Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he would nominate Bharat Ramamurti, a longtime aide to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, to serve as his representative on the board overseeing a $500 billion bailout fund.
What is more likely to happen is an economy that might rev hard at first but may be prone to sputtering, stalling and wheezing before finally hitting cruising speed.
Members of the coronavirus task force are expected to hold a press briefing Monday, after the daily total new deaths in New York, the state hit hardest by the outbreak, appeared to flatten two days in a row.
In just over a week, The Jacob K. Javits Center has been transformed into a field hospital operated by the U.S. National Guard and has started to take in coronavirus patients to help alleviate the stress on existing hospital systems.
NBCUniversal says it's offering resources like more access to talent and remote production to its advertising partners as it also reduces commercial time.
A broad coalition of mortgage and finance industry leaders sent a plea to federal regulators, asking for desperately needed cash to keep the mortgage system running. This, as requests from borrowers for the federal mortgage forbearance program are flooding in at an alarming rate.
"Last week, all of my patients were extremely emotional," Maeleigh Soper said. "I sat there and cried with one of them because she's very young and can't have her mom there, and it's so sad and terrifying."
Facebook is developing new tools that use aggregated, anonymized information about users' location to help public health officials figure out who's adhering to the social distancing guidelines.
Quibi has some great actors and actresses and fun episodic TV shows but they're too short at a time when we're all home with big TVs and access to Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime and more anyway.
Some children have been hospitalized or worse after becoming infected with the coronavirus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday. At least three children have died.
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