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Virus Outbreak Ohio

Joshua A. Bickel April 21, 2020

Protesters stand outside the Statehouse Atrium where reporters listen during the State of Ohio's Coronavirus response update on Monday, April 13, 2020 at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. About 100...

Closed business in Venice Beach, California

APU GOMES April 21, 2020

A framing art gallery is closed in Venice Beach, California during the COVID-19 novel coronavirus on April 01, 2020. Another 6.65 million U.S. workers filed for unemployment benefits last week, the most...

A framing art gallery is closed in Venice Beach, California during the COVID-19 novel coronavirus on April 01, 2020. Another 6.65 million U.S. workers filed for unemployment benefits last week, the most ever recorded, as the coronavirus forces businesses to shut down nationwide, the Labor Department reported on April 2, 2020. (Photo by Apu GOMES / AFP) (Photo by APU GOMES/AFP via Getty Images)

Staying home? Here’s where all 50 states stand on reopening

Alaa ElassaCNN April 21, 2020

(CNN) -- More than 97% of the U.S. population is under a stay-at-home or shelter-in-place order as the coronavirus pandemic continues to upend life as we know it. But worries for the economy -- and...

Washington state COVID protesters

Karen Ducey April 21, 2020

OLYMPIA, WA - APRIL 19: Gubernatorial candidate and anti-tax activist Tim Eyman speaks during a 'Hazardous Liberty! Defend the Constitution!' rally to protest the stay-at-home order at the Capitol building...

Protesters stand outside the Statehouse Atrium where reporters listen during the State of Ohio's Coronavirus response update on Monday, April 13, 2020 at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. About 100 protesters assembled outside the building during Gov. Mike DeWine's weekday update on the state's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, upset that the state remains under a Stay-At-Home order and that non-essential businesses remain closed. (Joshua A. Bickel/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)

Protests erupt again over coronavirus shelter-in-place orders

Holly Yan, CNN April 21, 2020

(CNN) -- Anger over shelter-in-place orders boiled over, with protesters ignoring social distancing guidelines and packing state capitols and streets."Jesus is my vaccine," said one message on a tractor...

Coronavirus is tearing through prison and jail populations in Ohio and Illinois

Hollie SilvermanCNN April 21, 2020

(CNN) -- Prison and jail populations across the United States are becoming a breeding ground for the coronavirus, sickening thousands of inmates and detainees as well as the staff and employees that work...

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s misdirection on virus testing, deaths

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is falsely assigning blame to governors and the Obama administration for shortages in coronavirus testing.For much of the week, he was pretender to a throne...

Publicly traded firms get $300M in small-business loans

Companies with thousands of employees, past penalties from government investigations and risks of financial failure even before the coronavirus walloped the economy were among those receiving millions...

Canada Shooting

Tim Krochak April 19, 2020

Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers prepare to take a suspect into custody at a gas station in Enfield, Nova Scotia on Sunday April 19, 2020. Canadian police arrested a suspect in an active shooter...