Millions of people are holed up at home or keeping a wary eye on how close they get to friends and neighbors as fear of the new coronavirus spreads to more places March 16, 2020, 1:04 PM 4 min read Millions of people began holing up at home, stocking up on supplies and keeping a […]
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Image copyright ITV Image caption The series is based on Fellowes’ novel of the same name Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes is back with a new period drama Belgravia, which made its debut on ITV last night. The six-parter is set among the upper classes of 19th Century London society and stars Tamsin Greig, Harriet
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Image copyright Getty Images An Iceland store in Northern Ireland is opening one hour early to allow older shoppers to buy food when it is quieter amid the coronavirus outbreak. Iceland said it was not a company policy, but it was allowing individual stores to decide how best to meet the needs of shoppers in
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NEW YORK — Stocks lost 8% in morning trading on Wall Street Monday as huge swaths of the economy come closer to shutting down due to the coronavirus outbreak, from airlines to restaurants. Emergency actions taken by the Federal Reserve late Sunday to prop up the economy and get financial markets running smoothly again may
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All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell of the Utah Jazz says he showed no symptoms of being sick before testing positive for the coronavirus, and he continues to have no signs of illness since going into isolation. Mitchell, speaking to ABC’s “Good Morning America” in an interview broadcast Monday, also revealed that it “took awhile for me
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After more than 30 minutes of posing questions almost entirely about policy and decision-making related to coronavirus, Dana Bash, one of CNN’s moderators for Sunday’s Democratic debate, took a moment to make the topic deeply personal. What, she asked former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, were they doing
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Stocks dropped 8% in the first minutes of trading Monday on Wall Street and triggered another temporary halt to trading as huge swaths of the economy come closer to shutting down, from airlines to restaurants March 16, 2020, 1:58 PM 5 min read NEW YORK — Stocks dropped 8% in the first minutes of trading
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Image copyright Getty Images The first trial in people of a vaccine to protect against pandemic coronavirus is starting in the US later on Monday, according to reports. A group of 45 healthy volunteers will have the jab, at the Kaiser Permanente research facility, in Seattle. The vaccine cannot cause Covid-19 but contains a harmless
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Comedian Patton Oswalt is making the most of a grim situation ― and keeping his distance. The former “King of Queens” star performed a stand-up gig about the coronavirus for mostly empty streets ― from a front yard. (Watch the clip below.) “This COVID-19, I tell ya. I didn’t see COVID 1 through 18, so I
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(Reuters) – The S&P 500 index plunged over 9% on Monday as trading resumed after an initial automatic 15-minute cutout, driven by mounting fears of the damage the coronavirus is doing to the global economy. The halt at the opening was the third emergency pause in Wall Street trading in six days, and followed another
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