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Wartime Production Law Has Been Used Routinely, but Not With Coronavirus

WASHINGTON — Chemicals used to construct military missiles. Materials needed to build drones. Body armor for agents patrolling the southwest border. Equipment for natural disaster response. A Korean War-era law called the Defense Production Act has been invoked hundreds of thousands of times by President Trump and his administration to ensure the procurement of vital

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US death toll eclipses China’s as reinforcements head to NYC

NEW YORK — The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus climbed past 3,600 Tuesday, eclipsing China’s official count, as hard-hit New York City rushed to bring in more medical professionals and ambulances and parked refrigerated morgue trucks on the streets to collect the dead. The crisis hit close to home for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who

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Kim Kardashian’s Fight With Kourtney Was Way More Violent Than What We Saw On TV

Since professional wresting won’t be back up and running for a while, might we suggest “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” in this time of need?  The long-running reality TV series documenting the highs and lows of America’s thirstiest family reached a new low on Thursday night when sisters Kim Kardashian and Kourtney Kardashian got into

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Who Are the Voters Behind Trump’s Higher Approval Rating?

Justin Penn, a Pittsburgh voter who calls himself politically independent, favored Joseph R. Biden Jr. in a matchup with President Trump until recently. But the president’s performance during the coronavirus outbreak has Mr. Penn reconsidering. “I think he’s handled it pretty well,” he said of the president, whose daily White House appearances Mr. Penn catches

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Coronavirus: UK must go ‘further, faster’ to increase testing capacity

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionMichael Gove: The first of thousands of new ventilators will be delivered to the NHS next week The UK must go “further, faster” to ramp up its testing capacity for coronavirus, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove has said. The government has set a target of carrying out

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Kristen Bell, Dax Shepard Say Isolation Has Had Them ‘At Each Other’s Throats’

Oh, how we’d love to be a fly on the wall in the Bell-Shepard house. Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard got candid about how they’re handling self-isolating amid the coronavirus pandemic, telling Katie Couric in a recent Instagram Live interview that they’ve found each other “revolting” lately. Couric asked the pair if they’d been “getting

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