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Trump’s new bailout program for farmers and ranchers, explained

Published 2020-04-18 12:20:00 UTC

Report: Amazon is using “thermal cameras” to monitor warehouse employees for fevers

Published 2020-04-18 13:30:00 UTC

Private debt collectors can seize stimulus checks. Some states are trying to stop them.

Published 2020-04-18 14:50:00 UTC

Report: The CDC contaminated its first coronavirus tests, setting US back on testing

Published 2020-04-18 15:40:00 UTC

Americans are using the #TwitterFoodBank hashtag to help each other buy groceries amid the recession

Published 2020-04-18 16:10:00 UTC

Nearly two-thirds of Americans think Trump acted too slowly to fight coronavirus

Published 2020-04-18 17:40:00 UTC

The US reportedly ordered millions of N95 masks from unproven suppliers

Published 2020-04-18 18:00:00 UTC

Protests against stay-at-home orders are spreading despite most Americans’ fear of reopening

Published 2020-04-19 11:10:00 UTC

South Korea has brought its spread of new coronavirus infections to single digits per day

Published 2020-04-19 12:00:00 UTC

What the anti-stay-at-home protests are really about

Published 2020-04-19 12:00:00 UTC

How to fix the WHO, according to an expert

Published 2020-04-19 13:20:00 UTC

Navajo Nation makes wearing masks outside mandatory

Published 2020-04-19 13:40:00 UTC

Trump says there’s enough testing to reopen businesses. Governors say that’s “false” and “just delusional.”

Published 2020-04-19 14:50:00 UTC

Steve Mnuchin thinks the economy will bounce back in “months.” That’s very unlikely.

Published 2020-04-19 15:30:00 UTC

Nobody’s buying clothes right now. So stores are filing for bankruptcy.

Published 2020-04-19 17:20:00 UTC

Trump says WHO didn’t share early information about Covid-19. A new report shows that’s not the case.

Published 2020-04-19 17:30:00 UTC

Why Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro joined a protest calling for a military coup

Published 2020-04-19 19:00:00 UTC

What we know about a mass shooting in Nova Scotia, Canada

Published 2020-04-19 19:47:18 UTC

How Muslims are preparing to observe Ramadan during the coronavirus pandemic

Published 2020-04-20 07:20:00 UTC

What it’s like to deliver weed in a pandemic

Published 2020-04-20 07:30:00 UTC

Getting unemployment has been a nightmare for millions of people across the country

Published 2020-04-20 07:40:00 UTC

4/20 in the age of coronavirus, explained

Published 2020-04-20 08:00:00 UTC

Fossil fuels are in long-term decline. Coronavirus stimulus money will be wasted on them.

Published 2020-04-20 10:30:00 UTC

Silicon Valley’s favorite charity is asking its donors to give away hundreds of millions of dollars. Right now.

Published 2020-04-20 11:00:00 UTC

The right way to play Monopoly

Published 2020-04-20 11:10:00 UTC

How the coronavirus is disrupting US air travel, in 2 charts

Published 2020-04-20 12:00:00 UTC

Watch our new show Answered on Quibi

Published 2020-04-20 12:14:14 UTC

America doesn’t want another Tea Party

Published 2020-04-20 12:50:00 UTC

Why Trump’s efforts to blame Obama for the coronavirus make absolutely no sense

Published 2020-04-20 13:30:00 UTC

Lockdown protests, Congress nears another stimulus deal: Monday’s coronavirus news

Published 2020-04-20 13:40:00 UTC

Congress is close to a deal on a roughly $450 billion small-business funding bill

Published 2020-04-20 13:50:00 UTC

How the coronavirus outbreak is roiling the film and entertainment industries

Published 2020-04-20 14:48:25 UTC

The Quarry is a slow-burn Western about guilt, racism, and salvation on the US-Mexico border

Published 2020-04-20 15:30:00 UTC

What 2 new studies teach us about our socially distant future

Published 2020-04-20 15:50:00 UTC

America’s Coffee Shops Just Might Survive This Moment

Published 2020-04-20 17:15:00 UTC

Facebook is taking down some, but not all, quarantine protest event pages

Published 2020-04-20 17:40:00 UTC

Trump attacks a Republican governor for following his coronavirus testing advice

Published 2020-04-20 20:10:00 UTC

The coronavirus pandemic has people rethinking their plans for having kids

Published 2020-04-21 07:00:00 UTC

How the coronavirus is surfacing America’s deep-seated anti-Asian biases

Published 2020-04-21 07:50:00 UTC

Cam sites are seeing a spike during quarantine, but not just because people are horny

Published 2020-04-21 08:00:00 UTC

Prolonged school closures could be very costly for America’s students

Published 2020-04-21 08:50:00 UTC

This week in TikTok: When doctors and nurses go viral

Published 2020-04-21 09:00:00 UTC

Millennials are getting screwed by the economy. Again.

Published 2020-04-21 09:10:00 UTC

Africa has so far been spared the worst of the coronavirus. That could soon change.

Published 2020-04-21 10:00:00 UTC

A new plan to get $1,000 to 100,000 families in the next 100 days

Published 2020-04-21 10:20:00 UTC

It took a pandemic for cities to finally address homelessness

Published 2020-04-21 10:30:00 UTC

How Thomas Middleditch and Ben Schwartz found themselves making 3 Netflix improv specials at once

Published 2020-04-21 10:40:00 UTC

I walked out of rehab and into a pandemic

Published 2020-04-21 11:00:00 UTC

Imagine Hurricane Katrina during a pandemic. The US needs to prepare for that — now.

Published 2020-04-21 11:10:00 UTC

This new charity offers scientists coronavirus grants in 48 hours

Published 2020-04-21 11:50:00 UTC

Exclusive: Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown’s plan to protect consumers from financial ruin

Published 2020-04-21 12:00:00 UTC

The coronavirus could tear the EU apart

Published 2020-04-21 12:10:00 UTC

Trump’s latest tweets are an alternative world where the pandemic takes a backseat to MSNBC coverage

Published 2020-04-21 12:20:00 UTC

What happens when you go coronavirus viral

Published 2020-04-21 13:00:00 UTC

The Trump administration wants to use the coronavirus pandemic to push for more deregulation

Published 2020-04-21 13:30:00 UTC

Why Instagram’s co-founders made a site to track how fast the coronavirus is spreading

Published 2020-04-21 14:10:00 UTC

Trump’s threat to end immigration to the US, explained

Published 2020-04-21 14:20:00 UTC

Why some states became coronavirus hot spots — and others haven’t

Published 2020-04-21 14:30:00 UTC

States start to reopen, Oktoberfest canceled: Tuesday’s coronavirus news

Published 2020-04-21 14:40:00 UTC

Why some states became coronavirus hot spots — and others haven’t

Published 2020-04-21 14:30:00 UTC

Why some states became coronavirus hot spots — and others haven’t

Published 2020-04-21 14:30:00 UTC

How the coronavirus outbreak is roiling the film and entertainment industries

Published 2020-04-21 16:22:47 UTC

How Bon Appétit’s wildly popular YouTube channel is making videos in quarantine

Published 2020-04-21 16:30:51 UTC

The Senate just passed a $480 billion “interim” stimulus bill to tide over small businesses

Published 2020-04-21 17:09:59 UTC

What reopening will look like in Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee

Published 2020-04-21 19:20:00 UTC

Netflix had the best quarter in its history because of the pandemic

Published 2020-04-21 20:24:31 UTC

Trump just said the US has done more coronavirus testing than the rest of the world. Not even close.

Published 2020-04-21 20:25:00 UTC