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• newCoronavirus: Australia launches criminal investigation into Ruby Princess
  Passengers from the Ruby Princess disembarked in Sydney without knowing the coronavirus was on board.
  - 2 hours ago 5 Apr 20, 8:38am -
• newImprisoned Chinese rights lawyer released, his wife says
  Wang Quanzhang, a well-known Chinese rights lawyer, was released from prison Sunday after being held for more than four years, his wife said. It was unclear whether he would be allowed to return to Beijing, where he practiced and lived with his wif…
  - 2 hours ago 5 Apr 20, 7:59am -
• newDrive-by blessings in virus-hit Philippines
  Locals lined up in front of their homes in a district of Manila, which is entering its fourth week of a lockdown that has brought the frenetic metropolis nearly to a halt. "This celebration will continue despite the spread of the virus," said Bong…
  - 4 hours ago 5 Apr 20, 6:26am -
• newCoronavirus news – live: ‘Quite unbelievable’ that Britons continue to break lockdown rules, says Hancock as Queen set to address nation tonight
  It is “quite unbelievable” that Britons continue to break the lockdown measures imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus, the health secretary, Matt Hancock, said after people were pictured sunbathing and enjoying picnics in the sunshine.The Qu…
  - 4 hours ago 5 Apr 20, 6:00am -
• newWhat impact is COVID-19 having on Middle East conflicts?
  The novel coronavirus has put global trade on hold, placed half of the world population in confinement and has the potential to topple governments and reshape diplomatic relations. The United Nations has appealed for ceasefires in all the major con…
  - 4 hours ago 5 Apr 20, 5:55am -
• newUS braces for more virus deaths; Europe hopes crisis peaking
  The U.S. warned of many more coronavirus deaths in the days ahead as the global pandemic muted traditional observances from family grave-cleaning ceremonies in China to Palm Sunday for many Christians. Italy and Spain, the two hardest-hit European…
  - 5 hours ago 5 Apr 20, 5:09am -
• newDr. Deborah Birx warns hotspots will see a spike in coronavirus deaths over next 6-7 days
  “They are predicting in those three hotspots, all of them hitting together in the next six to seven days," Dr. Deborah Birx said.
  - 11 hours ago 4 Apr 20, 11:28pm -
• newTrump defends firing ‘terrible’ intel community watchdog as Republicans question sacking
  “I thought he did a terrible job,” Trump said of Michael Atkinson.
  - 14 hours ago 4 Apr 20, 8:06pm -
• newFor journalists covering Trump, the new reality at the White House
  Behind the scenes: Temperature checks, reduced staffing, lots of Purell and coping with grim news.
  - 15 hours ago 4 Apr 20, 7:08pm -
• newSpain Virus Cases Pass Italy, Where Daily Deaths Are Falling
  (Bloomberg) -- Spain’s Covid-19 cases surpassed Italy as Europe’s two main epicenters continue to struggle to curtail the virus, with Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announcing plans to extend the country’s lockdown until April 25.Spain’s confi…
  - 15 hours ago 4 Apr 20, 6:57pm -
• newDubai imposes two-week lockdown as Gulf states step up coronavirus fight
  Dubai imposed a two-week lockdown Saturday night and Saudi Arabia sealed off parts of the Red Sea city of Jeddah as Gulf states tightened measures in big cities to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Dubai had been under an overnight curfew alon…
  - 16 hours ago 4 Apr 20, 6:16pm -
• newNorth Korea's official coronavirus count: Zero. Why that claim is hard to believe
  Experts are skeptical of the no-coronavirus claim from the tightly controlled country so desperate to maintain the status of its border with China.
  - 17 hours ago 4 Apr 20, 5:20pm -
• newNumber of coronavirus intensive care patients in Italy drops for first time
  Italy reported its lowest daily rise in COVID-19 deaths for nearly two weeks on Saturday and said the number of patients in intensive care had fallen for the first time. The Civil Protection department reported 681 deaths, bringing the total to 15,…
  - 18 hours ago 4 Apr 20, 4:31pm -
• Revealed: food bank shortages expected to hit Washington state by mid-April
  Report obtained by Guardian projects acute demand and supply problem, meaning agencies will struggle to provide for the hungry * Coronavirus – live US updates * Live global updates * See all our coronavirus coverageAgencies and organisations ta…
  - 1 day ago 4 Apr 20, 10:00am -
• Airline refutes Mexican authority's account of spring break coronavirus outbreak
  College students from Texas who tested positive for the novel coronavirus after spring break in Los Cabos traveled to the Mexican beach resort on Viva Aerobus, the airline said, and were there a week later than reported by the local tourist board.…
  - 1 day ago 4 Apr 20, 9:25am -
• Coronavirus: Czech Republic imposed a face mask requirement and the U.S should too.
  The US should follow in the Czech Republic's footsteps and require everyone to wear a mask covering the nose and mouth at all times outside the home
  - 1 day ago 4 Apr 20, 9:00am -
• Trump suggests firing watchdog was payback for impeachment
  President Donald Trump suggested that he fired the inspector general for the intelligence community in retaliation for impeachment, saying the official was wrong to provide an anonymous whistleblower complaint to Congress as the law requires. Trump…
  - 1 day ago 4 Apr 20, 2:40am -
• Women in ICE custody plead for release amid pandemic
  Immigrant women detained in rural Louisiana feel powerless to shield themselves from the rapidly-spreading coronavirus. They're asking the U.S. not to forget about them.
  - 1 day ago 4 Apr 20, 2:21am -
• Making your own face mask? Some fabrics work better than others, study finds
  Some fabrics were found to work better at filtering small particles than medical grade masks.
  - 2 days ago 3 Apr 20, 10:03pm -
• Kennedy granddaughter, great-grandson missing in Chesapeake Bay
  
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• 27 Best Home Office Decor Ideas to Keep You in the Zone
  
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• Fact check: No, coronavirus did not lower the death rate in Chicago
  A widely shared Facebook post claims COVID-19 has lowered the death rate in Chicago. But that's not what the data show.
  - 2 days ago 3 Apr 20, 9:22pm -
• Wisconsin's governor flip-flops on Tuesday primary, calls legislature into special session to cancel it
  Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) has taken "last minute" to a whole new level.Evers declared a mandatory shelter-in-place in his state on March 25 to reduce COVID-19 spread, taking the crisis seriously more than a week earlier than some states with lar…
  - 2 days ago 3 Apr 20, 9:07pm -
• Fired Navy captain is a 'hero' and 'chose the honorable course': The great-grandson of aircraft carrier's namesake says President Roosevelt would've also raised coronavirus alarms
  "But it is probably too late to save Captain Crozier's career," President Roosevelt's great grandson, Tweed, wrote in a NYT column.
  - 2 days ago 3 Apr 20, 8:58pm -
• As coronavirus ravages Spain, doctors get a grim order on 'futility of care' for the very old and very sick
  A document circulated by the health department of Catalonia recommends that emergency teams and health care workers stop using ventilators for patients older than 80, and further recommends that extremely ill victims of COVID-19 be allowed to die at…
  - 2 days ago 3 Apr 20, 8:24pm -
• Here's how to safely reopen America when coronavirus pandemic wanes
  It’s important that we assess the threat of the virus region by region and consider reopening in phases or by industry.
  - 2 days ago 3 Apr 20, 7:13pm -
• Pelosi Abandons Sweeping Coronavirus Legislative Agenda, Agrees to Narrowly-Tailored Phase-4 Relief Bill
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday indicated she would support a phase-4 coronavirus relief bill without a broad infrastructure plan or many of the other unrelated legislative goals she initially called to be included in the legislation."I'm very…
  - 2 days ago 3 Apr 20, 7:11pm -
• Iraq suspends, fines Reuters news agency over virus report
  
  - 2 days ago 3 Apr 20, 7:02pm -
• 'Just one week and it's a whole different world': An ER doctor who survived Ebola shares the new reality of treating the coronavirus in NYC
  The volume and severity of cases hitting the emergency room is new for Dr. Craig Spencer. "Our ERs are ICUs," he tweeted.
  - 2 days ago 3 Apr 20, 6:14pm -
• Driver who said woman coughed on his bus has died of coronavirus
  Bus drivers in Detroit shut down public transportation last month, fearful of the coronavirus. News of the driver's death has reignited those fears.
  - 2 days ago 3 Apr 20, 6:12pm -
• The family of a 34-year-old father in a 2-week coma with COVID-19 says a 'bureaucratic glitch' has kept him from accessing potentially life-saving treatment
  Michael Goldsmith is unconscious as his family fights for access to a drug, remdesivir, that he's been promised — twice.
  - 2 days ago 3 Apr 20, 5:57pm -
• Israel sends army to ultra-Orthodox city over coronavirus
  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday gave the green light for soldiers to be deployed in a mostly ultra-Orthodox Jewish city considered the centre of Israel's novel coronavirus outbreak. "In light of the special situation in Bnei Brak follow…
  - 2 days ago 3 Apr 20, 5:23pm -
• Trump nominates McConnell ally to powerful appeals court
  President Donald Trump is nominating a 37-year-old judge and former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to a seat on the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Walker drew a “Not Qualified" rating from the…
  - 2 days ago 3 Apr 20, 5:21pm -
• Cuomo Announces Highest Single-Day Increase in N.Y. Coronavirus Hospitalizations and Deaths
  New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Friday that 562 state residents had died in the past 24 hours of Wuhan coronavirus, the highest single-day increase in the state. As of Friday, 2,935 state residents had died of the illness.The number of c…
  - 2 days ago 3 Apr 20, 4:55pm -
• Schiff proposes postelection 9/11-style commission to study coronavirus response
  Rep. Adam Schiff’s proposal for a 9/11-style commission to study the nation’s response to the coronavirus outbreak "is not an exercise in casting blame or scoring political points, but something that the American people should rightly expect fro…
  - 2 days ago 3 Apr 20, 4:03pm -
• Volunteers work with hospitals to make emergency face masks for workers
  Amid the shortage, groups are designing masks that can supplement protective gear.
  - 2 days ago 3 Apr 20, 3:56pm -
• 'We're nesting. We prepared his room': Families adopting children from China anxiously wait
  At one agency, 250 families in the process of adopting children are on hold and wait for answers.
  - 2 days ago 3 Apr 20, 2:53pm -
• Mexico murder rate reaches new high as violence rages amid Covid-19 spread
  * March sees 2,585 homicides – highest monthly figure on record * Mexico tries to pour resources into containing coronavirusMexico’s homicide rate raced to a new record in March, as violence raged even as Covid-19 spread across the country and a…
  - 2 days ago 3 Apr 20, 2:52pm -
• Navy removes captain for raising alarm about coronavirus outbreak on ship
  The U.S. Navy on Thursday removed the captain of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote a scathing letter to Navy leadership asking for stronger measures to control a coronavirus outbreak onboard.
  - 2 days ago 3 Apr 20, 2:46pm -
• NRA Sues New York State Governor Over Closure of Gun Stores
  (Bloomberg) -- The National Rifle Association sued New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for closing gun shops during the coronavirus pandemic, saying the restriction is unconstitutional and leaves citizens defenseless while prisoners are being released ea…
  - 2 days ago 3 Apr 20, 2:06pm -
• 2 top French doctors said on live TV that coronavirus vaccines should be tested on poor Africans, leaving viewers horrified
  Jean-Paul Mira and Camille Locht carried out the discussion on live French TV, leaving viewers including top African soccer players furious.
  - 2 days ago 3 Apr 20, 12:57pm -
• Countries face 'fights' over facemasks in China: German health minister
  Countries' procurement agents are fighting each other in China for access to the protective equipment that must play a key role in stemming the spread of the novel coronavirus, German Health Minister Jens Spahn said. "You hear stories of people figh…
  - 2 days ago 3 Apr 20, 12:48pm -
• WHO Official Warns Against ‘Profiling’ China, Says Observers ‘Over-Focused’ on Coronavirus Data
  Dr. Michael Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization's Health Emergencies Program, defended China on Thursday against accusations that the country has underreported cases and deaths from the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak."I think we ne…
  - 2 days ago 3 Apr 20, 12:12pm -
• Dr. Siegel: Plasma treatment for COVID-19 patients looks 'very promising'
  Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel takes a closer look at a possible new treatment for coronavirus.
  - 2 days ago 3 Apr 20, 12:01pm -
• Editorial: Hey, Gov. Newsom, give California renters a real eviction moratorium
  The governor's announcement made it sound like renters had true protections, meaning many tenants could unwittingly end up setting themselves up for eviction.
  - 2 days ago 3 Apr 20, 12:00pm -
• Venezuela navy vessel sinks after 'ramming cruise ship'
  The cruise ship's owners say the naval vessel rammed it, but Venezuela accuses the ship of "piracy".
  - 2 days ago 3 Apr 20, 11:54am -
• Medical stockpile seized from alleged hoarder to be distributed
  U.S. officials have seized a stockpile of personal protective equipment from an alleged hoarder.
  - 2 days ago 3 Apr 20, 11:39am -
• Parts of Indian mega-slum cordoned off after virus deaths
  Indian police barricaded parts of one of Asia's biggest slums Friday after two coronavirus deaths, as under-pressure Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought to dispel "darkness and uncertainty" with a national light show. India so far has largely escap…
  - 2 days ago 3 Apr 20, 11:10am -
• Coronavirus map of the US: latest cases state by state
  * Coronavirus: world map of deaths and cases * Coronavirus – latest global updates * See all our coronavirus coverageThe number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 continues to grow in the US. Mike Pence, the vice-president, is overseeing the US respon…
  - 2 days ago 3 Apr 20, 10:50am -
• China declared whistleblower doctor Li Wenliang a 'martyr' following a local campaign to silence him for speaking out about the coronavirus
  Li Wenliang sounded the alarm about the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan on December 30. He died of the virus on February 7.
  - 2 days ago 3 Apr 20, 10:01am -