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Arizona, Texas and Florida are reporting their highest case numbers yet. As of Saturday, coronavirus cases were climbing in 22 states amid reopenings.A medical assistant provided paperwork to people at a walk-up coronavirus test site in Dallas on Thursday.Credit...Tony Gutierrez/Associated PressJune 14, 2020Updated 10:31 a.m. ETCHICAGO — The warning has echoed ominously for weeks from…

The Pennsylvania Department of Health on Saturday announced 463 new cases of the coronavirus in the state, bringing the statewide total to 78,462 in about three months.The department also listed 49 more deaths, bringing the total number of COVID-19-related fatalities to 6,211.Most of the deaths were people in nursing and personal care homes.About 74% percent…

Never miss a morning briefing. Subscribe today to get our A.M. newsletter delivered to your inbox. As is the case in many other parts of the country, activists and protesters in L.A. are keeping the pressure on local leaders to call out and punish police brutality, even as new claims of excessive force crop up.…

Minnesota health officials announced 453 new COVID-19 confirmed cases and 13 deaths on Thursday. The pandemic has sickened 29,316 state residents and caused 1,249 fatalities due to complications from the new coronavirus. Most of the deaths have been among residents of long-term care facilities. Ten of the deaths announced Thursday were nursing home or assisted-living…

Two hairstylists in Missouri were positive for the novel coronavirus while seeing clients last month, potentially exposing them to the disease. But the 14-day incubation period has now passed and none of the 140 clients seen between the two of them has showed symptoms of COVID-19, officials said this week.The hairstylist at Great Clips in Springfield, Mo., tested positive…