The recommendations make clear that the return to normalcy will take longer than President Trump initially envisioned, with officials saying some social distancing may need to remain for all of this year to prevent a new outbreak.
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Canada-U.S. border won’t reopen soon to nonessential travel, Trudeau says
Nearly 200,000 people cross that border every day in normal times.
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Women’s sports likely to bear brunt of coronavirus fallout
From soccer to softball and all in between, momentum for these leagues, and women’s sports in general, has seemingly been halted by the pandemic
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Rams center is first NFL player to reveal positive test for COVID-19
Brian Allen, a third-year center with Los Angeles, said he tested positive three weeks ago, but was not hospitalized and is now ‘feeling good.’
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Maine reports 3 more virus deaths as Gov. Mills announces protections against evictions
The governor also announced the creation of a $5 million fund through MaineHousing to assist tenants who cannot pay their rent.
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Sens. Collins, King join presidential task force to reopen economy
Maine’s U.S. senators are part of a large bipartisan group that includes two-thirds of the Senate and more than 30 House members.
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Glitches prevent $1,200 stimulus payments from reaching millions of Americans
Filers who used tax preparers, parents of dependent children and people with 2019 tax returns still to be processed encounter confusion and delayed payments.
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Federal small business loan program runs out of money, leaving employers grasping for lifelines
A bitterly divided Congress looked unlikely to address that growing problem as the nation plunged into unemployment levels not seen since the Great Depression.
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Facebook will alert people who have interacted with coronavirus misinformation
The company said it displayed fact-checking labels on 40 million posts, based on 4,000 articles that its third-party reviewers had rated as false just last month.
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Technology to track COVID-19 raises fears of mass surveillance
The ideas for new technologies range from systems to draw data from diagnostic testing labs and hospitals to mobile phone apps to identify the infected to help others avoid contact.