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Historic unemployment rate upends Trump’s reelection bid

Published Thursday, May 14, 2020

The record unemployment rate captured the pain of a nation where tens of millions of jobs suddenly vanished, devastating the economy and forcing President Donald Trump to overcome historic headwinds to win a second term.

Paul Manafort released from prison due to virus concerns

Published Thursday, May 14, 2020

(AP) — Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s onetime presidential campaign chairman, convicted as part of the special counsel’s Russia investigation, has been released from federal prison to serve the rest of his sentence in home confinement due to concerns about the coronavirus, his lawyer said Wednesda

Trump takes cautious approach to highlighting Biden accuser

Published Tuesday, May 12, 2020

President Donald Trump rarely holds his fire, hurling accusations true and false.

Trump praises Barr for dropping Flynn’s Trump-Russia case

Published Saturday, May 9, 2020

(AP) — In an abrupt about-face, the Justice Department said it is dropping the criminal case against President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, abandoning a prosecution that became a rallying cry for the president and his supporters in attacking the FBI’s Trump-Russi

Jobless rate spikes to 14.7%, highest since Great Depression

Published Saturday, May 9, 2020

(AP) — The U.S. unemployment rate hit 14.7% in April, the highest rate since the Great Depression, as 20.5 million jobs vanished in the worst monthly loss on record.

Mobile COVID-19 Test Collection Coming to Sweetwater May 9

Published Friday, May 8, 2020

On Saturday, May 9, a mobile testing collection unit will; be coming to Sweetwater. The unit will be at the Nolan County Coliseum Parking Lot between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

33 million have sought US unemployment aid since virus hit

Published Thursday, May 7, 2020

Nearly 3.2 million laid-off workers applied for unemployment benefits last week caused by the viral outbreak deepened the worst U.S. economic catastrophe in decades.

Trump: COVID-19 task force not dismantling, just refocusing

Published Thursday, May 7, 2020

President Donald Trump reversed course on plans to wind down his COVID-19 task force, as infection rates still rise in parts of the nation.

Outbreak shows shaky ground as Texas opens

Published Saturday, May 2, 2020

Barely a week ago, rural Lamar County could make a pretty good argument for Texas’ reopening on Friday until an outbreak at a nursing home changed all that.

Trump speculates that China released virus in lab ‘mistake’

Published Saturday, May 2, 2020

President Donald Trump has speculated that China could have unleashed the coronavirus on the world due to some kind of horrible “mistake,”.