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• Royal Caribbean suspends cruises through June 11; Carnival, Princess cruises cancel through June

  16-04-2020 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Royal Caribbean Cruises has extended its sailing suspension through June 11. The CDC extended a no-sail order that may dock ships through late July.
  
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• Sen. Mitt Romney was the only GOP senator not invited on Trump's new coronavirus advisory group

  16-04-2020 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Mitt Romney was the only Republican senator not invited to serve on the president's new panel addressing ways to reopen the country.
  
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• After a coronavirus surge, New York City's hospitals holding their own – and hope they 'have hit a plateau'

  16-04-2020 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  To mitigate the surge of coronavirus patients, New York City hospitals got creative. Now, federal help is being used at well below capacity.
  
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• Poll: Trump's approval rating drops as coronavirus pandemic, economic crisis continue

  16-04-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The change in Trump's approval since March is the sharpest drop Gallup has recorded since Trump took office.
  
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• Coronavirus: Bolsonaro fires health minister over pandemic response

  16-04-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Brazilian president and the minister had publicly clashed over his response to the pandemic.
  
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• Coronavirus latest news: UK death toll rises by 847 as public health expert warns 40,000 could die

  16-04-2020 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wuhan adds nearly 1,300 deaths to official toll UK faces eight to ten waves of virus before herd immunity People flout lockdown rules to clap for carers on Westminster Bridge Five things Britain must put in place before it can exit lockdown Join the Telegraph Community Facebook group Subscribe to The Telegraph, free for one month Telegraph Coronavirus Appeal: Join us in helping those hit hardest A leading public health expert has warned that "we could see 40,000 deaths" in the UK "by the time it
  
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• Coronavirus latest news: Face masks must be worn to prevent spread after lockdown, ministers urged

  16-04-2020 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New police guidelines issued on lockdown rules Wuhan adds nearly 1,300 deaths to official toll UK faces eight to ten waves of virus before herd immunity Join the Telegraph Community Facebook group Subscribe to The Telegraph, free for one month Telegraph Coronavirus Appeal: Join us in helping those hit hardest The London Mayor has said "all of us" may need to wear a non-medical face mask once the lockdown ends, but a Cabinet minister has said it was 'not the right moment' to introduce potentially
  
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• 22,000 surgical masks shipped from the national stockpile to the University of Michigan were not usable

  16-04-2020 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A shipment of "less than durable" ear-loop surgical masks arrived at the school last week, the Detroit Free Press reported.
  
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• 'I had to go through it': Trump says he was a 'victim' of the COVID-19 test and referred to it as 'an operation'

  16-04-2020 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump described the test in detail, saying, "They go up your nose and hang a right at your eye."
  
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• 6 retailers constantly restocking sold out essentials during the coronavirus pandemic

  16-04-2020 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  If you're looking for household essentials like hand sanitizer and toilet paper, check out retailers like Staples or Target first.
  
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• Receiving Government Benefits? Here’s What to Know About Your Stimulus Payment

  16-04-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Most people receiving Social Security or disability will get their payments automatically
  
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• Midwest Governors Join Forces; Gilead Drug Trial: Virus Update

  16-04-2020 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Seven Midwest governors began work on steps to reopen the regional economy, as state leaders in the mid-Atlantic and West Coast planned similar actions. The governor of New York extended a lockdown to May 15, while his New Jersey counterpart said schools will be closed at least until the same date.U.S. President Donald Trump will hold a news conference at 6 p.m. to unveil guidelines to relax stay-at-home rules. Massive numbers of Americans sought unemployment benefits again.The U.
  
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• White House defends Ivanka Trump's personal travel amid lockdown

  16-04-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The president's eldest daughter travelled to New Jersey, a virus hotspot, with her family last week.
  
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• Navy Believes Delivery Flights, Not Vietnam Port Stop, Brought Virus to Carrier

  16-04-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Navy officials are unable to make a definitive link between coronavirus cases on the Roosevelt and a port call in Vietnam.
  
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• This Trump campaign ad is extremely confused by his coronavirus response

  16-04-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Trump campaign is actually not bragging in this campaign ad -- at least not as much as it could be.On Thursday, President Trump's re-election campaign started running a Facebook ad that boasted he's "protecting small businesses and their employees during the coronavirus crisis." It then claims over 17,500 loans had been granted to those small business owners, but then inexplicably understates just how much they received.Instead of the $350 billion in loans the Paycheck Protection Program dol
  
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• Chris Cuomo Shares How COVID-19 Is Hurting His Mental Health

  16-04-2020 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On March 30, CNN news anchor Chris Cuomo tested positive for COVID-19. He recently shared he's "sick of being sick," something folks with chronic illness feel daily.
  
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• Trump, aides float outlier theory on origins of coronavirus

  16-04-2020 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump and some of his officials are flirting with an outlier theory that the new coronavirus was set loose on the world by a Chinese lab that let it escape.Without the weight of evidence, they’re trying to blame China for sickness and death from COVID-19 in the United States.“More and more, we’re hearing the story,” Trump says.
  
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• Fears of eroding democracy in Eastern Europe

  16-04-2020 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A vote in May could increase President Andrzej Duda's chances of re-election, as he's currently leading in the polls.
  
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• Black Americans are dying of COVID-19 at a higher rate than anyone else. Why, and can anything be done?

  16-04-2020 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The story of the coronavirus in the U.S. shows discrepancies by geography, age, sex and other factors, but one stands out above all: Black Americans are infected with the virus and die from it at disproportionately higher rates than any other group in the country. But it’s not enough to admit the problem. There are short-term and long-term solutions to level the field.
  
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• Berlin is reportedly brokering a deal to consolidate German naval shipbuilders

  16-04-2020 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, German Naval Yards Kiel, and Lürssen Defence could form a national industry champion akin to those in France and Italy.
  
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• Two felons escape Wisconsin prison, residents told 'lock your doors'

  16-04-2020 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Please lock your doors, and stay home. See anyone suspicious call 911," the Columbia County Sheriff's Office said in a statement..
  
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• Postal Workers Were Already Worried About Getting Sick — Now Their Jobs Could Be on the Line, Too

  16-04-2020 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  They were already worried about getting sick — now their jobs could be on the line, too
  
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• New attack ads against Biden preview Trump’s war on China

  16-04-2020 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump's allies previewed a likely battle in the upcoming election on Thursday, unveiling new attack ads against Joe Biden's views on China before the coronavirus crisis.
  
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• Itching to travel? Do these 5 things now so you'll be ready to go when coronavirus restrictions ease

  16-04-2020 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  From organizing coronavirus travel credits to giving the gift of vacation memories, these ideas will help you pass the time until quarantine ends.
  
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• McConnell on Additional SBA Funding: ‘Senate Democrats Blocked It’

  16-04-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) took aim at Democrats for stifling efforts to refund the popular small business lending program that ran out of $349 billion on Thursday.“One week ago Mr. President, I warned that the Paycheck Protection Program was running out of money. I tried to a pass clean funding bill. Senate Democrats blocked it,” McConnell said during a Senate “pro forma” session on Thursday afternoon, after the Small Business Administrations announ
  
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• Midwest Governors Join Forces; Trump’s Guidelines: Virus Update

  16-04-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Seven Midwest governors began work on steps to reopen the regional economy, as state leaders in the mid-Atlantic and West Coast planned similar actions. The governor of New York extended a lockdown to May 15, while his New Jersey counterpart said schools will be closed at least until the same date.U.S. President Donald Trump will hold a news conference at 6 p.m. to unveil guidelines to relax stay-at-home rules. Massive numbers of Americans sought unemployment benefits again.The U.
  
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• California Gov. Newsom is making large grocery, food-delivery, and farming companies provide 2 weeks of COVID-19 sick pay

  16-04-2020 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The order from California Gov. Gavin Newsom applies to grocery stores, fast-food chains, farms, and delivery services.
  
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• Trump didn't bail out trucking, but he did give 4 truck drivers a mysterious gold key at White House ceremony. Nobody knows why.

  16-04-2020 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "We have a little special award," President Donald Trump said. Unfortunately for truck drivers, it was not a bailout.
  
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• The US is 'a long way' from beating the coronavirus with herd immunity, experts say, since that would require 50% of the population being immune

  16-04-2020 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Herd immunity could put COVID-19 in decline if 50% of the population is immune, but only a small portion of Americans have recovered so far.
  
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• Dem. Senator Bucks Party, Calls to Pass Emergency Small Business Loan Funding ‘ASAP’

  16-04-2020 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.) on Thursday called on the Senate to pass emergency funding for federal small business loans as soon as possible, bucking Democratic senators who are pushing for additional demands.The Paycheck Protection Program "is going to run out of funding soon - the Senate should approve additional funding by unanimous consent ASAP," Sinema wrote on Twitter on Thursday. "Small businesses need our help to survive during this emergency."The PPP, the emergency loan program es
  
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• US House considers proxy voting during coronavirus crisis

  16-04-2020 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With Congress essentially closed, House Democrats are proposing a temporary rules change during the coronavirus crisis that would allow lawmakers to vote remotely via another lawmaker physically present at the U.S. Capitol.The rare move, which would require a vote for passage, is being presented Thursday during a private Democratic caucus conference call as anxious lawmakers clamor to bring Congress back on line during the stay-home shutdown.“Congress needs to be working,” wrote Rep.
  
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• Michigan Gov. Claims Protesters are Spreading Virus, Making It ‘More Likely’ State Will Continue Strict Lockdown Measures

  16-04-2020 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer suggested the “sad part” of state residents protesting her strict quarantine measures was that they would likely be exposed to and spread Wuhan coronavirus, resulting in further lockdowns.Thousands of protestors, organized by the Michigan Conservative Coalition under the hashtag OperationGridlock, took to the capitol in Lansing on Wednesday to voice their disapproval of Whitmer’s rules, which include the closing of businesses selling hardware
  
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• An ICU doctor explains what happens when you're put on a ventilator with the coronavirus

  16-04-2020 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brian Boer, one of the first doctors to treat coronavirus patients in the US, explains the process of being intubated with an invasive ventilator.
  
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• 'Megadrought' emerging in the western US might be worse than any in 1,200 years

  16-04-2020 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fueled in part by human-caused climate change, a “megadrought” appears to be emerging in the western U.S., a new study published Thursday suggests.
  
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• Sorry, AOC — Democrats Don’t Want Democratic Socialism

  16-04-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is demanding concessions from Joe Biden. It’s a thought. Why haven’t others hit on this strategy? Perhaps Walter Mondale should have used the results of the 1984 election to influence Ronald Reagan’s agenda, and why didn’t John McCain leverage his strong second-place finish in 2008 as to nudge the Obama administration? Come to think of it, maybe Thanos should get the Avengers to concede that half the people he killed must stay dead.Ocasio-Cortez i
  
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• Wisconsin police tell locals to lock their doors after two convicted kidnappers escape from prison

  16-04-2020 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Residents in Wisconsin were told to lock their doors, after two inmates escaped from a maximum security prison.The inmates, 37-year-old James Newman and 46-year-old Thomas Deering, escaped from the Columbia Correctional Facility on Thursday.
  
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• Bolsonaro fires health minister, appoints oncologist: source

  16-04-2020 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro fired his health minister on Thursday after butting heads over how to confront the new coronavirus, and a person familiar with the matter said the president would appoint oncologist Nelson Teich in his place.Luiz Henrique Mandetta said on Twitter that Bolsonaro had told him of his dismissal.The two have clashed for weeks over the need for widespread social isolation in the country to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• 'No blacks': Evicted, harassed and targeted in China for their race amid coronavirus

  16-04-2020 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After five Nigerians living in Guangzhou, China, test positive for the coronavirus, a campaign targets all Africans in the city.
  
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• Where are you required to wear a face mask? More and more states, cities and towns making it a rule

  16-04-2020 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A growing number of states, towns and cities are mandating that people wear face masks in public spaces. New York and Maryland just joined that list.
  
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• Democratic super PAC: We will fight Trump in court over ads

  16-04-2020 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A leading Democratic super PAC has promised it will tangle in court with President Donald Trump's reelection campaign to keep airing television ads the Republican president is trying to keep off the airwaves.Priorities USA Action chief Guy Cecil said Thursday that his group will intervene as a defendant in a lawsuit that Trump's campaign filed in Wisconsin state court to block a local NBC affiliate from airing one of the super PAC's ads that blasts the president's response to the coronavirus pan
  
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• 7 Midwest states to partner on reopening the economy

  16-04-2020 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Seven Midwestern governors announced Thursday that they will coordinate on reopening their state economies amid the coronavirus pandemic, after similar pacts were made in the Northeast and on the West Coast.The latest agreement includes Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Kentucky.“We look forward to working with experts and taking a fact-based, data-driven approach to reopening our economy in a way that protects families from the spread of COVID-19,” the gove
  
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• Coronavirus’s Relentless March in Europe Clouds Reopening Plans

  16-04-2020 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- New coronavirus infections climbed in Spain, Italy, France and Germany, while the U.K. said it’s extending its lockdown by a further three weeks to fight the spreading pandemic.For European leaders, the increasing numbers on Thursday signaled no letup in the need to balance the severe economic damage caused by the tight restrictions to fight the pandemic with the increasing death toll and the danger that prematurely easing lockdowns could spark a second wave of infections.&l
  
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• Some Banks Keep Customers' Stimulus Checks if Accounts Are Overdrawn

  16-04-2020 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For some struggling Americans, the arrival of a deposit from the Treasury Department to help with basic expenses like rent and groceries during the coronavirus crisis was something to count on -- until their financial institutions got in the way.That was what happened to Benji Pedro of Columbia, South Carolina. Because his account at Safe Federal Credit Union was overdrawn by $2,650, he had planned to ask the Treasury Department to mail him a check. But before he could, the agency deposited $1,2
  
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• Going Out to Eat Will Look Different When Lockdowns Lift

  16-04-2020 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Restaurants, battling for survival amid the coronavirus, are starting to ask the question: Even when the lockdown lifts, how do we lure back skittish diners? Their margin for error is very small.“All of a sudden, it’s like: ‘I don’t know if I want someone touching my food,’” said Bob Goldin, a partner at consulting firm Pentallect Inc. Illustrating the scope of the challenge, he added: “I think we’re all learning we can live without
  
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• Understaffed hospitals in California are suspending nurses just when they need them most — and volunteers aren't being deployed

  16-04-2020 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nearly 90,000 volunteer nurses and healthcare workers signed up to help short-staffed California hospitals. The state hasn't deployed any volunteers.
  
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• Here's what to know about your relief check from the gov't

  16-04-2020 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Americans are beginning to see the first economic impact payments hit their bank accounts.The Treasury Department says about 80 million Americans received checks as of Wednesday.Any adult earning up to $75,000 in adjusted gross income who has a valid Social Security number will receive a $1,200 payment.
  
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• Police find 17 bodies at New Jersey nursing home after anonymous tip

  16-04-2020 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Seventeen bodies were piled in a morgue built to handle four at a large nursing home in New Jersey.
  
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• There is a wide misconception of what a 'mild' case of COVID-19 looks like. It can be ugly and brutal.

  16-04-2020 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Eighty percent of COVID-19 cases are "mild," according to one study, but it's still a difficult and serious infection.
  
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• After outrage over homeless sleeping in parking lot, Vegas now touts tented Covid-19 center

  16-04-2020 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Opening of isolation complex comes as number of Covid-19 cases statewide approaches 3,000, with at least 114 deaths* Coronavirus – latest US updates* Coronavirus – latest global updates* See all our coronavirus coverageIn early March, Las Vegas, a city with more than 147,000 hotel rooms, had homeless people sleep on the ground in a parking lot after a local shelter temporarily closed because of coronavirus. Photographs of homeless people lying on the concrete in marked-off squares, w
  
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• France’s Virus Cases Climb by 17,164 to More Than 165,000

  16-04-2020 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- France reported a surge in coronavirus cases on Thursday as more data from nursing and retirement homes were added. The increase came even as coronavirus-linked deaths fell for the first time in four days.The number of coronavirus cases in France stands at 165,027 infections, an increase of 17,164 from the total reported on Wednesday, according to data published by the health ministry. Deaths linked to the virus rose to 17,920, Director General for Health Jerome Salomon said at a
  
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