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FILE - In this Thursday Sept. 24, 2020 file photo, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell testifies during a Senate Banking Committee hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Fed on Wednesday, Nov. 25, released minutes of its Nov. 4-5 meeting revealing that while officials believed that no changes were needed to the bond purchase program at that time, “they recognized that circumstances could shift to warrant such adjustments.” (Drew Angerer/Pool via AP, file)
As economy struggles, Fed weighs boosting bond purchases

By Martin Crutsinger Nov. 25, 2020 02:42 PM EST

FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrive for a round table meeting during a NATO leaders meeting at The Grove hotel and resort in Watford, Hertfordshire, England. Trump spent four years upending seven decades of American trade policy. He started a trade war with China, slammed America’s closest allies by taxing their steel and aluminum and terrified Big Business by threatening to take a wrecking ball to $1.4 trillion in annual trade with Mexico and Canada. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Most Canadians hope for Trump defeat after insults, attacks

By Rob Gillies Oct. 30, 2020 11:21 AM EDT

Lori Gonzalez, left, and Rachel Spray carry flowers to the temporary grave marker of Gonzalez's sister and Kaiser Permanente Fresno Medical Center nurse, Sandra Oldfield, at the Sanger Cemetery in Sanger, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020. Oldfield died after being exposed to the novel coronavirus. Workers at the hospital said they did not have the proper personal protective equipment. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)
US medical supply chains failed, and COVID deaths followed

By Juliet Linderman And Martha Mendoza Oct. 06, 2020 10:23 AM EDT

FILE - This Feb. 9, 2016, file photo is the Hull-Rust Mahoning Mine viewed from the overlook in Hibbing, Minn. The Trump administration is seeking to fast-track mining projects and could offer grants and loans to help companies pay for equipment, administration officials said Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, as they offered details on a plan that critics said could spoil rivers and lakes in Minnesota, Idaho and elsewhere with mining pollution. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)
Trump pushes mining with order, but effects are uncertain

By Matthew Brown And Steve Karnowski Oct. 01, 2020 06:20 PM EDT

In this undated photo provided by Outdoor Research in September 2020, a worker handles filter material for face masks in Seattle. A key challenge for N95 mask manufacturers racing to meet spiking demand is scarcity of meltblown textile. (Gerardo Villalobos/Outdoor Research via AP)
Scarcity of raw material still squeezes N95 mask makers

By Martha Mendoza, Juliet Linderman, Thomas Peipert And Irena Hwang Sep. 10, 2020 12:26 AM EDT

In this undated photo provided by Outdoor Research in September 2020, a worker handles filter material for face masks in Seattle. A key challenge for N95 mask manufacturers racing to meet spiking demand is scarcity of meltblown textile. (Gerardo Villalobos/Outdoor Research via AP)
Scarcity of key material squeezes medical mask manufacturing

By Martha Mendoza, Juliet Linderman, Thomas Peipert And Irena Hwang Sep. 10, 2020 12:25 AM EDT

FILE - In this May 13, 2020, file photo, a ventilator is assembled at the Ford Rawsonville plant in Ypsilanti Township, Mich. The Trump administration is cancelling some of its remaining orders for ventilators, after rushing to sign nearly $3 billion in emergency contracts as the COVID-19 pandemic surged in the Spring. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)
HHS cancelling ventilator contracts, says stockpile is full

By Michael Biesecker Sep. 01, 2020 08:48 PM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials

By The Associated Press Aug. 25, 2020 11:53 AM EDT
Minneapolis Star Tribune, Aug. 24 Rely on science, not Trump, on COVID-19 The president’s unfounded “deep state”...

President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus briefing at Bioprocess Innovation Center at Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies, Monday, July 27, 2020, in Morrisville, N.C. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Trump seeks political shot in the arm in vaccine push

By Zeke Miller, Kevin Freking And Jonathan Lemire Jul. 27, 2020 04:00 PM EDT

This June 15, 2020 photo shows a bottle of Pepcid antacid in Washington. The U.S. government's Pepcid project has revealed what critics describe as the Trump administration’s disregard for science and anti-corruption rules meant to guard against taxpayer dollars going to political cronies or funding projects that aren’t rigorously designed. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Pepcid as a virus remedy? Trump admin's $21M gamble fizzled

By Richard Lardner And Jason Dearen Jul. 23, 2020 10:00 AM EDT

FILE - White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, who is now serving as national defense production act policy coordinator, speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington on April 2, 2020. USA Today says that Navarro's column about Dr. Anthony Fauci that it solicited and published did not meet its fact-checking standards. Navarro's column, saying that the nation's top infectious disease expert had been wrong about everything he had interacted with him on, ran in Wednesday's newspaper and online a night earlier. USA Today also ran a fact-checking column debunking some of Navarro's claims. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
USA Today: Navarro's anti-Fauci column didn't meet standards

By David Bauder Jul. 16, 2020 12:16 PM EDT

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro enters the West Wing shortly before Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador arrives to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, July 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
In the open: White House advisers tussle over virus response

By Jill Colvin And Zeke Miller Jul. 16, 2020 12:27 AM EDT

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro speaks with reporters at the White House, Thursday, June 18, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
In the open: White House advisers tussle over virus response

By Jill Colvin And Zeke Miller Jul. 15, 2020 10:13 PM EDT

French visitors take photos from the third level during the opening up of the top floor of the Eiffel Tower, Wednesday, July 15, 2020 in Paris. The top floor of Paris' Eiffel Tower reopened today as the 19th century iron monument re-opened its first two floors on June 26 following its longest closure since World War II. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
Confirmed US virus cases rise amid new global restrictions

By Eric Tucker, Costas Kantouris And Cody Jackson Jul. 15, 2020 02:49 AM EDT

FILE - In this April 22, 2020 file photo, President Donald Trump watches as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
White House virus task force member says 'none of us lie'

By Darlene Superville, Jill Colvin, Jonathan Lemire And Zeke Miller Jul. 14, 2020 12:11 AM EDT

FILE - In this June 29, 2019, file photo President Donald Trump, left, poses for a photo with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan. China has fast become a top election issue as President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden engage in a verbal brawl over who's better at playing the tough guy against Beijing. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Trump, Biden try to outdo each other on tough talk on China

By Deb Riechmann And Jonathan Lemire Jul. 12, 2020 07:42 AM EDT

This undated image provided by ApiJect Systems America in July 2020 shows a prototype of their "BFS" prefilled syringe. The devices are self-contained: the soft plastic blister is squeezed to push a dosage through the attached needle to inject into a patient. It also includes a computer chip that can transmit information about the drug, dose, location and time of administration. When precious vats of COVID-19 vaccine are finally ready, the ability to jab the lifesaving solution into the arms of Americans will require hundreds of millions of injections. The Trump administration  has agreed to invest more than half a billion in tax dollars in ApiJect Systems America, a young company whose injector is not approved by federal health authorities and who hasn’t yet set up a factory to manufacture the unapproved devices. (ApiJect Systems America via AP)
US bets on untested company to deliver COVID-19 vaccine

By Martha Mendoza And Juliet Linderman Jul. 10, 2020 12:21 PM EDT

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro speaks with reporters at the White House, Thursday, June 18, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Trump says China trade deal still on after adviser's remarks

By Kevin Freking Jun. 22, 2020 10:50 PM EDT

A man looks at an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm in Tokyo March 13, 2020. Asian shares were mostly higher on Tuesday, June 23, 2020, tracking a late rally on Wall Street led by technology shares. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Asian shares advance, tracking Wall Street tech rally

By Yuri Kageyama Jun. 22, 2020 02:26 AM EDT

Vice President Mike Pence waves to the crowd during a campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla., Saturday, June 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
Trump's intended show of political force falls short of mark

By Kevin Freking And Jonathan Lemire Jun. 21, 2020 11:49 AM EDT