Wall Street ended the week the same way it began: In full retreat from the coronavirus. Stocks fell sharply and the price of oil sank Friday as federal and state governments moved to shut down bigger and bigger swaths of the nation’s economy in the hope of limiting the spread...
Coronavirus Closes Fresno IRS Offices. Employees to Work at Home.
Workers at the Internal Revenue Service offices in Fresno were told that all buildings will close at noon Friday and stay closed until further notice during the coronavirus outbreak. In an email to IRS employees, Craig Stevens, the senior commissioner's representative for Fresno, said that employees are expected to work...
2020 Campaigns Go Digital Amid Fears of Coronavirus Spread
WASHINGTON — No more rallies. No more door-knocking. And no more in-person fundraisers, raking in dollars from dozens of millionaires at once. The coronavirus has disrupted American life, and the 2020 presidential campaign is no exception. Amid calls for social distancing to stop the pandemic’s spread, President Donald Trump and Democrats Joe Biden and Bernie...
New York Joins California in Locking Down Against the Virus
New York state moved to join California on Friday in confining nearly all residents to their homes, as governors undertook their most sweeping efforts yet to contain the coronavirus and fend off the kind of onslaught of patients that has caused southern Europe to buckle. “We’re going to close the...
COVID-19 and the Court Crisis: Action Needed Now
In California, we have now been ordered by the governor to shelter-in-place. Our government is requiring individuals to give up rights, asking businesses to give up income, and asking our fellow community members to do our part to halt this crisis. Yet, our courthouses are still compelling hundreds of community...
Senator Asks for Ethics Probe Into His Own Stock Sales
WASHINGTON — Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., is asking for an ethics probe in response to criticism that he sold off as much as $1.7 million in stocks just before the market dropped in February amid coronavirus fears. Senate records show that Burr and his wife sold between roughly...
New Restrictions Coming on Travel Between the US and Mexico
SAN DIEGO — U.S. officials are expected to announce new restrictions on the southern border Friday as they try to halt the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. The U.S. and Mexico have been working on plans to limit cross-border traffic, according to officials on both sides of the border. The...
California Rushes to Prevent Virus Spread Among the Homeless
SACRAMENTO — Home to the largest homeless population in the country, California officials are rushing to get tens of thousands of people off the streets and into shelters and tents to slow the spread of the coronavirus among one of the most vulnerable and difficult-to-reach groups. There has been only...
Governors Raise Alarm as Coronavirus Taxes Health Systems
BATON ROUGE, La. — In a day of dizzying developments, governors across the U.S. sounded a perilous alarm about the rapid spread of the new coronavirus and warned of dire consequences for their health care systems. The governor of California issued a statewide stay-at-home order, Pennsylvania's governor ordered more than...
Income Tax Filing Deadline Moved to July 15 From April 15
WASHINGTON — The income tax filing date has been pushed back from April 15, to July 15, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said. Mnuchin announced the decision in a tweet Friday saying that at President Donald Trump’s direction “we are moving Tax Day from April 15 to July 15. All taxpayers...