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• Italian artist, 86, who survived coronavirus: 'I faced the reality of emptiness'

  04-05-2020 23:56 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  An 86-year-old revolutionary artist in Italy is reflecting on his life and the future of the world after surviving the coronavirus. Arte Povera pioneer Michelangelo Pistoletto said: “I faced the reality of emptiness… a central void where there is no soul or ego.”
  
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• US daily coronavirus deaths reportedly projected to double to 3,000 by June

  04-05-2020 23:54 via theguardian.com
  
  New York Times says it has obtained document that suggests administration expects daily death toll to rise throughout MayCoronavirus – latest US updatesCoronavirus – latest global updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAs Donald Trump proclaimed success in America’s fight against the coronavirus and continued to push for the US economy to reopen, it was reported on Monday that internal projections show the administration is expecting 3,000 deaths a day by 1 June. Related: CNN's
  
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• These 10 household items are back in stock—here's where to get them

  04-05-2020 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Essential household items like hand sanitizer, toilet paper, and cleaning wipes are hard to come by. Here's where you can get them.
  
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• Background checks for firearms remain high amid pandemic

  04-05-2020 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The number of April background checks to purchase a firearm showed Americans flocking to gun stores in high numbers for the second month in a row amid worries about the coronavirus pandemic.The FBI numbers were released Monday with anticipation since March smashed previous records with 3.7 million checks conducted.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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• Elon Musk Would Like to Help You Trade Energy

  04-05-2020 23:40 via popularmechanics.com
  
  This system works on his big battery farm. What can it do for you?
  
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• An influential Covid-19 model now predicts 134,000 deaths. A researcher blames relaxed social distancing

  04-05-2020 23:38 via cnn.com
  
  An influential coronavirus model often cited by the White House is now forecasting that 134,000 people will die of Covid-19 in the United States, nearly double its previous prediction.
  
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• The Real Reason Joe Biden Won’t Release His Papers

  04-05-2020 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  What is Joe Biden’s case for the presidency?The most obvious answer, of course, is that he’s not Donald Trump. That’s a perfectly legitimate argument to make, and it might be enough to get the job done. Biden has already hinted that he views himself as a placeholder for the next generation of Democratic Party leaders.If, however, Biden’s case for the presidency is predicated on his nearly 50 years of “public service,” he is a failure without many peers. This i
  
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• The Chinese government is worried global anti-China sentiment is at its highest since Tiananmen Square

  04-05-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The mounting global backlash against China stemming from the country's handling the early days of the coronavirus pandemic has apparently registered with Beijing's political leaders, Reuters reports.An internal report drawn up by the China Institutes of Contemporary International found that anti-China sentiment around the world is at its highest point since 1989 following the Tiananmen Square student demonstrations, which Beijing cracked down on by declaring martial law and sending the military
  
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• Anger at UK lockdown easing plans 'that could put workers at risk'

  04-05-2020 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Unions criticise guidance and say staff may refuse to turn up unless safety is guaranteedCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWorkers may refuse to turn up or stage walk-outs unless the government helps guarantee their safety, trade unions have warned amid anger over guidance designed to ease the lockdown.As ministers prepare to urge the country back to return to work, Labour joined a string of trade unions in criticising draft guidelines for being vague, inadequate
  
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• National-security and global-health experts are increasingly concerned China will develop a coronavirus vaccine first

  04-05-2020 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As Trump adopts an increasingly hard-line stance toward Beijing, the US could be at a major disadvantage if China comes up with a vaccine first.
  
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• Another cruel COVID-19 trick: Symptoms that won't go away

  04-05-2020 23:27 via nbcnews.com
  
  "I think I'm in the clear, but I'm not sure," said a patient with a persistent fever. "It feels never-ending. I am at a loss."
  
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• Another cruel COVID-19 trick: Symptoms that won't go away

  04-05-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "I think I'm in the clear, but I'm not sure," said a patient with a persistent fever. "It feels never-ending. I am at a loss."
  
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• Germany to reopen all shops, allow soccer matches: sources

  04-05-2020 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Germany's state premiers will agree on measures to further ease coronavirus restrictions in a teleconference with Chancellor Angela Merkel scheduled for Wednesday, two people familiar with the preparations told Reuters on Monday.The state premiers are expected to give the green light for large shops to reopen, probably from May 11, the sources said.Smaller shops are already back to business in Europe's largest economy as long as they respect social distancing rules to slow the spread of the high
  
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• People who meet with Donald Trump in Phoenix will get coronavirus tests

  04-05-2020 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Security plans for Trump's trip to a Honeywell aerospace plant in Phoenix that manufactures protective masks mimic policy at the White House.
  
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• 'So what?': Amanpour is shocked by Brazilian president's reaction

  04-05-2020 23:19 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Christiane Amanpour discusses the concerns that surround Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Italians dance and clap as toughest coronavirus lockdown measures lifted – video

  04-05-2020 23:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Italians were allowed out as the toughest quarantine measures were lifted throughout the country after almost two months on 4 May.Around 4 million people returned to work as the prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, appealed to the public in a Facebook post on Sunday night to 'act responsibly'.‘The biggest shock was fresh air’: Italy begins cautious exit from virus lockdownCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage Continue reading...
  
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• China pushes back against Wuhan lab claims

  04-05-2020 23:13 via cnn.com
  
  A nationalist tabloid controlled by the Chinese Communist Party has dismissed claims by the Trump administration that the novel coronavirus originated from a laboratory, as the war of words over the pandemic escalates between Washington and Beijing.
  
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• Trump’s Pick for Intelligence Chief Follows a Slew of QAnon Accounts

  04-05-2020 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For a nominee to helm the U.S. government’s intelligence apparatus, Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) draws on some unusual sources of information. Ratcliffe’s official, verified campaign Twitter account follows several accounts on the political fringe, including a 9/11 truther account with just one follower besides himself and four promoting the outlandish QAnon conspiracy theory, which posits that the world is run by a cabal of Democratic pedophile-cannibals—and has been rul
  
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• L.A. clinic puts underprivileged community at greater risk of contracting coronavirus, health care workers say

  04-05-2020 23:03 via nbcnews.com
  
  St. John's Well Child and Family Center in South L.A. continues to see patients in the office for routine appointments, they say.
  
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• Amazon executive resigns over company’s ‘chickenshit’ firings of employee activists

  04-05-2020 23:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Tim Bray’s departure comes as company faces increased scrutiny and employee activism around its Covid-19 responseTim Bray, a top engineer and vice-president at Amazon, announced on Monday he is resigning “in dismay” over the company’s firing of employee activists who criticized working conditions amid the coronavirus pandemic.Bray’s resignation comes as Amazon faces increased scrutiny and employee activism surrounding its internal response to coronavirus. Amazon wor
  
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• UK government begins transatlantic trade talks with Washington

  04-05-2020 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Increasing links with US will aid recovery after coronavirus crisis, says Liz TrussCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageLiz Truss has claimed bolstering transatlantic trade could help the economy bounce back from the Covid-19 crisis, as negotiations with Washington over a free trade deal begin by video link.Despite the government’s negotiating objectives for the deal pointing to a modest economic gain of 0.16% of GDP over 15 years, the international trade secre
  
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• Member of Trump's reopening council warns we'll 'have body bags of businesses' if they remain closed

  04-05-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Stephen Moore has a questionably worded prediction for will happen to businesses that don't reopen soon.Moore, President Trump's former economic adviser, who was once nominated to the Federal Reserve Board, is now part of Trump's council on reopening the economy. He's also a big fan of the way Georgia, Iowa, and Oklahoma have been letting businesses reopen, and warned in a Monday news briefing that the U.S. will see "body bags of businesses" if it doesn't follow those red states' leads, Politico
  
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• Tyson will keep slowing meat production as coronavirus sickens workers, tanks income

  04-05-2020 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The meat producer warned of continued "slowdowns and temporary idling" of plants during the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Security guard killed in mask dispute

  04-05-2020 22:44 via nbcnews.com
  
  Three people were charged with first-degree murder in the death of 43-year-old Calvin Munerlyn, a father of eight.
  
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• Travelers spent $8.6 billion on baggage, change fees last year. Airlines won't get that pay day in 2020

  04-05-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Airlines took in $5.8 billion in bag fees and $2.8 billion in change fees. The 2020 numbers will be a fraction of that due to coronavirus crisis.
  
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• Without in-person classes, many students have essentially gone missing, teachers say

  04-05-2020 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a survey of about 4,000 South Carolina teachers on April 1, only 17% said they had contacted all of their students.
  
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• 50 years ago, the shooting of 4 college students changed America forever

  04-05-2020 22:39 via cnn.com
  
  Fifty years ago today, the Ohio National Guard fired on Kent State University students as they protested against the Vietnam War. Four students were killed. Nine were injured.
  
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• Influential Covid-19 model predicts 134,000 deaths. A researcher blames relaxed social distancing

  04-05-2020 22:25 via cnn.com
  
  An influential coronavirus model often cited by the White House is now forecasting that 134,000 people will die of Covid-19 in the United States, nearly double its previous prediction.
  
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• Coronavirus latest news: Reopening all schools would bring 'very real risk' of a second peak, warns Dominic Raab

  04-05-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Prof Neil Ferguson resigns after breaking lockdown rules to meet his married lover Lockdown dossier: What new government advisory papers reveal How Sweden suppressed infection rates without a lockdown The five charts that explain the UK's horrifying death toll NHS workers targeted by state-backed hackers Subscribe to The Telegraph, free for seven days Telegraph Coronavirus Appeal: Join us in helping those hit hardest Reopening all schools in the UK would bring a "very real risk" of a second dead
  
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• Trump compares himself to Lincoln. See historian's reaction.

  04-05-2020 22:08 via cnn.com
  
  President Trump said he believes the media treats him worse than President Abraham Lincoln at a Fox News town hall.
  
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• See historian's reaction when Trump compares himself to Lincoln

  04-05-2020 22:08 via cnn.com
  
  President Trump said he believes the media treats him worse than President Abraham Lincoln at a Fox News town hall.
  
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• Video shows how far a cough spreads without a mask

  04-05-2020 22:07 via cnn.com
  
  A lab at Florida Atlantic University is simulating a human cough to understand how far and fast cough droplets can spread.
  
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• Video shows far cough spreads without a mask

  04-05-2020 22:07 via cnn.com
  
  A lab at Florida Atlantic University is simulating a human cough to understand how far and fast cough droplets can spread.
  
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• See how wearing a mask affects how a cough travels

  04-05-2020 22:07 via cnn.com
  
  A lab at Florida Atlantic University is simulating a human cough to understand how far and fast cough droplets can spread.
  
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• See how quickly cough droplets can spread

  04-05-2020 22:07 via cnn.com
  
  A lab at Florida Atlantic University is simulating a human cough to understand how far and fast cough droplets can spread.
  
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• See how far a cough can travel

  04-05-2020 22:07 via cnn.com
  
  A lab at Florida Atlantic University is simulating a human cough to understand how far and fast cough droplets can spread.
  
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• See how a mask affects how a cough travels

  04-05-2020 22:07 via cnn.com
  
  A lab at Florida Atlantic University is simulating a human cough to understand how far and fast cough droplets can spread.
  
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• CDC reports 1,152,372 coronavirus cases, 67,456 deaths

  04-05-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Over the weekend, the CDC updated its case count to 1,122,486 and said 65,735 people had died across the country, but that the numbers were preliminary and had not been confirmed by individual states.The CDC's tally of cases of the respiratory illness known as COVID-19, caused by the new coronavirus, on Monday is as of May 3.The CDC figures do not necessarily reflect cases reported by individual states.
  
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• French doctors claim they found Covid-19 patient from weeks before earliest known cases

  04-05-2020 22:04 via cnn.com
  
  There's new evidence that the coronavirus may have been in France weeks earlier than was previously thought.
  
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• Venezuelan authorities detain U.S. citizens allegedly involved in incursion

  04-05-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Venezuelan authorities have detained two U.S. citizens working with a U.S. military veteran who has claimed responsibility for a failed armed incursion into the oil producing country, President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday.In a state television address, Maduro said authorities arrested 13 "terrorists" on Monday allegedly involved in a plot he said was coordinated with Washington to enter the South American country via the Caribbean coast and oust him.Eight people were killed during the foiled i
  
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• WHO on 'powerful' vaccine unity, US virus claims

  04-05-2020 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The World Health Organization talks about vaccine to battle COVID-19 and US claims that the virus began in a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan. (May 4)
  
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• Slow-moving Commons debates the key issues of March

  04-05-2020 21:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Something called the coronavirus had become a pandemic, a minister told MPsJust as Matt Hancock was explaining at the Downing Street press conference how he hoped his test, track and trace app might work to ease the lockdown, parliament was finally getting the opportunity to debate the coronavirus regulations the government had put in place back in March. Though debate might be putting it a little strongly. The tech in the new virtual Commons isn’t up to allowing any interventions, so what
  
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• Protesters recreate 'coffin dance' meme

  04-05-2020 21:52 via cnn.com
  
  Inspired by the popular Ghanaian "coffin dance" meme, demonstrators took to the streets after the Lebanese lira lost more than half its value in recent weeks.
  
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• Joe Biden to hold first high-dollar fundraiser, featuring Gov. Gavin Newsom

  04-05-2020 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, will hold his first high-dollar fundraiser, featuring California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
  
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• 2020 Eta Aquarid meteor shower: How to see 'crumbs' of Comet Halley rain on Earth

  04-05-2020 21:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  The skywatching event lasts about a week, with the best views arriving before dawn on Tuesday.
  
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• California sees 'ray of sunshine,' takes first steps toward reopening

  04-05-2020 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  California on Monday announced the state's first tentative steps to reopen from a lockdown designed to contain the spread of the coronavirus, giving a green light for retail stores to open this week, though with restrictions.California Governor Gavin Newsom said the nation's most populous U.S. state, among the two dozen that still has full restrictions in place, would allow some counties to go further if they met certain testing and protection guidelines."This is an optimistic day, as we see a l
  
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• AP wins feature photography Pulitzer for Kashmir coverage

  04-05-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The story of India’s crackdown on Kashmir last August was difficult to show to the world.Now, their work has been honored with the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in feature photography.Snaking around roadblocks, sometimes taking cover in strangers’ homes and hiding cameras in vegetable bags, the three photographers captured images of protests, police and paramilitary action and daily life — and then headed to an airport to persuade travelers to carry the photo files out with them and get
  
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• Coronavirus: California shopper wears KKK-inspired hood as face shield when grocery shopping

  04-05-2020 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A California shopper has been criticised of wearing what looked to be a Ku Klux Klan-inspired white hood to a grocery store amid coronavirus face mask recommendations.The man was spotted in Vons supermarket in Santee, a suburban city in San Diego, on Saturday.
  
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• Biden announces new policy efforts aimed at black voters

  04-05-2020 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As part of the wide-ranging plans, the former vice president pledged to open a new Public Credit Reporting Agency that could compete with Equifax Inc, Experian Plc and TransUnion and, according to the campaign, minimize racial disparities in lending."Today's credit reports, which are issued by just three large private companies, are rife with problems: they often contain errors, they leave many 'credit invisible' due to the sources used to generate a credit score, and they contribute to racial d
  
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• Set your timer for three weeks

  04-05-2020 21:29 via cnn.com
  
  Set a timer for three weeks.
  
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