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• Joe Biden Officially Wins Chaotic Wisconsin Primary

  13-04-2020 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Vice President Joe Biden has officially been declared the victor of the Wisconsin Democratic primary, according to the Associated Press, after a surge in mail-in ballots posted in the midst of the coronavirus crisis took days to officially tabulate the results of the April 7 contest.Biden’s win in Wisconsin is largely pro forma following the suspension of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign last week, which cleared the path to the Democratic presidential nomination for
  
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• India cleared to buy two anti-ship munition packages

  13-04-2020 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The two packages could be worth $155 million.
  
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• 70 coronavirus vaccines are in the works globally, and trials are moving forward at an unprecedented speed

  13-04-2020 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Drugmakers are developing vaccines in record time, but a safe and effective shot for the coronavirus is still at least several months away.
  
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• Florida man charged with murder after wife disappears amid suspicious coronavirus messages

  13-04-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Texts from Gretchen Anthony's cell phone said she had COVID-19 but there's no medical record of it
  
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• Coronavirus: Don't expect changes to UK lockdown this week - Dominic Raab

  13-04-2020 23:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The government says it could change its advice on using face masks if evidence supported such a move.
  
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• Just 27% of Americans think the US is doing better than other countries at containing the coronavirus

  13-04-2020 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US is currently the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, with the most reported cases and fatalities from the virus in the world.Americans do not appear to be overwhelmingly confident in how their country has handled the coronavirus pandemic compared to the rest of the globe.The US is currently the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, with the most reported cases in the world.
  
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• Fact check: Trump claims it's his call on when to 'reopen' the country. He's wrong.

  13-04-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Only the states can give shutdown orders, and only the states can lift them, legal scholars say. Many governors agree.
  
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• Governors Team Up to Plan for Reopening, Rebuffing Trump

  13-04-2020 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Some of the nation’s most powerful governors said they would form regional alliances to coordinate reopening schools and businesses after the coronavirus outbreak subsides, setting up a potential clash with the president, who says that he alone has that authority.“We will be driven by facts, we will be driven by evidence, we will be driven by science, we will be driven by our public health advisers, we will be driven by the collaborative spirit that defines the best of
  
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• 80 million Americans will get their stimulus checks directly deposited into their bank accounts this week, Treasury says

  13-04-2020 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tens of millions of Americans could see their checks by April 15, according to the Treasury Department.
  
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• Could polio or TB vaccines protect against COVID-19?

  13-04-2020 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "The scientific rationale, I think, is quite logical," one researcher said.
  
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• US to receive 750,000 coronavirus tests from South Korea

  13-04-2020 23:19 via cnn.com
  
  The United States is turning to South Korea-- a country with an aggressive testing regime that President Donald Trump previously downplayed -- to bring approximately 750,000 more coronavirus tests to the US, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
  
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• I will vote for Joe Biden in November. And it will kill me

  13-04-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Against all internal resistance, I will vote for creepy Joe Biden, a man who both should be and does not deserve to be president.
  
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• Governor: Michigan can't yet get back to work

  13-04-2020 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Michigan's governor acknowledges the state's stay-at-home order to fight the coronavirus has angered some residents but she won't allow the economy to reopen until medical experts say it's safe (April 13)
  
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• Coronavirus crisis: What would happen if Trump administration pulled its majority funding from the WHO?

  13-04-2020 23:10 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  flags have been raised over the role played by the World Health Organization (WHO) in initially downplaying the virus to appease China, and just how effectively its money – funded overwhelmingly by the U.S. taxpayer – is spent by the U.N. agency.
  
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• Domestic violence websites see a surge in number of visits

  13-04-2020 23:06 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's MJ Lee reports on the nationwide increase in domestic violence cases amid the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• French F1 Grand Prix set to be postponed

  13-04-2020 22:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The French Grand Prix is set to be the next Formula 1 event to be postponed as a result of the coronavirus crisis.
  
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• Navy Cancels Carrier Homecoming Plans Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

  13-04-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thousands of sailors who were scheduled to head back to the East Coast after deploying to the Middle East will remain at sea.
  
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• Ukraine: wildfires draw dangerously close to Chernobyl site

  13-04-2020 22:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Witnesses accuse government of covering up severity of blaze near site of nuclear disasterWildfires in Ukraine have spread to just over a mile from the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant and a disposal site for radioactive waste, according to activists, as more than 300 firefighters work to contain the blaze.A video posted by a Chernobyl tour operator showed flames and a cloud of smoke rising within sight of the protective shelter over the carcass of Chernobyl’s Unit 4 nuclear reactor,
  
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• China's low COVID-19 body count, secrecy adds to credibility concerns

  13-04-2020 22:41 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  As the death toll grows in other parts of the world from coronavirus, China's insistence on an implausible body count - despite reporting a bump in cases of infection on Monday - is not only being ridiculed but chipping away at what little credibility the country has left. 
  
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• Health care workers in Ohio are testing positive for COVID-19 at an alarming rate

  13-04-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than 1,000 health care workers in Ohio have tested positive for the coronavirus, but state and local officials won't say where they work.
  
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• Bernie Sanders endorses Joe Biden for president: 'We need you in the White House' – video

  13-04-2020 22:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Former campaign rival Bernie Sanders on Monday endorsed Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden as the next president of the United States as he made a joint online appearance with the former vice-president. 'We’ve got to make Trump a one-term president,' Sanders said. 'I will do all that I can to make that happen'Bernie Sanders endorses Joe Biden for president Continue reading...
  
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• Kiev authorities seal off Orthodox monastery that became coronavirus hotspot

  13-04-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Authorities in Kiev sealed off a 1,000-year-old Orthodox Christian monastery on Monday after reporting that two of its members had died and more than 90 had contracted the coronavirus, accounting for around a fifth of the Ukrainian capital's cases.The city administration has dispatched doctors and mobile X-ray machines to the sprawling Kiev Pechersk Lavra complex, the headquarters of the Russian-backed wing of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church known as the Moscow Patriarchate."We must have a real pi
  
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• COVID-19 is 10 times more deadly than swine flu: WHO

  13-04-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The novel coronavirus is 10 times more deadly than swine flu, which caused a global pandemic in 2009, the World Health Organization said Monday, stressing a vaccine would be necessary to fully halt transmission.WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual briefing from Geneva that the organisation was constantly learning about the new virus sweeping the globe, which has now killed nearly 115,000 people and infected over 1.8 million."We know that COVID-19 spreads fast, and we know tha
  
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• Coronavirus fears grow for Brazil's indigenous groups

  13-04-2020 22:20 via cnn.com
  
  Fears are growing that the coronavirus could ravage Brazil's indigenous communities, following the death of a teenage boy in the Amazon region.
  
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• What Joe Biden could realistically do to win over the left

  13-04-2020 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden's campaign is reportedly looking into ways to shore up its left flank. As Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman write at The Washington Post, he is proposing lowering the Medicare eligibility age to 60 and a means-tested program of student debt forgiveness. Unsurprisingly, these timid ideas were greeted with derisive jeers on the left.But there are other steps Biden could take if he wanted to seriously demonstrate he is not as bad as the left says he is. Bernie Sanders did endorse Biden in a j
  
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• Moscow tightens coronavirus restrictions, enacting digital permits for car trips

  13-04-2020 22:14 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Authorities in Moscow have begun issuing residents so-called “digital permits” in an effort to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic that has overwhelmed the city’s resources in recent weeks.
  
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• Here are the instructions for a better-fitting homemade mask that can filter particles 2x better than cotton, created by three clothing designers

  13-04-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The fashion designers that created a new blue-shop-towel surgical style mask are giving their design away for free.
  
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• Tuesday's football gossip: Real plan Haaland & Mbappe moves, plus more

  13-04-2020 21:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Real Madrid plan Haaland and Mbappe moves, Borussia Dortmund want Torres, Ighalo will have to take pay cut for Man Utd switch, plus more.
  
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• Thousands of American Airlines pilots, flight attendants take leave, early retirement

  13-04-2020 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thousands of American Airlines pilots and flight attendants have accepted offers for voluntary leave and early retirement amid the coronavirus crisis.
  
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• India's air quality has improved so much since the country went on coronavirus lockdown citizens can now see the Himalyas for the first time in 30 years

  13-04-2020 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Residents in the northern Indian state of Punjab say they're seeing the Himalayas for the first time in decades while on coronavirus lockdown.
  
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• India's air quality has improved so much since the country went on coronavirus lockdown citizens can now see the Himalayas for the first time in 30 years

  13-04-2020 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Residents in the northern Indian state of Punjab say they're seeing the Himalayas for the first time in decades while on coronavirus lockdown.
  
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• Governors respond to President Trump’s assertion that it’s up to him to decide when to loosen coronavirus restrictions

  13-04-2020 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At a press conference on Monday, six governors announced a council of states to coordinate the loosening of stay-at-home orders and other restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo responded to questions about President Trump’s assertion that it is up to him to decide when those orders are to be rolled back.
  
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• Biden tells Sanders in endorsement live stream, 'You don't get enough credit, Bernie'

  13-04-2020 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Vice President Joe Biden praised Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in a live stream Monday after officially securing his endorsement, telling the Vermont senator he doesn't "get enough credit."Sanders remotely joined Biden for a live stream after Sanders announced last week he was suspending his campaign for president. Sanders offered Biden his endorsement, something Biden called a "big deal" while telling Sanders "you just made me" the Democratic nominee and heaping praise on his former primar
  
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• Tottenham Hotspur reverse furlough decision for non-playing staff

  13-04-2020 21:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tottenham reverse their decision to use the Government's furlough scheme for some non-playing staff during the coronavirus crisis following criticism from supporters.
  
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• US election: Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders form 'policy working groups' for 2020 campaign

  13-04-2020 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders will form six "policy working groups" addressing six issues that were central to the Vermont senator's campaign, which he suspended last week.The former vice president announced that the groups - focusing on healthcare, education, the economy, criminal justice, immigration and climate change - will be "made up of thoughtful leaders who have worked with Bernie and some who have supported me as well" to determine a potential Biden administration agenda.
  
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• Macron Extends Virus Lockdown, Says France Was Underprepared

  13-04-2020 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- President Emmanuel Macron extended France’s lockdown to combat the coronavirus and fended off criticism of his government by saying the country was under-prepared before the pandemic hit.Macron aims to gradually begin opening up the economy and schools again from May 11, he said in a televised address Monday. The extension follows a similar decision in neighboring Italy.The announcement also came with the first increase in the daily death toll in four days. Fatalities linked
  
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• Florida prison inmates will begin to make cloth masks. Their correctional officers will get first dibs on the protective gear.

  13-04-2020 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Inmates, the most vulnerable group to contracting COVID-19 in prison, will be the last in line to get the face masks they're producing.
  
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• Libya unity government seizes strategic cities from rival Haftar

  13-04-2020 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Forces backing Libya's unity government captured two coastal cities west of Tripoli on Monday in a new blow to military commander Khalifa Haftar a year after he launched an offensive on the capital."Our forces took control of Sorman and Sabratha and are pursuing(Haftar's forces)," said a statement by Mohammed Gnunu, spokesman for the forces of the United Nations-recognised Government of National Accord.An AFP video journalist saw pro-GNA forces in pick-up trucks mounted with machine guns celebra
  
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• France to remain in strict lockdown for another month

  13-04-2020 21:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Emmanuel Macron admits failings and tells nation that end to crisis not yet in sightCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageFrance’s president, Emmanuel Macron, has announced that the country will remain in coronavirus lockdown for another month.In a national address on Monday evening, he said that only by respecting the confinement rules would the battle against Covid-19 be won. Continue reading...
  
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• Brazil likely has 12 times more coronavirus cases than official count, study finds

  13-04-2020 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brazil likely has 12 times more cases of the new coronavirus than are being officially reported by the government, with too little testing and long waits to confirm the results, according to a study released on Monday.Researchers at a consortium of Brazilian universities and institutes examined the ratio of cases resulting in deaths through April 10 and compared it with data on the expected death rate from the World Health Organization.The much higher-than-expected death rate in Brazil indicates
  
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• McDonald's apologized after a restaurant in Guangzhou, China, refused to service black customers

  13-04-2020 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Black residents of Guangzhou have faced increased racism as the country fears for a second wave of the coronavirus.
  
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• The US Navy is leaving a carrier strike group at sea to keep sailors from catching the coronavirus

  13-04-2020 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Harry S. Truman CSG is done with its deployment, but it isn't returning home yet due to concerns over the continued spread of the coronavirus.
  
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• Sanders endorses Biden: We need you in the White House

  13-04-2020 21:01 via cnn.com
  
  Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders officially endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president. "We need you in the White House. I will do all that I can to see that that happens, Joe," Sanders said to the former vice president during a livestream broadcast by Biden's campaign.
  
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• Olive oil industry under increasing threat from 'olive leprosy'

  13-04-2020 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Italian, Spanish and Greek farmers set to lose billions unless drastic action is taken to combat bacterium that has killed millions of trees
  One of southern Europe’s most important staples, olive oil, is under pressure from a potentially deadly disease that new research shows could infect nearly all of the productive areas of Italy, Greece and Spain.Economic losses could be as high as €5bn over the next 50 years for Italy, where at least 1m trees have already died, if nothing is done
  
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• Deadly olive tree disease across Europe 'could cost billions'

  13-04-2020 20:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A deadly pathogen affecting Europe's olive trees could cost over €20 billion.
  
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• Watch Andrea Bocelli sing for the world

  13-04-2020 20:58 via cnn.com
  
  Opera singer Andrea Bocelli gave a moving performance from an empty cathedral on Easter Sunday, in a bid to inspire hope amid the global coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Germany slams harassment of French nationals over coronavirus as ‘unacceptable’: ‘We are in the same boat’

  13-04-2020 20:58 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  German officials have condemned the alleged harassment of French nationals in a border town following a local mayor’s claim that the visitors are sometimes publicly insulted or spat on over fears they are infected with the coronavirus.
  
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• Canadian care homes become coronavirus hotspots

  13-04-2020 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Health officials say nearly half of all known coronavirus deaths in Canada are linked to care homes.
  
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• See Rio's Christ the Redeemer statue lit up as a doctor

  13-04-2020 20:53 via cnn.com
  
  The famous monument was illuminated to look like a doctor on Easter Sunday, in a tribute to front-line healthcare workers battling the coronavirus pandemic around the world.
  
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• With Yosemite closed to visitors, bears are thriving

  13-04-2020 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One ranger said the animals are having a "party" since the park closed.
  
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