U.S. preparing guidelines to classify county COVID-19 risk: Trump
President Donald Trump said on Thursday his administration is preparing new coronavirus guidelines that would characterize U.S. counties as high-risk, medium-risk or low-risk.
Credit-strapped U.S. farmers to get coronavirus help with more flexible federal loans
Farmers financially hurt by coronavirus will have an easier time getting federal loans after the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Thursday it will relax its loan process.
ICE deportation planes begin to ship stranded U.S. citizens home
Planes used by the U.S. government to deport Central American nationals will bring back U.S. citizens in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador as coronavirus travel restrictions reduce commercial flights.
U.S. attorney general seeks to expand home confinement as coronavirus spreads in prisons
U.S. Attorney General William Barr said Thursday he has directed the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to expand its use of home confinement for inmates in appropriate cases, as the coronavirus has continued to spread in the federal prison system.
Virtual tours, coronavirus clauses: Pandemic upends homebuying across the U.S.
Prospective buyers arriving at Betsy and Eric Melby’s house for sale in Memphis, Tennessee, last week were greeted by a large pump bottle of hand sanitizer and a box of disposable gloves.
Crazy haircut? Shave? Americans in coronavirus lockdown try out makeovers
Jacob Kunthara’s wife and three adult children had never seen him without the mustache he sported for 45 years. During Coronavirus lockdown this week at home in Gilbert, Arizona, he shaved and covered up with a face mask, which he whipped off at dinner…
New York says hospitals overwhelmed under almost any coronavirus scenario
New York state’s hospitals will be overwhelmed under almost any realistic scenario in the coronavirus outbreak and authorities are adding capacity wherever possible to meet soaring demand, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Thursday.
Pandemic’s U.S. death toll tops 1,000, jobless data sets record
The U.S. coronavirus death toll surged past 1,000 on Thursday and the number of Americans seeking jobless benefits smashed records, somber evidence of the pandemic’s human and economic devastation.
How many Americans have coronavirus? New Reuters poll might offer a hint
The official count of coronavirus infections in the United States sits at about 70,000 cases, but a chronic shortage of tests means only a fraction of the people infected are being counted. So how can we know how many Americans actually might have the …
U.S. to return Canada-bound asylum seekers stopped at border to home nations
After years of asylum-seekers crossing the Canada-U.S. border illegally to file refugee claims, Canada is turning them around and sending them back to the United States, which says it plans to send them swiftly back to their countries of origin.
