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As crisis deepens, congressional rescue deal teeters

by Associated Press
| March 22, 2020 9:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Top-level negotiations between Congress and the White House teetered Sunday over a now nearly $2 trillion economic rescue package, as the coronavirus crisis deepened, the nation shut down and the first U.S. senator tested positive for the disease.

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