MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Faced with the threat of overburdened hospitals, states across the country are converting convention centers, sports facilities and performance spaces into backup treatment sites for coronavirus patients. Tennessee is no exception. What some Memphis residents don’t get is why in their city, a shopping center in the middle of a predominantly black, […]
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Asian shares are mostly lower and crude prices have gained more than $1 per barrel after OPEC and other oil producing nations agreed to cut output to reflect the collapse of demand due to the pandemic By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer April 13, 2020, 4:22 AM 4 min read 4 min read Share to
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Clerks across Wisconsin will count votes Monday, six days after last week’s chaotic presidential primary By TODD RICHMOND and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press April 13, 2020, 3:49 AM 3 min read 3 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article MADISON, Wis. — Municipal clerks across Wisconsin on Monday were set to start tallying
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Image copyright Li Yan “Doctors and nurses are people who saved me from cancer and gave me strength in the darkest time. I need to return the favour,” says Li Yan, a food delivery rider based in Beijing. Mr Li was diagnosed with lymph cancer in 2003, when he was just 17 years old. He
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By the third week of February, advisers had drafted a list of measures they believed would soon be necessary, like school closures, sports and concert cancellations and stay-at-home orders, but the president did not embrace them until mid-March. Dr. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, said on
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NEW YORK — Desperate small business owners who hoped for a quick government lifeline to help them survive the coronavirus crisis are still without funds, instead battling red tape, wary banks and swamped computer systems. Thousands of owners who applied for loans under the government’s Paycheck Protection Program are in their second week of waiting
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A federal judge ruled that Alabama cannot ban abortions as part of the state’s response to coronavirus By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press April 13, 2020, 2:03 AM 2 min read 2 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A federal judge on Sunday ruled that Alabama cannot ban abortions as
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CHICAGO — The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus eclipsed Italy’s for the highest in the world Saturday, surpassing 20,000, as Chicago and other cities across the Midwest braced for a potential surge in victims and moved to snuff out smoldering hot spots of contagion before they erupt. With the New York area still deep
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Image copyright Junior Stewart Image caption Junior Stewart and his newborn son Nathan “I’ve applied for universal credit, I got a mortgage holiday, I am applying for a council tax deferral, but it won’t be enough,” says Junior Stewart, 45, from Luton. “The five of us are on the bare minimum, I don’t know how
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One of the world’s most famous bookstores was forced to close because of the coronavirus outbreak and asked for help to pay the bills By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer April 12, 2020, 4:59 PM 2 min read 2 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article NEW YORK — One of the world’s
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