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• Chart: See the day-by-day size of the coronavirus outbreak

  13-03-2020 23:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  As the situation in China stabilizes, track the number of new cases around the rest of the world.
  
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• Trump Victory Over Congressional Oversight Is in Doubt

  13-03-2020 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- A federal appeals court set aside and will review a legal victory for President Donald Trump last month that called congressional oversight of the White House into question.The court in Washington said Friday it would have a larger panel of judges rehear a Feb. 28 decision dismissing a House lawsuit seeking the testimony of former White House Counsel Don McGahn. The court said in the prior ruling that it lacked jurisdiction to decide a dispute between the executive and legislative
  
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• Our brains on coronavirus

  13-03-2020 23:52 via cnn.com
  
  Life is full of decisions. Stop to help that person? Buy that house? Sell those stocks? See what it's like to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel? We constantly weigh costs and benefits with thought experiments to imagine what the consequences of different choices might be, and emotion experiments to imagine how different outcomes would feel. All so that when we come to one of those junctures in life, we won't be haunted by having made the wrong choice between a Coke or Pepsi.
  
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• Expert estimates reveal that US hospitals may run short on life-saving ventilators as the coronavirus outbreak ramps up

  13-03-2020 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US has about 170,000 ventilators, which could help keep very sick coronavirus patients alive. That may not be enough.
  
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• House Democrats and White House reach deal on coronavirus aid package

  13-03-2020 23:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  The legislation, which will be voted on soon, contains provisions for free testing, paid emergency leave and more.
  
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• A second person who visited Trump's Mar-a-Lago club over the weekend has reportedly tested positive for coronavirus

  13-03-2020 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Washington Post reported that the second infected person went to Mar-a-Lago for a Sunday luncheon but did not have direct contact with Trump.
  
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• How to change or cancel flights as coronavirus and travel restrictions cripple the airline industry

  13-03-2020 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The airline industry is struggling to keep up with plummeting customer demand. Here's what you need to know about changing or canceling travel.
  
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• Ruling protecting Cambodian refugees might benefit others, lawyers say

  13-03-2020 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal court ruling could have broader implications for other groups facing final orders of removal, one expert says.
  
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• Coronavirus cruise cancellations: Royal Caribbean, Princess, Disney suspend operations

  13-03-2020 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Royal Caribbean is suspending its U.S. operations at midnight Saturday, the company said, joining other cruise companies in response to coronavirus.
  
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• When coronavirus struck one small Kentucky town, residents didn't let 'social distance' stop them from helping each other

  13-03-2020 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  When coronavirus struck Cynthiana, Ky., residents pulled together to help out the local newspaper — and take care of their neighbors.
  
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• ‘I Could Easily Kill Them’: Terrified Doctors Sound Alarm on Coronavirus

  13-03-2020 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  When President Donald Trump declared a national emergency over the 2019 novel coronavirus on Friday, he dangled billions in new federal aid to address a cascading pandemic. But local doctors from Oklahoma City to New York to Lansing, Michigan, have been sounding the alarm in recent days about the lack of communication—as well as supplies—they’ve received from federal and other authorities.In other words, cash alone won’t solve the problem.Communication from the top t
  
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• 'Blood of the immune': Johns Hopkins researchers suggest an old technique to treat coronavirus

  13-03-2020 23:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  "This is an opportunity to do something proactive that can help fight this," a Johns Hopkins doctor said.
  
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• Corona Cleaning Tips, and More News of the Week

  13-03-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A roundup of what we’ve been reading and needing this week
  
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• Bill Gates stepping down from Microsoft board

  13-03-2020 22:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  Gates stressed that the move "in no way means stepping away from the company."
  
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• Poland to shut its borders to foreign travellers: PM

  13-03-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Poland on Friday said it was shutting its borders to foreign travellers to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus, which has infected at least 68 people.It would also impose two weeks of quarantine on people returning from abroad, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told reporters."Most of the cases that have been propagating the coronavirus epidemic in Poland are imported cases," he said.
  
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• An elderly couple has sued Princess Cruise Lines for more than $1 million after being stuck on coronavirus-stricken ship near San Francisco, and their legal counsel says more lawsuits are on the way

  13-03-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The lawsuit claims gross negligence, in that Princess Cruises failed to adequately warn about the risk of coronavirus exposure on the Grand Princess.
  
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• President says he takes no responsibility for early coronavirus testing failures

  13-03-2020 22:47 via cnn.com
  
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• You don't need to sanitize your food to protect against coronavirus, scientists say

  13-03-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  No, coronavirus is not a foodborne illness. But are there things you should do with food to protect yourself from the disease? Two scientists weigh in.
  
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• The Guy Who Wore a Giant Donut in Public to Enforce Social Distancing Is the Hero We Need

  13-03-2020 22:39 via popularmechanics.com
  
  But not the one we deserve.
  
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• President Trump says he'll 'most likely' get tested for coronavirus

  13-03-2020 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump said Friday afternoon that he would “most likely” be tested “fairly soon” for the coronavirus, reversing course from his administration’s dismissal of the need to do so earlier in the week.
  
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• Louisiana Delays Primary, Wyoming Limits Caucus Due to Virus

  13-03-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Louisiana postponed its April 4 presidential primary over concerns about coronavirus, the first state to suspend voting since the outbreak began.Meanwhile, Wyoming has suspended the in-person part of its Democratic caucuses, also scheduled for April 4. Officials are urging people to vote by mail instead.Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin announced Friday that the state’s primary would be postponed until June 20. Four other states, Florida, Illinois, Ohio and Arizona, a
  
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• Chinese official blocks Republican lawmaker on Twitter after blasting coronavirus conspiracy theory

  13-03-2020 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "He's going out of his way to target politicians that are generally critical of China," Republican Jim Banks said in a message to Insider.
  
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• Trump says he will probably get tested soon for the coronavirus

  13-03-2020 22:20 via nbcnews.com
  
  The president interacted recently with an aide to Brazil's leader who later tested positive.
  
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• 'They know how to keep people alive': Why China's coronavirus response is better than you think

  13-03-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  China has become a popular scapegoat for the coronavirus pandemic. But there are many lessons to be learned from how Beijing has responded to the disease, according to the top World Health Organization epidemiologist working on the coronavirus response there.
  
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• Reporters Hammer Trump on Coronavirus Testing: ‘Are You Being Selfish?’

  13-03-2020 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For the first time since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, President Donald Trump faced questions from reporters on Friday afternoon in the White House Rose Garden. And some of the most contentious exchanges involved his own exposure to the virus. Jeff Mason, White House correspondent for Reuters, was among the first to raise the issue, explaining to the president, “You're asking people who come back from Europe, Americans coming back from Europe, to self-qua
  
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• Saudi Arabia has launched the ultimate oil power play

  13-03-2020 22:14 via cnn.com
  
  Saudi Arabia has abandoned efforts to support crude prices and is now preparing to flood global markets with huge volumes of cheap oil, a stunning shift in strategy that has pushed oil futures into a dramatic tailspin and set the stage for a battle royale with rival producers including Russia and the United States.
  
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• Europe now 'the epicenter of the pandemic,' WHO says

  13-03-2020 22:07 via nbcnews.com
  
  Europe has "more reported cases and deaths than the rest of the world combined, apart from China," the World Health Organization said.
  
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• US summons Chinese ambassador over COVID-19 conspiracy theory

  13-03-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States on Friday summoned China's ambassador after a senior official in Beijing tweeted the "ridiculous" suggestion that the US military started the COVID-19 pandemic, the State Department said.David Stilwell, the top US diplomat for Asia, issued a "stern representation" to Ambassador Cui Tiankai a day after foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian tweeted the conspiracy theory."China is seeking to deflect criticism for its role in starting a global pandemic and not telling the world,"
  
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• Sick Heidi Klum says she hasn't been able to get tested for coronavirus

  13-03-2020 22:04 via cnn.com
  
  Heidi Klum hopes she just has a cold, but in case it's not, she's been trying unsuccessfully to get tested for COVID-19.
  
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• Under coronavirus lockdown, Italians sing from balconies

  13-03-2020 22:00 via cnn.com
  
  Stuck inside under coronavirus lockdown, Italians are forming community by singing together out of their windows.
  
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• Italians sing from balconies as lockdown forges community

  13-03-2020 22:00 via cnn.com
  
  Stuck inside under coronavirus lockdown, Italians are forming community by singing together out of their windows.
  
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• A California man who got the coronavirus aboard the Diamond Princess describes what his life has been like in quarantine for more than a month

  13-03-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Carl Goldman is one of the 700 people who contracted the coronavirus aboard the Diamond Princess. He told Insider what his life has been like.
  
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• TSA will now allow up to 12 ounces of hand sanitizer through security checkpoints as coronavirus fears spread

  13-03-2020 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The move comes as flights are slashed in the US and abroad in the face of the rapidly spreading coronavirus.
  
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• 'I don't take responsibility': Trump says he's not to blame for persistent delays in coronavirus testing from the CDC

  13-03-2020 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "I don't take responsibility at all because ... we were given rules, regulations, and specifications from a different time," Trump said.
  
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• LA Pride festival postponed amid growing coronavirus concerns

  13-03-2020 21:48 via nbcnews.com
  
  The city’s annual LGBTQ celebration is normally held in June in honor of the historic 1969 Stonewall uprising.
  
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• Trump just gave the worst speech of his presidency

  13-03-2020 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On Friday afternoon, Donald Trump gave the worst speech of his political career.He appeared at the podium in the Rose Garden half an hour late. He looked and sounded exhausted. He stumbled over the word "coronavirus" in his very first sentence and seemed to struggle at a number of points throughout his address. His wonted improvisations and other departures from the script did not suggest his usual ease. He sounded very much like what one suspects he is: a tired and confused senior citizen.The p
  
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• No, Dean Koontz did not predict the coronavirus in a 1981 novel

  13-03-2020 21:46 via cnn.com
  
  The coronavirus is officially a global pandemic, so naturally, people are feeding their anxieties by voraciously consuming movies and books about other outbreaks.
  
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• U.S. court to rehear House bid for testimony from ex-White House counsel McGahn

  13-03-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A U.S. appeals court on Friday said it would reconsider a recent decision dismissing a Democratic-led congressional panel’s lawsuit seeking to enforce a subpoena for testimony from former White House Counsel Donald McGahn.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said it would hear arguments in the case on April 28.The House Judiciary Committee had sought testimony from McGahn, who left his post in October 2018, about Trump’s efforts to impede former Special Coun
  
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• Trump Shakes Everyone’s Hands at Coronavirus Press Conference—Ignoring CDC Guidelines

  13-03-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Moments after President Donald Trump declared a national emergency in response to the coronavirus pandemic, he violated one major rule his public health officials have advised against—by shaking several people’s hands.Trump, who spent the weekend with at least one person who has since tested positive for the novel coronavirus, also manhandled the microphone as he explained the need to declare a national emergency to allow the government to marshal more resources to cities and states
  
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• Trump declares a national emergency on coronavirus

  13-03-2020 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump declared a national emergency Tuesday at a news conference in the White House Rose Garden, a move aimed at stemming the growing outbreak of the coronavirus in the United States and calming economic turbulence.
  
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• What 'Preppers' Can Teach Us About Dealing With the Coronavirus Outbreak

  13-03-2020 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  You don't have to go to extreme lengths to stock up — but it's good to have a plan
  
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• Businessman Jack Ma to donate test kits, masks to U.S. in fight against coronavirus

  13-03-2020 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chinese billionaire and Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma said he will donate 500,000 coronavirus testing kits and 1 million masks to the United States and urged international cooperation to fight the health crisis.
  
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• Transgender woman who suffered sexual assault in US immigration centre should be released, advocates say

  13-03-2020 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Advocates are calling for the release of a transgender woman who allegedly experienced sexual assault and harassment while detained at a male immigration facility in Arizona.According to NBC, Alejandra Alor Reyes, who is from Mexico, is awaiting an appeal of her asylum case.
  
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• There’s Plenty of Toilet Paper in the U.S. So Why Are People Hoarding It?

  13-03-2020 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The other day I went into Costco to buy some toilet paper. It came as a small shock when I couldn’t find a single roll.The new coronavirus is inspiring panic buying of a variety of household products such as toilet paper in cities across the U.S. and world. While it makes sense to me that masks and hand sanitizer would be in short supply because of the outbreak, I wondered why people would be hoarding toilet paper – a product that is widely produced and doesn’t help protect fro
  
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• How innovative design is reshaping the sex tech industry

  13-03-2020 21:30 via cnn.com
  
  There's long been a dearth of innovative design in the sex tech industry: In the words of Lora Haddock DiCarlo, founder of CES-award winning sex toy company Lora DiCarlo, the field's output throughout 20th century amounted to little more than "the vibrator, over and over again. The same thing in different shades of pink."
  
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• Teen son of convicted California GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter pens letter for mercy

  13-03-2020 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The teenage son of convicted California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter has penned a letter asking the court to not send his dad to jail for misspending his campaign funds.
  
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• Here's what Trump's coronavirus emergency declaration does

  13-03-2020 21:19 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump issued a federal emergency declaration Friday afternoon over the coronavirus outbreak following a week of cancellations, suspensions and growing case numbers that unsettled Americans nationwide.
  
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• Multiple experts say up to 70% of Americans could be infected with the coronavirus and 1 million could die if no treatment is found — so people over 60 should 'stay home unless it's critical'

  13-03-2020 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a panel, experts at UC San Francisco urged everyone over age 60 to stay home and not fly. They predict up to 70% of Americans will get infected.
  
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• Bernie Sanders says lack of rallies 'hurting' his campaign

  13-03-2020 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bernie Sanders acknowledged Friday that fears about the spread of coronavirus have damaged his ability to leverage large rallies into support at the polls, and suggested that future Democratic presidential primary voting should be delayed if health officials deem doing so appropriate.Thousands of people gathering to hear him speak has defined Sanders since he first sought the White House in 2016.Instead, Sanders has convened the media three straight days to blast the Trump administration for wha
  
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• What happens during a coronavirus test

  13-03-2020 21:16 via cnn.com
  
  You have a fever. You're in respiratory distress. And you might even be hospitalized with pneumonia. Doctors worry you may have been infected with the novel coronavirus. What happens next?
  
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