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• Oxford researchers have reportedly received promising news about their coronavirus vaccine

  27-04-2020 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The University of Oxford's Jenner Institute made waves last week when U.K. Health Minister Matt Hancock announced a team is starting trials on a potential coronavirus vaccine of which there could be a million doses by September, which is, in vaccine terms, incredibly fast. There's still a long way to go before determining if the vaccine is viable, but The New York Times reports there's promising news that it may be both safe and effective.Scientists at the National Institute of Health's Rocky Mo
  
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• Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Got a COVID Small Biz Loan and Is Now Returning It

  27-04-2020 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Yet another national restaurant chain received money from the government’s $350 billion program intended to help the small businesses hardest-hit by the coronavirus outbreak.Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs, which has over 200 locations, has products “marketed for sale in over 78,000 locations” and is publicly traded on the NASDAQ, applied for and received a $1.2 million loan through the Paycheck Protection Program, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Co
  
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• Reporter explains why he doesn't walk out when Trump insults him

  27-04-2020 23:52 via cnn.com
  
  Brian Stelter asks: Why don't they just walk out when they're insulted? ABC White House correspondent Jonathan Karl, author of "Front Row at The Trump Show, says he gets asked that question often. "As reporters, our job is to be there," he says. "The insults don't matter. Who cares?" He says "we are there to try to get the facts and to put the questions to those who are in power in this country."
  
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• L.A. Lakers qualified for an emergency PPP loan — why didn't nonprofits?

  27-04-2020 23:52 via nbcnews.com
  
  Not only are nonprofits being skipped over by coronavirus-related aid, but they have also had to cancel fundraising events because of social distancing lockdowns.
  
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• Piglets aborted, chickens gassed as pandemic slams meat sector

  27-04-2020 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With the pandemic hobbling the meat-packing industry, Iowa farmer Al Van Beek had nowhere to ship his full-grown pigs to make room for the 7,500 piglets he expected from his breeding operation.The crisis forced a decision that still troubles him: He ordered his employees to give injections to the pregnant sows, one by one, that would cause them to abort their baby pigs.Van Beek and other farmers say they have no choice but to cull livestock as they run short on space to house their animals or mo
  
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• Bill Gates gives best-case scenario for US economy

  27-04-2020 23:39 via cnn.com
  
  Microsoft founder Bill Gates gives his take on the right measures the US needs to implement in order to reopen schools and his "best case" forthe US economy.
  
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• Quirk in coronavirus relief law gives full $600 a week even to workers facing only cut hours

  27-04-2020 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Congress pushed employers to cut hours rather than lay off workers. Now some may get more in federal aid than if they had worked the lost hours.
  
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• AOC, Dems urge Pelosi not to forget Puerto Rico in coronavirus stimulus package

  27-04-2020 23:13 via nbcnews.com
  
  Reps. Nydia Velázquez, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and nine other lawmakers urge House leadership to "guarantee that Puerto Rico is treated equally to the states."
  
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• Milwaukee police find 5 dead in house; suspect in custody

  27-04-2020 23:12
  Police are investigating a shooting that left five people dead at a house in Milwaukee
  
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• Virus-notifying smartphone apps are gaining momentum around the world

  27-04-2020 23:10 via nbcnews.com
  
  More than 2 million Australians downloaded an app to try to assist authorities with contact tracing — a sizable dent in a country of 25 million people.
  
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• Julián Castro: Latinos grapple with 'the worst of all worlds' amid coronavirus pandemic

  27-04-2020 23:09 via nbcnews.com
  
  Latinos are on the front lines as farm workers, nurses and restaurant workers—but the crisis has also decimated small business owners.
  
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• White House says government is 'last resort' for Covid-19 tests

  27-04-2020 23:04 via cnn.com
  
  The White House says the federal government should act as the "supplier of last resort" for coronavirus tests as it works with states to ramp up a testing regime that health experts say is necessary before a national reopening.
  
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• Pelosi says "guaranteed income" is worth considering

  27-04-2020 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The House speaker said Congress might have think of "different ways to put money in people's pockets"
  
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• CNN's Tapper stunned by 'indecent and obscene' Trump retweet

  27-04-2020 23:01 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Jake Tapper and Dana Bash are both stunned by President Trump's retweet that suggests that his rivals are inflating coronavirus death rates to hurt his re-election chances.
  
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• Brazil sees spike in coronavirus cases, with some hospitals overloaded

  27-04-2020 23:01 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Coronavirus cases in Brazil have skyrocketed in recent weeks, pushing many hospitals to the brink and prompting health experts to warn that the country is on its way to becoming the next global hotspot while cases plateau in other hard-hit countries.
  
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• Mexico continues tug of war with firms over virus outbreak

  27-04-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexico's government continued its tug of war with businesses on Monday, pledging to reopen factories vital to the U.S. economy while shaming others that refuse to close under lockdown measures decreed to fight the spread of the coronavirus.President Andrés Manuel López Obrador also said he didn’t like businessmen going out to seek loans from international lending agencies, further angering the business sector.Under U.S. pressure, Mexico pledged Friday to reopen automotive pla
  
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• Families sue Atlanta senior-care facility at heart of deadly Covid-19 outbreak

  27-04-2020 22:52 via cnn.com
  
  Three families are suing a home for seniors in Atlanta after the deaths of elderly residents who tested positive for the coronavirus.
  
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• Attorney General William Barr tells prosecutors to be on watch for 'overbearing' coronavirus measures

  27-04-2020 22:51 via cnn.com
  
  Attorney General William Barr told federal prosecutors across the country to be on guard for overbearing state and local coronavirus measures.
  
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• People are buying up a heartburn medicine that's being tested as a coronavirus treatment, leading to shortages

  27-04-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Famotidine, the active ingredient in Pepcid AC and other heartburn medicines, is being studied as a coronavirus treatment.
  
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• Colombian capital's mayor under fire for lockdown breach

  27-04-2020 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Prosecutors in Colombia are investigating Bogota mayor Claudia Lopez for allegedly breaching the country's strict quarantine rules against the spread of the coronavirus.The state prosecutor's office said it was investigating Lopez after a video circulated on social media at the weekend showing the mayor shopping at a supermarket with her wife, a senator.The leftist mayor is married to member of the country's senate, Angelica Lozano.
  
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• Some seniors isolated with Alzheimer's and dementia are getting robotic therapy pets

  27-04-2020 22:45 via cnn.com
  
  Since the coronavirus outbreak, strict visitation rules and social distancing guidelines imposed at nursing homes in Florida have left some seniors feeling isolated.
  
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• How 3 people are navigating sex in quarantine, from dating a coworker to sexting across the world

  27-04-2020 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With conflicting health advisories from government officials and medical organizations, people are taking matters of intimacy into their own hands.
  
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• Some island lizard species evolve to survive hurricanes -- the key is bigger toe pads

  27-04-2020 22:38 via cnn.com
  
  Lizards can evolve adaptations that could make them more likely to survive certain effects of climate change.
  
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• Large house parties violating Chicago's stay-at-home order

  27-04-2020 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "What was depicted on the video was reckless and utterly unacceptable," Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot tweeted.
  
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• House and Senate will return next week to backlog of oversight issues

  27-04-2020 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The House and Senate will both be in full session next week for the first time in nearly two months, as lawmakers seek to strike a deal on another sweeping coronavirus relief package and address a backlog of oversight issues stemming from roughly $2.7trn worth of previous legislation.House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced on a Democratic caucus call on Monday that the chamber will be called back for business, and that "votes are possible," according to his press account on Twitter.
  
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• 'Extremely disappointing' and 'entirely predictable' — slowdowns and lockouts plague second round of PPP

  27-04-2020 22:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  Some of the nation's larger banks had more than 1 million applications for over $100 billion ready to go by 10:30 a.m., all backlog from the first round of applicants.
  
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• 'It's not about you': Democrats bet Trump coronavirus response a 2020 winner for Biden

  27-04-2020 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Just weeks ago, Democrats were treading carefully as Trump commanded the spotlight with his daily briefings on the virus, hesitant to avoid looking too partisan as the pandemic took its toll on jobs and health.Now Democrats believe weeks of Trump's unfiltered media performances have done more harm than good for the Republican president seeking re-election on Nov. 3, and their aggressive response aims to expose what they see as his faulty handling of the crisis.Biden's campaign team talking point
  
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• Canada begins staggered lifting of pandemic lockdown

  27-04-2020 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Canada began a staggered loosening of pandemic restrictions on Monday as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urged vigilance and baby steps to avoid a COVID-19 resurgence.The Atlantic coast province of New Brunswick, after seeing no new cases in just over a week, was first to relax social distancing rules, starting with the opening of parks and beaches."Different provinces and territories will be able to move at a different pace," Trudeau told a daily briefing.
  
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• Resettled Cambodian refugees still vulnerable to deportation

  27-04-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the U.S. commemorates the 45th anniversary of the refugee group's arrival, Southeast Asian American refugees still face hardships.
  
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• The Supreme Court has thrown out major gun rights case

  27-04-2020 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Supreme Court sidestepped a major decision on gun rights Monday in a dispute over New York City’s former ban on transporting guns.
  
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• WATCH: Coronavirus daily update: April 27, 2020

  27-04-2020 22:17
  
  The latest news and biggest developments to keep you informed about the deadly pandemic.
  
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• Venezuela appoints alleged drug trafficker El Aissami as oil minister

  27-04-2020 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday appointed his economy vice president, Tareck El Aissami, who has been indicted in the United States on drug trafficking charges, as oil minister, amid acute fuel shortages across the country.Maduro named Asdrubal Chavez, cousin of the late President Hugo Chavez, as interim president of state oil firm PDVSA, according to the appointments published in the government's official gazette.
  
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• Casting aside its precedents, Supreme Court moves inexorably toward those on abortion rights

  27-04-2020 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A more conservative court is increasingly willing to reverse the work of its predecessors. And no issue hangs in the balance more than abortion.
  
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• Coronavirus: Boris Johnson says this is moment of maximum risk

  27-04-2020 22:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The PM returns as ministers pledge £60,000 for the families of NHS and care staff who die with Covid-19.
  
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• Photographer says this is the most challenging footage he's ever shot

  27-04-2020 22:10 via cnn.com
  
  A photographer captured video of dolphins glowing as they glide through bioluminescent ocean water at night.
  
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• Coronavirus crisis: Behind the effort to push the World Health Assembly to open formal probe into the WHO

  27-04-2020 22:10 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Australia is leading the drive for international action into a formal probe of the World Health Organization (WHO) and its questionable handling of the coronavirus pandemic, officially termed COVID-19.
  
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• Nigeria to ease lockdown for millions in key cities

  27-04-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nigeria will start easing a coronavirus lockdown covering its largest city Lagos and capital Abuja from May 4, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Monday."I have approved a phased and gradual easing of lockdown measures," Buhari said in a televised broadcast.More than 25 million residents in Abuja, Lagos and neighbouring Ogun state have been under federal lockdown since March 30 and other states have introduced their own restrictions.
  
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• Coronavirus government response: Briefing canceled, Trump to hold 'news conference'

  27-04-2020 22:04
  
  President Trump has faced backlash for claiming "sarcasm" when he floated injecting disinfectant at a briefing, and the White House says changes are coming.
  
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• Have you been mistakenly accused of not social distancing because of apparent stereotyping? Share your experience

  27-04-2020 22:03 via nbcnews.com
  
  What is it like when you go for a walk? We want to hear from you.
  
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• Argentina, Chile defuse spat, vow united fight against pandemic and recession

  27-04-2020 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The leaders of Argentina and Chile have moved to defuse a recent diplomatic spat after officials in Santiago accused President Alberto Fernandez of "meddling" in Chile's internal affairs after he met with Chilean opposition leaders.Center-left Peronist Fernandez and conservative Sebastian Pinera held a call on Monday, saying the neighboring countries would unite to face what they called the "dual enemies" of the coronavirus pandemic and economic recession.Chile's Foreign Ministry said on Sunday
  
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• White House adviser Navarro lashes out at China over 'fake' test kits

  27-04-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Monday accused China of sending low-quality and even counterfeit coronavirus antibody testing kits to the United States and of "profiteering" from the pandemic.Navarro, an outspoken critic of Beijing who President Donald Trump has appointed to work on supply-line issues relating to the health crisis, said more testing both for the virus and antibodies was vital to getting Americans currently in lockdown back to work."There's a lot of these antibody test
  
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• Contact tracing 101: How it works, who could get hired, and why it's so critical in fighting coronavirus

  27-04-2020 21:56 via cnn.com
  
  Thousands of Americans could soon join the ranks of disease detectives in one of the most important battles against coronavirus.
  
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• 'Blow to American democracy': Sanders' campaign blasts cancellation of NY primary

  27-04-2020 21:54 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Sanders campaign called for the state to lose all of its delegates to the Democratic National Convention "if this is not remedied."
  
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• Inside an 'army' of COVID-19 contact tracers in Massachusetts

  27-04-2020 21:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  "Every call is a chance to halt the virus in its tracks," said one worker on the virtual front lines of the state's effort to curb the spread of the virus.
  
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• Biden challenged to pick a black woman as running mate

  27-04-2020 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Knowing the support that we have always given to this party. We have carried this party for as long as I can remember," said Congresswoman Alma Adams.
  
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• Bernie Sanders campaign says New York should lose its delegates after cancellation of presidential primary

  27-04-2020 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The suspended presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Monday slammed New York's Board of Elections after it scrapped the state's 2020 presidential primary, saying the state should lose its delegates if the decision stands.Sanders suspended his 2020 campaign for president earlier this month and endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden, but he said he would continue to gather delegates heading toward the Democratic convention, "where we will be able to exert significant influence o
  
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• Fate has handed Biden the most unusual presidential campaign in history

  27-04-2020 21:50 via cnn.com
  
  Maybe Joe Biden should stay in his basement.
  
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• Is quarantine fatigue here? Americans are leaving their homes more and more, cell data shows

  27-04-2020 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For the first time since stay-at-home measures were put in place to slow the spread of coronavirus, Americans are going out more, new data shows.
  
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• Maduro taps US fugitive to revamp Venezuela oil industry

  27-04-2020 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Nicolás Maduro on Monday named a powerful ally sanctioned by the U.S. as a drug kingpin, along with a cousin of the late socialist leader Hugo Chávez, to revamp Venezuela's oil industry amid massive gasoline shortages.Tareck El Aissami was appointed oil minister and Asdrúbal Chávez tapped to head of state-run oil giant PDVSA.
  
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• Supreme Court tosses dispute over New York City gun rules

  27-04-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The case was brought by the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association and three firearms owners who challenged New York City rules on transporting handguns, which have since been changed.
  
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