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Senate leaders and the Trump administration reached a deal in the early hours of Wednesday morning on a $2 trillion emergency stimulus package to blunt the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, which continues to spread across the country and has tipped the economy towards recession. “At last we have a deal,” Senate Majority Leader …

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Acting Administrator Peter Gaynor testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., April 3, 2019. The Trump administration will invoke the Defense Production Act for the first time on Tuesday as part of the response to the coronavirus pandemic, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced. “We’re actually going to use …

A federal judge in Manhattan dismissed a lawsuit claiming that the Trump administration was purposefully withholding funding from the U.S. Census Bureau to cause racial and ethnic minorities to be undercounted in the 2020 census. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said in his ruling that the case was too speculative, and that the U.S. Constitution …

The U.S. is restricting travel along the border with Mexico in an effort to stem the spread of the coronavirus, the Trump administration announced Friday. President Trump announced at a White House press briefing that non-essential travel would no longer be permitted between the U.S. and Mexico. The restrictions are the same ones applied to …

A team of doctors and nurses prepare themselves before heading out to their designated residential areas to check on residents who returned from Iran to see anyone is infected with the novel coronavirus at Isa Town Health Center, south of Manama, Bahrain, March 2, 2020. (Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters) The Trump administration announced Wednesday that doctors …