Bill Chappell

All 50 states have at least partially eased tight restrictions on businesses, with a mix of policies letting restaurants or stores welcome customers.

"I hope she's not very heavy-handed with the sword, because by then I might be rather a poor old weak soul," the World War II veteran said of a possible knighthood ceremony with Queen Elizabeth II.

Roughly 25% of the 7,152 tests in the most recent 24-hour period resulted in positive coronavirus diagnoses.

"The World Health Organization has repeatedly made claims about the coronavirus that were either grossly inaccurate or misleading," President Trump says.

"There was a failure by this organization to obtain the information that the world needed, and that failure cost many lives," Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar says.

President Xi Jinping did not specifically refer to any of President Trump's criticisms. But he said the pandemic has exposed "weaknesses and deficiencies" in the global health system.

Most of the money will go toward helping the International Olympic Committee mount an Olympics one year later than planned — something it's never done before.

The Trump administration has mounted an "inconsistent and incoherent national response" to the COVID-19 pandemic by injecting politics into public health policy, The Lancet says.

New Jersey has more than 142,700 COVID-19 cases, and the rate of positive test results is 22%. But the governor says the spread of the coronavirus has continued to slow.

One bar posted an image of a crowd, along with the caption: "45 minutes after the bars open in Wisconsin."

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says the last time he saw Russian President Vladimir Putin in person was more than a month ago.

The U.K. program pays people idled by the COVID-19 pandemic up to around $3,088 a month. Some 7.5 million jobs have been furloughed.

Hundreds of people visited the C&C Coffee and Kitchen, including some who praised its defiance in allowing a capacity crowd to eat breakfast burritos in its dining room.

Nearly all of the new cluster's cases are asymptomatic — reflecting the difficulty of detecting the true spread of the coronavirus as lockdowns are lifted.

"Today, 75 years later, we are forced to commemorate alone, but we are not alone!" Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier says, celebrating international unity in the post-war era.

Visitors' health status will be checked on a smartphone app before they enter the park. Once inside, they will be required to wear face masks at all times unless they are eating.

The legislators say the governor is acting illegally; Whitmer says she is protecting citizens from a global pandemic — and Michigan's attorney general agrees.

The response to the COVID-19 pandemic lopped off roughly a third of the EU's economic activity "practically overnight," the European commissioner for the economy says.

The governor celebrated the good news, which came after Florida reported two notable rises in the day-to-day number of new cases. The state is in the first phase of its reopening.

"Today the world showed extraordinary unity for the common good," European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said. The U.S. was conspicuously absent from the event.