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FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2020, file photo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos pauses as she testifies during a hearing of a House Appropriations Sub-Committee on the fiscal year 2021 budget on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Trump administration is barring most international students and all students who entered the U.S. illegally from receiving emergency college grants approved by Congress as part of a $2.2 trillion coronavirus rescue package. DeVos issued the restriction in new guidelines...

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DeVos excludes DACA recipients, foreign students from grants

by Collin Binkley Associated PressApril 23, 2020

FILE - In this March 16, 2020, file photo, a tree blooms outside the Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court ruled Thursday, April 23, that sewage plants and other industries cannot avoid environmental requirements under landmark clean-water protections when they send dirty water on an indirect route to rivers, oceans and other navigable waterways. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

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Supreme Court rejects EPA’s narrow view of Clean Water Act

by Mark Sherman Associated PressApril 23, 2020

Former nurse and Marine Denise Thornton stands adjacent to a damaged mobile home that sustained damage on her property during a severe storm that struck the unincorporated area of Rankin County in the early hours of Thursday, April 23, 2020, in Monterey, Miss. (Sarah Warnock/The Clarion-Ledger via AP)

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At least 7 dead as storms hit Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana

by Staff Report April 23, 2020

In this Wednesday, April 22, 2020 photo a passer-by walks past pedestrian traffic pylons, front left and front right, in an outdoor mall where most stores remain closed out of concern for the coronavirus, in Dedham, Mass. More than 4.4 million laid-off workers applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week as job cuts escalated across an economy that remains all but shut down, the government said Thursday. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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Another 80,000 Massachusetts residents file for unemployment

by Staff Report April 23, 2020

FILE - In this March 5, 2020, file photo, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks to the media outside her home in Cambridge, Mass., after she dropped out of the Democratic presidential race. Warren said Thursday, April 23, that her brother Donald Reed Herring had died Tuesday after testing positive for the coronavirus. He was 86 and died in Norman, Okla. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

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Elizabeth Warren’s oldest brother dies of coronavirus

by Staff Report April 23, 2020

In this Friday, April 17, 2020, photo, Dr. Gabrielle Beger, left, prepares to take a nose-swab sample from Lawrence McGee, as she works with a team of University of Washington medical providers conducting testing for the new coronavirus at Queen Anne Healthcare, a skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility in Seattle. Sending "drop teams" from University of Washington Medicine to conduct universal testing at skilled nursing facilities in collaboration with public health officials is...

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10,000 deaths: Ravaged nursing homes plead for more testing

by Bernard Condon Associated Press, and Matt Sedensky And Jim Mustian Associated PressApril 23, 2020

Clarence Shields, an Army veteran, pickets with a small group of activists from the American Federation of Government Employees local 424 and the National Association of Government Employees local R3-19 during the coronavirus pandemic, outside the Baltimore VA Medical Center, Wednesday, April 22, 2020, in Baltimore. The Department of Veterans Affairs is struggling with shortages of workers at its health care facilities as it cares for veterans infected with the novel coronavirus. (AP...

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VA medical facilities struggle to cope with the coronavirus

by Michael Casey Associated Press, and Hope Yen Associated PressApril 23, 2020

A medical worker walks past people lined up at Gotham Health East New York, a COVID-19 testing center Thursday, April 23, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

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Governor: Antibody survey shows wide exposure to virus in NY

by Staff Report April 23, 2020

Amid concerns of the spread of COVID-19, a masked woman walks by the closed retail store Sunnyland Outdoor Living in Dallas, Wednesday, April 22, 2020. The location has been closed due to the COVID-19 outbreak but beginning Friday, statewide rules for retailers will be relaxed allowing allowing locations to provide customer pick-up of non-essential products. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

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Virus pushes US unemployment to highest since Depression

by David Crary Associated Press, Kathy Gannon Associated Press, Staff Report Associated Press, and Angela Charlton Associated PressApril 23, 2020

A sign in support of the nursing staff at the Soldiers' Home in Holyoke is displayed beside flags, flowers and wreaths, Wednesday, Apr. 8, 2020.

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COVID-19 hits nursing homes in Holyoke, Northampton

by Michael Connors Staff WriterApril 23, 2020