US coronavirus deaths could reach 81,000 by July, even with current social distancing measures in place, according to a new report from researchers at the University of Washington. Some hospitals could run out of ventilators and intensive care unit beds as early as mid-April, the report projected. However, the researchers said the initial wave of […]
WASHINGTON — Voting reforms that would make it much easier to cast ballots by mail in the fall presidential election were left out of the $2 trillion rescue package that was unveiled Wednesday, but key lawmakers vowed to keep pushing for a series of measures that would prepare the country for an election in the […]
Associated Press Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell predicted the coronavirus-aid bill will pass later Wednesday. A sweeping package designed to cushion the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on Americans hit a snag in the Senate late Wednesday, after leaders eyed speedy passage earlier in the day. Republican senators and Sen. Bernie Sanders were battling over […]
Floyd Cardoz, the Mumbai-born, New York City-based chef who changed countless diners’ perceptions of Indian cuisine, has died at the age of 59 after testing positive for COVID-19. Shortly after returning from a trip to India on March 8, Cardoz began feeling feverish and admitted himself to a New York hospital as a precautionary measure, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government has concluded that retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, who vanished more than a decade ago, has died while in the custody of Iran, his family said Wednesday. Shortly after the family’s announcement, President Donald Trump told reporters that “I won’t accept that he’s dead,” even though his own acting […]
The Trump administration and Senators hashed out a $2 trillion stimulus deal that would cut $1,200 checks to many adults, expand unemployment insurance payments and extend loans to businesses, all in an effort to combat the coronavirus outbreak’s toll on the economy. The White House and Senators reached a deal early Wednesday morning and a […]
Getty Images Is China back to work? If so, is that good or bad for the global economy? Just how bad is the economic situation in China? In late February, MarketWatch interviewed Leland Miller, CEO of the China Beige Book, who warned that economic deterioration caused by the novel coronavirus was, as we put it, […]
Commercial real estate was supposed to be one of the safer bets of the past decade. But the coronavirus has turned the whole notion of “safety” on its head, emptying streets, stores, hotels, office buildings and other shared spaces, as cities race to slow its spread. Uncertainty has left creditors bracing for an avalanche of […]
MAINZ, Germany — While countries around the globe struggle to cope with the death, panic, restrictions and economic dislocation wrought by the coronavirus pandemic, a different picture has emerged in Germany. Experts are scrambling to figure out why the country has around 34,000 confirmed infections — the fifth most in the world — but far […]
Conservative supporters of President Trump are increasingly volunteering to risk death — and implicitly the deaths of elderly and at-risk Americans — from the coronavirus if it will help the economy. The push for Americans to get back to work in the face of an unprecedented economic downturn began last week but accelerated on Sunday […]