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Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.With the coronavirus crisis hitting state budgets hard, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Wednesday that he is open to allowing states to declare bankruptcy -- rather than sending governors more federal money to deal with their own ballooning…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Attorney General Bill Barr took a clear swipe Tuesday at state restrictions on citizens during the coronavirus pandemic, indicating not only that people could sue over measures that go too far but that the Justice Department could end up siding with them against the states.In…

The difference suggests Rhode Island probably has a better sense of the virus’s spread throughout the state, making it better prepared to curb it.The contrast offers a clear illustration of the challenges posed by a state-by-state testing strategy, in the absence of a national plan coordinated by the federal government.The White House’s decision to delegate…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Federal health officials now advise wearing a homemade face mask while in public, recently changing the guidelines in a bid to protect more Americans from contracting the novel coronavirus. But in some states, a face covering of some kind is…

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro said Monday that he is "bewildered and somewhat terrified" by some of the stay-at-home regulations imposed on residents of New York, Michigan, and California.THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK, STATE-BY-STATE"I believe that the American citizen is generally a responsible human being who is capable of going back to work, wearing a mask, staying six feet away…