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|By CNN Staff
Digital eye strain was an issue before COVID-19, but now it’s a bigger one, with some kids spending more time on their devices.
Updated: 2 hours ago
|By Dakota News Now staff
State health officials have confirmed 50 additional COVID-19 cases in South Dakota, though both active cases and hospitalizations declined Tuesday.
Updated: 2 hours ago
|By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press
Putin emphasized that the vaccine underwent the necessary tests and has proven efficient, offering a lasting immunity from the coronavirus. However, scientists at home and abroad have been sounding the alarm that the rush to start using the vaccine before Phase 3 trials could backfire.
Updated: 3 hours ago
|By Associated Press
Anxious parents around the country are looking to schools that have already opened for signs of how it might go.
Updated: 5 hours ago
|By NICOLE WINFIELD, ELAINE KURTENBACH and MARK STEVENSON
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide topped 20 million, more than half of them from the United States, India and Brazil.
Updated: 7 hours ago
|By NICK PERRY
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Tuesday that authorities have found four cases of the coronavirus in one Auckland household from an unknown source, the first reported cases of local transmission in the country in 102 days.
Updated: 10 hours ago
|By Associated Press
With more than 60 million beneficiaries, Social Security is funded by a 12.4% payroll tax evenly divided between employees and employers. Deferral could mean that up to $100 billion in payments would be delayed.
Updated: 17 hours ago
|By MATTHEW BARAKAT
Governors and state labor department officials around the country are scrambling to figure out if it is feasible to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order to partially extend enhanced unemployment insurance for millions of Americans struggling to find work in the pandemic-scarred economy.
Updated: 18 hours ago
|By MICHELLE R. SMITH and LAUREN WEBER
Vilified, threatened with violence and in some cases burned out, dozens of state and local public health officials around the country have resigned or have been fired amid the coronavirus outbreak, a testament to how politically combustible masks, lockdowns and infection data have become.
Updated: 18 hours ago
|By Associated Press and LISA MASCARO
With Republicans again balking at big government bailouts, Democratic leaders are holding firm. They are using their leverage to force President Donald Trump into a politically risky standoff over help for millions of Americans.
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Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 1:13 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Antonio Banderas says he’s tested positive for COVID-19 and is celebrating his 60th birthday in quarantine.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 11:47 AM CDT
|By Ed Payne
The Sunday vote by school presidents was 12-2 to call off fall sports because of the pandemic.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 11:22 AM CDT
|By Dakota News Now staff
State health officials confirmed 59 new COVID-19 cases in South Dakota as active cases continued to creep upwards Monday.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 10:42 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
New Zealand on Sunday marked 100 days since it stamped out the spread of the coronavirus, a rare bright spot in a world that continues to be ravaged by the disease.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 7:35 AM CDT
|By WJLA Staff
After a car chase, authorities say they found the suspect with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was taken into custody but died from his injuries just days later.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 7:16 AM CDT
|By TERRY SPENCER
Concerns about school infrastructure are adding momentum to plans in some districts, even in colder climates, to take classes outdoors for the sake of student and teacher health.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2020 at 8:58 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
The primaries for voting centers that had not received ballots by early afternoon are expected to be rescheduled, while voting would continue elsewhere, the commission said.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2020 at 8:51 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
After negotiations with lawmakers on the next package of pandemic economic assistance hit a wall, Trump used what he said were the inherent powers of the presidency to forge ahead on tax and spending policy that Congress says it is granted by the Constitution.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2020 at 7:16 PM CDT
|By Gray News staff
The principal of North Paulding High School in a suburb west of Atlanta sent a letter Saturday to parents disclosing the positive tests.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2020 at 1:00 PM CDT
|By DAN SEWELL and ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS
The Ohio governor’s positive, then negative, tests for COVID-19 have provided fuel for skeptics of government pandemic mandates and critics of his often-aggressive policies.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2020 at 12:13 PM CDT
|By NICOLE WINFIELD and LISA MARIE PANE
The confirmed number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. reached 5 million Sunday, by far the highest in the world, according to the tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.
Updated: Aug. 8, 2020 at 5:38 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
The fourth COVID-19 test result for Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine came back negative Saturday after he received conflicting positive and negative results two days before, ahead of a scheduled meeting with President Trump.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2020 at 7:43 PM CDT
|By Beth Warden
Last May, it was reported just over 800 employees tested positive for COVID-19. Today's report read 929 employees. The number of those closely related to an employee differed by 35 individuals.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2020 at 7:38 PM CDT
|By ANDREW TAYLOR
A breakdown in the talks would put at risk more than $100 billion to help reopen schools, a fresh round of $1,200 direct payments to most people and hundreds of billions of dollars for state and local governments to help them avoid furloughing workers and cutting services as tax revenues shrivel.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2020 at 5:15 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
The rally could become one of the largest public gatherings since the pandemic began.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2020 at 3:16 PM CDT
|By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
The United States added 1.8 million jobs in July, a pullback from the gains of May and June and evidence that the resurgent coronavirus is weakening hiring and the economic rebound.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2020 at 2:43 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
The coronavirus has exposed racial fractures in the U.S. health care system, as Black, Hispanic and Native Americans have been hospitalized and killed by COVID-19 at far higher rates than other groups.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2020 at 1:27 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
The Cardinals’ game Friday against the Chicago Cubs was postponed after another St. Louis player tested positive for COVID-19.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2020 at 12:41 PM CDT
|By MATTHEW DALY
The U.S. Postal Service says it lost $2.2 billion in the three months that ended in June as the beleaguered agency — hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic — piles up financial losses that officials warn could top $20 billion over two years.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2020 at 10:44 AM CDT
|By CNN Staff
A Georgia high school student says she was suspended after she posted a photo of a crowded school hallway on social media.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2020 at 8:52 AM CDT
|By KFOX Staff
Five-year-old Wilburt Coleman has been going door-to door, giving care packages to families with essential workers and those most vulnerable to the virus.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2020 at 5:18 AM CDT
|By LEE ZURIK and MEGAN LUTHER
Employees say they were exposed to coworkers who tested positive for COVID-19 but were never informed by their employers. In most states, companies don't have to disclose cases.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 10:07 PM CDT
|By FARNOUSH AMIRI and DAN SEWELL
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine tested positive Thursday for the coronavirus just ahead a planned meeting with President Donald Trump.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 9:11 PM CDT
|By JONATHAN LEMIRE
President Donald Trump is engaging in a deeply personal attack on Joe Biden, even questioning without foundation the former vice president's faith in God.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 9:06 PM CDT
|By SARAH SKIDMORE SELL and PAUL WISEMAN
An unemployed makeup artist with two toddlers and a disabled husband needs help with food and rent. A hotel manager says his unemployment has deepened his anxiety and kept him awake at night. A dental hygienist, pregnant with her third child, is struggling to afford diapers and formula.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 8:50 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Both sides have set a goal of reaching a deal by week’s end.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 7:24 PM CDT
|By MATTHEW DALY
A Democratic senator said Thursday he is launching an investigation into changes at the U.S. Postal Service that are causing delays in mail deliveries across the country just as big volume increases are expected for mail-in election voting.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 2:15 PM CDT
|By PAUL WISEMAN
Nearly 1.2 million laid-off Americans applied for state unemployment benefits last week, evidence that the coronavirus keeps forcing companies to slash jobs just as a critical $600 weekly federal jobless payment has expired.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 12:29 PM CDT
|By Gray News staff
One child psychologist said he's seeing a significant increase in mental health issues among children.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 11:18 AM CDT
|By Dakota News Now staff
State health officials say four more South Dakotans have died due to COVID-19.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 11:12 AM CDT
|By Gray News Staff
David Nagy, 79, of Jefferson, Texas,died a needless death, his family pointed out in his obituary.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 10:02 AM CDT
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says people are getting sick and even dying from ingesting hand sanitizer.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 6:24 AM CDT
|By Associated Press and RALPH D. RUSSO
The NCAA Board of Governors handed off any decision on whether to hold championships for fall sports such as soccer and lower-level football to each division.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 6:03 AM CDT
|By CNN Staff
All tickets sold for the 2020 show will be automatically refunded.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 6:02 AM CDT
|By JAKE SEINER AP Sports Writer
The league made changes to its 2020 operations manual after outbreaks on the Miami Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals led to 21 postponements in the first two weeks of a shortened 60-game season.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 9:09 PM CDT
|By BARBARA ORTUTAY
Facebook has deleted a post by President Donald Trump for the first time, saying it violated its policy against spreading misinformation about the coronavirus.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 8:59 PM CDT
|By ANDREW TAYLOR
After more than a week’s worth of meetings, at least some clarity is emerging in the bipartisan Washington talks on a huge COVID-19 response bill.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 8:16 PM CDT
|By Associated Press and AMANDA SEITZ
The State Department says Russia is using social media, state-funded media and a loose network of proxy websites to amplify conspiracy theories and misinformation, most recently around the coronavirus.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 3:48 PM CDT
|By PAT EATON-ROBB
UConn canceled its 2020-2021 football season Wednesday, becoming the first FBS program to suspend football because of the coronavirus pandemic, as other schools had taken the Huskies off their schedules and the governor was reluctant to allow UConn to travel to states with high infection rates.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 1:40 PM CDT
|By PAUL J. WEBER
For nearly a month, this borderland of 2 million people in South Texas pleaded for a field hospital, but not until Tuesday was one ready and accepting patients.