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• An older couple in Oregon was too afraid to get out of their car at the grocery store amid coronavirus. She helped them.

  16-03-2020 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rebecca Mehra helped an older couple in Oregon that was too afraid to go into the grocery store amid the coronavirus outbreak.
  
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• Tom Cotton is calling for Americans to get cash payments through the coronavirus outbreak

  16-03-2020 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Tom Cotton joined Sen. Mitt Romney on Monday in calling for the federal government to cut checks to Americans affected by the coronavirus.
  
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• Strengths and weaknesses of 5 possible Biden running mates

  16-03-2020 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The former VP said Sunday he will pick a female to join his ticket. That balances gender but what about the rest?
  
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• Climate change: The rich are to blame, international study finds

  16-03-2020 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Leeds University study looked at 86 countries and came to broadly the same conclusions about the rich.
  
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• More than half of American jobs are at risk because of coronavirus

  16-03-2020 23:45 via cnn.com
  
  • Amazon hiring 100,000 workers to keep up with online orders
  • America could lose 1 million jobs in March, expert says
  
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• New limits on UK, Ireland travel pose another test for Trump administration after weekend airport meltdown

  16-03-2020 23:42 via cnn.com
  
  At midnight Monday, the United States will implement a new slate of travel restrictions to combat coronavirus spread, limiting transit from the United Kingdom and Ireland, following a weekend of confusion and frustration at select airports nationwide. This time, though, officials say they'll be better prepared.
  
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• Penguin touring aquarium gives the internet a much-needed break

  16-03-2020 23:35 via cnn.com
  
  While Chicago's Shedd Aquarium has closed to the public due to the coronavirus pandemic, one Chicago resident was allowed a private tour: Wellington, the rockhopper penguin.
  
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• Penguin touring aquarium gives internet much-needed break

  16-03-2020 23:35 via cnn.com
  
  While Chicago's Shedd Aquarium has closed to the public due to the coronavirus pandemic, one Chicago resident was allowed a private tour: Wellington, the rockhopper penguin.
  
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• Mexico rejects El Salvador accusation it let coronavirus patients board plane

  16-03-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexico rejected an accusation by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on Monday that it had allowed a dozen people with coronavirus to board a flight to San Salvador, saying medical staff had found no evidence of the virus on the travelers.Earlier, Bukele abruptly suspended all passenger flights to El Salvador after making his coronavirus assertion on Twitter, describing Mexican authorities as "irresponsible."The Salvadoran president did not provide evidence for the claim, which Mexican Deputy Heal
  
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• 'Game of Thrones' actor says he tested positive for Covid-19

  16-03-2020 23:28 via cnn.com
  
  A "Game of Thrones" actor is the latest celebrity to say he's been diagnosed with the coronavirus.
  
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• Trump press secretary Grisham works from home after brush with coronavirus

  16-03-2020 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Stephanie Grisham, communications adviser to both U.S. President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, said on Monday she is working from home after a close brush with a Brazilian official who tested positive for the coronavirus.Grisham said she was staying at home for a number of days out of an abundance of caution after having had contact with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's press secretary, who later tested positive for the virus.Bolsonaro and his delegation had dinner with Trump and his t
  
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• 24 airlines are suspending or severely reducing flights as coronavirus-related travel restrictions shake the industry — here's the full list

  16-03-2020 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Reduced demand for travel has caused airlines to temporarily shutter operations as COVID-19 continues to spread and nations close borders.
  
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• Coronavirus now in Tanzania, Somalia as E.Africa starts closures

  16-03-2020 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tanzania and Somalia on Monday became the latest East Africa countries to confirm their first cases of coronavirus, as neighbouring countries shuttered borders and schools as fears of contagion rose.As the global pandemic takes root in Africa, Chinese billionaire Jack Ma announced he was donating 20,000 testing kits, 100,000 masks and 1,000 protective suits to each of the continent's 54 countries."We take precautions and get prepared ahead of time, as Africa can benefit from the experience and l
  
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• Trump finally paints a bleak coronavirus outlook

  16-03-2020 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Analysis: The president wasted valuable time that could be costly in terms of the health and economic standing of the nation. Now come signs he may be looking to play catchup.
  
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• France to Guarantee $335 Billion of Bank Loans, Macron Says

  16-03-2020 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- France will guarantee up to 300 billion euros ($335 billion) of bank loans to companies in an effort to bolster firms threatened by the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, President Emmanuel Macron said.The government will also allow companies to delay paying their taxes and social security contributions and provide support to help them delay loan payments, Macron said in a televised address Monday. The president said he’s halting all reforms -- including his controversial p
  
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• Southwest cutting 'at least' 20% of flights as planes half empty from coronavirus

  16-03-2020 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Southwest Airlines said it has had several days of more cancellations than bookings and that planes are flying half empty in recent days.
  
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• Trump licks his chops as Biden veers left on sanctuary cities, fracking

  16-03-2020 23:06 via politico.com
  
  The former VP is trying to straddle the line between pragmatism and progressivism as he closes in on the nomination.
  
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• The most 'chaotic classes' might not even be in the classroom. They'll be online.

  16-03-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “You can't simply snap your fingers,” one advocate said. “It takes planning and training, and we don't have time for that.”
  
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• As coronavirus closes schools, teachers brace for massive experiment in online education

  16-03-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “You can't simply snap your fingers,” one advocate said. “It takes planning and training, and we don't have time for that.”
  
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• Trump says coronavirus pandemic could bring on a recession

  16-03-2020 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Asked whether the country was heading for an economic recession, the president said “it may be,” although he also said he expected the economy to recover quickly once the health emergency passes.
  
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• How the Navy's small craft action teams defend US warships at sea

  16-03-2020 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Small craft action team members have to know how to use all the ship's mounted guns and when to use them.
  
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• Displaced Syrian family lives in a graveyard as the war enters its 10th year

  16-03-2020 22:42 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The number of dead continues to pile up in a country that was once one of the most beautiful on earth. The fear of death is never far from the mind of survivors. And some are even forced to live among those who have departed – with nowhere left to go as the last opposition-bastion of Syria’s Idlib is laid to waste.
  
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• Europe, Canada, U.K. Limit Travel in Attempt to Seal Out Virus

  16-03-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The European Union proposed a temporary halt to non-essential travel, while Canada and the U.K. placed restrictions on who can enter the country, further steps to firm up the world’s borders to prevent the spread of Covid-19.The measures are meant to suppress transmission of the deadly virus, which has killed more than 7,000 lives worldwide. But they will deepen the economic toll on the travel industry and provide fresh challenges for trade and for families separated by bord
  
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• Former priest in northern Virginia charged with sexual abuse

  16-03-2020 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A former Catholic priest in northern Virginia has been charged with sexually abusing a teenager in a case that dates back nearly 35 years, and a city councilman for the District of Columbia came forward to say he was the victim.Scott Asalone, 63, of Asbury Park, New Jersey, was charged in Loudoun County with carnal knowledge of a minor, Attorney General Mark Herring's office said Monday.Asalone was arrested Saturday in New Jersey and will be transferred to Virginia, Herring's office said.
  
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• Coronavirus: Trump says coronavirus crisis may last all summer

  16-03-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mr Trump said that over the next 15 days, Americans should not gather in groups of more than 10 people.
  
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• Amazon hiring 100,000 workers to keep up with online shopping surge

  16-03-2020 22:24 via cnn.com
  
  Amazon says the coronavirus outbreak has caused a surge in online shopping, and now the online giant is adding 100,000 new full-time and part-time positions across the United States to keep up with the demand.
  
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• Experiencing rising coronavirus numbers, Africa's poor, rural not ready for coming crisis

  16-03-2020 22:22 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  As the numbers of the coronavirus epidemic start rising in Africa, there are worries that rural areas with weak health systems and crowded low-income communities aren’t ready for the harm and loss about to come.
  
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• A New York Department of Correction employee has died from the coronavirus

  16-03-2020 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  David Perez, who had preexisting health conditions, died Sunday, according to the New York Daily News.
  
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• Google’s coronavirus testing website arrives – with serious privacy concerns

  16-03-2020 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The site launched on Sunday and isn’t anything close to the nationwide tool pledged by TrumpIt wasn’t anything close to the nationwide online coronavirus triage and testing tool that Donald Trump had promised. But on Sunday evening, a website allowing residents of two northern California counties to enter symptoms and, if eligible, make an appointment for coronavirus testing went live.By Monday morning, however, the project by Verily – a sister company to Google under the corpo
  
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• COVID-19 stay: Execution halted for man who killed family

  16-03-2020 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The outbreak of the novel coronavirus prompted the top Texas criminal appeals court on Monday to stay for 60 days the scheduled execution of a man condemned for killing his family.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rejected all grounds of John William Hummel's appeal but said it would postpone the scheduled Wednesday execution “in light of the current health crisis and the enormous resources needed to address the execution.”Hummel, 44, was convicted in 2011 of capital murder in the
  
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• US airport security officers fear exposure as cases rise

  16-03-2020 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least six Transportation Security Administration officers have tested positive for the new coronavirus and dozens were in self-quarantine Monday as the disease takes an increasing toll on an agency critical to the safety of U.S. aviation.TSA said it was providing safety training to employees and operations were running smoothly.It stood by its decision to not provide officers with respirators as their union requested last week.
  
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• Americans stuck in Cambodia amid pandemic say they are 'being detained,' not quarantined

  16-03-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  When Ryan Knapp and his wife booked a cruise along the Mekong Delta, they thought it would be a dream trip. But it has turned into a nightmare.
  
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• Trump says it's 'unnecessary' to postpone primary elections shortly after discouraging gatherings of more than 10 people

  16-03-2020 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Several states have already moved to postpone their primary elections in light of the coronavirus outbreak.
  
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• Amid coronavirus, Australian supermarkets to give older shoppers first access to essential supplies

  16-03-2020 21:59 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  To shop at Australia’s biggest supermarket chains when they open at 7 a.m., early birds will need to show ID. In general, anyone not yet in their 60s or without a disability pass won’t be allowed in.
  
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• Pentagon Takes Cautious Stance on Active Role in Virus Treatment

  16-03-2020 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The Pentagon expressed caution about its ability to provide swift medical assistance in the U.S. effort to treat the coronavirus outbreak after former Vice President Joe Biden called for a mobilization using military hospitals and tents.The Defense Department’s 36 hospitals in the U.S. are better-suited to treating battlefield traumas than contagious diseases and are designed to meet the “immediate” needs of service members and their families, Air Force Brigadier
  
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• ‘No Words’: Seven Family Members Found Dead in Suspected Murder-Suicide

  16-03-2020 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A North Carolina man killed six of his family members over the weekend before turning the gun on himself, authorities said Monday.The Chatham County Sheriff’s Office said Larry Don Ray, 66, fatally shot six relatives at multiple homes on the same property Sunday afternoon in Moncure.The six family members who died have been identified as Jeanie Ray, 67; Helen Mason, 93; Ellis Mansfield, 73; Lisa Mansfield, 54; John Paul Sanderford, 41; and Nicole Sanderford, 39. Two teenage sons who lost t
  
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• How social distancing works and what it means for you

  16-03-2020 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Here are some questions and answers about the “social distancing” efforts to slow the epidemic in the U.S.WHAT IS SOCIAL DISTANCING?Social distancing are practices implemented by public health officials to keep contagious diseases from spreading.
  
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• Cruise ships stranded after countries adopt virus measures

  16-03-2020 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New measures to seal off borders to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus have left cruise ships stranded in the Caribbean, South America and Europe, with local governments denying permission to disembark as more cases of infected passengers have come to light.Two cruise ships have been turned away from several Caribbean ports, and at least one by Spain, after passengers fell ill with COVID-19.Two other vessels have rerouted to Miami after they were turned away from their home port in Puert
  
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• Trump: Avoid 'discretionary travel,' but no restrictions on travel within the United States

  16-03-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White House officials have repeatedly said restrictions on travel within the United States are under consideration. When will they come?
  
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• The chart that explains critical sacrifices to fighting coronavirus

  16-03-2020 21:41 via cnn.com
  
  One chart explains how the sacrifices we're making and "social distancing" could be the most powerful solution we have in fighting epidemics.
  
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• Trump rates his coronavirus response a 10

  16-03-2020 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump on Monday rated his response to the growing coronavirus outbreak in the United States a 10.
  
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• The Met Gala has been postponed

  16-03-2020 21:30 via cnn.com
  
  One of the biggest nights on the fashion calendar, the Met Gala, will not go ahead as scheduled on May 4, 2020. The news follows a wave of canceled and postponed cultural events around the world due to coronavirus.
  
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• Kaley Cuoco and Her Husband Move Into Brand-New Hidden Hills Estate

  16-03-2020 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Big Bang Theory star married professional equestrian Karl Cook in 2018, but the couple lived separately until now
  
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• Trump coronavirus task force coordinator says millennials 'are the core group that will stop this virus'

  16-03-2020 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House doctor praised millennials for their tech savviness before alluding to scenes of partying from over the weekend.
  
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• Trump admits coronavirus is looking 'very bad,' economy may be headed toward recession

  16-03-2020 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump is starting to sound worried about the coronavirus.During a White House press briefing on the pandemic, the president — who has faced criticism over what many believe to be his casual response to COVID-19 — said "this is a very bad one" because of its "sort of record-setting type contagion," and he's even discussed the severity of it with one of his sons.> Trump says he's actually spoken with his son (didn't say which one) about this, who has asked him "how bad is
  
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• Men who hoarded over 17,000 hand sanitizer bottles donate stockpile amid price-gouging probe

  16-03-2020 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two brothers who bought 17,000 bottles of sanitizer in Tennessee and Kentucky to sell online have donated their stockpile.
  
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• Bernie Sanders is the only presidential candidate taking coronavirus seriously

  16-03-2020 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States is virtually certain to suffer the worst epidemic of novel coronavirus in the rich world, and maybe anywhere. We are far behind the measures South Korea has taken to control its outbreak, and not even particularly close to what Italy is doing, where the carnage is horrible and accelerating. The resulting disruptions are creating an incipient economic recession which looks to be just as bad as the one in 2008, if not worse.There is one presidential candidate whose political prop
  
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• 'We're going to have a real problem': New York's governor warns that the coronavirus pandemic could overwhelm hospitals

  16-03-2020 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The coronavirus pandemic threatens to push hospitals — from beds to staff to supplies — to their limits.
  
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• Fearing coronavirus spread, lawyers for immigrant detainees urge their release

  16-03-2020 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Cuban asylum seeker with breast cancer who has been detained since November is among dozens of people seeking to be released by U.S. immigration authorities amid fears that the coronavirus could spread quickly in densely populated detention facilities.In her four months in immigration detention, the 39-year-old woman has contracted flu and numerous infections and was recently transferred to a detention facility in rural Louisiana, her attorney wrote in a reques
  
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• Trump grades himself on coronavirus response

  16-03-2020 21:17 via cnn.com
  
  During a coronavirus task force meeting, President Donald Trump was asked to grade himself on the White House's response to the crisis.
  
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