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The new coronavirus pandemic has silenced New York City’s once-vibrant live music scene and left its future in doubt.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin offered sharply different takes on the president’s coronavirus relief measures.

The president’s moves on jobless aid, payroll taxes, evictions and student loans come during an impasse in bipartisan talks.

The U.S. has topped five million confirmed cases of the coronavirus as some states saw sharp upticks while others showed signs that the spread of the virus was easing.735

Portland, Ore., authorities said that a protest on Saturday night developed into a riot after a group of protesters set a fire inside a building housing a union for police officers.

The economic fallout of the Covid pandemic has been harder on millennials, who are already indebted and a step behind on the career ladder from the last financial crisis. This second pummeling could keep them from accruing the wealth of older generations.587

Town clerks across Connecticut are anxiously awaiting a flood of absentee ballots in the final days before Tuesday’s primary election.

Thousands of health-care workers rushed to New York when it was the country’s epicenter for Covid-19. Many of those nurses have followed the virus to its newer hot spots, such as Texas.49

The overhaul of John F. Kennedy International Airport was due to be completed in 2025. But as the Covid-19 pandemic wreaks havoc on the airline industry, that time frame could now be delayed by years.

The coronavirus is proving to be a great unequalizer, causing joblessness, sickness, and even death at higher rates among nonwhite populations—as well as amplifying longstanding racial gaps in financial stability.

President Trump directed the federal government Saturday to provide $300 a week in additional payments to the unemployed, and called on states to fund an extra $100 in weekly benefits.610