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Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer continued on Sunday to defend her updated stay-at-home orders to battle the coronavirus pandemic despite facing large protests from residents eager to get out of their houses.Whitmer argued that she enforced stricter measures because Michigan has…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., defended Democrats' insistence on including additional provisions in legislation that Republicans only wanted to replenish funds for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), despite small businesses now having to wait for relief.Karen Mills, the former…

Vice President Mike Pence. | Alex Brandon/AP Photo Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday denied that President Donald Trump was trying to undermine pandemic mitigation efforts by stoking dissent against states' stay-at-home orders. On “Fox News Sunday“ and NBC's "Meet the Press", Pence was pressed about Trump's comments on Twitter Friday that it was time…

President Donald Trump speaks during a daily coronavirus press briefing. | Alex Wong/Getty Images President Donald Trump defended a sharp drop in commercial laboratory coronavirus testing as a positive development Thursday despite public health experts’ warnings that the U.S. needs millions of additional tests each week to safely reopen the country. “In recent days we've…