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These 10 household items are back in stock—here's where to get them

04-05-2020 23:54 via news.yahoo.com

Essential household items like hand sanitizer, toilet paper, and cleaning wipes are hard to come by. Here's where you can get them.

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Background checks for firearms remain high amid pandemic

04-05-2020 23:43 via news.yahoo.com

The number of April background checks to purchase a firearm showed Americans flocking to gun stores in high numbers for the second month in a row amid worries about the coronavirus pandemic.The FBI numbers were released Monday with anticipation since March smashed previous records with 3.7 million checks conducted.Background checks are the key barometer of gun sales, but the FBI’s monthly figures also incorporate checks for firearm permits that are required in some states.

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Elon Musk Would Like to Help You Trade Energy

04-05-2020 23:40 via popularmechanics.com

This system works on his big battery farm. What can it do for you?

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The Real Reason Joe Biden Won’t Release His Papers

04-05-2020 23:36 via news.yahoo.com

What is Joe Biden’s case for the presidency?The most obvious answer, of course, is that he’s not Donald Trump. That’s a perfectly legitimate argument to make, and it might be enough to get the job done. Biden has already hinted that he views himself as a placeholder for the next generation of Democratic Party leaders.If, however, Biden’s case for the presidency is predicated on his nearly 50 years of “public service,” he is a failure without many peers. This i

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The Chinese government is worried global anti-China sentiment is at its highest since Tiananmen Square

04-05-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com

The mounting global backlash against China stemming from the country's handling the early days of the coronavirus pandemic has apparently registered with Beijing's political leaders, Reuters reports.An internal report drawn up by the China Institutes of Contemporary International found that anti-China sentiment around the world is at its highest point since 1989 following the Tiananmen Square student demonstrations, which Beijing cracked down on by declaring martial law and sending the military

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Germany to reopen all shops, allow soccer matches: sources

04-05-2020 23:21 via news.yahoo.com

Germany's state premiers will agree on measures to further ease coronavirus restrictions in a teleconference with Chancellor Angela Merkel scheduled for Wednesday, two people familiar with the preparations told Reuters on Monday.The state premiers are expected to give the green light for large shops to reopen, probably from May 11, the sources said.Smaller shops are already back to business in Europe's largest economy as long as they respect social distancing rules to slow the spread of the high

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People who meet with Donald Trump in Phoenix will get coronavirus tests

04-05-2020 23:20 via news.yahoo.com

Security plans for Trump's trip to a Honeywell aerospace plant in Phoenix that manufactures protective masks mimic policy at the White House.

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What states are opening up, and when? States are constantly changing their restrictions – here's a list

04-05-2020 23:03 via news.yahoo.com

States have a patchwork of constantly evolving plans to relax social distancing restrictions, plans that often vary by county and even city at times.

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Trump’s Pick for Intelligence Chief Follows a Slew of QAnon Accounts

04-05-2020 23:03 via news.yahoo.com

For a nominee to helm the U.S. government’s intelligence apparatus, Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) draws on some unusual sources of information. Ratcliffe’s official, verified campaign Twitter account follows several accounts on the political fringe, including a 9/11 truther account with just one follower besides himself and four promoting the outlandish QAnon conspiracy theory, which posits that the world is run by a cabal of Democratic pedophile-cannibals—and has been rul

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Member of Trump's reopening council warns we'll 'have body bags of businesses' if they remain closed

04-05-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com

Stephen Moore has a questionably worded prediction for will happen to businesses that don't reopen soon.Moore, President Trump's former economic adviser, who was once nominated to the Federal Reserve Board, is now part of Trump's council on reopening the economy. He's also a big fan of the way Georgia, Iowa, and Oklahoma have been letting businesses reopen, and warned in a Monday news briefing that the U.S. will see "body bags of businesses" if it doesn't follow those red states' leads, Politico

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Tyson will keep slowing meat production as coronavirus sickens workers, tanks income

04-05-2020 22:47 via news.yahoo.com

The meat producer warned of continued "slowdowns and temporary idling" of plants during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Travelers spent $8.6 billion on baggage, change fees last year. Airlines won't get that pay day in 2020

04-05-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com

Airlines took in $5.8 billion in bag fees and $2.8 billion in change fees. The 2020 numbers will be a fraction of that due to coronavirus crisis.

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Without in-person classes, many students have essentially gone missing, teachers say

04-05-2020 22:41 via news.yahoo.com

In a survey of about 4,000 South Carolina teachers on April 1, only 17% said they had contacted all of their students.

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Coronavirus latest news: Reopening all schools would bring 'very real risk' of a second peak, warns Dominic Raab

04-05-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com

Prof Neil Ferguson resigns after breaking lockdown rules to meet his married lover Lockdown dossier: What new government advisory papers reveal How Sweden suppressed infection rates without a lockdown The five charts that explain the UK's horrifying death toll NHS workers targeted by state-backed hackers Subscribe to The Telegraph, free for seven days Telegraph Coronavirus Appeal: Join us in helping those hit hardest Reopening all schools in the UK would bring a "very real risk" of a second dead

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CDC reports 1,152,372 coronavirus cases, 67,456 deaths

04-05-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com

Over the weekend, the CDC updated its case count to 1,122,486 and said 65,735 people had died across the country, but that the numbers were preliminary and had not been confirmed by individual states.The CDC's tally of cases of the respiratory illness known as COVID-19, caused by the new coronavirus, on Monday is as of May 3.The CDC figures do not necessarily reflect cases reported by individual states.

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Venezuelan authorities detain U.S. citizens allegedly involved in incursion

04-05-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com

Venezuelan authorities have detained two U.S. citizens working with a U.S. military veteran who has claimed responsibility for a failed armed incursion into the oil producing country, President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday.In a state television address, Maduro said authorities arrested 13 "terrorists" on Monday allegedly involved in a plot he said was coordinated with Washington to enter the South American country via the Caribbean coast and oust him.Eight people were killed during the foiled i

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U.S. veteran behind failed Venezuela plot says two American mercenaries detained

04-05-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com

A U.S. military veteran who has claimed responsibility for a failed armed incursion into Venezuela to oust President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday that two U.S. citizens working with him have been detained by Venezuelan authorities.Venezuelan authorities said 10 people involved in a "mercenary incursion" were detained on Monday along the Caribbean coast, saying the 10 were part of the U.S.-backed plot.Venezuelan state television said two U.S. citizens were among those detained but did not provid

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Joe Biden to hold first high-dollar fundraiser, featuring Gov. Gavin Newsom

04-05-2020 21:51 via news.yahoo.com

Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, will hold his first high-dollar fundraiser, featuring California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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California sees 'ray of sunshine,' takes first steps toward reopening

04-05-2020 21:46 via news.yahoo.com

California on Monday announced the state's first tentative steps to reopen from a lockdown designed to contain the spread of the coronavirus, giving a green light for retail stores to open this week, though with restrictions.California Governor Gavin Newsom said the nation's most populous U.S. state, among the two dozen that still has full restrictions in place, would allow some counties to go further if they met certain testing and protection guidelines."This is an optimistic day, as we see a l

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AP wins feature photography Pulitzer for Kashmir coverage

04-05-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com

The story of India’s crackdown on Kashmir last August was difficult to show to the world.Now, their work has been honored with the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in feature photography.Snaking around roadblocks, sometimes taking cover in strangers’ homes and hiding cameras in vegetable bags, the three photographers captured images of protests, police and paramilitary action and daily life — and then headed to an airport to persuade travelers to carry the photo files out with them and get

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Coronavirus: California shopper wears KKK-inspired hood as face shield when grocery shopping

04-05-2020 21:39 via news.yahoo.com

A California shopper has been criticised of wearing what looked to be a Ku Klux Klan-inspired white hood to a grocery store amid coronavirus face mask recommendations.The man was spotted in Vons supermarket in Santee, a suburban city in San Diego, on Saturday.

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Biden announces new policy efforts aimed at black voters

04-05-2020 21:31 via news.yahoo.com

As part of the wide-ranging plans, the former vice president pledged to open a new Public Credit Reporting Agency that could compete with Equifax Inc, Experian Plc and TransUnion and, according to the campaign, minimize racial disparities in lending."Today's credit reports, which are issued by just three large private companies, are rife with problems: they often contain errors, they leave many 'credit invisible' due to the sources used to generate a credit score, and they contribute to racial d

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Venezuela: 2 US 'mercenaries' among those nabbed after raid

04-05-2020 21:26 via news.yahoo.com

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said authorities arrested two U.S. citizens among a group of “mercenaries” on Monday, a day after a beach raid purportedly aimed at capturing the socialist leader that authorities say they foiled.Maduro held up a pair of blue U.S. passports, reading off the names and birth dates on them in a nationwide broadcast on state television.“The United States government is fully and completely involved in this defeated raid," Maduro said, prais

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A New York City landlord made a viral TikTok about taking her tenant's packages 'until they pay up' in rent

04-05-2020 21:26 via news.yahoo.com

The landlord said the video was a joke, but told Buzzfeed, "I wished I could do this to them because they were blatantly ignoring me."

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More than 100K remain without power in Nashville after storm wallops Tennessee

04-05-2020 21:22 via news.yahoo.com

Severe thunderstorms knocked out power to thousands in Nashville on Sunday evening.

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Hondurans block highway to prevent COVID-19 burials

04-05-2020 21:20 via news.yahoo.com

Hundreds of people in Honduras blocked a highway on Monday to prevent COVID-19 funerals taking place near their communities."They came to bury a corpse on Sunday, they came with all the security measures but if the relatives come to buy from a grocery store they will infect us," a local community activist told Channel 3 television.In several parts of Honduras, local residents have joined forces "to prevent funeral corteges passing through communities and the relative has to try to find a place t

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Guatemala says it will receive 3 US deportation flights

04-05-2020 21:18 via news.yahoo.com

Guatemala said Monday it will receive three flights this week carrying a total of 175 deported migrants after the United States agreed to test all those being deported for coronavirus.The flights scheduled for Monday, Wednesday and Friday mark a resumption of such deportations after Guatemala suspended themn because many migrants were later found to be suffering from the new coronavirus.Guatemala’s Foreign Relations Ministry said the returning migrants “will carry with them a medical

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Higher fares, longer waits, no booze: How coronavirus will change the way we fly

04-05-2020 21:17 via news.yahoo.com

One airline is encouraging customers to bring their own food in order to "reduce physical touch points between customers and employees."

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Exclusive: Hotel industry issues coronavirus safety guidelines before anticipated travel surge

04-05-2020 21:17 via news.yahoo.com

Hotels around the country are laying out enhanced cleaning and safety practices to prepare for travelers to start showing up again.

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Carnival to resume limited cruise operations on August 1

04-05-2020 21:10 via news.yahoo.com

Carnival Cruise Line announced on Monday that it will resume limited operations from Florida and Texas on August 1 after halting cruises because of the coronavirus pandemic which left some passengers trapped on its ships for weeks.Carnival said eight ships will resume cruises from the Florida ports of Miami and Port Canaveral and Galveston in Texas.All other North American and Australian cruises are cancelled through August 31.

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W.Va. woman charged with mishandling classified information

04-05-2020 21:08 via news.yahoo.com

A West Virginia woman who had already been accused of kidnapping her daughter faces a new charge of retaining top-secret information from the National Security Agency in a storage unit she leased, court papers show.Elizabeth Jo Shirley was charged with willful retention of national defense information in a two-count criminal information document filed in federal court in West Virginia last week.The document contains only sparse information about the allegations, but says that between 1999 and Au

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Unsuitable for 'human life to flourish': Up to 3B will live in extreme heat by 2070, study warns

04-05-2020 21:00 via news.yahoo.com

By 2070, up to 3 billion people are likely to live in climate conditions that are "warmer than conditions deemed suitable for human life to flourish."

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Trump Administration Models Predict Near Doubling of Daily Death Toll by June

04-05-2020 20:54 via news.yahoo.com

As President Donald Trump presses for states to reopen their economies, his administration is privately projecting a steady rise in the number of cases and deaths from the coronavirus over the next several weeks, reaching about 3,000 daily deaths June 1, according to an internal document obtained by The New York Times, nearly double from the current level of about 1,750.The projections, based on government modeling pulled together in chart form by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, forecas

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Outraging China, Pompeo pushes US hard line over virus

04-05-2020 20:54 via news.yahoo.com

Branded "insane" by Chinese state media but hailed by US conservatives, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is taking the lead in pressing a hard line against Beijing over the coronavirus pandemic.Pompeo has been at the forefront of bringing into the mainstream a theory that the illness that has killed nearly 250,000 worldwide slipped out of a virology laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the virus first emerged last year.The hawkish role is familiar for Pompeo, who has also advocated sweep

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Justice Department sides with Virginia church in dispute over lockdown orders

04-05-2020 20:42 via news.yahoo.com

The Justice Department filed a statement of interest in support of Lighthouse Fellowship Church in Chincoteague Island, Virginia.

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Indonesia calls for 'equal access' to coronavirus medicine for developing countries

04-05-2020 20:41 via news.yahoo.com

Indonesian President Joko Widodo called on Monday for "equal access" for developing countries to medicine to treat the new coronavirus, as global cases pass three million."We need to fight for just and timely access to affordable COVID-19 medicine and vaccine," Widodo said in a statement."Debt relief and debt repayment obligations from official creditors (for developing countries) need be rediverted into financing the handling of COVID-19."

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Erdogan begins to ease Turkey's coronavirus restrictions

04-05-2020 20:33 via news.yahoo.com

Turkey will start easing coronavirus containment measures from Monday, President Tayyip Erdogan said, lifting inter-city travel restrictions in seven provinces and easing a curfew imposed on senior and youth citizens.Turkey has about 130,000 confirmed coronavirus cases - the highest total outside Western Europe, the United States and Russia - and has been in lockdown at weekends and on national holidays since the start of April.Ankara started implementing containment measures after its first cor

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'Murder Hornets,' with sting that can kill, land in US

04-05-2020 20:33 via news.yahoo.com

The world's largest hornet, a 2-inch killer dubbed the "Murder Hornet" with an appetite for honey bees, has been found in Washington state, where entomologists were making plans to wipe it out.The giant Asian insect, with a sting that could be fatal to some people, is just now starting to emerge from winter hibernation.“They’re like something out of a monster cartoon with this huge yellow-orange face,” said Susan Cobey, a bee breeder at Washington State University.

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Some in Tennessee could be without power for weeks after strong storms hit

04-05-2020 20:30 via news.yahoo.com

Nashville Electric said in a statement that some people could be without power for a week or two, as challenges related to coronavirus complicated crews' responses and more storms were expected.

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'Put on a mask and shut up': China's undiplomatic diplomats hit back at critics

04-05-2020 20:29 via news.yahoo.com

The aggressive nationalism of China's diplomats matches the swagger of Xi Jinping's China, which is determined to deflect blame for the coronavirus.

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'Put on a mask and shut up': China's new 'Wolf Warriors' spread hoaxes and attack a world of critics

04-05-2020 20:29 via news.yahoo.com

The aggressive nationalism of China's diplomats matches the swagger of Xi Jinping's China, which is determined to deflect blame for the coronavirus.

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Southwest's CEO says he thinks it's safe to fly despite the pandemic, and suggests airlines may have already seen the worst of the COVID-19 crisis

04-05-2020 20:28 via news.yahoo.com

The CEO's comments come as states begin to reopen following coronavirus lockdowns. It is unclear whether passengers will feel safe flying.

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Italy eases virus lockdown, and gets first reckoning of toll

04-05-2020 20:28 via news.yahoo.com

Greece, Portugal and Belgium also eased virus restrictions, while Britain was poised to soon overtake Italy as the country with the most confirmed COVID-19 dead in Europe.Traffic ticked up in city centers, commuter and long-distance trains sold out and more people ventured out after restrictions on movement eased for the first time since Italy locked down March 11.“We are being careful, trying not to do too many things, but at least we are finally outside and breathing some fresh air,&rdqu

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Police: Woman wanted to get close to alligator before attack

04-05-2020 20:26 via news.yahoo.com

A woman killed by an alligator at a South Carolina pond told a friend she wanted to get close to the animal and didn't scream as it attacked her and dragged her into the water, according to a police report. Cynthia Covert, 58, died in the attack Friday afternoon on Kiawah Island, Charleston County deputies said. A deputy had to shoot and kill the alligator to get Covert away from the animal, according to the police report released Monday.

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Coronavirus implodes family of three last month

04-05-2020 20:26 via news.yahoo.com

For most of her life, Maranda Lender, 32, has lived with her parents in Lewisberry, Pennsylvania. But the family-of-three configuration imploded last month.Her mother, Becky Lender, 61, died April 4. Her father, Brad Lender, 60, died three days later. Both had tested positive for the coronavirus.

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As states push ahead with reopening, CDC warns coronavirus cases and deaths are set to soar

04-05-2020 20:22 via news.yahoo.com

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is quietly projecting a stark rise in the number of new cases of the virus and deaths from it over the next month.

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Coronavirus: Trump absent as world leaders pledge billions in funding for vaccine

04-05-2020 20:21 via news.yahoo.com

A conference organised by international leaders to pledge billions of dollars in funding for a vaccine and treatment for coronavirus has started with the US marked by its absence, and facing criticism over Donald Trump’s cutting of contributions to the World Health Organisation.The virtual conference began with an offer of $1bn from Norway towards the initial goal of raising $8.2bn. It also began amid recriminations with the country’s prime minister Erna Solberg speaking out against

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'Today is wonderful': Relief in Lagos as lockdown ends

04-05-2020 20:16 via news.yahoo.com

Africa's biggest city, Lagos, got back to work on Monday at the end of a five-week coronavirus lockdown.In the metropolis of 20 million, where exuberance and poverty live side by side, relief at being able to earn money once again was almost palpable, despite Nigeria's mounting COVID-19 toll.Adewale Oluwa reopened his fruit and vegetable stall, carefully setting out a fine array of tomatoes.

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Violent Arrest Caught on Video Raises Concerns About NYPD Social Distancing Patrols

04-05-2020 20:12 via news.yahoo.com

A New York City police officer who was caught on video pointing a stun gun at a man and violently tackling him to the ground over an alleged social distancing violation has been stripped of his gun and badge and placed on desk duty.

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USA TODAY/Suffolk Poll: Americans overwhelmingly support vote-by-mail push, but Republicans more wary

04-05-2020 20:09 via news.yahoo.com

Findings come as voting rights advocates and Democrats have called for quick action to expand vote-by-mail ahead of the November election.

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