ROME - European Union leaders on Tuesday provided a vital lifeline for the Mediterranean countries that have sometimes felt abandoned by Brussels amid the coronavirus pandemic, reaching a deal to pump money into their hard-hit economies. 

Most of Virginia will enter a second phase of reopening from the months-long coronavirus shutdown Friday, Gov. Ralph Northam said, citing steady declines in the number of covid-19 hospitalizations and rates of people testing positive since he began lifting shutdown restrictions nearly three weeks ago.