President Donald Trump says he will use the Defense Production Act to increase manufacturing of swabs used to test for the coronavirus

Governments locking down their countries to hinder the spread of the coronavirus and citizens anxious to see businesses and other economic activity resume are increasingly at odds

The European Center for Disease Control says the continent now has more than 1 million confirmed cases and almost 100,000 deaths from the new coronavirus

Many businesses are offering relief on bills to those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout

An executive says one of Lebanon’s landmark hotels that survived the country’s bloody 15-year civil war and various other bouts of fighting has closed its doors

Governments around the world are wrestling with when and how to lift economically painful virus-control measures as unemployment rises and rent payments come due

France’s lower house of parliament has approved an emergency budget overnight

Venezuelan officials have taken to state TV in recent weeks to crow that the socialist government is conducting more coronavirus tests than any other country in Latin America

Countries are considering how to ease coronavirus restrictions and start taking gradual steps toward reviving businesses and daily life

Stocks are rising at the opening of trading on Wall Street Friday as investors rally around signs that more governments are planning phased re-openings of their economies