Stores set up senior shopping hours amid coronavirus fears

Stores set up senior shopping hours amid coronavirus fears

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — As senior citizens deal with anxiety about the coronavirus, grocery store chains and other retailers have come up with a way to ease their fears: shopping times reserved exclusively for them.Target, Whole Foods, Walmart and Dollar General, as well...
US-Canada border to close late Friday to non-essential trips

US-Canada border to close late Friday to non-essential trips

TORONTO (AP) — The Canadian government said Thursday the Canada-U.S. border will be closed to all non-essential travel in both directions on Friday night. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also said it will take “weeks to months” for social-distancing measures...
Stock market unravels as coronavirus ravages global economy

Stock market unravels as coronavirus ravages global economy

The rapidly deteriorating health of the financial markets is being driven by a contagion of fear and uncertainty about a global pandemic that’s infecting the economy in ways that seemed unfathomable just a month ago.It almost seems like a distant memory now, but...
Vital but vulnerable, cleaners hold the line against a virus

Vital but vulnerable, cleaners hold the line against a virus

NEW YORK (AP) — When hospitals need to prep a room for the next coronavirus test, when jetliners discharge their passengers at the gate, when suburbanites start to take sanitary precautions more seriously, the call goes out:Send in the cleaners.These largely unsung...
US panel approves pipeline, natural gas terminal in Oregon

US panel approves pipeline, natural gas terminal in Oregon

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A U.S. regulatory agency on Thursday approved a controversial natural gas pipeline and marine export terminal project in Oregon, with one member saying the environmental impacts are acceptable considering the public benefits that will be provided by...