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NASA and SpaceX are targeting May 27 for the launch of Demo-2, the first crewed NASA launch in nearly a decade.

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading on Friday.

The government's coronavirus mortgage bailout has now swelled to nearly 3 million borrowers, and the expectation is that the numbers will multiply. Mortgage servicers are struggling to make up those payments to bondholders and are begging for a bailout.

World Health Organization officials are holding a press conference to update the public on the coronavirus outbreak.

Roger Stone, a Republican operative and longtime friend of President Trump, claimed juror misconduct in his request for a new trial.

Democrats and the Trump administration are trying to reach an agreement on a bill to replenish a popular small business loan program.

Mayor de Blasio is also weighing keeping public beaches closed, saying "I can't see" opening them up yet because the outbreak isn't contained.

Paying costs for companies developing tests would create a "gold rush" of testing that would help offset the steep damage already done by the economic shutdown, the Fed's Bullard said.

Procter & Gamble reported that its fiscal third-quarter U.S. sales surged 10% as consumers stocked up on staples like toilet paper ahead of the coronavirus outbreak.

The University of Chicago Medicine recruited 125 coronavirus patients into Gilead's two late-stage clinical trials, 113 of whom were severely ill.

Microsoft President Brad Smith said Friday that the company's relationship with Bill Gates still is strong, despite the co-founder leaving the board last month.

Intelsat satellite is nearly 20 years old, but a spacecraft built by Northrop Grumman succeeded in docking with it and extending its lifespan.

Areas such as construction should be the first to come back, John Williams told CNBC.

The stocks making the biggest moves in premarket trading include P&G, Gilead, Schlumberger, Boeing, Apple, and more

Issuers are urging caution as the Federal Reserve pledges to buy investment-grade and high-yielding junk bond ETFs to support the market.

Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer and fixer for President Donald Trump, will be released from prison and be allowed to serve the remainder of a three-year sentence due to concerns about the coronavirus

The Pentagon deployed the USNS Comfort and the USNS Mercy hospital ships in March to help with the surging coronavirus cases.

The new guidance ramps up pressure on governors to loosen their restrictions, even as health experts and business leaders alike warn that widespread testing systems are needed before Americans can safely start returning to their normal lives.

Weeks before the governors of California and Washington told their residents to stay home, the top employers in their states were operating remotely.

"We will climb out of this. It's not going to be a sudden bounce back," the central bank official told CNBC.