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• Lockdowns: More US states tell people to stay at home

  01-04-2020 23:50 via cnn.com
  
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• Netanyahu reportedly mistook a Hallmark series clip for proof of an Iranian coronavirus coverup

  01-04-2020 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Everyone gets duped now and then. That goes for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well.Netanyahu recently showed his cabinet a video he claimed was evidence Iran was engineering a novel coronavirus coverup, Axios reports. Tehran has reported more than 47,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 3,000 deaths, but those figures have been eyed with suspicion by much of the rest of the world, including Israel, which, to put it gently, does not get along with Iran.The video showed people dumpi
  
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• Gun background checks smash records amid coronavirus fears

  01-04-2020 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Background checks required to buy firearms have spiked to record numbers in the past month, fueled by a run on guns from Americans worried about their safety during the coronavirus crisis.According to figures from the FBI, 3.7 million background checks were done in March — the most for a single month since the system began in 1998.Background checks are the key barometer of gun sales, but the FBI's monthly figures also incorporate checks for firearm permits that are required in some states.
  
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• Netanyahu to Israel: During coronavirus, everyone outside should cover their faces

  01-04-2020 23:48 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is ordering all citizens to wear masks while out in public space amid the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Ecuador's largest waterfall has vanished

  01-04-2020 23:47 via cnn.com
  
  The largest waterfall in Ecuador has seemingly vanished after a sinkhole swallowed part of its water source.
  
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• Georgia Sen. Loeffler gets renewed scrutiny over stock moves

  01-04-2020 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The husband of Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler recently acquired as much as $415,000 in stock in DuPont de Nemours, a chemical company that manufactures protective equipment in exceedingly high demand because of the coronavirus pandemic.The transaction, detailed in a mandatory disclosure the Republican filed late Tuesday, comes as senators in both parties have faced questions about the stock transactions they made in the weeks before the coronavirus upended the U.S. economy, wiping out jobs and pers
  
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• Global virus cases near million as US records youngest death

  01-04-2020 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The world was quickly approaching one million confirmed coronavirus cases on Wednesday as a six-week-old baby died in the United States in what was believed to be the pandemic's youngest victim.As governments expanded lockdowns that have affected half the planet, global agencies warned that parts of the world could face food shortages if authorities fail to navigate the crisis properly.More than 900,000 people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and nearly 46,000 have died since it first
  
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• Travel bans: 93% of people worldwide living under restrictions

  01-04-2020 23:37 via cnn.com
  
  At least 7.2 billion people live in countries with travel restrictions as the novel coronavirus pandemic spreads, according to a new analysis by the Pew Research Center.
  
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• Captain Unlikely to Be Punished over Candid Coronavirus Letter, Navy Leaders Say

  01-04-2020 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Capt. Crozier was within his rights to raise concerns with about a troubling situation on his ship, CNO Adm. Gilday said.
  
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• 93% of people around the world live in countries with coronavirus travel bans

  01-04-2020 23:37 via cnn.com
  
  At least 7.2 billion people live in countries with travel restrictions as the novel coronavirus pandemic spreads, according to a new analysis by the Pew Research Center.
  
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• First he had brain cancer. Then the coronavirus struck his city. One patient’s perilous journey.

  01-04-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  When Ronnie Kresel went in for his most recent checkup following chemotherapy on March 21, it wasn’t anything like the ones he’d had before. Upon his arrival at the Southhampton Stony Brook Hospital in Long Island, N.Y., a doctor met Kresel in a hazmat suit in a large tent outside the facility, where he was asked “a series of rapid-fire questions” and then sent to a negative-pressure room, which prevents cross-contamination, for his visit. 
  
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• Biden quietly widens lead over Trump in 2020 race: Reuters/Ipsos poll

  01-04-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden has quietly expanded his lead over President Trump among registered voters, even as the spreading coronavirus has all but sidelined Biden's campaign, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday.
  
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• Top Marine ‘signaling’ to industry that F-35 cuts are on the table

  01-04-2020 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "I’m signaling to the industry, we have to be prepared to adjust as the operating environment adjusts," said Marine Commandant David Berger.
  
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• A group at MIT figured out how to make an emergency ventilator for $100 using a common hospital item — instead of the usual $30,000

  01-04-2020 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The MIT team plans to post the design online to provide those with the ability to make or manufacture ventilators to do so.
  
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• Democrats proposing commission to study US pandemic response

  01-04-2020 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Democrats are drafting legislation that would create a bipartisan commission to study the U.S. government’s response to the coronaviruspandemic, modeled on one that examined the 9/11 attacks.The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., are working on separate bills establishing a commission.Draft legislation from Thompson’s committee says the commission wou
  
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• Astronomers Finally Discover the Elusive Mid-Sized Black Hole

  01-04-2020 23:13 via popularmechanics.com
  
  We've been searching for this celestial missing link for years.
  
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• Joe Biden predicts Democratic convention delay until August

  01-04-2020 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Prospective Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said he thinks his party's nominating convention will have to be pushed back from July into August because of the coronavirus threat.“It’s going to depend on what kind of action is taken between now and the middle of the summer to change this curve,” Biden said in a Wednesday interview with ABC late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel.The coronavirus pandemic is forcing Democrats and Republicans to take a close look at whether they'
  
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• Biden: A normal convention 'hard to imagine' as scheduled

  01-04-2020 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The coronavirus pandemic is forcing Democrats and Republicans to take a close look at whether they'll be able to move forward as planned this summer with conventions that typically kick off the general election season.In an interview with MSNBC this week, prospective Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said it’s “hard to envision” a normal convention July 13-16 in Milwaukee.“We were able to do it in the middle of a Civil War all the way through to World War II, have
  
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• Renowned chef Ina Garten makes a giant cocktail for one

  01-04-2020 23:08 via cnn.com
  
  Barefoot Contessa's Ina Garten demonstrates the best way to make a cosmo
  
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• Barefoot Contessa Ina Garten makes a giant cocktail for one

  01-04-2020 23:08 via cnn.com
  
  Barefoot Contessa's Ina Garten demonstrates the best way to make a cosmo
  
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• Trump doubles U.S. military assets in Caribbean, bolstering drug fight after Maduro indictment

  01-04-2020 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Trump administration said on Wednesday it was deploying more U.S. Navy warships and aircraft to the Caribbean to prevent drug cartels and "corrupt actors" like Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to smuggle more narcotics.President Donald Trump said he was doubling U.S. military resources in the region, including destroyers, surveillance planes and personnel, in an anti-drug crackdown to deal with what he called a "growing threat."The beefed-up operat
  
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• Can pets get the coronavirus?

  01-04-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  We want to protect our loved ones from the coronavirus. For many of us, that includes our pets. Here's what experts know about the risks they face.
  
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• Experts say the San Francisco Bay Area's early social distancing call may have saved the region from a fate similar to New York's

  01-04-2020 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Some experts think the Bay Area is succeeding in "flattening the curve" amid the coronavirus pandemic, but that doesn't mean the lockdown will end.
  
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• China is bracing for a second wave of coronavirus

  01-04-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Chinese county that was largely unscathed by the novel COVID-19 coronavirus went into lockdown Wednesday, signaling fears of a possible second wave in the country where the virus originated, The South China Morning Post reports.The county of Jia in Henan province, home to 600,000 people, is now in lockdown after infections reportedly spread at a local hospital. There were previously only 12 confirmed cases in Henan, despite it being situated just north of Hubei province, where China's epicente
  
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• Trump calls for 2 stranded Holland America cruise ships to be able to dock as coronavirus fears grow in Florida

  01-04-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "These are two big ships and they have a lot of very sick people," the president said during a White House press briefing on Tuesday night.
  
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• Kellyanne Conway Keeps Attacking Joe Biden for Staying Inside

  01-04-2020 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  While leaders across the country are urging Americans to stay in their homes to stop the spread of the coronavirus, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway is openly mocking former Vice President Joe Biden for setting that example. “Why doesn’t Vice President Biden call the White House today and offer some support? He’s in his bunker in Wilmington,” Conway said Wednesday morning on Fox & Friends. In her next breath she added, “I have to tell you, we’re
  
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• Fact check: Does New York have a stockpile of thousands of unneeded ventilators?

  01-04-2020 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  While it is true that New York maintains a stockpile of ventilators not in use, it is incorrect that these machines are unneeded.
  
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• Mike Pence: 'Italy may be the most comparable" to the US on coronavirus cases and deaths

  01-04-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pence said of Trump's comparison of the disease to the flu, "Well, look, the president – the president is an optimistic person."
  
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• Federal inmates to be locked in cells for 14 days amid virus

  01-04-2020 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The federal Bureau of Prisons is locking all its 146,000 inmates in their cells for the next two weeks in an unparalleled effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus, as the focus shifts to a Louisiana compound, where three inmates have died and nearly 20 others remain hospitalized.The compound, known as FCC Oakdale, has emerged as ground zero in the federal prison system’s struggle to contain coronavirus behind bars.The situation there is so dire that the local health department told the
  
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• Travel demand won't return to normal until mid-2021, even in the best-case scenario, an analyst warns

  01-04-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Under the best-case scenario, with slowing case growth, a Stifel analyst says air travel demand could return in 2021. But airlines may suffer longer.
  
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• Number of US cases surges by more than 14,000 in just a few hours as death toll tops 4,600

  01-04-2020 22:25 via cnn.com
  
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• Frozen and desolate Antarctica once boasted warm, swampy rainforests

  01-04-2020 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Antarctica is now a harsh land of ice and snow, but has not always been that way.Earth's southernmost continent long ago was home to temperate, swampy rainforests teeming with life, scientists said on Wednesday based on pristinely preserved forest soil they retrieved by drilling under the seafloor off Antarctica's coast.The sediment core obtained by scientists working aboard the research icebreaker RV Polarstern in the Amundsen Sea near the Pine Island Glacier dated to about 90 million years ago
  
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• Joe Biden says he'd be happy to talk coronavirus with Trump — and suggests he call Obama too

  01-04-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Vice President Joe Biden isn't afraid to reach across the aisle during this national crisis.In a press gaggle on Wednesday, Kellyanne Conway, a counselor to President Trump, snapped at Biden's apparent "criticism" of the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus. "Why doesn't Vice President Biden call the White House today and offer some support?" Conway questioned — and so Biden offered to do so."I think it's really disappointing to have President Obama's number two ... ou
  
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• Chinese Doctor Disappears after Blowing the Whistle on Coronavirus Threat

  01-04-2020 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wuhan doctor Ai Fen, who expressed early concerns about the coronavirus to the media, has disappeared and is believed detained by Chinese authorities.Fen, the head of emergency at Wuhan Central Hospital, was given a warning after she disseminated information about the coronavirus to several other doctors. She recounted the reprimand in an essay titled, "The one who supplied the whistle," which was published in China's People (Renwu) magazine. The article has since been removed.The repr
  
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• WHO: The world will reach 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases in the next few days

  01-04-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Over the past few weeks and months, the number of global COVID-19 cases and deaths has escalated dramatically.
  
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• Russian plane makes its way to U.S. with coronavirus medical equipment

  01-04-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Russian military transport plane was headed to the United States on Wednesday carrying tons of medical equipment and masks to help Washington fight the coronavirus outbreak, Russian state TV reported and a U.S. official said.
  
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• Dow closes with decline of 950 points as coronavirus continues to shake markets

  01-04-2020 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "This is going to be a very bad two, and maybe three weeks. This is going to be three weeks like we’ve never seen before,” President Donald Trump said at a news briefing.
  
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• Coronavirus latest news: UK death toll surges by another 569 to 2,921

  01-04-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Exclusive: 10m tests a day needed to end lockdown and avert economic disaster Five questions the Government must answer on the testing fiasco Politics latest news: Matt Hancock pledges 100,000 coronavirus tests per day 'Lockdown rebellion': Number of people leaving home rises Comedian Eddie Large dies aged 78 after contracting Covid-19 Follow coronavirus cases in the UK and across the world with our Live Tracker Subscribe to The Telegraph, free for one month Telegraph Coronavirus Appeal: Join us
  
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• Coronavirus latest news: Six-week old baby becomes 'one of the youngest lives lost anywhere' during pandemic

  01-04-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Government continue to dodge basic questions on testing strategy Why is Germany testing more people than the UK? When will lockdown end - the four exit strategies Follow coronavirus cases in the UK and across the world with our Live Tracker Subscribe to The Telegraph, free for one month Telegraph Coronavirus Appeal: Join us in helping those hit hardest A six-week old baby has died in the United States after contracting a coronavirus infection, the governor of Connecticut has has confirmed. Ned L
  
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• Coronavirus latest news: Number of cases worldwide tops 1 million as UK death toll surges by another 569

  01-04-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Exclusive: The systematic failures in the Government's pandemic strategy laid bare Exclusive: 10m tests a day needed to end lockdown and avert economic disaster Comedian Eddie Large dies aged 78 after contracting Covid-19 Follow coronavirus cases in the UK and across the world with our Live Tracker Subscribe to The Telegraph, free for one month Telegraph Coronavirus Appeal: Join us in helping those hit hardest Global coronavirus cases surpassed 1 million on Thursday with more than 51,000 deaths
  
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• Virus-hit aircraft carrier gets relief after commander's extraordinary plea

  01-04-2020 21:57 via cnn.com
  
  Some of the sailors from the USS Theodore Roosevelt will be quarantined in hotel rooms in Guam as the number of coronavirus cases aboard the aircraft carrier approaches 100, a deteriorating situation that led the shop's commanding officer to issue a stark warning to top Navy leadership about the need to get sailors off the ship.
  
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• Coronavirus: US 'considers cloth face masks for public'

  01-04-2020 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Officials are debating their advice on face masks as a CDC memo says simple cloth masks would help.
  
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• China lied about coronavirus, putting world in jeopardy, US intelligence agents say

  01-04-2020 21:53 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  As coronavirus cases have jumped in recent days, China is misleading the world by purposely underreporting its numbers of patients and deaths, three U.S. intelligence officials say.
  
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• Taking a toll: Dr. Fauci reveals how virus work is affecting him

  01-04-2020 21:45 via cnn.com
  
  Dr. Anthony Fauci opens up to Dr. Sanjay Gupta on CNN's podcast about how he's coping with his personal health while juggling daily demands.
  
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• How coronavirus work is taking a toll on Fauci

  01-04-2020 21:45 via cnn.com
  
  Dr. Anthony Fauci opens up to Dr. Sanjay Gupta on CNN's podcast about how he's coping with his personal health while juggling daily demands.
  
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• FISA Hawks Lee, Leahy Say ‘Damning’ Horowitz FBI Audit ‘Makes Clear Our Work Is Not Done’

  01-04-2020 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senators Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.) and Mike Lee (R., Utah) said Wednesday that “damning” evidence of widespread FISA abuse uncovered in an ongoing audit of the FBI’s application process proves that “our work is not done” as the Senate prepares to consider an extension of expiring FISA powers in the coming months.In light of a report released Tuesday showing systemic abuses within the foreign surveillance process, Leahy and Lee announced that they will propose an amend
  
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• Earth Is Literally Moving Less Now That We're All on Lockdown

  01-04-2020 21:27 via popularmechanics.com
  
  It's a good time to be a seismologist.
  
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• The economy is crumbling. What will a recovery look like?

  01-04-2020 21:26 via cnn.com
  
  Covid-19 has sent the global economy into a downward spiral. CNN Business' Christine Romans explains three scenarios of what recovery could look like.
  
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• Differing death tolls in California and Louisiana hint at the urgency to 'flatten the curve'

  01-04-2020 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In the past week, California has seen its number of deaths slowing down, while the tally in Louisiana has accelerated.
  
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• Russian plane with coronavirus medical gear flies to U.S. after Trump-Putin call

  01-04-2020 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Russia is sending the United States medical equipment to help fight the coronavirus pandemic, a public relations coup for Russian President Vladimir Putin after he discussed the crisis with U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump, struggling to fill shortages of ventilators and personal protective equipment, accepted Putin's offer in a phone call on Monday. A Russian military transport plane left an airfield outside Moscow and was expected to arrive in the United States on Wednesday night.
  
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