Kansas has finished the season No. 1 in The Associated Press college basketball poll, receiving 63 of 65 first-place votes from a national media panel By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer March 18, 2020, 4:02 PM 5 min read LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kansas coach Bill Self has spent much of the past week mulling ways […]
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Misinformation about the coronavirus continues to circulate across swaths of the American media — on popular podcasts, in blog posts, in online videos and on prime-time cable news shows — as recently as this week. Some of the disseminators are entertainers. Others are medical doctors. Some are conservatives who insist the virus is being hyped
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NEW YORK, March 17 (Reuters) – The U.S. government canceled all deportation hearings for immigrants not in detention after immigration judges and government prosecutors complained busy courts were putting them at risk of COVID-19 infection. Kathryn Mattingly, a spokeswoman for the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the arm of the U.S. Department of Justice that
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This year, Americans will be asked to participate in the 2020 census, a process that occurs every 10 years. While you should expect to be contacted by the U.S. Census Bureau in the coming weeks (and maybe you already have), it’s also a time to watch out for scammers pretending to represent the census. “The
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Image copyright Getty Images Glastonbury’s famous Pyramid Stage will remain dark in June, as the festival becomes the latest event to be cancelled due to coronavirus. Taylor Swift, Sir Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar were due to appear, alongside Diana Ross and Dua Lipa. “We’re so sorry that this decision has been made,” a statement
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Image copyright Getty Images Reductions to rail timetables could take effect in the coming days, as train firms deal with staff shortages caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Services across Britain are now largely empty as most people work from home and avoid non-essential travel. Contingency plans are being made by government, Network Rail and operators
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Working from home because of the coronavirus pandemic may sound like a luxury. Freedom to cook lunch. Time to do laundry between tasks. Respite from that loquacious co-worker. Then reality sets in. Your Wi-Fi slows down to a crawl, the new software tools you work with are confusing and your computer mouse is a piece
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The new slogan the U.S. Open introduced just 17 days ago is an indication of how complicated it will be for golf to resume, assuming it ever does this year. It’s not a matter of when the majors are played. It becomes a question of who plays. The branding campaign called “From Many, One,” touches
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Jeremy Corbyn has called for an increase in the level of statutory sick pay during the coronavirus outbreak. During prime minister’s questions, the Labour leader said families could not be fed on the UK level of £94.25 per week, a figure which he said lagged “far behind” other European countries. Boris Johnson said sick pay
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Halliburton will institute a mandatory furlough for 3,500 employees in Houston, Texas, beginning next week amid falling oil prices March 18, 2020, 2:52 PM 2 min read NEW YORK — The Latest on action in the financial markets (all times local): 10:45 a.m. Halliburton will institute a mandatory furlough for 3,500 employees in Houston, Texas,
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