President Donald Trump signs a $484 billion interim coronavirus relief bill that will add another $310 billion to the small-business Paycheck Protection Program, as well as provide billions in aid to hospitals and for testing. 2020-04-24
United States President Donald Trump invokes the Defense Production Act to clear up supply-chain issues encountered in the manufacturing of ventilator machines. 2020-04-2
Hobby Lobby is expected to reopen in states with stay-at-home orders. 2020-04-1
The "Grand Ole Opry" broadcasts from an empty venue for the first time since 1925. 2020-03-21
The first one-on-one debate of the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries takes place between former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders in Washington, D.C., instead of Arizona as originally scheduled and without an audience as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. 2020-03-15
In an emergency move, less than two weeks after the previous unscheduled intervention, the Fed drops its benchmark rate a full percentage point. It announces a $700 billion quantitative easing program, sets reserve requirements for thousands of banks to zero and lowers other lending rates. The set of measures appears as its biggest ever in a single day. 2020-03-15
Mitch McConnell announces that the United States Senate will not have recess to work on a bill to contain the coronavirus. 2020-03-12