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• These 10 household essentials are selling out across the country—here's where to get them

  09-03-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After the recent coronavirus outbreak, people are hurrying to buy toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and more. Here's what you need—and where to get it.
  
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• Mexican stock exchange and peso crash amidst coronavirus, oil fears

  09-03-2020 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexico's stock exchange on Monday suffered its largest single-day crash since 2008 as the peso dropped to its lowest exchange rate compared to the US dollar in three years.The falls come amidst global fears over the new coronavirus and plummeting oil prices.The stock exchange plunged 6.42 percent to close at 38,730.56 points.
  
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• How the coronavirus compares to SARS, swine flu, Zika, and other epidemics

  09-03-2020 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  To some, the coronavirus outbreak is reminiscent of SARS, swine flu, Zika, and other epidemics that have caused panic in recent memory.
  
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• Daughter speaks out after mom dies at center with outbreak

  09-03-2020 23:37 via cnn.com
  
  Pat Herrick, whose mother died at the Life Care Center in Washington state, discusses the loss of her mother and what she hopes healthcare providers will change when dealing with the coronavirus. Watch "Full Circle" weeknights at 5 p.m. ET.
  
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• The Army general in charge of US soldiers in Europe may have been exposed to the coronavirus

  09-03-2020 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An Army general and his staff are self-monitoring for coronavirus after they may have been exposed during a conference, the Army said Monday.
  
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• The coronavirus-stricken Grand Princess cruise ship just docked in Oakland. Crew members will stay onboard, while passengers are quarantined on military bases.

  09-03-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Photos showed the ship passing under the Golden Gate Bridge as it approached the port of Oakland around noon on Monday.
  
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• Coronavirus: quarantined congressman flew with Trump on Air Force One

  09-03-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican Matt Gaetz turned heads last week when he wore a gas mask during a coronavirus vote in CongressTwo Republican congressmen who were in close contact with Donald Trump in recent days have self-quarantined over concerns that they were also in contact in the same period with a known carrier of the coronavirus.Republicans Matt Gaetz of Florida and Doug Collins of Georgia announced on Monday that they had begun two weeks of self-imposed isolation, as recommended by the federal Centers for D
  
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• US judge: Iran liable in disappearance of retired FBI agent

  09-03-2020 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal judge on Monday held Iran responsible for the kidnapping of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, entering a default judgement against the regime on the 13th anniversary of his disappearance.The decision from U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly was a milestone moment in the family's lawsuit against Tehran, which featured wrenching testimony in Washington's federal court from each of Levinson's seven children.In his 25-page ruling, Kelly found that Iran “in no uncertain terms" was respo
  
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• US military faces challenge to keep Pentagon functioning

  09-03-2020 23:22 via cnn.com
  
  US military leadership has already taken a number of decisive actions in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak -- canceling military exercises with allies, self-quarantining ships and screening new recruits for the virus.
  
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• Biden, not Sanders, gains in popularity after Warren drops out: Reuters/Ipsos poll

  09-03-2020 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Elizabeth Warren's departure from the Democratic presidential race appears to have benefited front-runner Joe Biden more than Bernie Sanders, her liberal ally on many issues, according to a Reuters/Ipsos national opinion poll released on Monday.The poll conducted from Friday to Monday showed that 47% of registered Democrats and independents said they would vote for Biden if their state's nominating contests were held today, up 7 points from a similar poll that ran just before Warren suspended he
  
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• Sen. Ted Cruz, Reps. Paul Gosar, Doug Collins are self-quarantining after interacting with person who tested positive for coronavirus

  09-03-2020 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Paul Gosar became the first two members of Congress to self-quarantine after interacting with a person at CPAC who tested positive for COVID-19
  
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• How to carry on with your life during the coronavirus outbreak — from workout tips to quarantine-friendly recipes

  09-03-2020 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  People across the globe are quarantining out of concern for the virus and, in some cases, due to government mandates.
  
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• VA moves to suspend new GI bill enrollment at 5 universities

  09-03-2020 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Department of Veterans Affairs is moving to bar new GI Bill students from enrolling at five universities, citing "advertising, sales or enrollment practices that are erroneous, deceptive or misleading.”The schools were identified as the University of Phoenix, Colorado Technical University, American InterContinental University, Bellevue University and Temple University.The department said in a statement that the schools would be suspended from the GI Bill program, which provides student
  
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• Google quarantine: Coronavirus fears prompt company to ban visitors in Silicon Valley and New York

  09-03-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  To shield its U.S. workforce from the COVID-19 coronavirus, Google is restricting visitors to offices in Silicon Valley, San Francisco and New York.
  
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• Minn. prosecutor: Justice Dept. should review Burrell case

  09-03-2020 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A top Minnesota prosecutor said Monday that Sen. Amy Klobuchar should ask the Justice Department to review the conviction of a black teen sentenced to life in prison after an 11-year-old black girl was killed by a stray bullet.In doing so, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman appeared to be putting the onus back on Klobuchar.Just last week, the senator asked Freeman to launch an independent investigation into the case that dogged her unsuccessful Democratic presidential primary run.
  
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• How is Germany controlling the coronavirus outbreak?

  09-03-2020 22:46 via foxnews.com
  
  As cases of coronavirus, otherwise known as COVID-19 soar and the body count escalates globally, there is one country that so far has remained an outlier to fatalities: Germany. As of Monday afternoon, officials had recorded more than 1,175 cases of the disease – but zero deaths.
  
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• U.S. troops begin withdrawal from Afghanistan, official says

  09-03-2020 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  American troops have begun leaving Afghanistan for the initial troop withdrawal required in the U.S.-Taliban peace agreement, a U.S. official said on Monday, amid political chaos in Kabul that threatens the deal.
  
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• In coronavirus crisis, Trump's stock market advice keeps looking worse

  09-03-2020 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Almost forgotten in the rush of doom-and-gloom headlines about the spread of coronavirus and Monday’s record-breaking stock market sell-off is President Trump’s two-week old advice to would be investors to buy stocks.
  
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• Could money buy happiness after all? A new study thinks so

  09-03-2020 22:36 via cnn.com
  
  Does money really buy happiness? It appears to, at least for a small group of German college students who participated in a study on the connection between happiness and altruism, the selfless concern for the well-being of others.
  
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• Prince Andrew has 'completely shut the door' on cooperating with Epstein investigation, prosecutor says

  09-03-2020 22:35 via cnn.com
  
  Prince Andrew has "completely shut the door" on voluntarily cooperating with a US investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirators, prosecutors in New York have said, despite the royal's public offers to help with any probe into the disgraced financier if required.
  
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• Coronavirus: Italian PM extends lockdown to entire country

  09-03-2020 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Giuseppe Conte says: ‘There is no more time – our future is in our hands’* Coronavirus – live updatesMore than 60 million people in Italy are to be put under lockdown after the country’s government extended emergency measures across the entire country in an attempt to stop the spread of the coronavirus.The prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, announced the drastic measures at an evening press conference late on Monday, during which he told people to “stay at home&r
  
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• Kaley Cuoco finally moving in with husband Karl Cook next month: 'We are going steady'

  09-03-2020 22:34 via foxnews.com
  
  Kaley Cuoco and her husband of nearly two years, Karl Cook, are set to move in together next month.  
  
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• Criticism of Joe Biden's treatment of Anita Hill continues to nag presidential campaign

  09-03-2020 22:32 via foxnews.com
  
  Former Vice President Joe Biden’s handling of Anita Hill’s sexual harassment allegations against then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas is once again bubbling up in the headlines, ahead of the next round of voting in the Democratic presidential primary.
  
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• Biden, Sanders push for votes in Michigan, key US primary

  09-03-2020 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, surging in the polls and with several weighty endorsements in his pocket, and rival Bernie Sanders hit the campaign trail in Michigan on Monday on the eve of a primary vote in the key battleground state.Biden, 77, was joined at an event in Flint, Michigan, by Cory Booker just hours after the New Jersey senator and one-time presidential hopeful announced he was throwing his support behind the former vice president."This could be the turning point no
  
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• Thai Airways passenger forcibly restrained after intentionally coughing on crew member during delay: report

  09-03-2020 22:26 via foxnews.com
  
  The flight had landed at the Shanghai Pudong Airport Friday, when those on board were held for more than seven hours on the plane.
  
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• A 'tsunami of patients' in northern Italy

  09-03-2020 22:26 via cnn.com
  
  Italians who attempt to flee the lockdown in the country's north, set up to try and stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, may face three months' imprisonment, Italy's interior minister has said.
  
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• Italy's prime minister puts whole country on coronavirus lockdown

  09-03-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Italian Prime Minister Giusseppe Conte has instituted a travel ban across the whole country as COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to grow.Mandates barring public gatherings of any size and any nonessential travel will go into effect Tuesday morning, Conte announced Monday. People will only be allowed to leave their homes for family emergencies, essential work, and to seek health care — an unprecedented step for a democratic country.Conte's "I Stay Home" decree bars weddings, funerals, all
  
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• 'It is likely that people you know will die': Coronavirus could be like 1918 flu pandemic, warns ex-CDC expert

  09-03-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The coronavirus crisis could be as serious and deadly as the 1918 flu pandemic which killed up to 50m people around the world, a former CDC infectious disease specialist has warned.As health experts from Milan to Wuhan scrambled to try and stop the spread of COVID-19, which has now infected more than 108,000 people and killed 3,800, an epidemiologist in Washington state has warned that “people you know” will likely die.
  
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• DOJ warns companies against price fixing during coronavirus outbreak

  09-03-2020 22:23 via foxnews.com
  
  Companies who engage in price-fixing for public health products necessary to prevent the spread of coronavirus could face criminal prosecution, the Department of Justice warned on Tuesday. 
  
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• Two US lawmakers exposed to virus before meeting Trump

  09-03-2020 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two US lawmakers with recent close contacts with President Donald Trump announced Monday that they were in self-quarantine after being exposed to the new coronavirus at a late-February conservative conference. Republican Representative Doug Collins, who met and shook hands with Trump last Friday at the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control, said he had been informed he had been in contact with a person who tested positive for the new coronavirus at the conference last month. A second r
  
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• 4 new Chicago coronavirus cases announced, bringing IL total to 11

  09-03-2020 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Four new cases of the novel coronavirus have been identified in Illinois, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 11.
  
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• The psychology of toilet paper panic-buying

  09-03-2020 22:14 via cnn.com
  
  Masks were the first to go. Then,hand sanitizers.
  
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• The psychology behind why toilet paper, of all things, is the latest coronavirus panic buy

  09-03-2020 22:14 via cnn.com
  
  Masks were the first to go. Then,hand sanitizers.
  
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• GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz self-quarantines for coronavirus exposure just 1 hour after flying with Trump

  09-03-2020 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More GOP lawmakers are self-quarantining after they were informed they interacted with an attendee at last week's Conservative Political Action Conference who later tested positive for the novel coronavirus.Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Doug Collins (R-Ga.) will undertake precautionary recommendations from their doctors to isolate themselves until the 14-day incubation period for the virus expires in a few days. Neither congressman is experiencing symptoms. They were both, however, in close cont
  
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• White House considers cruise ship shutdown amid coronavirus crisis

  09-03-2020 22:11 via politico.com
  
  Officials will decide on next steps after reviewing a cruise-ship industry proposal on Tuesday.
  
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• Bernie Sanders to take stage at Fox News Town Hall in Michigan on eve of pivotal primary

  09-03-2020 22:09 via foxnews.com
  
  Bernie Sanders was set to take the stage at a Fox News Town Hall in Detroit, Mich., as the struggling Democratic presidential candidate hopes for a win in tomorrow's do-or-die primary in the state despite worrying poll numbers.
  
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• It Takes About 5 Days for Sick People to Show Coronavirus Symptoms, New Study Says

  09-03-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new study estimates coronavirus COVID-19's incubation period at five days, meaning it takes five days to show coronavirus symptoms.
  
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• Grassley on congressional response to coronavirus: 'Everything is on the table'

  09-03-2020 22:08 via foxnews.com
  
  Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are grappling with how to handle the economic impact of the coronavirus and stimulate the economy with Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley saying Monday that “everything is on the table.”
  
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• Army to conduct shoot-off for future indirect fires protection

  09-03-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A shoot-off will determine the path for Army's enduring Indirect Fires Protection Capability beyond Iron Dome.
  
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• Majority want Biden to win the Democratic nomination over Sanders, new national poll shows

  09-03-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Quinnipiac Poll showed a majority of surveyed Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters prefer Joe Biden to win the nomination over Bernie Sanders.
  
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• Italy expands travel restrictions to cover whole country as coronavirus outbreak worsens

  09-03-2020 22:06 via foxnews.com
  
  Italy's prime minister announced Monday evening that he was expanding restrictions on travel to cover the entire country in an unprecedented peacetime move to try to stop the spread of coronavirus.
  
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• Coronavirus symptoms 'take five days to show'

  09-03-2020 22:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists reveal the average incubation time for the virus that's infected more than 116,000 people globally.
  
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• Italy's prime minister just placed the entire country on lockdown in a nationwide extension of its coronavirus restriction zone

  09-03-2020 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The number of coronavirus cases in Italy surpassed 9,000 on Monday, prompting the government to quarantine the whole country. Over 460 people are dead.
  
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• Majority worried about coronavirus but confident on health care system response: poll

  09-03-2020 22:03 via foxnews.com
  
  With no stop in the spread of coronavirus in the United States, a new national poll indicates that a majority of American voters are worried they or someone they know will become infected with the virus. And nearly six in ten questioned in a Quinnipiac University poll released Monday said they’re concerned the coronavirus will disrupt their daily lives.
  
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• CDC: Many Americans will probably be exposed to coronavirus at some point, 'and there's a good chance many will become sick'

  09-03-2020 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a media briefing Monday, an organization leader said "this virus is capable of spreading easily and sustainably from person to person."
  
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• Turkey issues new arrest warrant for jailed businessman Kavala

  09-03-2020 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Turkish court issued a new arrest warrant on Monday against Turkish businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala, who was re-arrested last month after being acquitted in a separate trial, one of his lawyers told Reuters.Kavala had been cleared of charges related to nationwide protests in 2013, but was re-arrested the following day, accused of attempting to overthrow the constitutional order in a failed coup in 2016.On Monday, a second arrest warrant was issued in relation to the coup attempt, t
  
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• Newly appointed Sanders adviser apologises for resurfaced messages calling Michelle Obama 'ugly'

  09-03-2020 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new adviser to the Bernie Sanders campaign issued an apology on Twitter for calling Michelle Obama “ugly” in 2009.Civil rights activist Phillip Agnew joined Mr Sanders' team on 7 March. When other users dug into his tweet history and found evidence that he’d made disparaging remarks about Ms Obama’s looks, he decided to issue an apology.
  
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• Bernie Sanders adviser apologises for resurfaced messages calling Michelle Obama 'ugly'

  09-03-2020 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new adviser to the Bernie Sanders campaign issued an apology on Twitter for calling Michelle Obama “ugly” in 2009.Civil rights activist Phillip Agnew joined Mr Sanders' team on 7 March. When other users dug into his tweet history and found evidence that he’d made disparaging remarks about Ms Obama’s looks, he decided to issue an apology.
  
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• Israel government orders 14-day home quarantine for overseas arrivals

  09-03-2020 21:59 via foxnews.com
  
  The battle to halt the coronavirus brought new restrictions Monday, with Israel ordering all visitors quarantined just weeks before Passover and Easter.
  
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• In tense talks, EU warns Erdogan to respect migrants deal

  09-03-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Stern-faced EU leaders warned President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday to respect the terms of a previous deal to keep migrants away from Europe's borders, after the Turkish leader came to Brussels to demand more support.There was no disguising the tension at the European Council after the talks, with Erdogan choosing to head straight for the airport rather than a news conference with EU presidents Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel."Clearly we do have our disagreements, but we have spoken
  
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