When Washington scrambled to rescue small businesses knocked down by the coronavirus crisis, there was no confusion about who was supposed to get a piece of the $349 billion from the new Paycheck Protection Program. “The PPP was intended to help small businesses that often don’t participate
The global coronavirus death toll surpassed 200,000 on Saturday, according to John Hopkins University data. The grim total was reached a day after presidents and prime ministers agreed to work together to develop new vaccines, tests and treatments at a virtual meeting with both the World Health Organization (WHO) and
Farmworkers in Watsonville, California, known as America’s strawberry capital, will look up from the fields on Saturday to see a line of cars honking, waving, holding posters and shouting “thank you” in several languages. The campesino, or farmworker, “appreciation caravans” started last weekend, the brainchild
Bryce Beekman, the Washington State football player found dead at his home in late March, died from an accidental overdose, the coroner said. The 22-year-old athlete died on March 23 from acute intoxication due to a combination of fentanyl and promethazine, Whitman County Coroner Annie Pillers said
Television has become a window into the outside world for millions of quarantined Americans. And this Sunday, when the much-anticipated series “Penny Dreadful: City of Angels” premieres on Showtime, Latina actress Stephanie Arcila says that the horror drama will be an emotional and intellectual release for many
Deborah Gatewood had two years to go before she could retire from a Detroit hospital. But Gatewood, a phlebotomist for three decades, will never celebrate that milestone. She died April 17 from symptoms related to the coronavirus. Her daughter said that prior to her mother’s
They are survivors of severe cases of the coronavirus, most of them had been hospitalized, some of them hooked up to ventilators for several days and none of them ever wanting to experience the misery, uncertainty and loneliness of the illness ever again. “It really makes
The mayor of a southern Texas city apologized for violating her own stay-at-home order after a photo surfaced on social media of her at a nail salon. The trip Tuesday by Beaumont Mayor Becky Ames to the closed salon has sparked an investigation by the