Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY Published 1:47 p.m. ET July 13, 2020 | Updated 3:51 p.m. ET July 13, 2020CLOSE At least 80 students living in a dozen fraternity houses near the University of Washington campus in Seattle have reported testing positive for COVID-19, with hundreds of results pending, the university says. (July 3) AP DomesticWASHINGTON…

New York (CNN)Federal prosecutors urged a judge to reject a home confinement request by Ghislaine Maxwell, the confidant of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, saying she is skilled at hiding and…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered all dine-in restaurants, bars, movie theaters, museums and other indoor businesses across the state to close Monday as Covid-19 cases continue to climb.The order comes after Newsom previously ordered these businesses to close in counties on the state's "monitoring list." The new order, which will now apply across the state, will be issued effective…

The U.S. budget deficit widened to a record-high $864 billion last month because of the federal government’s extraordinary response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Treasury Department said on Monday.In June 2019, the budget deficit was just $8 billion.Federal spending rose to more than $1.1 trillion in June, more than twice what the U.S. government spends…

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