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Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin announced on Wednesday that President Trump is considering sending checks to Americans to offset the economic impact of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. “We are looking at sending checks to Americans immediately,” Mnuchin said at a press conference. “Americans need cash now and the president wants to get cash now. And I …

China’s GDP is headed for a 9 percent drop in first-quarter year-over-year growth as the coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan and spread across China before spreading around the globe, takes a toll on the country’s economy. “The recovery in Chinese economic activity is likely to be constrained,” read the latest forecast report from economists at …

China’s top medical authority issued a gag order after Wuhan labs sequencing coronavirus found it resembled the SARS virus that killed nearly 800 people in 2002-2003 back in late December, according to Chinese media. Caixin Global, a respected independent publication, reported that genomics laboratories sequenced the coronavirus by December 27, but were ordered by local …

Google’s coronavirus screening website has gone live in the San Francisco area following a weekend of confusion that began when President Trump made a surprise announcement Friday that the search giant was building the tool. Trump revealed Google’s participation Friday during a Rose Garden press conference, announcing that the Silicon Valley company was working on …

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo delivers remarks at a news conference regarding the first confirmed case of coronavirus in New York, March 2, 2020. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that New York, New Jersey and Connecticut have agreed to close all movie theaters, gyms, bars, restaurants, and casinos in the states …

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio delivers remarks at a news conference regarding the first confirmed case of coronavirus in New York City, March 2, 2020. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) New York City mayor Bill de Blasio was seen entering the Park Slope, Brooklyn YMCA minutes before New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced the closure of …

A projection of binary code on a man holding a laptop computer, in an office in Warsaw June 24, 2013. (Kacper Pempel/Reuters) U.S. Health and Human Services suffered a cyber-attack on its computer system Sunday night, three sources told Bloomberg. Officials believed the attack was from a hostile foreign actor, and was designed to slow …

Joe Biden gestures during the Democratic presidential debate in Washington, D.C., March 15, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Former vice president Joe Biden on Sunday asserted that a Medicare for All plan such as that advocated by Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) could not in itself be a solution to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak. “One of the …

Deaths from the Wuhan coronavirus outside of China exceeded those inside for the first time on Sunday. As of Sunday, about 3,300 deaths from the illness were recorded outside China, while China itself has reported about 3,200 deaths, according to figures compiled by Johns Hopkins University and first reported by the Wall Street Journal. Also, …

Two snack-loving men have sued Hain Celestial Group after discovering there are no actual vegetables in the company’s popular Garden Veggie Straws. The snack food, which claims to have 30 percent