WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House and Senate leaders of both parties announced agreement early today on an unprecedented $2 trillion emergency bill to rush sweeping aid to businesses, workers and a health care system…

“Are you sick? … Have you been around anyone sick?” In order to gain access to Tuesday’s commission meeting, attendees were required to pass through a checkpoint and answer screening questions on the north side…

PHILADELPHIA — Researchers around the world started work on a coronavirus vaccine on Jan. 11, the moment their Chinese counterparts published the microbe’s genetic code. At Inovio Pharmaceuticals in Plymouth Meeting, Pa., scientists made a…

BEIJING (AP) — Trains carrying factory employees back to work after two months in locked-down cities rolled out of Hubei province, the center of China’s virus outbreak, as the government on Wednesday began lifting the…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A third coronavirus death has been reported in Kansas as more than half of the state’s residents are facing orders to stay at home except for essential services, such as buying…

In a ruling that could have implications for criminal cases nationwide, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled against a Kansas death row inmate who argued that the state’s laws regarding the insanity defense are…

No matter what you call it — soccer, football or futbol — it’s the world’s number-one sport. Need evidence? The 2019 Super Bowl took in $100 million viewers. In comparison, Europe’s biggest club competition, the…

WASHINGTON —It was another tough break for Joe Biden in his struggle for relevance while the nation wrestles with the pandemic: The former vice president was poised to appear before the vast audience of ABC’s…

60 Years Ago As heavy wet snow continues, county agent Tom Maxwell said tomorrow is considered to be the last possible day to plant oats. Maxwell knows of no one who has been able to…

As the COVID-19 crisis deepens, my fellow economists have reached deep into their bare cupboards of old ideas, and what have they found? Models that do not work: bailouts for big companies. Tax cuts for…