Shutdown

For residents across America’s Sun Belt — business owners and workers, consumers and home buyers —  the past three months have delivered about the scariest ride in memory

Here’s an update of Thursday’s COVID-19 news from across New England: COVID-19-related deaths in Massachusetts surged again Wednesday, topping 5,300 just days before the state is set to release a plan to reopen the economy. There were 174 new deaths reported, bringing to 5,315 the total number of deaths recorded in the state since the pandemic’s start. It’s a...

As Peter Janis sees it, when a customer goes through the tunnel at Jamaica Plain Car Wash, it isn’t much different than buying a coffee in the drive-thru at Dunkin’ in terms of human contact. Janis believes the business transaction can be made safely amid the COVID-19 emergency. His staff also frequently sanitized equipment in the self-service bays like vacuums and hoses. Like other...

Some Boston businesses have tried to keep their doors open to customers, only to be shut down by city inspectors.

Gov. Charlie Baker says data will determine when and how we move closer to reopening.

A group of roughly 100 Massachusetts restaurant owners and related hospitality businesses is pushing Gov. Charlie Baker to allow the industry to open at full capacity in June. Noting that the hospitality industry has seen half of its 300,000-person workforce laid off as the economy shut down to slow the spread of coronavirus, the group said 60,000 of those jobs…

Large crowds gathered to protest California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decision to close beaches in Orange County, Calif., after large crowds were seen at beaches last weekend.

Massachusetts General Hospital’s coronavirus simulator estimates the sooner restrictions are pulled back, more coronavirus-related deaths will ensue.

Actress Vanessa Hudgens is facing backlash after she called the coronavirus shutdowns “bull—-” and said people dying as a result of the virus is “inevitable.”

Last week, Congress ended the federal shutdown — at least for now — slowing the daily flow of stories about furloughed workers who cannot pay their rent, work but have no savings, or are insured but cannot afford their medication. But while those workers have returned to their jobs, NBC News reports, the problems that come with economic insecurity remain...

Senate leaders agreed to hold votes this week on dueling proposals to reopen shuttered federal agencies, forcing a political reckoning for senators grappling with the longest shutdown in U.S. history: Side with President Donald Trump or vote to temporarily end the shutdown and keep negotiating. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. set up the two showdown votes for Thursday, a...

Seth Meyers takes a closer look at President Donald Trump’s speech about the government shutdown and the deal he offered that both Democrats and hard-line conservatives have rejected.

Just two months after a wildfire wiped out Paradise, California, officials are gearing up for this year’s fire season and fear the government shutdown could make it even more difficult than one of the worst in history. The winter months are critical for wildfire managers who use the break from the flames to prepare for the next onslaught, but much...

Seth Meyers takes a closer look at accusations that President Donald Trump worked for a foreign government and the federal government’s ongoing shutdown.

With the government mired in shutdown week four, President Donald Trump rejected a short-term legislative fix and dug in for more combat Monday, declaring he would “never ever back down.” Trump rejected a suggestion to reopen the government for several weeks while negotiations would continue with Democrats over his demands for $5.7 billion for a long, impregnable wall along the...

Seth Meyers takes a closer look at President Donald Trump traveling to Texas to make the case for his border wall as the government shutdown drags on.

Seth Meyers takes a closer look at President Donald Trump’s primetime address on the government shutdown that he started over his border wall.

House Democrats are using their new oversight authority to investigate the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s management of the shutdown, as questions mount about HUD’s failure to renew low-income housing contracts for more than 1,000 properties across the country, NBC News reported. “HUD knew for months about this impending deadline to renew the contracts, but for some reason they...

Seth Meyers takes a closer look at the continuing government shutdown and President Donald Trump announcing a primetime address on funding the border wall.