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Nearly $350 billion has been loaned to small businesses in two weeks under the new Paycheck Protection Program. We know that most of these loans will be forgiven. What we don't know is how the forgiveness works.

Graphics by Michele Doying / The Verge The United States Internal Revenue Service launched a website for tracking coronavirus stimulus checks today, but some users are getting told their payment status is "not available,...

Robb Paller's journey began in early December 2018. It included two trips to Israel, a long process to get his citizenship and three rounds of Olympic qualifying over the summer of 2019. The Brooklyn native and former st...

As the virus hits Latin America, countries are trying different approaches to keep people off the street. In Bogotá, men and women are only allowed out on alternate days.

Trump threatened to invoke his authority to adjourn Congress to confirm nominations he said are needed to deal with the coronavirus crisis.       

Michigan’s governor said she believes the people who flooded the streets to rally against the state’s coronavirus lockdown could end up prolonging the stay-at-home orders they were protesting. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer s...

NCAA coaches are no longer just competing against their peers to recruit the nation's top high school basketball talents.

Expand Activist Anand Teltumbde (center), before he surrendered to the National Investigative Agency in Mumbai, on April 14, 2020. © 2020 Parth MN (New York) - Indian authorities on April 14, 2020 detained two rights ac...

Thae Yong Ho made history becoming the first North Korean defector elected lawmaker in South Korea.

A U.S. P-8A reconnaissance plane was soaring above the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday when a Russian SU-35 fighter jet appeared on its tail. For 42 minutes, U.S. Navy officials say, the Russian pilot flew in an “unsafe...

Jay Glazer teased, hyped Brian Allen's coronavirus diagnosis for publicity

Researchers found that patients at China's Guangzhou Eighth People's Hospital tested for high levels of the virus at the onset of symptoms, indicating that they had been contagious for days.

17 bodies found inside New Jersey nursing home amid COVID pandemic

Casino executives in Las Vegas are mulling how to reopen the gambling mecca to the public - with dealers donning masks at blackjack tables among new safety measures being considered, according to a report.

On April 8, just before noon, Ivanka Trump tweeted an inspirational message to fellow Jews preparing to celebrate a first night of Passover like no other -- amid the social distancing and stay-at-home guidelines put in p...

About 2 million chickens will be slaughtered at Delaware and Maryland farms without ever making it to market — because of staff shortages at the food production company during the coronavirus crisis, according to new r...

A staggering number of people are now out of work in the United States as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

Trust is the foundation of any successful relationship -- including the relationship between the government and the governed. And during a pandemic like this one, it's no abstract matter. When people trust their governme...

"This power has never been used."

At least two dozen ethnic Rohingya died aboard a ship that was rescued on Wednesday with nearly 400 starving people aboard after failing to reach Malaysia and drifting for weeks, Bangladesh coast guard officials said on ...

Over 450 federal inmates and 280 Bureau of Prisons staff members have tested positive for the virus

The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in the United States approached 31,000 on Wednesday as governors began cautiously preparing Americans for a post-virus life that would likely include public face coverings as ...