BURLINGTON, Vt. — Senator Bernie Sanders will appear at a 1 p.m. news conference on Wednesday to provide an update on the future of his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, a day after a series of crushing losses to former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. that significantly narrowed his path to victory. Mr. […]
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A federal court in Cincinnati will hear complex legal arguments for and against Ohio’s Down syndrome abortion ban Wednesday By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press March 11, 2020, 2:19 PM 4 min read COLUMBUS, Ohio — A federal court in Cincinnati will hear complex legal arguments Wednesday for and against Ohio’s Down syndrome abortion ban
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TikTok star Charli D’Amelio danced her way into network television viewers’ hearts on “The Tonight Show” Tuesday. (See the clip above.) D’Amelio, known for her dance videos on the short-form video app, writes in her bio on her profile, “don’t worry i don’t get the hype either,” presumably referring to her fame. But her 35 million followers
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Image copyright Getty Images Tens of thousands of England’s retail, leisure and hospitality firms will not pay any business rates in the coming year, the chancellor has announced. Companies with a rateable value of less than £51,000 will be eligible for the tax holiday, Rishi Sunak said. The measure applies to firms including shops, cinemas,
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The winter of 2019/2020 has been the warmest ever recorded in Europe. That’s a problem for a species of seal which is facing extinction. The Saimaa ringed seal needs snow and ice to survive because it gives birth to its pups in lairs dug into snow drifts. But temperatures around their Finnish lake have been
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Telemedicine got an additional boost under the $8.3 billion emergency funding measure from Congress, which loosened restrictions on its use to treat people covered under the federal Medicare program. At a news conference on Monday, Seema Verma, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, praised the government’s efforts to expand the use
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A former Canadian Football League player will plead guilty to paying $200,000 to have someone take a college entrance exam in place of his two sons as part of a college admissions cheating scheme March 11, 2020, 2:49 PM 2 min read BOSTON — A former Canadian Football League player will plead guilty to paying
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The chancellor has said that the NHS will get “whatever it needs, whatever it costs” to deal with the coronavirus outbreak. In his first Budget speech, Rishi Sunak set out a three-point £1bn plan for the UK economy to cope with the effect on the workforce. It will include extending access to statutory sick pay,
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NEW YORK — Stocks are sinking again Wednesday, wiping out most of a huge rally from a day earlier as Wall Street continues to reel from worries about the coronavirus. Another big central bank made an emergency cut to interest rates in hopes of blunting the economic pain caused by COVID-19, which economists call the
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Image copyright PA Media The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK has now reached 456, after the biggest rise in a single day. The Department of Health confirmed there had been 83 more cases since Tuesday. Six patients with coronavirus have died in hospitals in the UK. It comes as NHS England plans
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