Facing intense surges in the need for hospital ICU beds, European nations are on a hospital building and medical worker hiring spree.

From furloughed workers to front-line responders, Americans across the spectrum wrote in to describe their new, bewildering reality.

Asian stocks are mixed after a White House warning that as many as 240,000 Americans might die of the coronavirus sent Wall Street tumbling and signs of the outbreak’s global economic cost increased

Fashion lines, car manufacturers and airlines, among other industries, are summoning their resources to help with the medical response to the coronavirus pandemic. They’re manufacturing masks and ventilators — with some even delivering food to first responders.

The Trump administration backtracked Wednesday evening on new rules and said Social Security recipients won’t have to file a tax return to receive a stimulus payment.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti told Angelenos Wednesday to wear masks and face coverings and also said he would allow restaurants to add grocery items to their menus, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to change how the city looks and operates.

DESC: President Donald Trump reacted to a statement former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign made saying the candidate would be open to having a phone call with the president about the coronavirus pandemic. “I’d love to speak to him,” responded Trump. “I always found him to be a very nice guy.

A federal judge is signaling he won’t postpone or make any major changes to Wisconsin’s spring election to alleviate concerns about voters and poll workers contracting the coronavirus.

Prosecutors charged a locomotive engineer who worked at the Port of Los Angeles with intentionally derailing a train at full speed near the US Navy Hospital Ship Mercy because of suspicions over it and activities surrounding COVID-19, according to a federal criminal complaint.

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he would increase counter-narcotics operations. Trump said the increased operations were aimed at protecting Americans from the “deadly scourge of illegal narcotics.” He added, “We must not let the drug cartels exploit the pandemic to threaten American lives.”

Background checks required to buy firearms have spiked to record numbers in the past month, fueled by a run on guns from Americans panicked about their safety during the coronavirus crisis.

The federal Bureau of Prisons is locking inmates in their cells at all its facilities for 14 days in order to stop the spread of the coronavirus