March 2020

Coronavirus Live Updates: Trump to Declare National Emergency and Louisiana Will Delay Primary

Trump will declare a national emergency. President Trump is expected to declare a national emergency on Friday afternoon, a move that would give him authority to use $40 billion allocated by Congress for disaster relief to address the coronavirus crisis. Cases in the U.S. have climbed past 1,700, even with sporadic and spare testing, and

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The Week in Tech: Gigs at Home, but Not What Start-Ups Intended

Each week, we review the week’s news, offering analysis about the most important developments in the tech industry. Hello from our new market-melting, social-distancing, work-from-home reality. This is Erin Griffith, a start-ups and venture capital reporter in San Francisco. I hope you are staying sane while staying inside. I’m calling this past week The Tom

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Louisiana elections chief asks to postpone April 4 primary

Louisiana’s chief elections officer is asking the governor to postpone the state’s April 4 presidential primary election for two months because of the new coronavirus By MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press March 13, 2020, 4:53 PM 3 min read BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana’s chief elections officer asked the governor on Friday to postpone the state’s

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