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President Donald Trump speaks during a Fox News virtual town hall from the Lincoln Memorial, Sunday, May 3, 2020, in Washington.

Trump pushes economy reopening, says virus could kill 100K

President Donald Trump speaks during a Fox News virtual town hall from the Lincoln Memorial, Sunday, May 3, 2020, in Washington.

May 4, 2020, 8:00am Latest News

Pushing to reopen the economy, President Donald Trump insists that states can gradually lift lockdowns and still protect people from the coronavirus pandemic, even as he's also suggesting U.S. deaths could reach 100,000. Read story

COVID-19: Hispanics twice as likely to die in King County

May 4, 2020, 7:51am Health

Hispanic, Pacific Islander and black residents in the Seattle area are being disproportionately sickened by COVID-19, and Hispanic residents are more than twice as likely to die from the disease as whites, public health officials said Friday. Read story

Commuters sit in the subway in Milan, Italy, Monday, May 4, 2020.  Marks on the floor show the correct distance to be kept. Italy began stirring again Monday after a two-month coronavirus shutdown, with 4.4 million Italians able to return to work and restrictions on movement eased in the first European country to lock down in a bid to stem COVID-19 infections.

Italy eases long lockdown, leaders push vaccine effort

Commuters sit in the subway in Milan, Italy, Monday, May 4, 2020.  Marks on the floor show the correct distance to be kept. Italy began stirring again Monday after a two-month coronavirus shutdown, with 4.4 million Italians able to return to work and restrictions on movement eased in the first European country to lock down in a bid to stem COVID-19 infections.

May 4, 2020, 7:50am Latest News

Italy started stirring Monday, with millions of people allowed to return to work as Europe’s longest coronavirus lockdown began to ease, while the U.S. took halting steps to lift some restrictions even as tens of thousands of new cases were reported every day. Read story

A line of customers snaking around the block waits to enter the West Seattle Farmers Market during its first opening in nearly two months because of the coronavirus outbreak Sunday, May 3, 2020, in Seattle. Farmers markets in Seattle were initially closed, but are reopening with guidelines that include fewer vendors allowed, a limited number of customers with a single direction of movement, additional hand washing and sanitizing stations and signs and markings urging customers to maintain distance from each other.

Many Washington parks to re-open, but not beaches, gorge

A line of customers snaking around the block waits to enter the West Seattle Farmers Market during its first opening in nearly two months because of the coronavirus outbreak Sunday, May 3, 2020, in Seattle. Farmers markets in Seattle were initially closed, but are reopening with guidelines that include fewer vendors allowed, a limited number of customers with a single direction of movement, additional hand washing and sanitizing stations and signs and markings urging customers to maintain distance from each other.

May 4, 2020, 7:47am Latest News

More than 100 state parks, trails and boating sites across Washington state will re-open Tuesday as some coronavirus restrictions are eased, but many popular sites remain closed indefinitely, according to officials. Read story

Washington businesses filed 14,000 pleas to reopen soon after coronavirus shutdown order

May 4, 2020, 7:45am Business

A pyrotechnics distributor needed to oversee the arrival of a massive shipment of imported fireworks. Gun stores and shooting ranges felt the Second Amendment guaranteed Washingtonians the right to continue to purchase and bear arms. Two ceramics stores said they offered therapeutic release amid the stress of the pandemic. Read story

In this Wednesday, April 29, 2020 photo selfie provided by Dr. Beth Oller, Oller, a family physician, smiles while standing outside her medical clinic, just south of Main Street in Stockton, Kan. Oller began preaching social distancing well before her home of Rooks County confirmed its first coronavirus case and now she&#039;s nervous about the state reopening its economy too soon. (Dr.

With rural Kansas close to reopening, doctor remains nervous

In this Wednesday, April 29, 2020 photo selfie provided by Dr. Beth Oller, Oller, a family physician, smiles while standing outside her medical clinic, just south of Main Street in Stockton, Kan. Oller began preaching social distancing well before her home of Rooks County confirmed its first coronavirus case and now she&#039;s nervous about the state reopening its economy too soon. (Dr.

May 3, 2020, 1:35pm Nation & World

Dr. Beth Oller would like Kansas to remain under a stay-at-home order a while longer, even as some neighbors in her rural northwest county are restless to see business return to normal. Read story

Anna Miller, owner of Sew-Op + Maker Space, sews face masks. Faith-based homeless service provider Open House Ministries is encouraging people to be thoughtful and kind during Giving Tuesday Now, a day of giving prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Giving Tuesday Now: A May spinoff of a holiday tradition in Clark County, globally

Anna Miller, owner of Sew-Op + Maker Space, sews face masks. Faith-based homeless service provider Open House Ministries is encouraging people to be thoughtful and kind during Giving Tuesday Now, a day of giving prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

May 3, 2020, 6:00am Clark County News

Some local charities are taking part in a day of philanthropy that may sound familiar. Read story

Ridgefield City Hall in 2020 (The Columbian files)

Ridgefield braces for revenue hit

Ridgefield City Hall in 2020 (The Columbian files)

May 3, 2020, 6:00am Clark County News

The city of Ridgefield is projecting a general-fund revenue loss of 17 percent from the COVID-19 outbreak. Read story

FILE - In this March 2020 photo provided by Gilead Sciences, rubber stoppers are placed onto filled vials of the investigational drug remdesivir at a Gilead manufacturing site in the United States. Given through an IV, the medication is designed to interfere with an enzyme that reproduces viral genetic material.

U.S. allows use of first drug shown to help virus recovery

FILE - In this March 2020 photo provided by Gilead Sciences, rubber stoppers are placed onto filled vials of the investigational drug remdesivir at a Gilead manufacturing site in the United States. Given through an IV, the medication is designed to interfere with an enzyme that reproduces viral genetic material.

May 2, 2020, 7:43pm Nation & World

U.S. regulators on Friday allowed emergency use of the first drug that appears to help some COVID-19 patients recover faster, a milestone in the global search for effective therapies against the coronavirus. Read story

FILE - In this April 20, 2020, photo, a test is performed on a patient in a COVID-19 triage tent at St. Joseph&#039;s Hospital in Yonkers, N.Y. An Associated Press analysis finds that most states are not meeting the minimum levels of testing suggested by the federal government and recommended by public health researchers even as many of them begin to reopen their shattered economies.

AP: Most states fall short of coronavirus testing thresholds

FILE - In this April 20, 2020, photo, a test is performed on a patient in a COVID-19 triage tent at St. Joseph&#039;s Hospital in Yonkers, N.Y. An Associated Press analysis finds that most states are not meeting the minimum levels of testing suggested by the federal government and recommended by public health researchers even as many of them begin to reopen their shattered economies.

May 2, 2020, 7:41pm Nation & World

As more states begin to relax their coronavirus lockdowns, most are falling short of the minimum levels of testing suggested by the federal government and recommended by a variety of public health researchers, an Associated Press analysis has found. Read story