Fear of the spreading coronavirus has led to a global run on sales of face masks despite evidence that most people who aren’t sick don’t need to wear them. Many businesses are sold out, while others are limiting how many a customer can buy. Amazon is policing its site, trying to make sure sellers don’t […]
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President Donald Trump’s appointment of Vice President Mike Pence to head the U.S. response to coronavirus has been criticized because of his questionable public health record. But that didn’t stop Fox News host Laura Ingraham from jumping to the veep’s defense on “The Ingraham Factor” Thursday. She accused Pence’s critics of launching a “deceitful smear campaign” over his
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Image copyright PA Media An investigation into the leasehold property market has found “worrying evidence” that buyers are being treated unfairly and charged unreasonable fees. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said many homeowners found themselves in “serious traps” after being misled by housing developers. It said it would take action against firms, calling for
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A few months ago when my new passport arrived, I tore open the envelope with the relief of someone who had already booked a two-week international trip. The first stamp in my new book would be Morocco, which is what I was thinking about as I flipped through the pristine blank pages. I had thumbed
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Olympic champion Majlinda Kelmendi now has a statue in her hometown By ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press February 28, 2020, 12:43 PM 2 min read PEJA, Kosovo — Olympic champion Majlinda Kelmendi, the first athlete from Kosovo to win a gold medal at the games, now has a statue in her hometown. Hundreds
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Good morning and welcome to On Politics, a daily political analysis of the 2020 elections based on reporting by New York Times journalists. Sign up here to get On Politics in your inbox every weekday. Where things stand in the race If you’ve been reading this newsletter, you know that Democratic superdelegates are a freaked-out
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A British tourist quarantined in the Costa Adeje Palace, Tenerife, has described her experience as “very stressful”. Lara Pennington and her family have self-isolated themselves in their room within the quarantined hotel, which is holding 700 guests, among them 168 Britons. Jet 2 have said health and safety is a priority and cite their responsibility
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Image copyright Reuters Image caption Prince Harry, Bon Jovi and two members of the Invictus Games Choir recreated the famous Beatles album cover Rock royalty met the Royal Family when the Duke of Sussex got behind a microphone with Jon Bon Jovi. They met at Abbey Road Studios, where the US rocker is re-recording his
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Image copyright Reuters The acquittal of three former Barclays executives is the only time a jury has ruled on criminal allegations against senior bankers for events in the 2008 crisis. The senior executives in this trial, which began in October – Roger Jenkins, 64, Tom Kalaris, 64 and Richard Boath, 61 – were not the
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New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called Australia’s policy of deporting foreign nationals convicted of committing crimes “corrosive” in a heated press conference with her Australian counterpart Scott Morrison. It comes after the Australian government stepped up deportations of foreign-born criminals in recent months. The move has seen hundreds of people deported from Australia to
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