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Stocks tumble amid coronavirus fears, new lockdowns in Europe

Stocks are sinking as coronavirus cases rise, with airlines and cruise lines hit by fears of a resurgence and new restrictions on how people travel, shop and live in U.S. cities and in Europe, where France and Germany announced sweeping closures Wednesday.

October 28, 2020

Lack of staffing, not beds, hurting hospitals in coronavirus care

The increasing number of COVID-19 patients is taxing hospitals, but the problem isn't so much about space as it is about staffing, with medical workers exhausted from the pandemic and fewer "traveling nurses" to go around.

October 27, 2020

Trump: GOP will retake House, get ‘best stimulus’

President Trump predicted Tuesday the GOP would gain leverage in coronavirus-stimulus talks by retaking the House and holding the Senate and White House on Election Day.

October 27, 2020

Coronavirus case-fatality rate down despite surge in cases

Deaths from COVID-19 are ticking up slightly in the U.S. alongside record highs for recorded cases, with California, Texas and Florida reporting the most fatalities overall in the past week while the Dakotas and Montana report the most deaths as a share of their populations.

October 26, 2020

Donald Trump: Media are ‘losers’ for talking about COVID-19 nonstop

President Trump is pleading with Americans to focus on things besides COVID-19 in the final week of the campaign but Wall Street and his White House are making it difficult, with stocks tumbling on pandemic fears and a case-cluster forcing Vice President Mike Pence to scrap plans to attend a Supreme Court confirmation vote.

October 26, 2020

COVID-19 cases strain rural hospitals, worry health officials

Hospitals are filling with COVID-19 patients again as the novel coronavirus surges across the country, pushing health care systems in rural areas to the brink and forcing them to consider ways to avoid overcrowding.

October 25, 2020

VP Pence to keep up travel amid COVID-19 outbreak in his circle

Vice President Mike Pence will continue his campaign travel as an "essential" worker after his chief of staff, Marc Short, and other aides tested positive for the coronavirus, his office said.

October 25, 2020

Trump on virus: ‘I had it, here I am’

President Trump told Wisconsin supporters on Saturday he brought back Big Ten football and that COVID-19 tallies are overblown, even as the state reels from one of the biggest coronavirus surges in the nation.

October 24, 2020

Trump sees ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ as virus spikes

President Trump on Friday said the U.S. is "rounding the corner" on the coronavirus even as the nation recorded the second-most amount of cases since the start of the pandemic and hospital stays increased by 40% compared to a month ago.

October 23, 2020

Biden: Red and blue states are going to go bankrupt without fed money

Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden late Thursday said localities across the country, regardless of political persuasion, will start laying off public servants and scaling back services unless Congress acts to provide federal support.

October 22, 2020

Trump defends Kim Jong Un talks: No North Korea war

President Trump said Thursday he doesn't view North Korea's unveiling of a new intercontinental ballistic missile as a betrayal of his unconventional negotiations with dictator Kim Jong-un.

October 22, 2020

Trump at debate says U.S. learning to live with coronavirus

President Trump said Thursday said the coronavirus "will soon be gone" but the nation can persevere through a potential next wave of the coronavirus, citing a forthcoming vaccine and declining case-fatality rate.

October 22, 2020

Moderna completes enrollment for COVID-19 vaccine trial

Moderna's coronavirus vaccine trial is fully enrolled, with people of color making up more than one-third of the 30,000 participants, the drugmaker announced Thursday, as government scientists said they must build trust with communities of color and other Americans who will be expected to roll up their sleeves in the coming months.

October 22, 2020