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Updated: 12 minutes ago
|By ANDREW TAYLOR
Frustrated Senate Republicans re-upped their complaints that Democratic negotiators are taking too hard a line in talks on a sweeping coronavirus relief bill, but an afternoon negotiating session brought at least modest concessions from both sides, even as an agreement appears far off.
Updated: 6 hours ago
|By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says the two sides set a goal of reaching an agreement by the end of the week to permit a vote next week.
Updated: 12 hours ago
|By Kelsey Dickeson
The Buffalo County Community Response Team is helping those in need during the pandemic.
Updated: 13 hours ago
|By PHIL MARCELO, CARLA K. JOHNSON and LISA MARIE PANE
Big house parties, no-mask weddings, crowded bars and restaurants — there are reasons the U.S. has racked up more than 155,000 coronavirus deaths, by far the most of any country, and is fast approaching an off-the-charts 5 million confirmed infections, easily the highest in the world.
Updated: 15 hours ago
|By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer
Health experts once thought 2020 might be the worst year yet for a rare paralyzing disease that has been hitting U.S. children for the past decade.
Updated: 16 hours ago
Clorox's shortage of disinfectant cleaning materials will remain difficult to find well into 2021, according to their incoming CEO.
Updated: 16 hours ago
|By Travis Leder
Retailers believe the coronavirus pandemic could bring increased back-to-school business.
Updated: 17 hours ago
The comments came in a wide-ranging, contentious interview with Axios that aired Monday on HBO.
Updated: 18 hours ago
|By JENNA FRYER
The 104th running of “The Great American Race” will be the first without spectators, who showed up at Indianapolis Motor Speedway every year, even during the Great Depression.
Updated: 18 hours ago
|By MIKE SCHNEIDER
The U.S. Census Bureau is cutting its schedule for data collection for the 2020 census a month short as legislation that would have extended the national head count’s deadlines stalls in the U.S. Senate.
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Updated: 19 hours ago
Anyone who tests positive for coronavirus must quarantine for 10 days.
Updated: 20 hours ago
They once laughed about the virus. Now they say it’s no joke.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 6:11 AM CDT
|By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
The Trump administration’s plan to provide every nursing home with a fast COVID-19 testing machine comes with an asterisk: The government won’t supply enough test kits to check staff and residents beyond an initial couple of rounds.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 5:27 AM CDT
|By REGINA GARCIA CANO and MICHAEL CASEY
Some 23 million people nationwide at risk of being evicted, according to The Aspen Institute, as moratoriums enacted because of the coronavirus expire and courts reopen. Around 30 state moratoriums have expired since May, according to The Eviction Lab at Princeton University.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 6:54 PM CDT
|By Kelsey Dickeson
Hastings police and the SHDHD look to educate people on DHM violations.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 5:10 PM CDT
|By STEPHEN GROVES
South Dakota, which has seen an uptick in coronavirus infections in recent weeks, is bracing to host hundreds of thousands of bikers for the 80th edition of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 3:52 PM CDT
|By JEFF AMY and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press
Many schools are planning a hybrid approach, with students alternating between in-person classes and online instruction.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 3:42 PM CDT
Nearly 300 employees in the district have tested positive or have been in contact with someone infected, school officials said.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 2:34 PM CDT
|By MARTIN CRUTSINGER
The Treasury Department is projecting government borrowing of $947 billion in the current July-September period, which would be a record for the quarter but down from the all-time high of $2.75 trillion in this year's second quarter.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 12:49 PM CDT
It’s August, and kids are going back to school. Some children will go to physical classrooms, but some parents are forming what are being called “pandemic pods.”
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 8:57 AM CDT
|By Melissa Egan
Gov. Doug Ducey’s first stay-at-home order, issued in March, shut down the town. The order stopped tourists from traveling, silencing the sounds of gun shows, music from saloons and the laughter from smiling visitors.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 8:06 AM CDT
Household names, many longtime anchors in malls nationwide, were already struggling to keep up with a radical reformation in what people buy, and where they buy it. Much of that activity has moved online.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 6:55 AM CDT
|By Kamri Sylve
Nebraska blood banks are calling on those who've recovered from the coronavirus to donate plasma.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 1:03 AM CDT
The 17-year-old says he and his parents took all the proper precautions, but they all tested positive for COVID-19. He doesn't know how they contracted the virus.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2020 at 10:36 PM CDT
Per NFL protocols, Pederson can return to the team facility after waiting 10 days since his first positive test if he remains asymptomatic or at least five days if he has consecutive negative tests at least 24 hours apart during that five-day span.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2020 at 7:33 PM CDT
|By JOYCE M. ROSENBERG
Many restaurants that got coronavirus relief loans have spent the money and now find themselves in the same precarious position as in the pandemic’s early days.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2020 at 4:28 PM CDT
|By JEFF AMY
As the academic year begins in many places across the country this week, parents are having to choose whether to send their children for in-person classes or keep them home for remote learning because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2020 at 1:03 PM CDT
|By RALPH D. RUSSO
The Pac-12 on Friday released a revised football schedule for the upcoming season, which because of the pandemic is not guaranteed to be played.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2020 at 11:26 AM CDT
|By ASHOK SHARMA and JOE McDONALD
India reported nearly 55,000 new coronavirus cases on Sunday and Japan recorded more than 1,500 for a second day while Florida braced for a tropical storm that threatened to hamper anti-disease efforts.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2020 at 8:39 AM CDT
|By ARITZ PARRA and MIKE CORDER
In the meantime, authorities have killed more than 1 million minks at breeding farms in Spain and the Netherlands as a precaution.
Updated: Aug. 1, 2020 at 5:18 PM CDT
South Africa on Saturday surpassed 500,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases, representing more than 50% of all reported coronavirus infections in Africa's 54 countries.
Updated: Aug. 1, 2020 at 2:49 PM CDT
The district’s superintendent, Dr. Harold Olin, says their plan was immediately put in place.
Updated: Aug. 1, 2020 at 1:52 PM CDT
|By ANTHONY TAYLOR and LISA MASCARO
The White House and its GOP allies appear to be retreating from their opposition to a $600-per-week supplemental unemployment benefit that has propped up both the economy and family budgets but expired Friday.
Updated: Aug. 1, 2020 at 12:06 PM CDT
|By JOHN LEICESTER, ROD McGUIRK and ARNO PEDRAM Associated Press
Hurricane Isaias’ imminent arrival forced the closure of some outdoor testing sites even as Florida reached a new daily high in deaths.
Updated: Jul. 31, 2020 at 4:04 PM CDT
|By DAVID SHARP Associated Press
The web of state and local quarantines is growing more tangled by the day: New York, New Jersey and Connecticut have ordered visitors from a whopping 34 states to quarantine for 14 days.
Updated: Jul. 31, 2020 at 3:31 PM CDT
|By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and MATTHEW PERRONE
Dr. Anthony Fauci is returning to Capitol Hill on Friday.
Updated: Jul. 31, 2020 at 3:11 PM CDT
A Georgia overnight camp hit by a coronavirus outbreak took many precautions, but didn’t make campers wear masks or have proper ventilation in buildings, according to a government report released Friday.
Updated: Jul. 31, 2020 at 12:22 PM CDT
The coronavirus forced another change in Major League Baseball’s schedule, bringing the league’s total to eight teams affected in the first nine days of the season.
Updated: Jul. 31, 2020 at 11:39 AM CDT
|By Sean Pyles
As work and home life meld, it’s difficult to maintain boundaries, stay productive and take care of your mental health amid the pandemic.
Updated: Jul. 31, 2020 at 10:39 AM CDT
|By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press
Many left jobless by the crisis are already behind on payments. And the arrival of August brings new anxieties.
Updated: Jul. 31, 2020 at 9:20 AM CDT
The U.S. government has a further option for the supply of an additional 500 million doses longer term as part of its Operation Warp Speed program.
Updated: Jul. 31, 2020 at 7:05 AM CDT
|By TAMARA LUSH
Health experts say test results that come back after two or three days are nearly worthless, because by then the window for tracing the person's contacts to prevent additional infections has essentially closed.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2020 at 8:38 PM CDT
|By MIKE STOBBE and NICKY FORSTER Associated Press
Scientists aren’t celebrating by any means, warning that the trend is driven by four big, hard-hit states and that cases are rising in at least half of all the states.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2020 at 6:50 PM CDT
The SEC's university presidents agreed on a 10-game schedule that eliminates all nonconference opponents and is set to begin Sept. 26.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2020 at 4:48 PM CDT
|By Martin Crutsinger
The coronavirus pandemic sent the U.S. economy plunging by a record-shattering 32.9% annual rate last quarter and is still inflicting damage across the country, squeezing already struggling businesses and forcing a wave of layoffs that shows no sign of abating.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2020 at 4:07 PM CDT
|By ANDREW TAYLOR
Frustrated negotiators of a massive coronavirus relief bill face heightened pressure with Thursday’s brutal economic news and the rapidly approaching lapse in a $600 per-week expanded jobless benefit that has helped prop up consumer demand.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2020 at 3:14 PM CDT
|By Shannon Heckt
The drug Remdesivir is being used for the first time at Mary Lanning to help treat some of the critical COVID-19 patients in the ICU.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2020 at 1:47 PM CDT
Dr. Robin Shattock, a professor at the college, told The Associated Press that he and colleagues had just finished a very slow and arduous process of testing the vaccine at a low dose in the initial participants and would now expand the trial to about 300 people, including some over age 75.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2020 at 9:38 AM CDT
|By Ed Payne
Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain has died of COVID-19. He was 74.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2020 at 9:07 AM CDT
Joe Biden is expected to accept the party’s presidential nomination on the final night of the convention, which runs Aug. 17-20, the schedule released late Wednesday said.