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"The quicker a parent reports, then the quicker a health-care professional can evaluate, the more chance of protecting the child and seeing them through this challenge safely," de Blasio said.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended Tesla CEO Elon Musk's calls to resume production at the company's Fremont, California, plant.

Fauci is warning states that prematurely reopening their economies will cause "needless suffering and death."

As banks tighten lending standards across the board, it is getting increasingly difficult to get a loan. But there are still a few options out there.

As more students consider deferring college, admissions to a majority of schools were less competitive for the Class of 2024 than in recent years.

Dozens of states have reopened parts of the economy and lifted restrictions. Some have done so despite failing to meet White House criteria to reopen.

CPI excluding food and energy prices slumped 0.4%, the steepest drop since records have been kept.

Sustained economic stress from job losses and downturns in the stock market could be associated with higher U.S. suicide rates, according to a JAMA report.

Other states, such as Georgia, which has one of the most ambitious and earliest reopening plans, have yet to report an uptick in cases.

Due to coronavirus school closures, students could be losing 30% of reading gains and 50% of math skills, according to a new report. Educational organizations, including Scholastic, have rolled out special programs to help kids stay on track.

U.S. government debt yields held steady Tuesday morning as investors tracked reports of new cases of Covid-19 in Wuhan, China.

The Fed's history-making initiative will have the central bank purchasing ETFs that track the corporate debt market.

"The forces that will bring about inflation are aligning," Chetan Ahya, chief Asia economist at Morgan Stanley, said in a note.

Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya argued that having to sort through local, state and federal laws is confusing for businesses and there needs to be a coherent way to get back to work.

Relativity Space passed a key milestone toward its goal of launching a rocket that is almost entirely 3D-printed.

The nation's largest publicly traded auto retailers are optimistic U.S. vehicle sales will continue to recover after plummeting double digits since mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The stocks making the biggest moves in premarket trading include Casper Sleep, Tesla, Eventbrite, Hertz, and more.

The new precaution comes days after two staffers close to President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence tested positive for the coronavirus.

Nursing home deaths count for more than one-quarter of all coronavirus deaths in the U.S. so far, data show.

Trump's claim that cases are falling everywhere is contradicted by his own task force's report, obtained by NBC News, showing the virus spreading far from the coasts.