Image copyright Getty Images Scientists are to track the spread of the coronavirus in the UK by using clues in its genetic code. Analysing samples collected from patients will also reveal whether the virus is mutating into new strains. There have been more than 5,600 laboratory-confirmed cases in the UK so far, but the true […]
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It’s 70 years since Red Channels was published in the USA – a directory of writers, actors and producers alleged to be communists or communist sympathisers. The red scare ended many careers. Now 102, actress Marsha Hunt is almost the last person still alive named in the book. Marsha Hunt never wanted to do anything
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On 11 April 1970, the Lovell family watched their husband and father, Jim Lovell, blast off on Nasa’s third mission to land on the Moon. But this was to be an ill-fated mission, and in the six days that followed, the Lovells found themselves facing intense agony. As the 50th anniversary of the mission approaches,
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The president has also continued to credit his own administration’s response. But Mr. Beschloss added that “part of being a wartime president is being willing to give people bad news,” a job Mr. Trump has mostly left to others. At the same time, he has been timid of using wartime powers to fight what he
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PARIS — Young German adults hold “corona parties” and cough toward older people. A Spanish man leashes a goat to go for a walk to skirt confinement orders. From France to Florida to Australia, kitesurfers, college students and others crowd the beaches. Their defiance of lockdown mandates and scientific advice to fight the coronavirus pandemic
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WASHINGTON — Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, becoming the first case of COVID-19 in the Senate and raising fears about the further transmission of the virus among Republicans at the Capitol. Paul, an eye surgeon, went into quarantine Sunday after learning his results. He said he has not
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USPS’s Informed Delivery Service Shows You Your Mail Before It’s Even Delivered | HuffPost Life Part of HuffPost Home & Living. ©2020 Verizon Media. All rights reserved. Huffington Post. Now that a coronavirus outbreak is spreading across the U.S., even the walk to your mailroom or mailbox to see if you’ve received anything important can
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As the coronavirus spreads around the globe, the reality is that most of us will probably get it at some point. Fortunately, a vast majority of people will develop only mild to moderate symptoms that will not require hospitalization. Even so, many people remain frightened about the uncertainty of getting sick with a new disease,
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Over the next year, as all U.S. combat troops left Iraq, military and embassy officials sought to work in “lock step” — not only with Iraqi officials but also to uniformly outline the American mission’s needs and challenges in Iraq to Washington, said retired Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan, who was the Pentagon’s chief spokesman in
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Congress and the White House are negotiating a nearly $1.4 trillion rescue package of healthcare and economic aid amid the coronavirus outbreak and national shutdown March 22, 2020, 9:27 PM 2 min read A snapshot of the emerging rescue package in Congress to provide healthcare and economic aid amid the coronavirus outbreak and national shutdown.
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