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Akron will spend $15.8 million on safety and road repair in 2020, according the plans released Wednesday by the city for its “safety and streets fund,” financed by an income tax levy passed in 2017. The police and fire departments will get about $5 million each to replace vehicles, including 28 police cruisers and two fire engines. The city wasn’t able to invest much into vehicle maintenance and repair prior to the levy, said city spokesperson Ellen Lander Nischt.

Stock indexes rose nearly 5% after the market's worst day since 2008. The jump followed President Trump's call for a payroll tax cut and other steps to help the economy amid the coronavirus epidemic.

The country's election commission said in a statement Monday that it had been forced to postpone the election, originally scheduled for May 17, to July 5 due to the ongoing pandemic.

The company generated $4.3 million for artists when it paused the collection of a percentage of sales for a day in March — which it will repeat on May 1, June 5 and July 3.

Mobile carrier T-Mobile has completed its merger with Sprint, creating a more formidable third rival to AT&T and Verizon. CEO John Legere stepped down as part of the merge.

Though its stores remained open, Target saw its online sales jump 141% in the past three months, with 5 million shopping on the retailer chain's website for the first time.

After being postponed from May 5 due to the coronavirus pandemic, Indiana's primary takes place Tuesday with in-person voting.

Rent, royalties and the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., kept money flowing in 2017.

A study of 5 million years of mollusks suggests that laziness could be a good survival strategy: species that have gone extinct had higher metabolic rates than the ones that exist today.

The president said he's sending Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to the kingdom to meet with Saudi Arabia's king.