The Tokyo Olympics need new dates for the opening and closing ceremonies in 2021 By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer March 26, 2020, 9:36 AM 3 min read TOKYO — The Tokyo Olympics need new dates for the opening and closing ceremonies in 2021. Nothing much can get done until those dates are worked out […]
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WASHINGTON — Of the 75 senior positions at the Department of Homeland Security, 20 are either vacant or filled by acting officials, including Chad F. Wolf, the acting secretary who recently was unable to tell a Senate committee how many respirators and protective face masks were available in the United States. The National Park Service,
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WASHINGTON — Partial highlights of a roughly $2.2 trillion package to rush aid to businesses, workers and a health care system slammed by the coronavirus pandemic. The package, written by Trump administration officials and Democratic and Republican Senate leaders, was released late Wednesday night and unanimously approved by the Senate. — Loans and guarantees to
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Anxiety UK have experienced a big rise in callers since the outbreak of coronavirus. David Smithson, the charity’s operations director, gives his advice on how to deal with anxiety during this difficult time. And we hear from three women with pre-existing anxiety disorders about why coronavirus has been especially challenging, and the strategies they have
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWatch Ralph McTell perform the new verse to his hit 70s song Streets of London It began with a conversation between a foreign correspondent who loves ballads, and his neighbour, a legend of the British folk music scene. The result was Ralph McTell agreeing to write a
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In October of 1820, typhus raged in Naples. With his artist friend, Joseph Severn, the British poet John Keats rocked in the city’s harbor for 10 days, not nearly the quaranta giorni — 40 days — that give us our word quarantine. Before this journey, Keats always felt intense melancholy. In “On Seeing the Elgin
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Internet service providers said they could handle the deluge of traffic but were adding capacity. Verizon, Cox and AT&T said they were building more cell sites to strengthen mobile networks, increasing the number of fiber connections on their network backbones, and upgrading the routing and switching technology that lets devices talk to one another and
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When you’re looking at the same four walls all week, the days can begin to roll into one. But a weekend is still a weekend ― and there are ways to enjoy it even if you’re in self-isolation or practicing social distancing. Sure, it might mean canceling group plans and being a little more creative,
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Parenting in the time of the coronavirus is presenting quite the challenge for Andy Cohen. The “Watch What Happens Live” host, who announced Friday that he tested positive for COVID-19, revealed he’s self-isolating away from his 1-year-old son, Benjamin Allen, as the virus is “working its way through my body.” His nanny is taking care
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption“People in your profession write fake news – you do”, President Trump tells journalist The US Senate has passed a $2 trillion (£1.7tn) coronavirus aid bill that is the largest economic stimulus in US history. The vote was delayed by a last-minute row between Republican and Democratic
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