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• Canadian and Italian kidnapped in Burkina Faso turn up safe in Mali

  14-03-2020 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Édith Blais and Luca Tacchetto, seized in 2018, apparently escaped and were picked up by UN forces.
  
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• Gwyneth Paltrow deletes 'tone-deaf' Goop post flaunting $400 designer shoes, skirt amid coronavirus pandemic

  14-03-2020 23:37 via foxnews.com
  
  Gwyneth Paltrow and her Goop lifestyle brand have come under fire once again -- this time for flaunting an expensive fashion ensemble amid growing concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Major cruise lines have suspended operations for 30 days. Here's what you need to know

  14-03-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Cruise lines have made unprecedented steps in the wake of coronavirus to help combat its spread. Here are some questions and answers.
  
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• Paul Batura: Will coronavirus make handshaking go extinct after thousands of years? Trump and others wonder

  14-03-2020 23:21 via foxnews.com
  
  People have been shaking hands for about 7,000 years, historians tell us. But the ancient greeting could become a casualty of the coronavirus pandemic, as President Trump pointed out Saturday.
  
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• US considers domestic travel restrictions

  14-03-2020 23:19 via cnn.com
  
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• How to avoid going stir crazy at home during coronavirus

  14-03-2020 23:18 via foxnews.com
  
  With the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), many people have been forced to work from home and are choosing to keep their social interactions to a minimum. Here are some tips on how to stay sane in the time of coronavirus.
  
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• Spain imposes near total lockdown to fight virus

  14-03-2020 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Spain on Saturday followed Italy and imposed a near total nationwide lockdown to fight the spread of coronavirus by banning people from leaving home except to go to work, get medical care or buy food. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced the restrictions on movement following a huge spike in the number of infections in this nation of some 46 million people. Spain confirmed more than 1,500 new cases of coronavirus since Friday evening, raising its total to 5,753 cases, the second-highest number
  
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• Shoppers stocking up for coronavirus find empty shelves across US

  14-03-2020 23:11 via foxnews.com
  
  The fast-spreading coronavirus had panicked shoppers on Saturday braving long lines and crowded parking lots to stock up on groceries and other items but what they found was disappointment and empty shelves.
  
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• How Trump should be handling this crisis

  14-03-2020 23:07 via cnn.com
  
  The Trump administration's communications effort around the coronavirus has been nothing short of a disaster to date. A failed Oval Office address on Wednesday that necessitated multiple corrections from White House staff was followed by a press conference on Friday, which the President delivered in the Rose Garden, surrounded by public health experts and business leaders.
  
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• AOC rips coronavirus relief bill as 'completely insufficient,' calls for cash infusions, reimbursing students

  14-03-2020 23:04 via foxnews.com
  
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., blasted the coronavirus response during her first virtual town hall Saturday, and ticked off a list of new priorities including universal basic income, student reimbursements and expanded health care.
  
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• Kid who got autograph from Utah Jazz player tests positive for coronavirus, but officials deny connection

  14-03-2020 22:48 via foxnews.com
  
  A Rhode Island child who received an autograph from Utah Jazz’s Rudy Gobert has tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19). However, state health officials are denying a link between the two cases.
  
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• Coronavirus: Ottawa urges all Canadians to come home while they can

  14-03-2020 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ottawa on Saturday urged all Canadians abroad to return home while they still can, as nations around the world moved to restrict travel to limit the spread of the new coronavirus.The guidance followed aggressive measures and money to combat the spread of the COVID-19 virus announced by the federal government a day earlier, including asking Canadians to avoid all but essential foreign travel.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government, however, has so far resisted growing calls to limit incoming t
  
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• Airbnb is letting guests around the world cancel their reservations for a full refund and no cancellation fees, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to disrupt travel plans

  14-03-2020 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "We don't want guests to feel like they have to travel because they cannot get their money back," Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said.
  
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• Amazon cracks down on Canadian coronavirus price-gouging couple

  14-03-2020 22:26 via foxnews.com
  
  Amazon has cracked down on a Canadian couple who bragged about cashing in on the coronavirus endemic with inflated prices for coveted cleaning items. 
  
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• Trump says Justin Trudeau's wife doing 'very well' after testing positive for coronavirus

  14-03-2020 22:21 via foxnews.com
  
  President Trump annonced on Saturday that Sophie Trudeau, the wife of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, was doing "very well" after testing positive for COVID-19, the coronavirus strain spreading across the globe.
  
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• Jim Jordan officially starts serving as ranking member of House Judiciary Committee

  14-03-2020 22:18 via foxnews.com
  
  Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, has officially started serving as Ranking Member on the House Judiciary Committee, placing one of the president's most vocal defenders on a key committee before the 2020 elections.
  
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• Rick Scott speaks from self-quarantine, reports 'no symptoms' after meeting with Brazil's president

  14-03-2020 22:13 via foxnews.com
  
  Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., reported that he was feeling fine after interacting with Brazil's president and advocated aid for U.S. workers most affected by COVID-19, the strain of the coronavirus that has been declared a global pandemic.
  
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• Police officer fired after allegedly kicking suspect on video

  14-03-2020 22:03 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A lawsuit led to the release of body- and patrol-car videos from the incident.
  
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• Democrat Biden tacks left, backs Warren bankruptcy plan with student loan relief

  14-03-2020 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "I've endorsed Elizabeth Warren's bankruptcy proposal, which ... allows for student debt to be relieved in bankruptcy and provides for a whole range of other issues," Biden said in a digital town hall in Illinois on Friday. Biden's decision to endorse Warren's bankruptcy plan is significant, showing she and Sanders have moved the party's policy discussions to the left.
  
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• U.S. Will Extend Virus Travel Restrictions to U.K., Ireland

  14-03-2020 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said the U.S. will broaden its temporary travel restrictions to include the U.K. and Ireland, two countries left out of an earlier order aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus.Trump confirmed reports that the restrictions are pending during a Saturday news conference at the White House that followed a meeting of his coronavirus task force.“They’ve had a little bit of activity, unfortunately,” Trump said of the U.K. and Ireland. &ldq
  
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• Four more African nations confirm coronavirus, new controls put in place

  14-03-2020 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mauritania, Rwanda, Seychelles and Central African Republic confirmed their first coronavirus cases on Saturday, bringing to 23 the number of African countries that have reported positive tests for the virus.Moving swiftly to contain its spread, Rwanda, Senegal, Madagascar, Mauritius, Morocco and Kenya announced tougher control measures, including bans on public gatherings, halting flights and closing schools and universities.Three days after the World Health Organization (WHO) described the out
  
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• New York woman was shackled to bed during childbirth, lawsuit says

  14-03-2020 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * African American woman, 22, sues New York City and police* Representative decries ‘dehumanizing and pointless practice’A 22-year-old African American woman has filed a civil rights lawsuit in New York, claiming she was shackled to a hospital gurney during labor, after being arrested on a minor assault charge that was later dismissed.The lawsuit filed on behalf of “Jane Doe” against the City of New York and several New York police department (NYPD) officers who arrested
  
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• Trump's performance has been abysmal

  14-03-2020 21:29 via cnn.com
  
  Surrounded by a cushion of businessmen and advisers, President Donald Trump took yet another stab at addressing the nation on the coronavirus crisis Friday — announcing a "national emergency," and some measures to fight the spreading disease — and performed in such an underwhelming fashion that you have to wonder whether something is wrong.
  
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• 3 US troops wounded in new rocket attack on Iraq base: Pentagon

  14-03-2020 21:29 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Three American service members were among the wounded in a new rocket attack on Camp Taji in Iraq.
  
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• Mexico braces for coronavirus lasting 'all year', tightens curbs

  14-03-2020 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexico warned on Saturday that the coronavirus outbreak could last all year as it began rolling out tougher measures to contain the spread, calling for an end to large gatherings and extending Easter school holidays.The education ministry said some 33 million students will head into the Easter break at the end of next week, doubling the length of their vacation."We're preparing for an epidemic that could last all year," Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell told a news conference.
  
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• Coronavirus travel: President Trump considering domestic travel restrictions, adds U.K. to ban

  14-03-2020 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In addition to potential domestic restrictions, Trump added the UK and Ireland to the existing international ban.
  
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• ISPs Raise Speeds and Suspend Data Caps in Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic

  14-03-2020 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As more people across the country work from home to help stem the spread of the novel coronavirus, some internet service providers (ISPs) are pledging to raise broadband speeds, suspend data caps...
  
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• Europeans scramble across borders as coronavirus restricts travel

  14-03-2020 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tom Holmes, a 34-year-old British primary school teacher living in Poland, had expected to welcome home his twin babies and his wife in Warsaw on Monday upon their return from a holiday in Britain.Instead, on Saturday, he jumped on a bus to travel 570 km (355 miles) from Warsaw to Berlin, in hopes of catching a flight to London to meet up with his family, now stranded in Britain by coronavirus-related travel curbs.Poland, which has reported 103 cases of coronavirus and three deaths, announced on
  
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• RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel tested for coronavirus, went to Trump's Mar-a-Lago, Senate lunch

  14-03-2020 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Republican chairwoman came down with flu-like symptoms and is self-quarantining at her home in Northville awaiting test results.
  
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• In an unprecedented move, the Trump administration suspended an 82-year-old road safety law for some truck drivers, showing how much coronavirus is pressuring retailers and hospitals to maintain cleaning and medical supplies

  14-03-2020 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The hours-of-service regulations are some of truck drivers' most-hated laws, and some drivers won't have to follow them amid the national emergency.
  
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• Coronavirus: Quebec leader asks seniors to stay in, 'snowbirds' to fly back to Canada

  14-03-2020 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Quebec's premier told seniors Saturday to stay home to avoid contracting the new coronavirus, and urged "snowbirds" -- retired Canadians who spend winters in sunny US states -- to fly back to Canada now."If I were them, I'd come home as soon as possible," Legault also said about more than 300,000 Canadian "snowbirds" who live up to six months each year in the United States.As of 1300 GMT Saturday, said Health Canada, 193 cases of the COVID-19 virus have been confirmed in Canada, including one de
  
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• Woman says children who came into contact with Rudy Gobert being denied coronavirus testing

  14-03-2020 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "I'm sharing my story now because I've heard of other families in direct contact with individuals testing positive for the virus and not enough tests are available," the woman said.
  
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• As mayor, Bernie Sanders condemned American interventionism but also defended undemocratic governments abroad

  14-03-2020 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Archives of Bernie Sanders’s mayoral papers shed light on the foreign policy views he held at the start of his political career.
  
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• In the Wake of the Coronavirus, Here's Why Americans Are Hoarding Toilet Paper

  14-03-2020 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Our panic buying represents one thing we can control
  
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• France to close all restaurants, cafes, cinemas and clubs

  14-03-2020 20:43 via cnn.com
  
  French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe announced on Saturday that his country will increase social distancing to combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Rita Wilson made a playlist for everyone self-isolating or quarantining under coronavirus

  14-03-2020 20:40 via cnn.com
  
  Days after Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson announced they were both diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, Wilson decided to try to brighten everyone's lives just a little bit.
  
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• People without symptons may be driving coronvirus' spread

  14-03-2020 20:32 via cnn.com
  
  • Your phone could be spreading coronavirus
  
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• People without symptoms might be driving spread of coronavirus

  14-03-2020 20:32 via cnn.com
  
  New studies in several countries and a large coronavirus outbreak in Massachusetts bring into question reassuring assertions by US officials about the way the novel virus spreads.
  
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• People without symptoms may be driving coronavirus' spread

  14-03-2020 20:32 via cnn.com
  
  • Your phone could be spreading coronavirus
  
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• Trump says he took coronavirus test as those around president, Pence have temperatures monitored

  14-03-2020 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump told reporters his temperature was "totally normal" and that he took the test last night and would await results.
  
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• Italy death toll jumps past 1,000

  14-03-2020 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Italy's death toll from the coronavirus epidemic rose past 1,000 on Thursday as the economic impact worsened with the Milan bourse posting its biggest ever one-day fall.
  
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• France closes shops, restaurants, tells people to stay home

  14-03-2020 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  France will shut shops, restaurants and entertainment facilities from Sunday with its 67 million people told to stay home to help fight the rapid acceleration of the coronavirus in a country where the number of cases has doubled in 72 hours.The government had no other option, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe told a news conference after the public health authority said 91 people had died in France and almost 4,500 were now infected.This confirmed a decision to press ahead with them by President E
  
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• U.S. internet well-equipped to handle work from home surge, experts say

  14-03-2020 20:10 via nbcnews.com
  
  However, connections could stumble for some if too many family members try to videoconference at the same time.
  
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• Virus cases spread across Africa, nations prepare for more

  14-03-2020 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Africa is seeing a steady spread of the coronavirus across the continent, with five new countries confirming cases on Saturday, so that 24 of Africa's 54 countries have COVID-19 patients.Eswatini, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritania, Namibia and Rwanda reported their first cases Saturday.All were brought to the continent by travelers from overseas, as with almost all the other cases reported in Africa, according to health authorities.
  
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• Everything you need to protect yourself from germs when you’re on the go

  14-03-2020 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Coronavirus is spreading—here are the products that may help protect you while you're commuting, traveling, or on the go in crowded settings.
  
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• Quarantined cruise ship passengers: 'We're being told next to nothing'

  14-03-2020 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Laura and Don Davis, two former passengers of a coronavirus-stricken ocean liner now quarantined on a California military base, have little to do to pass the time but watch TV, play cards and - they add half-jokingly - avoid arguments.Diagnostic kits were flown by helicopter to the ship, and 21 people aboard - mostly crew - tested positive.
  
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• 5 injured as rockets hit Iraqi base

  14-03-2020 19:47 via cnn.com
  
  A military base in Iraq has been hit by a second rocket attack in a week, injuring three coalition troops and two Iraqi troops, a US army official said.
  
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• Japanese PM Abe insists Tokyo 2020 Olympics to go ahead as planned

  14-03-2020 19:20 via cnn.com
  
  Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe insisted Saturday that the Tokyo Olympics will go ahead this summer as planned despite growing fears about the viability of staging the Games amid the global coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Coronavirus: Why is the UK not shutting schools like other countries?

  14-03-2020 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The government's top scientists are ploughing a different furrow to that of many other countries.
  
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• Court cites coronavirus in blocking Trump administration's food stamp cuts

  14-03-2020 19:08 via nbcnews.com
  
  Judge Beryl A. Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia cited the coronavirus pandemic in her decision to suspend the rule from going into effect.
  
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