What the country needs right now is a plan. Actually it needs lots of plans for how things are going to work if COVID-19 sticks around for months or more. What are we going to…

April, most experts say, is when we will see the coronavirus peak. Does that mean things will gradually return to normal afterwards? That is everyone’s hope. But recovering from the costs — both social and…

BALTIMORE (AP) — President Donald Trump has been telling voters that the U.S. economy will leap back to life “like a rocket,”  stronger than ever after its bout with the coronavirus. But there is a…

NEW ORLEANS — At first, COVID-19 did not seem to discriminate. The patients who walked into Dr. Uche Blackstock’s urgent-care clinics in Brooklyn, N.Y., with coughs and fevers were white, black and brown. But in the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — With a startling 6.6 million people seeking jobless benefits last week, the United States has reached a grim landmark: More than one in 10 workers have lost their jobs in just the…

TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares rose today, echoing the rally on Wall Street, amid a few glimmers of hope that the coronavirus pandemic could be slowing. Markets in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Australia,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The husband of Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler recently acquired as much as $415,000 in stock in DuPont de Nemours, a chemical company that manufactures protective equipment in exceedingly high demand because of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is poised to roll back ambitious Obama-era vehicle mileage standards and raise the ceiling on damaging fossil fuel emissions for years to come, gutting one of the United States’…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell in early trading today, as Wall Street closes in on its worst quarterly performance since the most harrowing days of the 2008 financial crisis. The S&P 500 dipped by…

TORONTO (AP) — Canada is increasing a payroll subsidy to small- and medium-sized businesses to now cover up to 75 percent of salaries as the country braced for a shutdown that a top health official…