The U.S. Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid.
As more cases of COVID-19 are diagnosed, more people are seeking out testing. That’s leading to longer waits for testing results as labs get backed up. A member of the city-county COVID-19 task force said there’s likely some relief on the way.
President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of his longtime political confidant Roger Stone on Friday, just days before he was set to report to prison. The move, short of a full pardon, is sure to alarm critics who have long railed against the president’s repeated interventions in the nation’s just
Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich says no criminal charges will be filed in the U.S. marshal-involved shooting death of 20-year-old Brandon Webber.
When precious vats of COVID-19 vaccine are finally ready, jabbing the lifesaving solution into the arms of Americans will require hundreds of millions of injections.
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MARTHA MENDOZA and JULIET LINDERMAN Associated Press
Data charts from the Departments of Health for Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi all show the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations rising dramatically.
