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US sheds 701,000 jobs in early March as jobless rate hits 4.4%

Preliminary data in American coronavirus crisis reflect worsening labour market

News

US politics & policy

Trump fires intelligence official who helped initiate impeachment

US president’s action to remove inspector-general comes as coronavirus crisis intensifies

Frustration as US rescue funding is beset by delays

Small businesses find large institutions are not yet taking applications for government loans

US foreign policy

US bought ventilators from Russian company under sanctions

Treasury said it can license transactions for foreign policy or national security purposes

US swoop sees 3M masks allegedly diverted from Berlin

German official denounces ‘modern piracy’ but company says it has ‘no evidence’ of seizure

Cuomo to use troops to redistribute ventilators as New York toll soars

Action comes as state healthcare system struggles with swell of incoming patients

Opinion & Analysis

Person in the News

Andrew Cuomo: a governor grabs national attention

The politician has transformed himself with his rousing and unexpectedly vulnerable briefings

Fifteen years after Katrina, New Orleans battles virus storm

City that lost more than 1,000 people in the hurricane has become a Covid-19 hotspot

Global InsightEdward Luce

America shuts the barn door too late on the epidemic

The division in tackling coronavirus in the US is not based on politics but on competence

Inside BusinessRichard Waters

Can data save us from coronavirus?

Big data and machine learning should be helping contain the pandemic — but their usefulness has been limited

US rescue must be transparent, consistent and fast

Taxpayers ought to receive a share of the upside after big business recovers

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