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A Chinese state-backed newspaper has called for sanctions on U.S. lawmakers and entities that have filed lawsuits against Beijing. The lawsuits blame the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for the coronavirus pandemic that has killed hundreds of thousands and collapsed the global economy.A Global Times article published Thursday said Beijing is "extremely dissatisfied" with what is…

Spaced out: State issues Phase 2 guidelines for opening retail stores - KOMO News

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A Washington state choir practice that saw one symptomatic person infect nearly 87 percent of those who attended, was officially deemed a "superspreader event," according to a report published on Tuesday.Of the 61 Skagit Valley Chorale members who attended the 2 1/2…

The move by the nation’s largest four-year public university system comes as many other schools insist they will find a way to bring students back to campus despite the coronavirus.The California State University Northridge campus in March. The system’s chancellor said on Tuesday that the risk was too great to bring back 480,000 undergraduates to…

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that the hardest-hit state in the union will begin a staged reopening this Friday. Three regions of the state will begin reopening May 15th. Those are Finger Lakes, Southern Tier and Mohawk Valley. Cuomo said those areas had met seven metrics that will be used to determine when loosening…