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Congress unleashed $2 trillion to deal with the coronavirus crisis. So far, only one person is working to oversee how it is spent.
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Read More »As $2 trillion starts to flow, oversight of virus cash lags
Baltimore NAACP uses sound truck to broadcast virus safety
The NAACP in Baltimore has started circulating a sound truck blasting requests to “stay-at-home” during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Read More »Medical intelligence sleuths tracked, warned of new virus
In late February when President Donald Trump was urging Americans not to panic over the novel coronavirus, alarms were sounding at a little-known intelligence unit situated on a U.S. Army base in Frederick.
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Read More »Group calls for investigation after health worker stunned
Officials with a Muslim civil rights advocacy group are urging Maryland police to investigate allegations a security guard used a stun gun on a health care worker who refused to remove a face covering inside a grocery store.
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Read More »Hogan orders limits on prescriptions of COVID-19 drugs
The prescribing of three medications touted by President Donald Trump as a possible cure for COVID-19 has been limited under an executive order issued by Gov. Larry Hogan. Hogan’s executive order, signed Tuesday but posted on his website a day ...
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Read More »Federal guidelines provide 3-phase path to reopening states
States could move toward reopening under a series of new guidelines issued by the federal government Thursday as the country attempts to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Read More »Powerful GOP allies propel Trump effort to reopen economy
Leading Republicans say the coronavirus shutdown cannot go on. Car-honking activists swarmed a statehouse Wednesday to protest stay-home restrictions. Capitol Hill staff are quietly drafting bills to undo the just-passed rescue aid and push Americans back to work.
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Read More »Wall Street mixed after jobless data; Amazon up, banks down
Stocks are mixed in afternoon trading on Wall Street Thursday as the relatively few winners in the coronavirus crunch pull away from the rest of the market.
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Read More »New pressure on lawmakers as virus aid for firms hits limit
With a key coronavirus rescue fund exhausted, lawmakers faced new pressure Thursday to break a stalemate over President Donald Trump’s $250 billion emergency request to replenish the program that helps small businesses keep workers on their payroll.
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Read More »Record 22 million have sought US jobless aid since virus
The wave of layoffs that has engulfed the U.S. economy since the coronavirus struck forced 5.2 million more people to seek unemployment benefits last week, the government reported Thursday.
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