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Trump clashes with Weijia Jiang, CBS reporter, over coronavirus fatalities

President Trump on Monday scolded a reporter who accused him a belittling the deaths of Americans from coronavirus, telling the reporter to "ask China" why people are dying.

May 11, 2020

House coronavirus panel targets big corporations gobbling up small-biz aid

The House's special panel policing coronavirus spending demanded Friday that five large corporations return rescue money that was intended for small businesses.

May 8, 2020

DNC Chair Tom Perez blames Trump for record job losses, coronavirus deaths

Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez on Friday blamed President Trump for the horrific job losses in April when the unemployment rate skyrocketed to a Great Depression-level of 14.7%.

May 8, 2020

Unemployment rate spikes to 14.7%, highest since Great Depression

The U.S. unemployment rate hit 14.7% in April, the Labor Department reported Friday, with a staggering 20.5 million job losses that month underscoring the economic disaster wreaked by the coronavirus pandemic.

May 8, 2020

Coronavirus death rate for union food workers low

The coronavirus outbreak has taken the lives of at least 72 workers among the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union's 1.3 million members in supermarkets, pharmacies, meatpacking plants and other essential businesses that have remained open during the crisis, according to the union.

May 7, 2020

Starbuck’s ex-CEO Howard Schultz predicts small biz coronavirus ‘apocalypse’

Howard Schultz, the former chairman and CEO of Starbucks, on Monday warned of a small business "apocalypse" unless the federal government spends more to save restaurants from the coronavirus crisis.

April 27, 2020

Josh Hawley demands reopening economy be the focus of next virus rescue bill

Sen. Josh Hawley on Friday demanded Congress limit any future coronavirus rescue package to measures that get Americans back to work.

April 24, 2020

Coronavirus more deadly in men than women in U.S., data show

The coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. is taking the lives of more men than women, even in some states where women account for more of the confirmed cases of COVID-19.

April 23, 2020

Coronavirus shutdowns squeeze state budgets, threaten reopenings

The coronavirus economic shutdown is putting the squeeze on state budgets across the country, threatening to keep public pools, community centers and other services shuttered long after the end of stay-at-home orders.

April 21, 2020

Trump cuts Mitt Romney from coronavirus conference call

President Trump on Sunday said he had no use for Sen. Mitt Romney but insisted he wasn't holding a grudge against him for being the only Republican to vote for his impeachment.

April 19, 2020

Donald Trump to use Defense Production Act to increase swab manufacturing

President Trump on Sunday said he was ready to use the Defense Production Act to force U.S. companies to produce more swabs for coronavirus tests.

April 19, 2020

Trump touts U.S. wins against coronavirus, lower per capita death rate than in Europe

President Trump on Saturday heralded gains made against the coronavirus pandemic and the relatively low mortality rate in the U.S. compared to other hard-hit countries.

April 18, 2020

Trump to investigate blacks coronavirus death rate

President Trump on Tuesday vowed to investigate the high rate of coronavirus deaths among black Americans.

April 7, 2020

Donald Trump heralds hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus

President Trump on Sunday said he might not be a doctor, but he is encouraged by malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment for COVID-19.

April 5, 2020

All Americans asked to wear cloth masks while in public

The U.S. surgeon general on Sunday trumpeted the administration's new recommendation that all Americans wear cloth masks in public, a reversal of its previous advice as the country braces for a dramatic surge in COVID-19 cases and potential fatalities this week.

April 5, 2020