Public trust key, EU insists, in developing virus apps
BRUSSELS (AP) — As European countries develop coronavirus tracing apps, the European Union is urging its 27 member states them to make them voluntary and ensure that the many national systems can work together. The virus has infected more than 850,000 Europeans,...
Hope takes the reins on Wall Street, stocks rally worldwide
NEW YORK (AP) — In Wall Street’s tug of war between hope and pessimism about the coronavirus pandemic, hope is fighting back.U.S. stocks joined a worldwide rally Friday and closed out their first back-to-back weekly gain since the market began selling off two months...
China’s economy in worst downturn since ’60s in virus battle
BEIJING (AP) — China faces a drawn-out struggle to revive an economy that suffered its biggest contraction since possibly the mid-1960s after millions of people were told to stay home to fight the coronavirus. The world’s second-largest economy shrank by 6.8% from a...EPA guts rule credited with cleaning up coal-plant toxic air
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday gutted an Obama-era rule that compelled the country’s coal plants to cut back emissions of mercury and other human health hazards, a move designed to limit future regulation of air pollutants from coal- and...