Canada’s largest city, Toronto, is canceling city-led and permitted events through June 30 By ROB GILLIES Associated Press March 31, 2020, 10:36 PM 2 min read TORONTO — Canada’s largest city, Toronto, announced Tuesday it is canceling all city-led and permitted events through June 30 amid the coronavirus pandemic. Mayor John Tory said that includes […]
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WASHINGTON — Representative Max Rose, a freshman Democrat from New York, announced on Tuesday that he would deploy with the National Guard on Wednesday to assist the hard-hit city’s coronavirus response efforts, making him the first member of Congress to do so. Mr. Rose, a captain in the Army National Guard and decorated combat veteran
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Image copyright Getty Images A loss of smell or taste may be a sign that you have coronavirus, according to UK researchers. A team at King’s College London looked at responses from more than 400,000 people reporting suspected Covid-19 symptoms to an app. But loss of smell and taste are also signs of other respiratory
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Image caption Jay Blades (left) with some of The Repair Shop’s resident restorers BBC One’s The Repair Shop has become one of the unlikely TV hits of recent years – and host Jay Blades has become one of TV’s unlikely stars. On the surface, the idea behind The Repair Shop is so simple that it
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Image copyright Getty Images A 6.2% increase in the national living wage came into effect on Wednesday. The increase was announced at the end of last year and was heralded by the government as “the biggest cash increase ever”. The rise is more than three times the rate of inflation and takes hourly pay for
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Even with major leaguers likely to receive some semblance of another spring training to get ready, teams are going to have to be creative with how they handle starting pitchers whenever baseball returns By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer March 31, 2020, 11:27 PM 4 min read SEATTLE — Even with major leaguers likely to
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Public health scientists spent the past week constructing a model that could predict how widely the virus would spread in the coming months and how many people who get infected would succumb to the disease. Dr. Birx said the result was clear: The only way to minimize deaths is to continue the difficult restrictions on
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BILLINGS, Mont. — A Canadian company said Tuesday it plans to start construction of the disputed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline through the U.S. Midwest in April, after lining up customers and money for a proposal that is bitterly opposed by environmentalists and some American Indian tribes. Construction would begin at the pipeline’s border crossing
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Maybe you did a deep clean of your home when you found out just how serious the new coronavirus was. But now that you’re social distancing and not leaving the house very often ― maybe just a rare pharmacy run, a daily walk outside ― you might be wondering how often you should still be
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SYDNEY (AP) — Star Wars actor Andrew Jack has died in Britain as a result of the coronavirus, his agent said on Wednesday. He was 76. The actor, who also worked as a dialect coach, died in a hospital in Surrey on Tuesday, Jack’s agent Jill McCullough said in a statement. “Andrew lived on one
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