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LANSING, Mich. - Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Friday that Michigan's stay-at-home order remains in effect despite Republicans' refusal to extend her underlying coronavirus emergency declaration, as she ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina's governor will end the state's stay at home order over the coronavirus next week and allow restaurants to serve people at outdoor tables as long as strict distancing r...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A rural California county allowed nonessential businesses to reopen and diners to eat in restaurants on Friday, becoming the first to defy Gov. Gavin Newsom's statewide shutdown o...

WASHINGTON - U.S. regulators on Friday allowed emergency use of an experimental drug that appears to help some coronavirus patients recover faster. It is the first drug shown to help fight COVID-19, w...

RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said he'll present new guidelines next week for the state's eventual reopening, adding progress has been made in boosting testing and obtaining medical supp...

  LANSING, Mich. - President Donald Trump tweeted Friday that Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer should "give a little" and "put out the fire" a day after hundreds of conservative demonstrators, some...

NEW YORK - Tensions between police and members of New York City's Hasidic Jewish community flared again Thursday as officers interrupted a crowded funeral procession to crack down on social distancing...

WASHiNGTON - President Donald Trump's new spokeswoman, Kayleigh McEnany, is to face reporters for the first time in the White House Briefing Room on Friday, something her predecessor never did during ...

BALTIMORE - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has formally approved the use of 500,000 coronavirus tests purchased by the state of Maryland from a South Korean company.The FDA's chief scientist ga...

WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday categorically denied allegations from a former Senate staffer that he sexually assaulted her in the early 1990s, saying "this never h...