amazon’s others after missing early opportunities to protect workers.
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Coronavirus Live Updates: U.S.-China Tensions Threaten to Dominate W.H.O. Meeting
President Xi Jinping of China defended his country’s handling of the outbreak. Today is the deadline for public companies in the U.S. to decide whether to return P.P.P. loans. A vaccine trial shows promising early results.
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‘Straight-Up Fire’ in His Veins: Teen Battles New Coronavirus Syndrome
Jack McMorrow, 14, awoke in agony, with heart failure. His case may help doctors understand a frightening new affliction in children linked to the coronavirus.
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‘A Big Decision:’ Firms Weigh Returning Federal Aid
A sporting goods manufacturer and a software developer both got stimulus loans. After a backlash, they were among the hundreds of companies facing a new question: Should we give the money back?
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Autoworkers Are Returning as Carmakers Gradually Crank Up Factories
After being idle for nearly two months, G.M., Ford and Fiat Chrysler will restart assembly plants on Monday with masks, gloves and curtains.
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Inspector General’s Firing Puts Pompeo’s Use of Taxpayer Funds Under Scrutiny
Accusations of improperly using government resources have trailed the secretary of state, but President Trump’s move to fire the State Department inspector general has handed Democrats a new weapon.
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Seeking: Big Democratic Ideas That Make Everything Better
By the end of primary season, the Democratic Party had all but settled on a conventional center-left agenda. But the pandemic is forcing the Biden campaign and other leaders to redraw plans for 2021.
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Trump Ousted State Dept. Watchdog at Pompeo’s Urging; Democrats Open Inquiry
The lawmakers said Steve Linick, the State Department’s inspector general, had opened an investigation into Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s conduct.
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Obama Says U.S. Lacks Leadership on Virus in Commencement Speeches
The virus has “torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they’re doing,” the former president said. “A lot of them aren’t even pretending to be in charge.”
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Coronavirus Cases Slow in U.S., but the Big Picture Remains Tenuous
Reports of new cases have declined nationally, and deaths have slowed. But reopening plans leave unanswered questions.
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‘I Can’t Turn My Brain Off’: PTSD and Burnout Threaten Medical Workers
Before Covid-19, health care workers were already vulnerable to depression and suicide. Mental health experts now fear even more will be prone to trauma-related disorders.
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From ‘Respect’ to ‘Sick and Twisted’: How Coronavirus Hit U.S.-China Ties
A sharp escalation of tensions over the handling of the pandemic has raised the specter of a new Cold War.
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House Passes $3 Trillion Aid Bill Over Republican Opposition
The bill faces a veto threat from President Trump, near-unanimous opposition by Republicans and complaints from Democrats, but leaders called it their opening offer in talks on the next round of pandemic relief.
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Stuck at Home, Men in Japan Learn to Help. Will It Last?
The coronavirus pandemic is exposing like never before the severe disparities in how Japanese couples divide household work.
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Coronavirus Live Updates: Congress Debates New Relief as State Budgets Are Ravaged
A $3 trillion package would include billions for struggling states but has been criticized as a “blue-state bailout” by Republican leaders. The stay-at-home order for New York City was extended until June 13.
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DeVos Funnels Coronavirus Relief Funds to Favored Private and Religious Schools
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, using discretion written into the coronavirus stabilization law, is using millions of dollars to pursue long-sought policy goals that Congress has blocked.
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In 3 Key States That Elected Trump, Bitter Divisions on Reopening
With Democratic governors and Republican legislatures, ending stay-at-home orders mixes health guidance and partisan politics.
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C.D.C. Issues Reopening Checklists for Schools and Businesses
The tips encouraging handwashing, social distancing and other familiar practices were published after the White House rejected an earlier draft of recommendations.
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Hospitals Knew How to Make Money. Then Coronavirus Happened.
Surgeries are canceled. Business models are shifting. Some of the hardest-hit hospitals may close, leaving patients with fewer options for care.
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Coronavirus Live Updates: Virus Response Widens Political Divide in Swing States
A whistle-blower told a House subcommittee that “lives were lost” because the administration was too slow in preparing for the pandemic. Even talking can propel the droplets that spread the virus, a study suggests.
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Richard Burr Steps Back From Senate Panel as Phone Is Seized in Stock Sales Inquiry
The move is a major escalation in the investigation into the senator's sale of stocks that came as President Trump and other Republicans were playing down the threat of the coronavirus.
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Coronavirus in Pennsylvania: G.O.P. Defiance of Lockdown Has 2020 Implications
Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, said it was a “cowardly act” for Republican officials to flout his virus stay-at-home orders. But conservatives see rising anger that could lift turnout in November.
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De Blasio Relies on Aide Who Saw ‘No Proof’ Closures Curb Coronavirus
The head of New York City’s public hospitals pushed to keep the city open in early March. Now the mayor has put him in charge of contact tracing, deepening a rift with the Health Department.
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The Virus Killed an Officer. His Town Lined the Streets to Mourn Him.
Charles Roberts, who died at age 45, was the “poster image” of a police officer, said a colleague in the New Jersey town where he worked for 20 years.
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A Turkish soccer player has admitted to smothering his 5-year-old son to death while the child was in the hospital for coronavirus, telling cops he killed him because he “didn’t love him,” according to reports.
Cevher Toktas, who plays for Bursa Yildirimspor in the Turkish Regional Amateur League, told police he killed his son Kasim at a hospital in the province of Bursa because he never felt that he loved him “since he was born,” the Sun and Turkish outlet Demiroren News Agency (DNA) reported.
The 32-year-old brought his ailing son with a fever and cough April 23 to the hospital, where they were isolated together out of fear that they both had the virus, according to the Sun.
Later in the day, the father alerted doctors that his son was struggling to breath...
Coronavirus Live Updates: Virus Could Be Here to Stay, and Economic Pain Long-Lasting
Jobless claims over the past two months are expected to rise above 35 million. The Fed warned of long-term pain without urgent intervention, and the W.H.O. said the virus “may never go away.”
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Says Coronavirus Shutdown Is Overreach
The decision, by a 4-to-3 majority, was a high-profile challenge of the emergency authority of a statewide official during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Live Coronavirus News Updates and Full Analysis
President Trump pushes to reopen the nation’s schools, and criticizes Dr. Fauci’s warnings about moving too fast. The administration weighs extending some border restrictions indefinitely.
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Fed Chair Warns the Economy May Need More as Congress Hesitates
Jerome H. Powell pointed to potentially dire consequences if a lasting economic downturn is not averted with forceful policies.
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Coronavirus Lockdowns: Businesses Turn to Armed Defiance
Armed militia-style protesters have helped businesses across Texas defy coronavirus lockdowns and reopen. Protesters say they are enforcing the Constitution.
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