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BERLIN -- Governments grappled Wednesday with how to implement border closures, travel restrictions and lockdowns that have caused transportation chaos and imperiled economies, but which authorities say are needed to slow the pandemic. European Union leaders agreed to shut down the bloc's external borders for 30 days, while the U ...

New York Attorney General Letitia James has temporarily suspended medical and student debt referred to her office amid the crisis. The collection of medical and student debt referred to the attorney general's office will be halted for at least a 30-day period, through April 15, according to a statement released by New York Gov ...

States are shutting down restaurants, bars, gyms and schools to try to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, which has now killed at least 110 people in the United States. There are at least 6,300 confirmed cases in the U.S, with COVID-19 reaching all 50 states, Washington, D ...

BRESCIA, Italy -- Three weeks into Italy's crisis, Dr. Sergio Cattaneo has seen an unused ward outfitted into an intensive care unit in six days, a hospital laundry room converted into a giant stretcher-filled waiting room and a tented field hospital erected outside to test possible new virus patients ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday predicted "we're going to win" what he called a "war" against the coronavirus as he briefed the nation one day after recommending new, stricter nationwide guidelines that prompted much of America to shut down in an effort to slow the spread of the disease ...

President Donald Trump, one day after recommending new health and social guidelines to slow the spread of COVID-19, on Tuesday proposed ways to deal with the growing economic harm the crisis is having on business and Americans workers. Referring the virus as the "enemy" and the fight as a "war," Trump said, "One day we'll be standing up here and say, 'Well, we won ...

The American Red Cross said they're now facing a "severe blood shortage," as blood drives across the country continue to be cancelled as concerns over the novel coronavirus pandemic grow. "Right now, the Red Cross is distributing blood donations faster than they are coming in," Paul Sullivan, senior vice president of the American Red Cross, told ABC News ...

DNY59/iStock(NEW HAVEN, Conn.) -- Fotis Dulos' girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, charged in connection with Dulos' wife's disappearance and alleged murder, made her first court appearance Friday since his suicide.Troconis, appearing with her new attorney, Jon Schoenhorn, pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to commit murder, according to ABC New Haven affiliate WTNH... Read More ...

carlballou/iStock(ADAMS, Mass.) -- A Massachusetts man was being attacked by two pit bulls when his neighbor grabbed a crossbow and tried to intervene, but apparently struck and killed the man instead, prosecutors said.Investigators believe the neighbor heard a commotion Wednesday afternoon and called the Adams Police Department, officials with the Berkshire County District Attorney's Office said

(ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, Md.) -- A 22-year-old murder suspect has been arrested and charged in the shooting of two Maryland police detectives following a massive manhunt, authorities said Friday.Joseph Robert Mitchell Willis is charged with the murder of 44-year-old Christopher Lawrence Jones in Glen Burnie, Maryland, as well as with the attempted first-degree murder of a police detective, the Anne A