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WASHINGTON (AP) — Government relief checks began arriving in Americans’ bank accounts as the economic damage to the U.S. from the coronavirus piled up Wednesday and the reopening of businesses in Europe and China made it clear that things won’t necessarily bounce right back when the crisis eases.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The world’s richest countries agreed Wednesday to freeze poor nations’ debt obligations, shortly after nearly 20 European and African leaders made a joint appeal for a massive international effort to boost Africa’s coronavirus response, saying that “only a global victory that fully includes Africa can bring this pandemic to an end.”

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man who investigators say was planning to bomb a Kansas City-area hospital was distressed by the government’s response to the coronavirus crisis and motivated by racial, religious and anti-government animus, according to newly unsealed court documents.

President Donald Trump announced a halt to American payments to the World Health Organization, pending a review of its warnings about the coronavirus and China.

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks swung back down Wednesday after more signs piled up of the economic damage being caused by the coronavirus outbreak.

WASHINGTON (AP) — American industry collapsed in March as the pandemic wreaked havoc on the U.S. economy. Manufacturing and overall industrial production posted the biggest declines since the United States demobilized after World War II.

"High School Musical": Who says we have to let it go?

Thanks to "High School Musical" director Kenny Ortega, the original East High Wildcats will reunite Thursday for the forthcoming "Disney Family Singalong" on ABC. And, yes, Troy Bolton will be there — sort of.

The veteran Disney Channel filmmaker recently told Deadline that ABC and former Disney CEO Bob Iger asked him to participate in the special, which will feature a number of classic tunes performed by Christina Aguilera, John Stamos... Читать дальше...

In an effort to extend his basketball career, former Sage College standout Marcus Patterson invested his money in an asset he knew he could count on.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Setting the stage for a possible power struggle with President Donald Trump, governors around the U.S. began sketching out plans Tuesday to reopen their economies in a slow and methodical process so as to prevent the coronavirus from rebounding with tragic consequences.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to eventually ease stay-at-home restrictions across California depends on widespread coronavirus testing that is still ramping up across the state and has been hampered by supply shortages, long waits for results and even a lack of data.

Charlotte, N.C.

As sponsor after sponsor dropped Kyle Larson after he used a racial slur during a live-streamed virtual race, his NASCAR team owner was backed into a corner.

Chip Ganassi could let McDonald's and Credit One Bank and Chevrolet pull their funding and bankrupt his team or he could cut ties with the driver.

It was essentially out of Ganassi's hands.

He fired the 27-year-old Larson on Tuesday in what he described as "an emotional call" — the only move possible to stabilize his organization. Читать дальше...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala's health minister said Tuesday that deportees from the United States were driving up the country's COVID-19 caseload, adding that on one flight some 75% of the deportees tested positive for the virus.

Actress Emma Watson is 30. Actress Claudia Cardinale is 82. Politician Jeffrey Archer is 80. Singer Dave Edmunds is 77. Actor Michael Tucci is 74. Actress Lois Chiles is 73. Actress Amy Wright is 70. Columnist Heloise is 69. Actor Sam McMurray is 68. Actress Emma Thompson is 61. Bluegrass musician Jeff Parker is 59. Singer Samantha Fox is 54. Olympic gold medal swimmer Dara Torres is 53. Rock musician Ed O'Brien (Radiohead) is 52. Actor Flex Alexander is 50. Actor Danny Pino is 46. Actor Douglas Spain is 46. Читать дальше...

New York

Hank Steinbrenner, the oldest son of George Steinbrenner and one of the four siblings who own the controlling shares of the New York Yankees, died Tuesday at age 63.

The team said he died at home in Clearwater, Fla., due to a long-standing health issue.

A chain smoker and miniature drag racer, Hank hoped to succeed as his father did as the team's controlling owner. Between the 2007 and 2008 seasons, he became the public voice of the Yankees' ownership.

"We're keepers of the flame, I guess," he said then. Читать дальше...

Marr is a Johns Hopkins alumnus who played with Pietramala and won a national championship there in 1987, one of the Blue Jays’ nine NCAA titles. Marr’s son, Kyle, also starred at Johns Hopkins before graduating last year.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's decision to toughen rather than relax what already was one of the nation's strictest stay-home orders in response to the coronavirus is hitting opposition in her home state, where Republicans who backed her moves initially are now ratcheting up their criticism.

Golf courses around the Capital Region were open, and now, by state mandate, they are closed indefinitely.