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New York City officials agreed Tuesday on a grim coronavirus-era budget that will dramatically cut city services, impose a hiring freeze, and, in a move to tamp down calls to disburse police, change $ 1,000. million from the Police Department. The $ 88.1 billion budget reflected the economic shutdown that …

This is a bad sign for COVID-19’s reopening plan in western Washington. On Tuesday, Snohomish County Executive Dave Somers said the area was in danger of reversing its reopening course amid a recent spike in cases of the new coronavirus, if things did not improve soon. Snohomish, like King County, …

After a sustained decrease in the number of COVID-19 cases in recent months, restrictions begin to ease in the United States. The number of new cases is declining or stable at low numbers in some states, but increasing in many others. Overall, the US is experiencing a sharp increase in …

TribLIVE’s daily and weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and the information you need, right to your inbox. Allegheny County’s sudden increase in daily covid-19 cases has suddenly become abrupt, but health experts say the count doesn’t show the full story. “I think focusing on the large number …

Senate Republicans are quietly starting to write pieces of their next coronavirus relief package. Republicans are not expected to formally negotiate the fifth bill, or even make an official decision on whether they need another aid package, until they return from a two-week break on July 20. But Republican senators …