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Jack Campise talks with his mother, Beverly Kearns, through her apartment window at the Kimberly Hall North nursing home, May 14, in Windsor, Connecticut. The coronavirus has had no regard for health care quality or ratings as it has swept through nursing homes around the world, killing efficiently even in highly rated care centers. Preliminary research indicates the numbers of nursing home residents testing positive for the coronavirus and dying from COVID-19 are linked to location and population density — not care quality ratings.

Nearly 26,000 nursing home COVID-19 deaths reported (Gallery)

RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and CANDICE CHOI, Associated Press
June 1, 2020
A dining room sits empty, wwooden chairs stacked upside down on top of the tables.

Texas sales tax revenue declines

CASSANDRA POLLOCK, Texas Tribune
June 1, 2020
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Congo faces 2nd Ebola outbreak in northern province (VIDEO)

KRISTA LARSON, Associated Press
June 1, 2020
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador waves to supporters

Mexico president begins ‘new normal’ amid pandemic

By DAN CHRISTIAN ROJAS and MARIA VERZA, Associated Press
June 1, 2020
Texas A&M

Texas A&M System to offer some on-campus classes in fall

RAGA JUSTIN, Texas Tribune
May 31, 2020
A Saudi worshipper wears a white face mask and gloves as he prays dawn prayers at al-Mirabi Mosque in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia on May 31.

Holy sites, places of worship reopen in Saudi Arabia and Jerusalem (Gallery)

AYA BATRAWY, Associated Press
May 31, 2020
A sign for a church in Clay County's Henrietta, Texas proclaims no service on May 8. Clay County Judge Mike Campbell accepted a mobile testing site for COVID-19 when it was offered. Like many of North Texas’ rural counties, social distancing comes naturally to Clay County, where about 11,000 people are spread out across roughly 1,100 square miles.

Rural Texas counties may have fewer cases, less tests (Gallery)

TESSA WEINBERG, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
May 31, 2020
Hwang Seungwon

In virus-hit South Korea, AI monitors older adults

KIM TONG-HYUNG, Associated Press
May 31, 2020
A line of people in a school hallway at a evacuation center

States to update hurricane plans for the coronavirus

Associated Press
May 31, 2020
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy announces regulations for travelers amid pandemic.

Alaska requires testing for travelers, extends quarantine

Associated Press
May 30, 2020
A worker stands ready to clean at the city-owned waterpark in Grand Prairie, Texas on Friday, May 29, 2020. Water parks in Texas were allowed to reopen Friday at 25% occupancy, though some are choosing to remain closed.

Despite eased Abbott restrictions, some Texas waterparks remain closed

Associated Press
May 30, 2020
Two teachers in a school library

Schools nationwide brace for budget cuts from new financial crisis

JEFF AMY, Associated Press
May 30, 2020
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