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Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Sweden is seeing an unsettling rise in coronavirus deaths, as comparatively lax restrictions across the country are coming under scrutiny.The Nordic country had reported 1,540 deaths tied to the coronavirus pandemic, an increase of 29 from Saturday. Last week, the Public Health Agency of…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.President Trump announced Sunday that the United States had passed a major coronavirus testing milestone, telling reporters that 4.18 million Americans have now been screened -- more than France, the U.K., South Korea, Japan, Singapore, India, Austria, Australia, Sweden and Canada…

U.S.|Texas Bus Hijacking Leaves 2 Officers Wounded and Gunman DeadApril 19, 2020Updated 7:14 p.m. ETA gunman hijacked a public bus in Texas on Sunday morning, prompting an hourlong police chase through several cities and a shootout that wounded two officers and killed the gunman, the authorities said.The gunman got on a Dallas Area Rapid Transit…

“In excess of 10 people have been killed,” RCMP Chief Superintendent Chris Leather said. “We believe it to be one person who is responsible for all the killings and that he alone moved across the northern part of the province and committed what appears to be several homicides.” Leather said they don’t have a final…

April 19, 2020 | 5:40pm | Updated April 19, 2020 | 5:41pm With his announcement Thursday that New York would continue its “pause” until May 15, it became clear that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has lost control of the crisis — which he hitherto had such command over. The problem, in a nutshell, is that the…