The government is to pay 80% of wages for employees not working, up to £2,500 a month, Chancellor Rishi Sunak says. The “unprecedented” measures are part of government plans to protect people’s jobs, he says. Many firms have been warning of collapse, wiping out thousands of jobs, as life in the UK is largely put […]
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Dayton breakout star Obi Toppin is the lone unanimous first-team choice to The Associated Press men’s college basketball All-America team By JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer March 20, 2020, 4:40 PM 5 min read The college basketball season came to an emphatic, dramatic end with the cancellation of the NCAA Tournament. The dream of playing
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WASHINGTON — Faced with steep shortages of medical supplies to combat the coronavirus pandemic, the White House is scrambling to coordinate with the private sector to import and manufacture testing swabs, face masks and hand sanitizer. A lack of nasal swabs has been a pressing obstacle as the United States tries to accelerate testing for
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They are a new class of emergency medical workers: the more than two million Americans reporting to work each day to sell food and other household staples to a country in the midst of a coronavirus pandemic. As shoppers swarm stores, snapping up everything from milk to toilet paper, cashiers are there to ring them
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People with horrible coughs, fevers and trouble breathing aren’t driving the coronavirus pandemic. It’s people with mild symptoms or no symptoms at all who are responsible for the majority of new COVID-19 cases, according to research published earlier this week. People who work in essential jobs have an especially high chance of being exposed to
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If anyone is big enough to bridge the boundaries put in place by social distancing, it’s Shaquille O’Neal. The former NBA great delighted Georgia first-graders ― and their parents ― when he crashed their webcam class this week, TMZ reported. (See the video below.) The state announced Monday it was shutting all public schools due
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The Buffalo Bills officially announced acquiring receiver Stefon Diggs in a multi-draft-pick trade with the Minnesota Vikings March 20, 2020, 3:58 PM 2 min read The Latest on NFL free agency. The NFL’s spending in free agency continues Friday: ——— The Buffalo Bills are indeed, as quarterback Josh Allen put it on Twitter, digging it.
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WASHINGTON — Senator Richard M. Burr, Republican of North Carolina, said on Friday that he had asked the Senate Ethics Committee to scrutinize sales he made of hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of stock just before the coronavirus ravaged the stock market, in an attempt to clear himself of accusations that he traded on
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has announced that the deadline for filing U.S. income taxes has been moved from April 15 to July 15 By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer March 20, 2020, 3:52 PM 2 min read WASHINGTON — The income tax filing date has been pushed back from April 15, to July 15, Treasury
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PARIS — California’s 40 million people were all but confined to their homes Friday in the nation’s biggest lockdown yet, as America’s governors watched with growing alarm as southern Europe buckled under the strain of the coronavirus outbreak. Gasping patients filled the wards of hospitals in Spain and Italy, and the global death toll surpassed
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