WASHINGTON, D.C. — The wave of layoffs that has engulfed the U.S. economy since the coronavirus struck forced 5.2 million more people to seek unemployment benefits last week, the government reported Thursday. Roughly 22 million […]
RALEIGH — Last week, the North Carolina State Board of Education voted to ask the N.C. General Assembly’s COVID-19 House Select Committee for waivers involving various state education accountability requirements for the 2019-2020 academic year […]
RALEIGH — Christians across North Carolina and around the world celebrated this Easter season with unfamiliar restrictions on their activity, traditions and services. The restrictions were often seen as necessary sacrifices, but some of the […]
In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined they likely were facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus, the city of Wuhan at the epicenter of the disease hosted a mass banquet for […]
RALEIGH — Dramatic stories and incidents related to COVID-19 stay-at-home orders are popping up all over the country. In Elizabeth, New Jersey, the mayor has deployed drones that have sirens and an automated message telling […]
A U.S. Border Patrol agent wouldn’t let Jackeline Reyes explain why she and her 15-year-old daughter fled Honduras and needed asylum, pointing to the coronavirus. It was just days after the Trump administration essentially shut […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the U.S. would halt funding for the World Health Organization while it assesses the group’s “role in severly mismanaging” the outbreak of coronavirus. “Today I’m instructing […]
RALEIGH — Deaths in North Carolina linked to COVID-19 have soared above 100, state officials said Tuesday, even as the increase in the number of positive cases may be slowing. The Department of Health and […]
Football coach Dave Clawson and athletic director John Currie are among the Wake Forest officials that have voluntarily agreed to take a 10% pay cut to help their school deal with a loss of revenue […]
RALEIGH – Wake Forest Baptist Health has joined an effort to learn more about the novel coronavirus in a community-based research study. Wake Forest Baptist has joined forces with Javara Inc. – a leading integrated […]
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