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Sen. Bill Cassidy, who is a medical doctor, tells Morning Edition that underlying health issues like diabetes contribute to the disproportionate number of African Americans dying of COVID-19.

A Smithfield Foods plant in South Dakota that produces 4% to 5% of the nation's pork supply has become the latest meat processing facility to shut down as COVID-19 sickens plant workers.

About three dozen tankers are anchored from Los Angeles and Long Beach up to San Francisco Bay, turning into floating storage for crude oil that is in short demand because of the coronavirus.

The president was warned in early briefings that the virus was going to "spread globally," according to a White House official who said Trump was told deaths were happening "only in China."

The Hong Kong-based airline, which is flying just 3% of its schedule in the wake of the pandemic, will lay off nearly 300 employees in New York, San Francisco and LA.

A remittances expert estimates the money sent back to Latin America and the Caribbean could decline by 7%.

Although the president continues to push unverified theories of widespread fraud or foreign interference, the FBI says it has no reporting to suggest the threat is real.

Republicans will see more than 100 of their House members and over a dozen GOP senators object to the election results. Those objections are highly unlikely to prevail.

The hotel company is the latest to sever ties with the Republican senator following his objection to Electoral College results during Congress' certification of President-elect Joe Biden's win.

The moves came after TMZ posted a video of the fast-rising country star using a racial slur.