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WASHINGTON - Ahead of an expected surge in coronavirus cases, President Donald Trump on Tuesday moved to blunt the impact of the pandemic on a U.S. economy fundamentally altered by a push for the nati...

BERLIN - Mass disruptions shuddered across the globe Tuesday as governments struggled to slow the spread of the coronavirus while trying to keep their economies afloat. The chaos included border traff...

TORONTO - Canada's largest movie exhibitor Cineplex Inc. says it's closing all of its 165 theatres nationwide until at least April 2 in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. The chain also was to tempora...

WASHINGTON - In a massive federal effort Tuesday, President Donald Trump asked Congress to speed emergency checks to Americans, enlisted the military for MASH-like hospitals and implored ordinary peop...

U.S. airlines are asking the federal government for grants, loans and tax relief that could easily top $50 billion to help them recover from a sharp downturn in travel due to the new coronavirus. Airl...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A Chinese company has abandoned its plan to build a massive paper mill in southwestern Arkansas that had already been delayed by trade tensions. Sun Paper told Gov. Asa Hutchinson ...

NEW YORK - Amazon said Monday that it needs to hire 100,000 people across the U.S. to keep up with a crush of orders as the coronavirus spreads and keeps more people at home, shopping online. The onli...

The United States implemented dramatic new restrictions on Americans going out in public and 7 million people in the San Francisco area were put on a near-total lockdown to control the coronavirus eme...

NEW YORK - Authors James Patterson and Kwame Alexander are teaming up on a book for young people about Muhammad Ali. "Becoming Muhammad Ali" is being called a "biographical novel" by the rival imprint...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will address the nation Monday as governments and businesses take drastic measures to stem the spread of COVID-19. Canada is facing an unprecedented slowdown of ...