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WASHINGTON - Melania Trump is sending blankets, caps and other gifts to hospitals in 10 states, including some hit hardest by the new coronavirus outbreak, for use by medical staff and children who ar...

SAVANNAH, Ga. - Some businesses reopened cautiously in Georgia on Friday as the Republican governor eased a month-long shutdown amid experts' warnings of a potential new surge in coronavirus infection...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump will hold a signing ceremony Friday for a bill providing a nearly $500 billion infusion of coronavirus spending, rushing new relief to employers and hospitals buckl...

WASHINGTON (AP) -Congress delivered a nearly $500 billion infusion of coronavirus spending Thursday, rushing new relief to employers and hospitals buckling under the strain of a pandemic that has clai...

NEW YORK - Big public companies that received loans under a government program intended to help small businesses devastated by the coronavirus outbreak could be forced to return it. The Small Business...

Heather Curtis WMAL.com WASHINGTON (WMAL) – D.C. is working on a plan to reopen, but it will be a long process before the city can get back to business as usual according to Mayor Muriel Bowser....

TEHRAN, Iran - The leader of Iran's Revolutionary Guard warned on Thursday that he has ordered his forces to potentially target the U.S. Navy after President Donald Trump's tweet the previous day thre...

WASHINGTON - More than 4.4 million laid-off workers applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week as job cuts escalated across an economy that remains all but shut down, the government said Thursda...

GENEVA - The World Health Organization chief said Wednesday he hopes the United States will reconsider its freeze in funding for his agency and vowed to keep working on "saving lives" despite calls fr...

SAN DIEGO - The Trump administration has been quietly adding military surveillance cameras at the U.S.-Mexico border in response to the coronavirus pandemic, though fewer people appear to be crossing ...