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President discussing options with law enforcement officials, including setting criteria for people to lower the amount they have to pay or to have tickets dismissed altogether

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is extending his emergency powers to June 12 and telling the elderly and medically fragile to stay at home until then.

New government jobs numbers reiterate the extent of the pandemic’s economic damage. In the last six weeks, more than 30 million Americans have lost their jobs, including another 3.8 million filing for unemployment last week. Lawmakers are still debating how

With more than 30 million Americans losing jobs or businesses and others forced to take pay cuts, making monthly rent and mortgage payments has become increasingly difficult. Viewers share their challenges, and John Yang talks to the National Consumer Law

Armed Michigan Protesters Storm Capitol as Lawmakers Debate Extending Governor Whitmer’s Stay-at-Home Order  Newsweek Hundreds of protesters, some carrying guns in the state Capitol, demonstrate against Michigan’s emergency measures  NBC News GOP lawmakers reject Michigan’s virus order; Whitmer unfazed  POLITICO Michigan governor announces

Fauci Says It’s ‘Doable’ To Have Millions Of Doses Of COVID-19 Vaccine By January  NPR Trump says he’s ‘in charge’ of ‘fast track’ work to produce a coronavirus vaccine  CNBC Dr. Fauci: US government could have coronavirus vaccine by January  New York Post

Mikhail Mishustin says he told President Vladimir Putin he will self-isolate.

Trump says China is doing ‘anything they can’ to make him lose election to Joe Biden  The Washington TImes Trump erupts at campaign manager as reelection stress overflows  CNN Donald Trump blasts China and WHO in latest verbal tirade | Covid-19  The Telegraph

The order is much more targeted than had been announced in a California Police Chiefs Association memo that said Newsom would require all California beaches and state parks to close. (Image credit: Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP)