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• U.S. car sales in states with coronavirus lockdown orders to drop 80%: Analysts

  25-03-2020 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Vehicle sales in U.S. states that implemented lockdown orders to curb the spread of coronavirus will drop 80% or more, analysts said on Wednesday.
  
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• Coronavirus: Trump rows back on pledge to get US ‘back to work’ by Easter

  25-03-2020 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump stepped back a bit from his pledge to get the entire country “back to work” by Easter, saying on Wednesday he might “do sections” at a time instead.The president on Tuesday raised the ire of Democrats and some public health experts by announcing during a Fox News broadcast from the White House Rose Garden that he wants the country “open for business” by 12 April. He began to hedge Tuesday evening during his daily coronavirus press briefing, floati
  
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• Eight sailors from USS Theodore Roosevelt have coronavirus, raising concerns about pandemic's strain on military

  25-03-2020 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Eight sailors aboard the 5,000-member USS Theodore Roosevelt have contracted COVID-19 and were airlifted from the aircraft carrier.
  
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• Trump Says He ‘Won’t Accept’ That Ex-FBI Agent Robert Levinson Died in Iran, Despite Family’s Statement

  25-03-2020 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The family of Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent and CIA contractor who vanished in Iran over 10 years ago, said on Wednesday that they believe he is dead based on “information from U.S. officials.” “We recently received information from U.S. officials that has led both them and us to conclude that our wonderful husband and father died while in Iranian custody,” a statement from the family read. “We don't know when or how he died, only that it was prior to the COVI
  
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• Cuomo Says Stimulus Not Enough as New Yorkers Flood 911

  25-03-2020 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- With New York City residents dialing 911 for medical services at a rate not seen in nearly two decades, Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio said lawmakers in Washington weren’t doing enough to respond to the spiraling coronavirus crisis.Cuomo has been the chief outside-the-Beltway critic of the Trump administration’s response as New York has added thousands of new coronavirus cases every day. The peak of infection is still about three weeks away, Cuomo said,
  
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• Elon Musk says Tesla's New York Gigafactory will reopen and start producing ventilators 'as soon as humanly possible'

  25-03-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Elon Musk said on Twitter that ventilator production in Tesla's New York Gigafactory will begin "as soon as humanly possible."
  
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• Man who said he had coronavirus coughed on Wegmans worker, charged with making terroristic threat

  25-03-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A customer coughed and then said he had coronavirus to an employee at a Wegmans in Manalapan, according to Gov. Phil Murphy.
  
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• This is how Bolsonaro is responding to coronavirus outbreak in Brazil

  25-03-2020 23:31 via cnn.com
  
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• These presidents are downplaying severity of coronavirus

  25-03-2020 23:31 via cnn.com
  
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• These leaders are downplaying severity of coronavirus

  25-03-2020 23:31 via cnn.com
  
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• Republicans block most aid to help states plan for presidential election amid coronavirus pandemic

  25-03-2020 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Voting reforms that would make it much easier to cast ballots by mail in the fall presidential election were left out of the $2 trillion rescue package that was unveiled Wednesday.
  
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• Former FBI agent Levinson dead in Iranian custody: family

  25-03-2020 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The former FBI agent Bob Levinson, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 2007, has died in Iranian custody, his family said Wednesday."We recently received information from US officials that has led both them and us to conclude that our wonderful husband and father died while in Iranian custody," said a statement from Levinson's family.It added that it was unsure when or how he died, but that it was before the coronavirus pandemic that has hit Iran hard.
  
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• Cairo, the city that never sleeps, shuts for coronavirus night-time curfew

  25-03-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Egypt and its capital Cairo, a mega-city home to some 20 million people, shut down on Wednesday evening as authorities launched a night-time curfew to tackle the spread of the coronavirus.In a city that never sleeps where restaurants and cafes are usually open until the wee hours, shop owners were closing shutters and commuters rushing home before the start of the 7 p.m. curfew that runs until 6 a.m.Egypt has stepped up measures aimed at preventing the spread of the coronavirus - closing airport
  
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• Tapper: How many lives affected by Trump's 'false sense of security'?

  25-03-2020 23:22 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Jake Tapper replays a clip of President Donald Trump from February 2020, claiming Trump provided Americans a 'false sense of security.'
  
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• 'We should get on with this': Joe Biden says he's debated enough with Bernie Sanders

  25-03-2020 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden said Wednesday he's debated enough times with Vermont U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders.
  
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• Today's luxury hotel is tomorrow's coronavirus hospital

  25-03-2020 23:13 via cnn.com
  
  The Ayre Gran Hotel Colón is a four-star, 365-room design hotel in downtown Madrid close to Retiro Park and one of the city's largest hospitals.
  
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• Gilead asks FDA to take back lucrative orphan drug status on possible coronavirus treatment

  25-03-2020 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The FDA agreed to the withdrawal, and said it is actively working to speed development of medical products desperately needed to prevent or treat the highly contagious COVID-19 illness caused by the virus.The company was criticized by lawmakers and patient advocates after receiving the orphan designation on Monday for the experimental antiviral drug, saying it was taking advantage of the rapidly accelerating health crisis.The drug, which previously failed as an Ebola treatment, is being tried on
  
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• An Uber driver who got COVID-19 couldn't get the company to cover his promised sick pay until he called out its CEO on Twitter

  25-03-2020 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Uber and others have promised sick pay for gig workers affected by the coronavirus, but they're finding it hard to actually get the money.
  
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• Saudi King says G20 exceptional summit to unite coronavirus efforts

  25-03-2020 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Saudi Arabia's King Salman said on Wednesday that as the world confronts the new coronavirus, the Group of 20 major economies will convene in an exceptional summit to come up with initiatives to unite the efforts to combat the pandemic."As the world confronts the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges to healthcare systems and the global economy, we convene this extraordinary G20 summit to unite efforts towards a global response," the king said on Twitter.The kingdom, which holds the G20 presidenc
  
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• What Africa can teach the world about beating the coronavirus

  25-03-2020 22:57 via cnn.com
  
  As the spread of the novel coronavirus accelerates around the world, sub-Saharan Africa has largely been spared -- until now.
  
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• Trump news: White House holds coronavirus update as president claims quarantine ruining his election chances

  25-03-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the coronavirus outbreak continues to ravage the US, with more than 55,000 people now diagnosed to have contracted the virus and more than 800 dead, Donald Trump has approved a major disaster declaration for the state of Louisiana.The US Senate has finally agreed a massive bipartisan $2trn (£1.7trn) stimulus package with the White House to boost the country’s economy in response to the deadly contagion, the bill providing tax rebates, four months expanded unemployment benefits and
  
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• Trump news - live: White House holds coronavirus update as president claims quarantine ruining his election chances

  25-03-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the coronavirus outbreak continues to ravage the US, with more than 55,000 people now diagnosed to have contracted the virus and more than 800 dead, Donald Trump has approved a major disaster declaration for the state of Louisiana.The US Senate has finally agreed a massive bipartisan $2trn (£1.7trn) stimulus package with the White House to boost the country’s economy in response to the deadly contagion, the bill providing tax rebates, four months expanded unemployment benefits and
  
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• Family: US believes ex-FBI agent Robert Levinson has died

  25-03-2020 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. government has concluded that retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, who vanished more than a decade ago, has died while in the custody of Iran, his family said Wednesday.Shortly after the family's announcement, President Donald Trump told reporters that “I won't accept that he's dead," even though his own acting national intelligence director appeared to confirm the news with a statement conveying sympathies for the Levinsons.The family said in a statement posted on Twitter that it h
  
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• Coronavirus bailout: Airlines should be required to have emergency cash just like banks

  25-03-2020 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  What the airline industry needs isn't a bailout but less competition, in order to produce the types of margins airlines need to cover costs.
  
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• Instagram's CEO is staying home and he wants his app users to do the same

  25-03-2020 22:50 via cnn.com
  
  Adam Mosseri, CEO of Instagram, talks to CNN Business' Donie O'Sullivan about the app's response to the coronavirus pandemic, misinformation on the platform, and how he's running the company from his garage.
  
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• Someone Who Isn't Nicolas Cage Found Respirator Masks in the Crypt of Washington National Cathedral

  25-03-2020 22:41 via popularmechanics.com
  
  So. What else is down there?
  
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• US Christian leaders criticise Trump's Easter coronavirus deadline

  25-03-2020 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Rev Al Sharpton said ‘a premature resurrection will lead to a disaster’ as Rev William Barber called it ‘the height of hypocrisy’* Coronavirus – latest US updates* Live global updates* See all our coronavirus coverageUS Christian leaders have criticised Donald Trump’s Easter coronavirus deadline – by which he wants to see much of the country reopened and churches full. One described it as the “height of hypocrisy”.As US coronavirus cases
  
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• New York City hospitals are running out of room in their morgues, but the flow of coronavirus bodies is just starting to ramp up

  25-03-2020 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "The death toll from COVID currently is much higher than it is in the news," said one licensed funeral director, embalmer, and body remover in NYC.
  
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• Video shows Mexican president in a crowd of children

  25-03-2020 22:35 via cnn.com
  
  Political leaders in some Latin American countries, including Mexico and Brazil, have downplayed the severity of the coronavirus pandemic in their own countries. CNN's Matt Rivers reports.
  
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• The Great Barrier Reef likely just experienced its most widespread bleaching event on record

  25-03-2020 22:35 via cnn.com
  
  Australia's Great Barrier Reef has likely experienced its most widespread bleaching event on record, according to a US government scientist who monitors the world's coral reefs.
  
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• A San Francisco man delivered toilet paper to his friend via drone amid the city's shelter-in-place order directing residents to stay inside to contain the coronavirus

  25-03-2020 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As San Francisco lives through a shelter-in-place order to contain the coronavirus, people are getting creative with how they keep supplies stocked.
  
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• Student loan stimulus: Suspended payments, plus coronavirus relief from collections

  25-03-2020 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The coronavirus stimulus package suspends student loan payments, but does not have loan forgiveness. The feds also have stopped collections efforts.
  
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• Cardi B says celebrities are causing confusion about the coronavirus

  25-03-2020 22:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  "If a celebrity is saying, 'Hey, listen. I don't have no symptoms ... but I went and got tested and I'm positive for the coronavirus,' that cause confusion," Cardi B said.
  
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• People intentionally spreading coronavirus could be charged with terrorism, US says

  25-03-2020 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  Individuals who intentionally spread the novel coronavirus could be charged with terrorism for the "purposeful exposure and infection of others," a Justice Department memo says.
  
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• A G-7 joint statement on coronavirus failed because the U.S. insisted on calling it the 'Wuhan virus'

  25-03-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Representatives from the Group of Seven met Wednesday to discuss the coronavirus pandemic, but they couldn't agree on a joint statement to release to the public afterwards.German newspaper Der Spiegel initially reported the disagreement had to do with the United States' insistence that the novel coronavirus be called the "Wuhan virus," in reference to where the pathogen originated. The other countries, including Canada, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, and Japan, winced at the notion,
  
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• WHO: The world has a 'second window of opportunity' to stop the coronavirus, but 6 key actions are needed

  25-03-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Use this time to attack the virus," the WHO Director General said, adding that countries have created a new "window of opportunity" to act.
  
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• Pompeo attacks Chinese virus campaign at G7 as Europeans seek cooperation

  25-03-2020 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that the Group of Seven powers were united in opposing China's coronavirus "disinformation," but European allies emphasized cooperation to fight the global pandemic.Pompeo, a sharp critic of Beijing who has gone on the offensive over what he calls the "Wuhan virus," said he shared a common view with the top diplomats of the other G7 countries -- Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.
  
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• Today's hotel is tomorrow's coronavirus hospital

  25-03-2020 22:22 via cnn.com
  
  The Ayre Gran Hotel Colón is a four-star, 365-room design hotel in downtown Madrid close to Retiro Park and one of the city's largest hospitals.
  
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• How coronavirus has sent gun and ammo sales through the roof

  25-03-2020 22:19 via cnn.com
  
  "Gun, ammo sales soar in Kentucky amid novel coronavirus outbreak"
  
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• California Gov. Newsom Says 4 Banks Agree to Waive Mortgage Fees for 90 Days

  25-03-2020 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than 1 million Californians have filed for unemployment benefits since March 13
  
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• Trump's Easter goal in war on virus a nod to faith, business

  25-03-2020 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump’s “beautiful” idea to reopen the U.S. economy by Easter Sunday and pack church pews that day was dreamed up during a conference call among business leaders desperate to get the country back up and running.Cooped up at the White House and watching the stock market tumble, Trump had already been eager to ease federal guidelines aimed at halting the spread of a virus that had infected more than 55,000 Americans when about a dozen business leaders convened a
  
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• This giant glacier in Antarctica is melting, and it could raise sea levels by 5 feet, scientists say

  25-03-2020 22:10 via cnn.com
  
  In the last 22 years, one giant glacier in Antarctica has retreated almost three miles. If it fully thaws, sea levels would rise almost 5 feet.
  
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• Sanders, AOC Threaten Delays on $2 Trillion Economic Stimulus

  25-03-2020 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) on Wednesday both threatened a possible delay in voting on the massive $2 trillion economic-stimulus package working its way through Congress.Sanders objected to an amendment proposed on Wednesday afternoon by Senators Ben Sasse (R., Neb.), Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), and Tim Scott (R., S.C.) that would cap unemployment benefits at a worker's previous salary level.“I cannot at the last minute allow some
  
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• NY Gov. Cuomo blasts the coronavirus stimulus package as 'terrible' for Empire State

  25-03-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "It is just another case of politics over sound policy," Cuomo's communications director said in a followup statement.
  
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• N.J. Surge on Track to Echo N.Y.; Italy Cases Slow: Virus Update

  25-03-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York said the stimulus package working its way through Congress is inadequate. He also restricted access to a malaria drug that President Donald Trump has touted as a treatment for the novel coronavirus.Spain had its deadliest day yet. In Britain, the government moved to shut Parliament and Prince Charles tested positive. European Union leaders inched toward a rescue package. Germany unleashed a historic bailout.Russian President Vladimir Putin postpon
  
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• As Florida coronavirus cases surge, spring breakers express regret

  25-03-2020 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Spring breakers are now expressing regret they went, but some say the government wasn't clear enough in their message to practice social distancing.
  
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• Fact check: Not true that no Democrats voted for coronavirus stimulus package

  25-03-2020 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A viral meme on Facebook claimed March 22 that no Democrats had voted in favor of helping Americans through an economic stimulus bill. This is false.
  
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• US push to include 'Wuhan virus' language in G7 joint statement fractures alliance

  25-03-2020 21:54 via cnn.com
  
  A push by the US State Department to include the phrase "Wuhan virus" in a joint statement with other Group of Seven members following a meeting of foreign ministers on coronavirus on Wednesday was rejected, resulting in separate statements and division in the group.
  
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• The Four Seasons on Billionaires' Row, the most expensive street in NYC, is set to house doctors and nurses for free during the coronavirus pandemic

  25-03-2020 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "The 350 room hotel will provide medical personnel currently working to respond to the coronavirus outbreak lodging free of charge," a press release said.
  
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• New York: Cuomo says early signs show coronavirus distancing may be working

  25-03-2020 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * Governor: efforts seem to have slowed rate of hospitalization* ‘Single greatest challenge’ is state’s severe lack of ventilators* Coronavirus – latest US updates* See all our coronavirus coverageNew York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, has said officials are seeing very early signs that physical distancing may be starting to slow the spread of coronavirus in his state, but cautioned that the number of cases is still rising significantly and hospitals would soon be overw
  
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