As Monday morning rolls in, we’re providing TechWire readers with a quick recap of the past week’s news headlines.

The coronavirus pandemic continued to dominate news coverage last week. Durham’s startup ecosystem is adapting to the ‘new normal’, as are Raleigh-Cary coworking hubs; here’s a look into how local organizations are working to help underserved businesses stay afloat in the Triangle; Durham coworking spaces The Mothership and Nido Coworking are closing their physical locations; NC leads the nation in the search for loans during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to WalletHub; Wake County Economic Development launched two surveys to gauge how local companies are coping with the economic downturn; reports allege that Lenovo is cutting jobs at its RTP data center – the company says it’s cutting costs but didn’t confirm layoffs; Raleigh AI startup Diveplain is rolling out a privacy-focused contact tracing program; a UNC Charlotte economist predicts U.S. unemployment could reach 20% in May.

A few NC startups raised cash last week, including Winston-Salem’s URO-1 ($1.5 million), Charlotte-based Aceyus ($1.5 million), Chapel Hill-based Xillis ($1.85 million) and Raleigh-based Arrevus ($800,000 in grants).

In non-COVID news: The Triangle’s commercial real estate market is poised for a swift recovery, according to CBRE; RedHat is moving to capitalize on the growing ‘open banking’ trend; a new Governor’s Entrepreneurship Council is seeking ideas on how to boost NC’s startup ecosystem; a group of local college students released an app to help shoppers find in-stock items at grocery stores; Biogen and MIT launched a virtual learning lab for underserved students.

As part of TechWire’s new “Startup Monday” series, we recently launched a new column that summarizes local startup news coverage over the past week. Catch up with last week’s edition here.

And, in national news: The stock market rocketed 600 points higher amid reopening and hopes for a vaccine; SpaceX and NASA launched a manned spaceflight to the International Space Station; HBO launched its HBO Max streaming service; Twitter added fact-check labels to President Donald Trump’s tweets, leading to an executive order to curtail social media protections under the 1996 Communications Decency Act; Amazon has decided to permanently keep 70% of the 175,000 new workers it hired during the pandemic; the U.S. consumes more renewable energy than coal for the first time since 1885.

Keeping with our Monday tradition, here’s a look back at 74 local, state and national headlines as reported by WRAL TechWire last week:

MONDAY | May 25 Headlines:

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