April 26, 2020 | 10:48pm Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced over the weekend that testing for the coronavirus would dramatically expand across New York. Here’s how it will work and impact the Empire State’s eventual reopening, according to state health officials. Q. If you get tested, does the result automatically go into some kind of database?…
Companies with accounting problems or in trouble with the government received millions in federal loans.Most of the stores and small businesses in Woodstock, Ill., remain closed.Credit...Scott Olson/Getty ImagesA company in Georgia paid $6.5 million to resolve a Justice Department investigation — and, two weeks later, received a $10 million federally backed loan to help it…
In the two days since President Donald Trump made remarks about the possibility that somehow injecting disinfectants into the human body may help fight the novel coronavirus, the Illinois Poison Center has seen an increase in calls about using cleaning agents, the state’s public health director said Saturday. During her daily news conference with the…
CLOSEAutoplayShow ThumbnailsShow CaptionsLast SlideNext SlideArizona cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, now exceed 6,500, with 275 known deaths, according to new numbers released Sunday by the Arizona Department of Health Services.Arizona's total identified cases rose to 6,526, according to the most recent state figures. That's an increase of 246 confirmed cases, or 3.9%, since Saturday when the state reported 6,280identified cases and…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…