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• California had its deadliest day Wednesday, even as COVID-19 cases start to stabilize

  23-04-2020 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The governor also announced new programs to help Californians with the financial hardship caused by the COVID-19 crisis.
  
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• Sen. Elizabeth Warren's oldest brother died from COVID-19 complications

  23-04-2020 23:52
  
  Sen. Elizabeth Warren tweets that her oldest brother died from COVID-19 complications.
  
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• COVID-19 shutdown pay for employees of Las Vegas' The Venetian extended to May 17: CEO

  23-04-2020 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  While it remains unclear when the Strip will be able to re-open, Las Vegas Sands will continue to pay employees through the shutdown.
  
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• Fauci says he's 'not overly confident right now' about US testing capacity

  23-04-2020 23:49 via cnn.com
  
  Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday that he was doubtful of the country's current testing capability, which is a key resource as several states and cities look to partially reopen their economies during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• As some coronavirus closures lift in the U.S., studies suggest more and earlier infections

  23-04-2020 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Studies suggest that coronavirus infections were spreading in the United States farther, faster and earlier than initially thought.
  
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• Mexico family hurt by no funeral for father dead of COVID-19

  23-04-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The family of Manuel Briseño knows how they would have mourned the 78-year-old, who died Tuesday of the new coronavirus: a big funeral with the extended family, an extended mourning period and a burial at a Mexico City cemetery next to the grave of his wife of 49 years, Consuelo García.The family got literally none of that.Under health guidelines, they rushed to cremate Briseño’s remains, and only eight relatives gathered to mourn him in a private ceremony, the family
  
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• The Mortgage Forbearance in the CARES Act Is Seriously Flawed

  23-04-2020 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The government response to the COVID crisis will be subjected to analysis and critique for years to come. Even in the present, as governmental actions play out in real time, clearly effective and needed actions can be seen by many, just as other decisions are already met with skepticism. The fiscal-stimulus price tag is now very close to $3 trillion, and monetary stimulus is not far behind that level (and growing). Big actions have been taken — and unsurprisingly, history will likely judge
  
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• Samantha Power blasts 'saddest form of US leadership' in coronavirus outbreak

  23-04-2020 23:31 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Samantha Power, the former ambassador to the United Nations under President Obama, attacked President Trump's administration for its empty-vessel response to the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• ER doctor sleeping in treehouse to protect family

  23-04-2020 23:30 via cnn.com
  
  An emergency room doctor in Texas moved into his kids' treehouse so he wouldn't potentially expose them to Covid-19.
  
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• Landmark trial of Syrian officers accused of crimes against humanity begins

  23-04-2020 23:27 via cnn.com
  
  A landmark trial of a former high-ranking Syrian regime officer accused of overseeing the torture of thousands of prisoners began in the German city of Koblenz on Thursday.
  
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• 'It was heated': ICU nurse who silently stood against protesters speaks out

  23-04-2020 23:24 via cnn.com
  
  On her day off from working at a Covid-19 unit in an Arizona hospital, ICU nurse Lauren Leander threw on a pair of clean scrubs and headed to an anti-lockdown protest at the state Capitol.
  
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• The coronavirus could force smaller liberal arts and state colleges to close forever

  23-04-2020 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The CARES Act allocated nearly $14 billion to help colleges and universities. But for schools with small endowments, it might not be enough.
  
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• Biden leads Trump in Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, according to recent polls

  23-04-2020 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin were critical to President Donald Trump's 2016 win over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
  
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• Dozens of medical workers have been attacked in Mexico

  23-04-2020 23:17 via cnn.com
  
  Dr. Alondra Jovanna Torres was walking her dogs on a tranquil street near her house in Guadalajara when the attack happened. The quiet morning was shattered when someone behind her screamed something inaudible, and she felt a splash on the side of her face.
  
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• Canada: One million respirators acquired from China unfit for coronavirus fight

  23-04-2020 23:15 via politico.com
  
  Canada's public health authority says around one million KN95 respirators acquired from China have failed to meet federal Covid-19 standards for use by frontline health professionals.
  
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• Canada: 1 million respirators acquired from China unfit for coronavirus fight

  23-04-2020 23:15 via politico.com
  
  Canada's public health authority says around one million KN95 respirators acquired from China have failed to meet federal Covid-19 standards for use by frontline health professionals.
  
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• Trump mega donor and former EU ambassador Gordon Sondland got a PPP loan

  23-04-2020 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Small business owners have had a lot of trouble securing loans to help them weather the coronavirus crisis. Gordon Sondland's business didn't.Sondland is the founder of Provenance Hotels, a chain of high-end joints that secured a loan from the Paycheck Protection Program, which will distribute more than $300 billion. But he's probably better known as the former U.S. ambassador to the European Union who played a major role in President Trump's impeachment — and who got his job after making
  
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• Joe Biden Campaign Says It Refunded a Donation from Louis C.K.

  23-04-2020 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  You know things are bad when even a presidential candidate doesn’t want your money. According to Federal Election Commission records, Louis C.K. donated $2,800 to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign last month, the day after the former vice president’s triumphant Super Tuesday performance. The campaign tells Time, however, that it refunded the contribution.In 2017, multiple women accused Louis C.K. of sexual misconduct. The comedian confirmed the allegations, saying in a statemen
  
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• The Grim Reaper is headed to Florida beaches to protest their opening. Meet the attorney under the cloak.

  23-04-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Attorney Daniel Uhlfelder, who sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis last month, will dress as the Grim Reaper and visit beaches to protest their reopening.
  
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• How China has ramped up aggression in South China Sea amid the coronavirus pandemic

  23-04-2020 23:04 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  As China was scrambling to contain the coronavirus outbreak that ravaged parts of the country before crossing international boundaries, it was asserting its presence in the South China Sea through a sustained campaign of aggression and harassment. 
  
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• McConnell says giving aid to states to help ease the pain from the pandemic would be a 'blue state bailout.' But most states were doing the right thing before the coronavirus hit.

  23-04-2020 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  States had sizable rainy-day funds and much larger cash reserves than during the Great Recession over a decade ago.
  
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• This perfect pound cake goes back to basics

  23-04-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  This easy pound cake recipe relies on the classic formula of equal weight ratios of butter, sugar, eggs and flour for a fine-crumbed cake that keeps and packs well.
  
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• Amazon tech workers are planning to call in sick on Friday to protest the company's firing of 2 long-time, outspoken employees

  23-04-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Amazon tech workers who have been lobbying for climate policies and better conditions for warehouse workers are organizing another protest.
  
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• A New Wave of Anti-Muslim Anger Threatens India’s Virus Fight

  23-04-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The newspaper advertisement placed last week by a cancer hospital in India’s most populous state didn’t mince words: any Muslim patients seeking treatment must prove they didn’t have Covid-19.The privately owned Valentis Cancer Hospital in Uttar Pradesh state apologized a day later “for hurting religious sentiments.” But the message written in black and white crystallized for many the increased hostility against India’s Muslim minority as corona
  
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• Without access to support, supplies, or even pediatricians, new moms are struggling under the pandemic's 'big black fog'

  23-04-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The postpartum period can be lonely under the best of times. It's even worse during a pandemic when visitors literally cannot come over.
  
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• Wash. governor calls Mitch McConnell's suggestion states file for bankruptcy 'nuts'

  23-04-2020 22:27
  
  Washington Governor Jay Inslee reacts to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's statement that states should consider bankruptcy on "The View" Thursday, April 23, 2020.
  
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• The stimulus money was supposed to help small businesses. But big banks reportedly let their wealthiest clients get money first.

  23-04-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  When asked if JPMorgan Chase prioritized richer clients first, a spokesperson told Business Insider: "We didn't."
  
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• Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Her Husband's COVID-19 Recovery—And Whether She's Talked to Joe Biden About Joining His Ticket

  23-04-2020 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Amy Klobuchar spoke during TIME 100 Talks: Finding Hope about her husband's recovery from COVID-19, election security and whether she'd join Joe Biden's ticket
  
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• 129 deportees arrive in Haiti amid coronavirus concerns

  23-04-2020 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A plane carrying 129 migrants who were deported from the U.S. landed Thursday in Haiti amid concerns that the second such flight this month could strain the impoverished country’s limited resources as it fights the COVID-19 disease.Authorities whisked the group away in buses and took them to a hotel in the capital of Port-au-Prince, where they joined more than 60 other recent deportees already serving a two-week quarantine.Three of the migrants who arrive
  
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• Tom Brady enters a stranger's house in latest Tampa misstep

  23-04-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The legendary quarterback admitted to a series of comedic missteps around his new Tampa home, including "breaking and entering" and "trespassing."
  
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• New US health agency spokesman made racist comments about Chinese people in now-deleted tweets

  23-04-2020 22:14 via cnn.com
  
  The new spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services in a series of now-deleted tweets made racist and derogatory comments about Chinese people, said Democrats wanted the coronavirus to kill millions of people and accused the media of intentionally creating panic around the pandemic to hurt President Donald Trump.
  
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• Maxine Waters says on House floor her sister is dying of coronavirus

  23-04-2020 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) on the House floor Thursday said her sister is dying after contracting COVID-19. Waters spoke Thursday in support of Congress' $484 billion coronavirus relief bill, which replenishes the small business loan program and provides funding for hospitals and for coronavirus testing. During the floor debate, Waters revealed her sister is suffering from the disease and dedicated the relief package to her, The Hill reports. "I'm going to take a moment to dedicate this legis
  
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• Quarantined Sailors Take to Balconies to Cheer for the Marines Helping Them

  23-04-2020 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Crew members from the carrier USS Roosevelt coordinated a thank-you cheer for Marines with 3rd Law Enforcement Battalion.
  
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• Publicly traded companies have 2 weeks to give back loans intended for small businesses or face 'severe consequences,' Treasury Department says

  23-04-2020 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Some publicly traded companies like Shake Shack gave back their loans this week, while others held on to them.
  
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• Op-Ed: I'm an immigrant doctor treating COVID-19 patients. Death isn't my only fear right now

  23-04-2020 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In this pandemic, we need an emergency increase in the number of green cards issued to immigrants with critically required skills.
  
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• If America Doesn't Invest in Childcare, Who Will Watch Our Kids When We Go Back to Work?

  23-04-2020 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The question of when American can reopen amid the coronavirus crisis has dominated our discourse, but that can't happen without public investment in our nation's childcare industry, writes Liuba Grechen Shirley.
  
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• Singaporean gets 6 weeks in jail for defying stay-at-home order to get soup with girlfriend

  23-04-2020 21:44 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Singaporean man thrown in jail for ignoring stay-at-home order to get pork soup with his girlfriend.
  
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• US delays oil pipeline approvals after environmental ruling

  23-04-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The directive from Army Corps headquarters, detailed in emails obtained by The Associated Press, comes after a federal court last week threw out a blanket permitthat companies and public utilities have used for decades to build projects across streams and wetlands.For now, officials have put on hold about 360 pending notifications to entities approving their use of the permit, Army Corps spokesman Doug Garman said Thursday.Pipeline and electric utility industry representatives said the effects c
  
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• Coronavirus got lost in translation at Smithfield plant

  23-04-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The CDC found 40 languages are spoken at the South Dakota plant where 783 workers tested positive and two died but workers were only given informational packets in English.
  
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• Detroit Dems to Censure State Lawmaker Who Thanked Trump for Touting Chloroquine

  23-04-2020 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Detroit, Mich., branch of the Democratic Party plans to censure state representative Karen Whitsett (D., Detroit) after she met with President Trump earlier this month and praised him for recommending the anti-viral drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for coronavirus.Whitsett contracted coronavirus in March and has since recovered. The freshman lawmaker credited hydroxychloroquine, a medication touted by Trump and other U.S. officials as a possible therapeutic for coronavirus, with saving h
  
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• Survey shows 13.9% in New York have COVID-19 antibodies, Cuomo says

  23-04-2020 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The survey was taken from a sample size of about 3,000 people.
  
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• A Harlem ICU nurse says she's seen more deaths in 1 month from coronavirus than in all of 2019: 'Sometimes I feel like this isn't real'

  23-04-2020 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sadie Treleven, an ICU nurse at Harlem Hospital, works 12-hour shifts caring for the most critically ill coronavirus patients.
  
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• WATCH: Coronavirus daily update: April 23, 2020

  23-04-2020 21:30
  
  The latest news and biggest developments to keep you informed about the deadly pandemic.
  
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• Fox News Stars Touted a Malaria Drug, Until They Didn't

  23-04-2020 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For a month's stretch, Fox News star Laura Ingraham relentlessly promoted the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to her nearly 4 million nightly viewers.The drug was "a game changer" in the fight against the coronavirus, the conservative anchor declared. She booked recovered patients to describe their "miracle turnaround" -- "like Lazarus, up from the grave," as Ingraham put it. Anyone who questioned the drug's efficacy, she said, was "in total denial.""I love everybody, love the medical profession
  
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• Remdesivir Clinical Trial in China Shows No Benefit for Coronavirus Patients

  23-04-2020 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A much anticipated clinical trial for remdesivir, an antiviral medicine from Gilead Sciences, showed the drug failed to improve the condition of coronavirus patients, according to preliminary study results accidentally posted online.The drug's trial, which took place in China, indicated that remdesivir did not improve the symptoms of patients or diminish the virus's presence in the bloodstream, according to the early results mistakenly published by the World Health Organization.&l
  
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• Members of congress advocate for coronavirus relief on behalf of those who have contracted the virus

  23-04-2020 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  During a speech on the House floor, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., dedicated a coronavirus relief bill to her sister, who she said is “dying in a hospital” of COVID-19. Later Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., advocated for the passage of the legislation on behalf of a 5-year-old who died from the coronavirus.
  
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• Countries criticize China for sending – and resending – faulty coronavirus test kits, supplies

  23-04-2020 21:18 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  It's been months - and China still can't deliver.  The COVID-19 global outbreak that ignited a mad dash to buy up millions of masks, rapid test kits and other personal protective equipment around the world hit a major snag when countries counted on China for help. The growing pains of trying to slide into the role of international hero as well as rushing - and failing - to fulfill billions of orders might lead to China's undoing. 
  
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• What's open and closed this weekend: Beaches, parks and trails in Southern California

  23-04-2020 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the pandemic battle evolves, much public property is still off-limits but some is open for locals
  
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• Russia's lockdown surveillance measures need regulating, rights groups say

  23-04-2020 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Expanding surveillance measures to police Russia's coronavirus lockdown, including the use of facial recognition technology and collection of personal data, need regulating to ensure they are temporary and proportionate, two rights groups said on Thursday.Moscow, the epicenter of Russia's outbreak, is in partial lockdown along with many of the country's regions and the authorities are using and developing a range of technologies to monitor and regulate residents' movements.Police say Moscow's 17
  
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• 'I am no hero. I am not ready to die': A New York nurse reveals the anguish, fear, and heartbreak of fighting the coronavirus pandemic

  23-04-2020 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As part of the medical team at Mt. Sinai Hospital, KP Mendoza believes healthcare workers need protective gear — not hero worship.
  
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