April 1, 2020, 9:55am Nation & World
HUTCHINS, Texas (AP) — A tractor-trailer hauling toilet paper crashed and caught fire near Dallas early Wednesday, spilling the hot commodity all over an interstate. Read story
April 1, 2020, 9:55am Nation & World
BETHANY, Okla. — Three people were killed and one was wounded early Wednesday in a shooting at a convenience store in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, police said. Read story
April 1, 2020, 8:50am Latest News
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Census Day — the date used to reference where a person lives for the once-a-decade count — arrived Wednesday with a nation almost paralyzed by the spread of the novel coronavirus. But census officials vowed the job would be completed by its year-end deadline. Read story
April 1, 2020, 8:50am Nation & World
MACON, Ga. — Authorities in Georgia are searching for a man accused of fatally shooting three people in his child’s mother’s family, and then leaving with the child. Read story
April 1, 2020, 8:47am Nation & World
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has directed all cruise ships to prepare to treat any sick passengers and crew on board while being sequestered “indefinitely" offshore during the coronavirus pandemic. Read story
April 1, 2020, 8:44am Nation & World
NEW YORK (AP) — The number of coronavirus deaths in New York state more than doubled in 72 hours to 1,941, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday that projections show the outbreak worsening through the month. Read story
April 1, 2020, 8:42am Nation & World
UNITED NTIONS — How should the U.N. General Assembly and its 193 member states respond to the coronavirus pandemic? Members have been sent two rival resolutions for consideration — and under new voting rules instituted because the global body isn’t holding meetings, if a single county objects a resolution is defeated. Read story
April 1, 2020, 8:41am Nation & World
BRUSSELS — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday that the organization’s security capabilities have not been diminished by the coronavirus, amid suspicion that Russia might try to use the impact of disease to probe the military alliance’s defenses. Read story
April 1, 2020, 6:01am Latest News
The IRS and the Treasury Department say Americans will start receiving their economic impact checks in the next three weeks. Read story
March 31, 2020, 6:38pm Nation & World
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s fiscal 2021 budget request would add $5.4 trillion more to the cumulative 10-year deficit than the White House originally estimated, according to a Congressional Budget Office analysis released Monday. Read story