by Khadija Islow | Apr 22, 2020 | Coronavirus, Featured
Major tech companies in the United States have announced efforts to create contact tracing tools to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, but experts say that contact tracing should only be used as a supplement to fight COVID-19 because of limitations of the...
by Jack Kelly | Apr 20, 2020 | Coronavirus, Economy, Featured
Not much has changed yet at Hinchley’s Dairy Farm in Cambridge. The sound of farm machinery still echoes through the metal and concrete walls of the barn where 240 cows are milked mechanically each day. Three new calves were recently born hours apart. Soon it...
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by Jack Kelly | Apr 20, 2020 | Coronavirus, Featured
As the coronavirus-induced national emergency stretches into its second month, uncertainty looms over the United States. But in this era of unknowns, there are some somber certainties. Among them is the fact that African-American communities across the country will be...
by Anne Snabes | Apr 20, 2020 | Business, Featured
The head of the Office of Foreign Assets Control said Friday she wants to ensure that economic sanctions against foreign countries do not impede U.S. humanitarian relief for the COVID-19 pandemic, but the former director of the agency said the business community wants...
by Khadija Islow | Apr 19, 2020 | Coronavirus, Featured
Dental experts in Spokane and around Washington state have set up websites and other resources to help people with toothaches, and other oral health problems, determine whether their problem is an emergency and how to get treatment during the state’s stay-at-home...
by Jack Kelly | Apr 14, 2020 | Coronavirus, Featured
A congressional agency office said Friday that it is ready to help combat fraud as funds from the $2.2 trillion federal stimulus package known as the CARES Act are doled out and has set up several systems for people to report waste, fraud or abuse as the emergency...
