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Did Federal Officials Really Question W.H.O. Tests for Coronavirus?

At a time when the Trump administration is facing intense criticism for its failure to make coronavirus tests available to millions of nervous Americans, remarks by a federal health official on Tuesday appeared to suggest that the World Health Organization’s diagnostic tests were wildly inaccurate. In a somewhat rambling answer to a question related to […]

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Boeing Mirrors the Economy. It Doesn’t Look Good.

Finance / En Sound Media

Yet there is also the possibility that the sudden drop in demand for Boeing products leads to layoffs. In that event, executives would consult an internal ranking system known as the “retention totem,” a reference to the totem poles of the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest, where Boeing was founded and still has its

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How To Tell If An App, Game Or Show Is Actually Educational For Kids

Lifestyle / En Sound Media

Due to the social distancing measures necessary to combat the coronavirus pandemic, parents are stretched thin as they balance working from home, improvising home-school, feeding everyone, disinfecting the house and coping with general coronavirus anxiety. Thus, strict screen time rules are understandably falling by the wayside, but there are ways for caregivers to vet their

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Dead Sea Scroll Fragments At D.C.’s Museum Of The Bible Are Fake: Study

Entertainment / En Sound Media

A scientific study examining the authenticity of purported Dead Sea Scroll fragments at the Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C. has determined that all 16 of the perceived religious artifacts are fake. Museum officials revealed the results of a months-long study that they commissioned after a previous 2018 study found that five of the

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The gin maker using his alcohol for hand sanitiser

Business / En Sound Media

Because of COVID-19, there are shortages of hand sanitiser. But one Bristol gin distillery is using some of its alcohol supplies to help out. It is making a sanitary gel and giving it to local residents, in exchange for a donation to charity. Inquiries have been pouring in from across the country – including from

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Low prices, virus cited in calls to delay US oil lease sale

Travel / En Sound Media

Environmentalists say the U.S. government should put off plans for an oil lease sale Wednesday, citing low prices and concerns about the new coronavirus By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press March 18, 2020, 12:00 AM 2 min read NEW ORLEANS — Low prices and concerns about the new coronavirus should postpone a Gulf of Mexico oil

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Amazon Bans, Then Reinstates, Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’

Technology / En Sound Media

SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon quietly banned Adolf Hitler’s manifesto “Mein Kampf” late last week, part of its accelerating efforts to remove Nazi and other hate-filled material from its bookstore, before quickly reversing itself. The retailer, which controls the majority of the book market in the United States, is caught between two demands that cannot be

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New normal: MLB adjusts to coronavirus uncertainty

Sports / En Sound Media

Major league teams adjusted to their strange new normal, with more players returning to their hometowns as they realized baseball won’t be played for months By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer March 17, 2020, 11:50 PM 5 min read PHOENIX — Major league teams adjusted to their strange new normal, with more players returning to

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Trump Now Claims He Always Knew the Coronavirus Would Be a Pandemic

Politics / En Sound Media

WASHINGTON — For weeks, President Trump has minimized the coronavirus, mocked concern about it and treated the risk from it cavalierly. On Tuesday he took to the White House lectern and made a remarkable assertion: He knew it was a pandemic all along. “This is a pandemic,” Mr. Trump told reporters. “I felt it was

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Fed launches 2 emergency programs last seen in 2008 crisis

Finance / En Sound Media

The Federal Reserve has put in motion two emergency lending programs that were last deployed in response to the 2008 financial crisis, aiming to ease the flow of credit to businesses and households struggling amid the viral outbreak By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer March 17, 2020, 11:30 PM 4 min read WASHINGTON — The

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