(Reuters) – The U.S. city of Hoboken, across the Hudson River from New York City, on Saturday announced a night curfew starting March 16 and ordered bars and restaurants to conduct only delivery services amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. In a statement, Mayor Ravi Bhalla said all residents of Hoboken, New Jersey, will be required
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a coronavirus aid package early on Saturday that would provide free testing and paid sick leave, in a bid to limit the economic damage from a pandemic that has shuttered schools, sports arenas and offices. By a bipartisan vote of 363 to 40, the Democratic-controlled
NEW YORK (Reuters) – From Jersey City on the East Coast to Los Angeles on the West Coast, American shoppers picked grocery store shelves clean on products ranging from disinfectants to rice, causing retailers to race to restock their stores as the worsening coronavirus crisis stoked fears of shortages. Shelves previously filled with pasta and
BOSTON (Reuters) – A Canadian businessman is expected to plead guilty on Friday to participating in a vast U.S. college admissions cheating and fraud scheme in order to rig the results of his sons’ SAT exams. Federal prosecutors in Boston say that David Sidoo, a Vancouver energy executive who at one time played in the
WASHINGTON/BRASILIA (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he was not concerned about the possibility of being exposed to the coronavirus after dining last week with a Brazilian government official who has since tested positive for the disease. U.S. President Donald Trump listens to questions from the news media while meeting with Ireland’s
(Reuters) – U.S. residents will begin receiving census forms in the mail as early as Thursday as the federal government kicks off its once-a-decade count of the population, a gargantuan effort crucial to guiding U.S. political and economic policy but which experts fear will be complicated by the spread of coronavirus. FILE PHOTO: Census signage
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday rushed to advance a broad package of proposals to help Americans battle the coronavirus outbreak, as officials moved to suspend public tours through the Capitol building. FILE PHOTO: Visitors look up at the domed ceiling while on a tour of the Rotunda at
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. blood banks are concerned about potential shortages as Americans concerned about catching the new coronavirus avoid donation sites and companies with employees working from home cancel blood drives. There have already been shortages over the past week in Washington that required other blood banks to move blood in from outside
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Schools and “major gathering places” in a part of the New York City suburb of New Rochelle will shut down for two weeks in an effort to contain the coronavirus outbreak at its local epicenter, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday. A man walks near the Young Israel orthodox synagogue in
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Margaret Bordelon can still feel the hands of the drunk man who tried to pull her in for a kiss at the end of his Uber ride last September in Lafayette, Louisiana. Margaret Bordelon, a driver for Uber, looks out her car window at the location where a passenger sexually harassed her after
A general view of Grand Central Terminal with less commuters than usual on a Monday morning after a state of emergency was declared amid confirmed coronavirus cases in New York, U.S., March 9, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Moss (Reuters) – The number of people who have tested positive for the coronavirus across New York state has increased
(Reuters) – As coronavirus cases exploded across the world, federal medical workers tasked with screening incoming passengers at U.S. airports grew alarmed: Many were working without the most effective masks to protect them from getting sick themselves. FILE PHOTO: People load personal protective equipment and other supplies into a back side entrance of the Life
(Reuters) – The cruise ship Grand Princess, held at sea and barred from returning to San Francisco last week due to a coronavirus outbreak aboard the vessel, has been directed to the nearby port of Oakland, the cruise line said on Saturday, presumably to be placed under quarantine. The Grand Princess cruise ship carrying passengers
(Reuters) – Two more people succumbed to the novel coronavirus in Washington state, officials said on Saturday, bringing the nationwide toll to 19, while the number of confirmed cases in New York jumped by 21 overnight and a cruise ship with infected passengers remained stranded outside San Francisco. Medics transport a patient through heavy rain
ANCHORAGE (Reuters) – The world’s most famous dog racing contest gets underway on Saturday when 57 mushers and their canine teams line up in downtown Anchorage to start the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, with expectations for heavy snow on the trail this year. FILE PHOTO: Aliy Zirkle and her dogs head out at the
(Reuters) – Here’s what you need to know about the coronavirus: A woman wears a surgical mask as she walks through Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport in London, Britain March 6, 2020. REUTERS/Hannah McKay The spread There are now over 98,000 coronaviruses cases globally and more than 3,300 people have died, according to a Reuters