Image copyright AFP Image caption Cases of the coronavirus in Italy rose from three to 229 in four days Britons returning from northern Italy are being told to self-isolate in the UK if they show coronavirus symptoms. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said people with flu-like symptoms coming back from north of Pisa are asked to […]
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“The Tonight Show’s” Jimmy Fallon took a deep dive Monday to pull off late-night TV history with an underground New York City show. Fallon kicked off “The Tonight Show: Subway Special” with a monologue in front of a captive subway train audience beneath Rockefeller Center, where the program is usually filmed. He cracked that the
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Image copyright Itsu “Fast food across the entire globe is fried, and still dominated by a handful of people.” says Julian Metcalfe, the boss of Asian-inspired food chain Itsu. He told the BBC that the company sees fried food “as the enemy”, as it plans to expand ahead of a possible float on the stock
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TOKYO — Dick Pound, the longest-serving member of the IOC, estimates there’s a three-month window to decide the fate of the Tokyo Olympics, which are being threatened by the fast-spreading virus from China. Pound, in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, did not sound alarmist. But he did speak frankly about the risks facing
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Four or five years ago, Mr. Lockhart said in an interview, he would have had to phone a reporter to weigh in, and the mainstream press, acting as gatekeeper, might or might not have quoted him. Now, “there’s the ability for people to have their own platforms,” he said. “I tweeted it, and got back
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Rachel Whalen had her second miscarriage in a gas station bathroom, driving with her husband to their summer vacation. She felt a contraction, reached down and caught the fetal tissue. “I had this perfectly round, gelatinous orb in my hands,” said Whalen, 34. She had miscarried once before at home. That time, she flushed the
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President Donald Trump has been giving the late shows plenty of fodder this week as he struggles to pronounce names while on a state visit to India. “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah noted that Trump was very popular in the country, just not always for the reason the president would hope. “Some like him because
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LAKELAND, Fla. — José Altuve insisted he tuned out the hecklers. He couldn’t avoid a pitch that grazed him. “He was hit in the foot. That ain’t nothing, you know what I mean?” Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker said Monday after an 11-1 win over Detroit at half-empty Joker Marchant Stadium. “It wasn’t intentional.” Altuve
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Hi. Welcome to On Politics, your guide to the day in national politics. I’m Lisa Lerer, your host. Sign up here to get On Politics in your inbox every weekday. Have the Russians already won? That’s the question my colleague Reid Epstein and I were discussing this morning as we looked at the presidential candidates’
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Shares were mixed in Asia on Tuesday after Wall Street suffered its worst session in two years, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average slumping more than 1,000 points on fears that a viral outbreak that began in China will weaken the world economy. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index lost 3.3%, to 22,605.41 after it reopened from
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