nightly brief

Top eight CNS stories for today including Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders suspended his presidential campaign and set the stage for former Vice President Joe Biden to secure the Democratic nomination; Democrats called for another massive aid package in response to the Covid-19 pandemic; New York City reported that the deadly virus has hit Latino and black populations hardest, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including Wisconsin voters braved the Covid-19 pandemic to cast in-person ballots in the state’s controversial primary election; The United Kingdom and France are experiencing their worst days yet in the outbreak with both countries reporting huge death tolls; New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the state’s largest single-day death toll, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including whiplashed investors are staking out vastly different positions on the chances of a quick recovery from the coronavirus outbreak; An internal government watchdog reported that hospitals are in dangerously short supply of protective gear, testing kits and basic safety materials; The wave of death caused by the pandemic is slowing in Europe’s hardest-hit countries, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including the U.S. economy lost 701,000 jobs in March as the coronavirus pandemic triggered a nationwide shutdown; Global agencies said the fight to contain the virus needs to be bolstered by debt relief, ceasefires and funneling emergency funds to the world’s poorest and most troubled countries; Senator Bernie Sanders proposed a new coronavirus relief package, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including U.S. financial markets again closed on a sour note; House Democrats rolled out an estimated $770 billion plan to rebuild U.S. infrastructure in response to the coronavirus pandemic; The death toll in Europe from the virus surged past 30,000 people, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including the first quarter of 2020 was the worst on record for the Dow Jones Industrial Average; Governor Andrew Cuomo warned New Yorkers to buckle up for a long fight in the coronavirus pandemic; The total number of Covid-19 deaths across Europe rose to nearly 30,000, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including grocery and food delivery workers planned to strike demanding better benefits and safety equipment as demand for their services has spiked during the global coronavirus pandemic; Wall Street recovered more losses but the volatility is likely not over; Crowds of New Yorkers welcomed a U.S. Navy hospital ship as it docked off Manhattan to support the city’s response to the outbreak, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including President Donald Trump signed a $2 trillion response to the novel coronavirus that will deliver checks to most Americans and billions of dollars to small businesses and large companies; The gloom over Italy darkened as the country reported nearly 1,000 new deaths from the virus; The stock market sank again despite passage of the stimulus bill, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including a record 3.2 million Americans filed claims for unemployment benefits last week as the Covid-19 pandemic wreaks havoc on the U.S. and global economies; Former Vice President Joe Biden released a three-point emergency action plan to rescue the economy; Europe’s medical system is overwhelmed as tens of thousands of people need medical care, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including the Senate is expected to pass a roughly $2 trillion economic relief package in response to the coronavirus outbreak; California Governor Gavin Newsom announced the nation’s largest banks will voluntarily freeze mortgage payments for 90 days on families mired in the Covid-19 crisis; Spain’s death toll from the pandemic shot past that of China, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including a rally from investors ushered in the best day of trading since 1933 despite no stimulus plan yet; President Donald Trump bemoaned interruptions to daily life caused by the coronavirus and said he wants the economy reopened by Easter; The toll in Spain and Italy rose by a staggering 1,257 new deaths in a pandemic bringing the world to a standstill, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including Senate Democrats again blocked a massive stimulus package responding to the coronavirus outbreak; Michigan was added to a growing list of states locking people down to contain the spread of Covid-19; The pandemic is intensifying in Europe as the death toll there is on track to surpass 10,000, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including the U.S. will close both its southern and northern borders as part of the government’s effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus; The state of New York was put on an order to stay home; The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost nearly 1,000 points in the final minutes of trading, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including Italy’s death toll from the global pandemic surpassed China’s after 427 more people were killed by the novel coronavirus; Senate Republicans formally unveiled a massive economic stimulus package in response to the pandemic; Florida officials announced the closure of some of the state’s most popular beaches at the height of spring break, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including the United States and Canada will close their shared border to nonessential travel to tamp down on the spread of the novel coronavirus that has gripped the globe; A new survey shows most Americans think the pandemic is a big threat to the economy that President Trump hasn’t taken seriously enough; The toll of COVID-19 on global unemployment could eclipse the 2008 financial crisis, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including the White House is weighing plans to put money in the pocket of every U.S. adult in the next two weeks as America grapples with the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic; Voters in several states headed to the polls under the pall of coronavirus and a call for social distancing across the nation; The United Kingdom’s government experts say the virus will be defeated only once most of the population gets infected and builds up immunity to it, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including government officials across the country ordered the closure of restaurants, bars and other public places in a last-ditch effort to slow the coronavirus outbreak; The virus-ravaged stock market took another nosedive; The European Union said it wants to block nonessential travelers from entering the bloc, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including President Donald Trump declared a national emergency over the coronavirus outbreak; Florida Democrats are overwhelmingly supporting Joe Biden over Bernie Sanders ahead of next week’s primary; French voters will head to the polls to elect mayors and municipal governments despite the virus threat, and more.

Top eight CNS stories for today including the coronavirus outbreak has grown to more than 1,300 cases across 44 states as the stock market saw its largest one-day plunge since the crash of 1987; Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders faces an uphill battle in the Arizona Democratic presidential primary; The virus outbreak is threatening to bring about a global recession that could hit Europe hard, and more.