Image copyright Getty Images The European Central Bank (ECB) has launched an emergency €750bn ($820bn; £706bn) package to ease the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. It will buy government and company debt across the eurozone, including that of troubled Greece and Italy. ECB boss Christine Lagarde tweeted “there are no limits” to its commitment to […]
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Stuck at home this week By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer March 18, 2020, 3:13 PM 2 min read CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Stuck at home this week? The planets and our moon are providing some early morning entertainment. Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and a crescent moon will be clustered together in the southeastern sky just
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GENEVA — Regional Olympic officials are rallying around the IOC and have backed its stance on opening the Tokyo Games as scheduled, as direct criticism from gold medalist athletes built amid the coronavirus outbreak. Leaders of continental Olympic groups praised the IOC after a conference call Wednesday to update them on coronavirus issues four months
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Hi. Welcome to On Politics, your guide to the day in national politics. I’m Lisa Lerer, your host. Sign up here to get On Politics in your inbox every weekday. We now almost certainly know how the Democratic primary is going to end. We just don’t know when it will happen. Tuesday night, as San
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BEIJING — Factories in China, struggling to reopen after the coronavirus shut down the economy, face a new threat from U.S. anti-disease controls that might disrupt the flow of microchips and other components they need. The shock threatens to set back the ruling Communist Party’s efforts to revive the world’s second-largest economy after it declared
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President Donald Trump is turning to a 1950 law to boost private production of supplies needed to confront the coronavirus pandemic By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press March 19, 2020, 1:53 AM 5 min read WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday invoked a Korean War-era law as part of his response to the coronavirus pandemic,
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Anneka Rice is best known for racing about in a jumpsuit for Channel 4’s Treasure Hunt and the BBC’s Challenge Anneka. She later took to radio, presenting on BBC Radio 2, and was a contestant on last year’s Strictly Come Dancing. Also last year, Rice moved into performing comedy and recorded The Clemmie Hart Years
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Detroit’s Big Three automakers announced Wednesday that they are ceasing production at their U.S. plants due to the coronavirus, showing how the economic damage from the pandemic is spreading beyond the service sector. Ford said it would halt production at all North American facilities from the end of Thursday’s shift through March 30. GM said
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The NBA is considering an idea where some players would be quarantined or isolated for purposes of being able to compete against one another and provide basketball fans with some sort of diversion from the coronavirus pandemic By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer March 19, 2020, 1:07 AM 4 min read The NBA is considering
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Wednesday broadened the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and spelled out the first details of a $1 trillion economic package, asking Congress for an infusion of $500 billion for direct payments to taxpayers and $500 billion in loans for businesses. President Trump invoked a seldom-used wartime law that
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