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General Motors is quickly moving to repurpose two U.S. facilities from automotive manufacturing to making health-care supplies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has repeatedly warned that the coronavirus epidemic in New York threatens to overwhelm the health-care system.

Erik Santos of Georgia is charged with conspiring to defraud federal and private health-care benefit programs "by submitting fraudulent testing claims" for coronavius and genetic cancer screenings.

Executives across the company will also take pay cuts, according to an internal email obtained by CNBC.

There is "some preliminary data from non-randomized studies, observational studies, that indicate some drugs and some drug cocktails may have an impact," said Dr. Mike Ryan, a top WHO official.

"I think we're going to have a good idea over the next three days because it's been used now in New York at my request," Trump says.

Joe Biden's podcast about the coronavirus response comes as President Trump uses government briefings to get his message across.

Much like all interaction in the age of COVID-19, home touring is moving online and going solo.

Workers at Amazon's JFK8 warehouse are walking out to demand that the company close the facility for sanitizing after an employee tested positive for the coronavirus.

Sen. Ted Cruz said a group of nine senators recently ripped into the Saudi ambassador to the United States in a conference call over its oil price war with Russia.

Homebuyer demand was strengthening markedly just before COVID-19 began its spread across the U.S. Pending home sales, which measure signed contracts on existing homes, rose 2.4% in February compared with January. Sales were up a steep 9.4% annually, according to the National Association of Realtors. That is the highest pace in exactly three years.

Johnson & Johnson said human testing of its experimental vaccine for the coronavirus will begin by September and it could be available for emergency use authorization in early 2021.

The central bank could go where it's never gone before, into the equity market where it would take a passive interest in the performance of stocks.

Brands have been using ad-tech companies to prevent their ads from showing up on news sites for fear of being associated with COVID-19.

Yum Brands CEO David Gibbs will forgo the rest of his base salary in 2020 to fund one-time $1,000 bonuses to the company's nearly 1,200 restaurant general managers across KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and The Habit Burger Grill.

Long-maturity Treasury yields fell on Monday as fears mount that worldwide shutdowns resulting from the coronavirus pandemic could continue for months.

The stocks making the biggest moves in premarket trading include J&J, Sanofi, Regeneron, La-Z-Boy, Apple, and more.

Some drive-in movie theaters are seeing a boom amid the coronavirus. Whether it evolves into a big summer season for the nostalgic venues remains uncertain.

The Zaandam is now at least the third Carnival-owned ship to become the site of a coronavirus outbreak.

As the coronavirus outbreak upsets schools and the health and safety of communities and families, college-bound students struggle to decide their fate come fall.