By LISA MASCARO & ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House was asking Congress on Tuesday to approve a sweeping emergency stimulus package to help businesses and taxpayers cope with the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. It’s the most far-reaching economic rescue package since the Great[Read More…]

By JILL COLVIN, ZEKE MILLER & JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — He called on the country to come together. He warned of pain to come. And he deferred to the nation’s public health experts while at least momentarily putting aside petty squabbling. After weeks of trying to play[Read More…]

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — More than 30 people have tested positive for the coronavirus across seven counties in Maine, officials said Tuesday Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said the number will likely grow, and he encouraged people[Read More…]

By AMANDA SEITZ & BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press Four years after Russia-linked groups stoked divisions in the U.S. presidential election on social media platforms, a new report shows that Moscow’s campaign hasn’t let up and has become harder to detect. The report from University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Young Mie Kim[Read More…]

Richard Drew NEW YORK (AP) — Fear swept back through financial markets Thursday, and stocks fell sharply on worries about the fast-spreading virus outbreak. It’s the latest shudder in Wall Street’s wildest week in more than eight years. Major indexes lost roughly 3% in afternoon trading Thursday, and Treasury yields[Read More…]

Jeff Chiu WASHINGTON (AP) — The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage has hit a record low of 3.29%, driven down by investors shifting money into the safety of U.S. Treasurys as the coronavirus outbreak has deepened. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average on the benchmark[Read More…]

By DAMIAN J. TROISE & STAN CHOE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks took an early nosedive on Wall Street Thursday before recovering much of the ground they lost as investors struggle to anticipate how wide the economic damage from the coronavirus outbreak will be. The losses extended[Read More…]

By LAURAN NEERGAARD & RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump declared that a widespread U.S. outbreak of the new respiratory virus sweeping the globe isn’t inevitable even as top health authorities at his side warned Americans that more infections are coming. Shortly after Trump spoke Wednesday,[Read More…]

By DON THOMPSON & MIKE STOBBE SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A new coronavirus case in California could be the first in the U.S. that has no known connection to travel abroad or another known case, a possible sign the virus is spreading in a U.S. community, health officials said. California[Read More…]

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A month before the Supreme Court takes up cases over his tax returns and financial records, President Donald Trump on Tuesday made the unusual suggestion that two liberal justices should not take part in those or any other cases involving him or[Read More…]