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[ad_1] Foster Farm chicken breast fillets seen in a Target superstore on February 1, 2020. Alex Tai/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images A Foster Farms poultry processing plant in California has been forced to temporarily close its doors due to the coronavirus. At least 358 workers have tested positive and eight have died in what health […]

[ad_1] Coronavirus cases continue to mushroom at the University of Alabama, with 1,043 cases among faculty, staff and students since Aug. 19, the first day of on-campus classes. On Friday, newly released figures showed the university recorded 481 new cases of COVID-19 on its campus in the previous three days alone. The college had reported

[ad_1] WASHINGTON — Coronavirus aid negotiations continue to stall between lawmakers in Washington as millions of Americans face a financial breaking point amid the pandemic — with Nancy Pelosi vowing “we’re not budging.” A call between the powerful House Speaker and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows — their first communication in weeks —

[ad_1] WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she talked with White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows for 25 minutes on Thursday but that they remain at a “tragic impasse” over another round of coronavirus relief. Pelosi had maintained that she will restart negotiations when the administration is willing to raise its price tag

[ad_1] Council Speaker Corey Johnson is pushing Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers to pass a measure that would let New York City borrow billions of dollars to help prevent massive layoffs of government workers during the fiscal crisis triggered by the pandemic. Johnson said the City Council will soon pass a resolution urging Albany

[ad_1] This file photo taken on September 22, 2018 shows Boat Island in the Andaman Islands, a remote Indian archipelago in the Bay of Bengal – AFP Four members of a remote tribe living on India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands have tested positive for Covid-19, sparking fears for the group’s survival. The Greater Andamese number

[ad_1] Banff, Canada. andyjh07/Shutterstock John Pennington was arrested and charged by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police after officials said he breached Canada’s travel rules during the coronavirus pandemic. Americans are currently barred from traveling through Canada unless they’re driving to and from Alaska — people who spend the night must quarantine in their hotel. Pennington

[ad_1] NAPA, Calif. — The California LNU Lightning Complex fire has charred more than 350,000 acres, destroyed more than 900 structures, claimed the lives of at least five people and forced thousands more to flee their homes as it rampages in all directions. But the destructive walls of flames — spanning parts of normally lush

[ad_1] People wearing masks in Del Mar, California. Mike Blake/Reuters A man who once believed the coronavirus was a hoax has lost his wife to COVID-19. BBC News previously wrote about Brian Lee Hitchens, a man in Florida who told the outlet he fell ill along with his wife, Erin, in May after ignoring social-distancing

[ad_1] WASHINGTON – A plan to furlough about two-third of the federal workers tasked with offering citizenship, green cards and visas to immigrants — which would have effectively brought the nation’s immigration system to a standstill — was canceled on Tuesday just days before employees would have been removed from the payroll. U.S. Citizenship and