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States across the U.S. are allocating hundreds of millions of dollars to respond to the coronavirus, even as the U.S. government prepares to send billions more their way. Many states have built up sizable stockpiles in their “rainy day” funds ...

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From preschoolers to doctoral candidates, tens of millions of students stayed home Friday on three continents as schools, playgrounds, bars, restaurants and offices shut down to try and slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Channeling wartime rhetoric and tactics ...

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Airlines and travelers are still sorting out the new travel ban that President Donald Trump announced last week that bars most foreign visitors coming to the U.S. from continental Europe for 30 days. The ban will affect 7,300 flights — ...

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Some schools closed early for spring break or announced plans to extend their breaks after Missouri recorded its second case of the novel coronavirus. The new case is a person in their early 20s who had recently traveled to Austria, ...

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Florida has never been known as a place of stability, especially in its politics. And yet stability is what has been on the minds of many Democrats in the state who say they’ll vote for former Vice President Joe Biden ...

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Schools shut down across much of Europe. Gatherings were canceled or banned from California to Germany. And the coronavirus reached directly into the world’s centers of power last week, with politicians in Canada, Brazil, Spain and elsewhere either testing positive ...

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Missouri lawmakers took a pivotal step toward becoming the final state to adopt a statewide prescription opioid tracking database, despite years of resistance to the idea by some Republicans. State senators voted 21-10 to pass a House bill to create ...

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When Jose Ramon Zambrano and his pregnant wife crossed the Rio Grande to apply for asylum in the U.S., they were looking for a fresh start far away from a certain arrest in his native Venezuela, where his mother is ...

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Mounting concerns about the coronarvirus spread to state capitols across the country last week, as some lawmakers halted their sessions, shut out the public and scrambled to finish work on essential spending bills to keep government going. Even in states ...

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The World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic and urged aggressive action from all countries to fight it, as U.S. stocks plunged into bear market territory and several American cities joined global counterparts in banning large gatherings. By using ...

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President Donald Trump’s decision this week to impose a 30-day ban on most Europeans entering the United States is the latest stunning setback for an airline industry that is reeling from a drop in bookings and a surge in people ...

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