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WATCH: Trump, Fauci encourage plasma donation after touring Red Cross headquarters

By Associated Press

President Donald Trump and Dr. Anthony Fauci joined together to plea with those who have recovered from coronavirus to donate their plasma.

WATCH: Fauci, Redfield, Giroir take questions about need for a national COVID-19 strategy

By Laura Santhanam

The Trump administration initially rejected lawmakers' requests to allow these experts to offer testimony before Congress. They are scheduled to testify Friday at 9 a.m. ET.

Record economic plunge, bleak jobs numbers reveal virus toll

By Martin Crutsinger, Paul Wiseman, Associated Press

The coronavirus pandemic sent the U.S. economy plunging by a record-shattering 32.9% annual rate last quarter. It is still inflicting damage across the country, squeezing already struggling businesses and forcing a wave of layoffs that shows no sign of abating.

Washington D.C. will not reopen school buildings in fall

By Ashraf Khalil, Associated Press

Officials have abandoned their initial plans to use a combination of distance and in-person instruction. The announcement Thursday by Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser was widely expected as all surrounding school districts in northern Virginia and southern Maryland had already made…

Pilgrims pray on peak day of hajj in shadow of coronavirus

By Aya Batrawy, Associated Press

Masked pilgrims arrived Thursday at Mount Arafat, a desert hill near Islam's holiest site, to pray and repent on the most important day of the hajj, the annual pilgrimage in Mecca in Saudi Arabia.

After 99 days of success, virus returns to haunt Vietnam

By Hau Dinh, Associated Press

For 99 days, Vietnam seemed to have defeated the coronavirus. There wasn't a single reported case of community transmission.

As a virus ravages the world, antibiotic makers are in disarray

By Paul Solman

COVID-19 can be accompanied by secondary bacterial infections with deadly consequences. But the industry that researches and produces antibiotics to fight such illnesses has been upended -- and the pandemic is only making things worse. Now, medical experts worry about…

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Why people are taking more coronavirus risks as the pandemic drags on

By Fedor Kossakovski

Even as COVID-19 cases are surging to new heights across the U.S., it makes sense that people are likely to be more lax in their precautions than during the early days of the crisis, experts in risk perception say.

Pence urges in-person school during visit to North Carolina

By Bryan Anderson, Associated Press

Vice President Mike Pence said schools around the country will have the resources they need to reopen for in-person learning during a visit to a classroom of masked fourth graders at a North Carolina private school.

Rep. Gohmert tests positive for coronavirus, cancels Trump trip

By Alan Fram, Associated Press

The 66-year-old Texas Republican was screened for the virus at the White House on Wednesday morning. Gohmert had gone there because he was planning to fly to Texas with President Donald Trump aboard Air Force One.