April 2020

He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus

But dozens of interviews with current and former officials and a review of emails and other records revealed many previously unreported details and a fuller picture of the roots and extent of his halting response as the deadly virus spread: The National Security Council office responsible for tracking pandemics received intelligence reports in early January

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Dumped Milk, Smashed Eggs, Plowed Vegetables: Food Waste of the Pandemic

In Wisconsin and Ohio, farmers are dumping thousands of gallons of fresh milk into lagoons and manure pits. An Idaho farmer has dug huge ditches to bury 1 million pounds of onions. And in South Florida, a region that supplies much of the Eastern half of the United States with produce, tractors are crisscrossing bean

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Coronavirus: How GPs have stopped seeing most patients in person

Image copyright Getty Images GPs are seeing just seven in every 100 patients face-to-face because of the coronavirus outbreak, following a “remarkable” shift to online and telephone appointments across England. Fewer than 1% of appointments were done via video link last year, with 80% in person, BBC analysis shows. But the Royal College of GPs

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Magician Walks Through U.S.-Mexico Border Wall In ‘Riskiest Stunt’

British magician Dynamo stunned onlookers as he appeared to pass through a section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in the grand finale of his latest show. The 37-year-old seemingly wriggled through a gap in the slats ― which a witness attested was smaller than his fist ― to enter Mexico in the concluding segment of

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Trump leaves trail of unmet promises in coronavirus response

WASHINGTON — For several months, President Donald Trump and his officials have cast a fog of promises meant to reassure a country in the throes of the coronavirus pandemic. Trump and his team haven’t delivered on critical ones. They talk numbers. Bewildering numbers about masks on the way. About tests being taken. About ships sailing

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