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The CoronaVirusFacts Alliance will get specialized support from the Paris Peace Forum

The 11-member scale-up committee will help the alliance build on the successes of the largest global fact-checking collaboration in history.

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In this April 1, 2020, photo, a news crew wearing personal protective equipment due to COVID-19 concerns reports outside the Chase Center that will become a makeshift hospital at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in the Queens borough of New York. People desperate for information are more reliant than ever on local media as the coronavirus spreads across the U.S. But newspapers, magazines and digital publishers are feeling the pressure as advertising craters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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The CoronaVirusFacts Alliance gets a global showcase at the Paris Peace Forum

The alliance was one of 100 projects selected as a potential solution for peace

President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Is President Trump breaking up with Fox News?

John Bolton criticizes Trump while Kayleigh McEnany gives a strange answer to a reporter's question

This interactive map will tell you how likely your chances are of being exposed to COVID-19 in any county in America

Divorces continue to decline despite predictions that the pandemic would push them up, while the taxi business suffers

The San Antonio Light building, pictured here, will be the new home of the San Antonio Express-News. (Photo via Hearst)

The San Antonio Express-News will move buildings

The newspaper, owned by Hearst, will hire 10 more journalists after 11 took recent voluntary buyouts

About 500 people are taking buyouts at Gannett

The offer, extended to all of Gannett's 21,000 employees, was first introduced in October

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