FILE PHOTO: A Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) staff uses a Lysol to clean a station at the lobby of Grand Central Station following the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New York City, U.S., March 16, 2020. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon(Reuters) - UK-based Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc (RB.L) said on Tuesday that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency…

As COVID-19 infections spread rapidly through California’s prisons, authorities on Monday announced the replacement of the state correction system’s top medical officer, and Gov. Gavin Newsom criticized an earlier decision to transfer hundreds of inmates from a Chino facility that had been battling an outbreak.The leadership shakeup occurred as corrections officials reported three more deaths…

Coronavirus is spreading more pervasively across a growing number of communities statewide as surging case counts can no longer be largely attributed to concentrations in only a handful of ZIP codes across Oregon.State data released by the Oregon Health Authority last week showed 1,402 confirmed or presumed new infections for the week ending June 28,…

Savannah Behrmann, USA TODAY Published 10:28 p.m. ET July 6, 2020 | Updated 11:13 p.m. ET July 6, 2020CLOSE Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks to how personal responsibility and social distancing is the key to ending the spread of the coronavirus. USA TODAYWASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,…

WASHINGTON — The federal government backed loans totaling as much as $150 million for Planned Parenthood affiliates in recent weeks, according to federal Paycheck Protection Program data released Monday by the Small Business Administration.The loans infuriated anti-abortion-rights conservatives, who cheered last year when President Donald Trump moved successfully to block the organization from getting access…