With more than 1.4 million infections and nearly 85,000 deaths, the U.S. has the largest outbreak in the world by far, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. Worldwide, the virus has infected more than 4.4 million and killed over 300,000.
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MORGAN LEE, REGINA GARCIA CANO and ELAINE KURTENBACH
Roughly 36 million people have now filed for jobless aid in the two months since the coronavirus first forced millions of businesses to close their doors and shrink their workforces, the Labor Department said Thursday.
The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) reported 35,977 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the state, according to the 7 p.m. Thursday (5/14) update.
Effective Thursday, the governor is allowing the expansion of the number of people allowed in a single classroom or child care facility. This means day camps can resume and daycares can accept more children.
This new document includes another round of checks for the public, hazard pay for essential workers, plus increases in unemployment and food stamp benefits.
Seniors at Beauregard High Schools will get to cross the graduation stage like they always dreamed, but that dream is going to look just a bit different.
On Tuesday, Gov. Brian Kemp issued a new executive order following a previous one in light of the latest developments of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Peach State.
Baseball is a game of timing, and the timing of things couldn’t be any worse for high school senior baseball players, especially for a pair of Russell County Warriors who were sure shots to be high rough draft picks this year. But things have changed, thanks to the reaction to COVID-19.
Governor Kemp also issued a new executive order reinstating road tests for Georgians in order to get their license following his April 23 order waiving road tests. This is effective as of Tuesday.
America faces the “darkest winter in modern history” unless leaders act decisively to prevent a rebound of the coronavirus, says a government whistleblower who alleges he was ousted from his job after warning the Trump administration to prepare for the pandemic.
The murder of a beloved Columbus paramedic remains unsolved and her alleged police officer boyfriend, who was married, sits behind bars awaiting his day in court, one year after her death.
Alabama leaders will determine how approximately $1.78 billion in CARES Act money should be used. However, the ideas for where that money could go are turning heads.
