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• Coronavirus relief checks won’t have to be repaid, feds say

  14-04-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The checks will be directly deposited into bank accounts or mailed to households, depending on how you’ve filed your tax returns in the past.In recent days, social media posts have falsely claimed there’s one catch to this money -- that you’ll eventually have to pay it back.The video has also been shared widely on social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok.
  
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• 3 California churches sue Gov. Gavin Newsom over coronavirus orders

  14-04-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One pastor, Patrick Scales, said he believes he can have in-person services while also keeping congregants safe.
  
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• White House misses congressional deadline to explain intelligence watchdog's firing

  14-04-2020 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House is still refusing to give Congress a reason for firing Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, as required by law, missing a deadline set by a bipartisan group of senators. 
  
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• These 10 household essentials are selling out—here’s where you can still get them

  14-04-2020 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Due to the coronavirus pandemic, essential items like hand sanitizer, toilet paper, and thermometers are selling out. Here's where you can get them.
  
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• Gov. Gavin Newsom says 6 things need to happen before California even thinks about loosening its stay-at-home restrictions

  14-04-2020 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Increased testing is essential, but even after restrictions are loosened, life is not expected to look normal for a while.
  
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• People are starting to get their $1,200 stimulus checks — and they're mostly spending it on food

  14-04-2020 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Netspend, which processed nearly $1 billion in relief payments by Monday, told the Washington Post that the money is being spent on groceries and gas.
  
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• Wuhan ended its 76-day coronavirus lockdown last week — here's how Wuhan residents are reacting

  14-04-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The people of Wuhan, China, have mixed feelings about the reopening of their city, which was put under lockdown in January.
  
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• What's in the Strategic National Stockpile, the US reserve of life-saving materials stashed in secret warehouses that experts worry isn't big enough

  14-04-2020 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The federal government's supply of drugs and medical equipment has come under scrutiny during the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• More Americans OK with businesses not serving gays based on religion, survey finds

  14-04-2020 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Solid majorities of all age groups and parties support same-sex marriage and prohibiting LGBTQ discrimination.
  
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• Obama endorses Biden for Democratic presidential nomination

  14-04-2020 23:35 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Former President Barack Obama plans to endorse his former Vice President Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination.
  
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• Four US sailors assigned to French aircraft carrier hit by coronavirus outbreak now in quarantine

  14-04-2020 23:35 via cnn.com
  
  Four US military personnel that were assigned to a French aircraft carrier that experienced an outbreak of the coronavirus have been placed into quarantine in France, two US defense officials tell CNN.
  
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• This leader hasn't been seen in a month

  14-04-2020 23:28 via cnn.com
  
  President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega hasn't been seen in public in over a month, despite a global pandemic. CNN's Matt Rivers reports.
  
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• Nicaragua president not seen in over a month

  14-04-2020 23:28 via cnn.com
  
  President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega hasn't been seen in public in over a month, despite a global pandemic. CNN's Matt Rivers reports.
  
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• US McDonald's workers file $500m sexual harassment lawsuit

  14-04-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "McDonald's strategy in Florida appears to be: deny, ignore, and punish," the complaint says.
  
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• We Can't Let the Virus Infect Democracy

  14-04-2020 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  We have to be careful that the measures we are taking to tackle this global crisis don’t bring about another one
  
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• Newsom offers time line for lifting of stay-at-home orders in Calif.

  14-04-2020 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday provided a potential time line for when stay-at-home orders would be lifted in the state.
  
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• New York City revises coronavirus death toll to add 3,700 more deaths

  14-04-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York City has made a devastating revision to its already massive coronavirus death toll.On Tuesday, the city's health department released a revised COVID-19 death count that included those who were not tested but were presumed to have died from the disease. That added an additional 3,700 people, bumping the city's total count well over 10,000 coronavirus fatalities.New York City was already the epicenter of coronavirus spread both in the U.S. and the world, reporting well over 7,000 verified
  
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• Tapper: Trump doesn't want you to remember what he said

  14-04-2020 22:51 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Jake Tapper looks back at President Donald Trump's comments from February on what his administration was doing to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in the US.
  
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• Liberty University sued for not refunding student fees

  14-04-2020 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Liberty University has profited from the COVID-19 pandemic by refusing to refund thousands of dollars in room and board and other fees owed to students after the school moved classes online last month, a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges.The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Lynchburg accuses the university — one of the nation’s largest and most prominent evangelical institutions — of purporting to remain open so it could refuse to return fees paid by students and the
  
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• 'Redrawing our floor plans': Newsom lays out framework to reopen California

  14-04-2020 22:42 via nbcnews.com
  
  Increased testing and redesigned work spaces and schools are among the measures the states says will be needed before the state lockdown can be lifted.
  
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• Thousands of Zoom accounts are for sale on the dark web

  14-04-2020 22:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  Zoom users who reuse the same passwords from other accounts can face an ugly unintended consequence.
  
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• Former aide accuses Biden of sexual assault, campaign denies it

  14-04-2020 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tara Reade, who worked briefly as a staff assistant in Biden's Senate office from December 1992 to August 1993, told the New York Times, the Washington Post and other news outlets that Biden pinned her against a wall in 1993 and reached under her shirt and her skirt.A campaign spokeswoman for Biden, the former vice president, said in a statement on Tuesday that the accusation was false.Reuters was unable to reach Reade or a representative for comment on Tuesday or to identify a lawyer representi
  
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• WATCH: Coronavirus daily update: April 14, 2020

  14-04-2020 22:33 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The latest news and biggest developments to keep you informed about the deadly pandemic.
  
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• US military chief: 'Weight of evidence' that Covid-19 did not originate in a lab

  14-04-2020 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * Chair of joints chiefs says ‘natural’ origin more likely* 2018 cable expressed concern about Wuhan laboratory* Coronavirus – latest US updates* Coronavirus – latest global updates* See all our coronavirus coverageThe Pentagon’s top general has said that US intelligence has looked into the possibility that the coronavirus outbreak could have started in a Chinese laboratory, but that the “weight of evidence” so far pointed towards “natural” o
  
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• Trump eyes reopening US economy but assailed over 'king' powers

  14-04-2020 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump was accused Tuesday of seeking king-like powers ahead of unveiling a task force for reopening the US economy despite fears in hard-hit states that he will rush the decision."We don't have King Trump, we have President Trump," New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on CNN.A combative Trump then responded by likening skeptical governors to rebellious sailors in the movie "Mutiny on the Bounty."
  
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• Republicans decry Michigan governor's latest stay-home order

  14-04-2020 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's decision to toughen rather than relax what already was one of the nation's strictest stay-home orders in response to the coronavirus is hitting opposition in her home state, where Republicans who backed her moves initially are now ratcheting up their criticism.Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey took to Facebook to accuse the Democratic governor and vice presidential contender of “DESTROYING OUR HEALTH BY KILLING OUR LIVELIHOODS!” GOP lawmakers and al
  
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• UN chief: world faces misinformation epidemic about virus

  14-04-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Tuesday that the world is facing “a dangerous epidemic of misinformation” about COVID-19 and announced a U.N. campaign to flood the internet with facts and science to counter what he called “a poison” that is putting lives at risk.The U.N. chief decried what he described as a global “misinfo-demic” that is spreading harmful health advice, “snake-oil solutions,” falsehoods, and wild conspiracy theories.
  
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• Evidence that coronavirus originated at Chinese lab is 'inconclusive,' top general says

  14-04-2020 22:20 via politico.com
  
  "We've had a lot of intelligence take a hard look at that," Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley told reporters Tuesday.
  
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• Peru Eyes Reopening Even as Virus Cases Surge on New Testing

  14-04-2020 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra said some coronavirus restrictions can likely begin to be lifted next month even as cases rise due to a surge in testing over the past week.The greater number of cases, now second in Latin America behind Brazil, can be explained by a 15-fold increase in testing. Medical staff tested more than 15,000 people on Monday compared with about 1,000 a day a week earlier when authorities were limited to using more expensive, and scarcer, molecular tests,
  
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• Abby Jimenez's 'The Happy Ever After Playlist' explores grief, healing and humor

  14-04-2020 22:15 via nbcnews.com
  
  Romance novels are misunderstood, says Jimenez, whose books tackle infertility, death and heartache—injected with laughs along the way.
  
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• Sheltering in place — with your ex-wife? Pandemic poses challenges for divorced parents

  14-04-2020 22:12 via nbcnews.com
  
  With family courts closed because of the coronavirus, child custody arrangements are being tweaked on the fly — some more amicably than others.
  
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• Fauci: Trump's coronavirus briefings are 'really draining'

  14-04-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "It isn't the idea of being there and answering questions, which I really think is important for the American public," he said. "It's the amount of time."
  
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• Fauci: Trump coronavirus briefings are 'really draining'

  14-04-2020 22:12 via nbcnews.com
  
  "It isn’t the idea of being there and answering questions, which I really think is important for the American public," he said. "It’s the amount of time."
  
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• Judge rejects effort from Mike Huckabee, others to access private Florida beaches amid coronavirus

  14-04-2020 22:08 via nbcnews.com
  
  Huckabee and other owners of beachfront property in Walton County sued last week after the state closed beaches in response to coronavirus.
  
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• 99-year-old veteran raises millions walking in his garden

  14-04-2020 22:08 via cnn.com
  
  A British war veteran has raised more than $2 million for the country's National Health Service, as he aims to complete 100 laps of his garden.
  
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• Immunity from COVID-19 antibodies not certain, HIV co-discoverer cautions

  14-04-2020 22:07 via nbcnews.com
  
  Dr. Robert Gallo talked to NBC News about what's needed in an antibody test for the coronavirus.
  
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• GOP Sen. Burr, already under fire for selling stocks before crash, raises eyebrows with 2017 house sale

  14-04-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) is under a lot of scrutiny these days.That's mostly because he sold stock holdings following a congressional briefing from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about the COVID-19 coronavirus back in February before the market plummeted (Burr has denied he was acting upon any privileged information), but now some ethics experts are concerned about the sale of his Washington, D.C., home in 2017, ProPublica reports.The senator sold the townhouse to a team led by
  
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• In Florida, professional wrestling is an 'essential business'

  14-04-2020 22:05 via nbcnews.com
  
  WWE can stage live matches again, but not in front of a live audience.
  
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• He's an ER doctor in New York. He also has more than $400K in student debt.

  14-04-2020 22:05 via nbcnews.com
  
  The roughly $1.7 trillion student debt crisis was around long before the pandemic. But some medical workers say now is the time for Congress to fix the system.
  
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• Cuomo warns of constitutional crisis 'like you haven't seen in decades' if Trump tries to reopen New York

  14-04-2020 22:05 via nbcnews.com
  
  “We don't have a king — we have a president," the governor warned, saying that reopening the economy too soon could result in more coronavirus deaths.
  
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• Cuomo warns of constitutional crisis 'like you haven't seen in decades' if Trump tries to reopen New York

  14-04-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "We don't have a king — we have a president," the governor warned, saying that reopening the economy too soon could result in more coronavirus deaths.
  
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• 2 Brazilian governors announce they have COVID-19

  14-04-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The governors of Rio de Janeiro and Para states in separate videos on Tuesday said they have tested positive for the new coronavirus, after weeks of imposing measures aimed at limiting its spread.In a video posted to his official Twitter account, Rio de Janeiro’s Gov. Wilson Witzel said he has experienced fever and sore throat since Friday.Witzel, 52, has been one of Brazil's foremost proponents of self-quarantine and last month he imposed restrictions on business, transit and gatherings t
  
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• Unsung hero of the pandemic: This trucker tackles America’s open roads with jokes and songs

  14-04-2020 22:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  Truck driver Darrell Woolsey says his family is his biggest inspiration to carry on in the COVID-19 pandemic
  
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• For first time in a month, Taiwan reports no new cases of coronavirus

  14-04-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Taiwan on Tuesday reported no new cases of the coronavirus for the first time in more than a month, in the latest sign that the island’s early and effective prevention methods have paid off.
  
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• NBCUniversal could move up launch of Peacock streaming service

  14-04-2020 22:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  With millions of Americans at home under "shelter-in-place" orders, the company is evaluating an earlier launch date for its entertainment platform.
  
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• Watch Trump's evolution on Covid-19 response

  14-04-2020 21:58 via cnn.com
  
  President Trump's comments about the coronavirus have evolved since the first confirmed US case on January 22. CNN's tally of cases is based on records from Johns Hopkins University & Medicine Coronavirus Resource Center.
  
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• President Salih: Iraq 'needs a reprieve'

  14-04-2020 21:56 via cnn.com
  
  Iraqi President Barham Salih on how the novel coronavirus is "even more of a challenge" for a country already grappling with a political and an economic crisis.
  
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• Iraqi President: Iraq 'needs a reprieve'

  14-04-2020 21:56 via cnn.com
  
  Iraqi President Barham Salih on how the novel coronavirus is "even more of a challenge" for a country already grappling with a political and an economic crisis.
  
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• Intelligence officials weigh possibility coronavirus escaped from a Chinese lab

  14-04-2020 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Though the the U.S. intelligence community has long since dismissed the notion that the coronavirus is a synthesized bioweapon, it is stillweighing the possibility that the pandemic might have been touched off by an accident at a research facility rather than an infection from a live-animal market.
  
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• Everyone in this wealthy island community is being tested for coronavirus antibodies

  14-04-2020 21:46 via nbcnews.com
  
  Everyone on Fisher Island, a "private luxury community ... consistently ranked as one of the wealthiest zip codes in the U.S.," is being tested for coronavirus antibodies.
  
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