::. 13 hours 37 minutes ago. The Pentagon on Monday announced the first service member to succumb to coronavirus -- a member of the New Jersey Army National Guard.
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::. 14 hours 36 minutes ago. President Trump is eyeing additional travel bans to stop the spread of the Chinese coronavirus in the United States.
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::. 15 hours 49 minutes ago. American manufacturers fear they are being passed over for contracts to help make essential medical supplies by multinational corporations like General Motors (GM) in favor of more outsourcing to China in the midst of the Chinese coronavirus crisis.
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::. 16 hours 35 minutes ago. On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta suggested that the White House’s coronavirus briefings could be “better designed” by not having “these PR stunts like Mr. Pillow coming out and giving a plug
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::. 18 hours 4 minutes ago. Individuals in New York City disregarded the repeated orders to practice proper social distancing on Monday as a crowd formed to witness the arrival of the Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort.
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::. 20 hours 28 minutes ago. You probably know the feeling: you reach for your phone only to realize it’s not where you thought it was. Total panic quickly sets in. If you’re like me (us), you don’t stop in the moment to think about why losing a phone is so scary. But the answer is clear: In addition to being an expensive gadget, all your private stuff is on there.   Now imagine that the police find your phone. Should they be able to look through all that private stuff without a warrant? What if they believe you inte
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::. 20 hours 55 minutes ago. Sandra (Sandy) Ordoñez is dedicated to protecting women being harassed online. Sandra is an experienced community engagement specialist, a proud NYC Latina resident of Sunset Park Brooklyn, and a recipient of Fundación Carolina’s Hispanic Leadership Award. She is also a long-time diversity and inclusion advocate, with extensive experience incubating and creating FLOSS and Internet Freedom community tools.These commitments and principles drive Sandra’s work as the co-founder and Director of
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::. 21 hours 10 minutes ago. Officials in Las Vegas and Clark County, Nevada moved hundreds of homeless people to an open-air parking lot this weekend after an individual inside a shelter tested positive for coronavirus, posing a risk to other residents.
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::. 21 hours 20 minutes ago. Public attitudes about the coronavirus outbreak increasingly exhibit features of a collective panic. That development creates the danger that government measures designed to deal with a very real public health problem may lead to enormous collateral damage both to the economy and the freedoms that Americans take for granted. Governments at all levels have taken ever more extreme (even outrageous) actions in an effort to stem the outbreak. The governors of New York, California, and other state
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::. 21 hours 23 minutes ago. Here are the latest updates on coronavirus in Kentucky.
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::. 22 hours 9 minutes ago. From the comfort and safety of your own home, you can now explore Walt Disney World all by yourself.
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::. 22 hours 25 minutes ago. As Bay Area residents sheltered at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Vallejo City Council assembled via teleconference last week to vote on the purchase of one of the most controversial pieces of surveillance equipment—a cell-site simulator. What’s worse is that the city council approved the purchase in violation of state law regulating the acquisition of such technology.  Any decision to acquire this technology must happen in broad daylight, not at a time when civic engagement faces t
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::. 1 day 3 minutes ago. Communities across the country are stepping up to self-organize mutual aid groups, uniting virtually to offer and coordinate support to those who are in need. In solidarity with the need for physical distancing, many people are organizing online using Google spreadsheets, Google forms, public posts on Twitter and Facebook, and private messages on social media platforms.  There is great beauty and power in this support, but it also puts security concerns in the spotlight: overlooked privacy sett
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::. 1 day 22 minutes ago. Under new guidelines drawn up to deal with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, illegal migrants in Sweden could be given higher prioritization for health care than the elderly from the country’s native population. The National Board of Health and Welfare has issued guidelines to medical staff which specifically state that patients should be treated on the [...] The post Sweden: Illegal migrants have higher priority for health care than Swedish elderly appeared first on Voice of Europe.
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::. 1 day 25 minutes ago. Throughout the country, bureaucrats and politicians are clamping down on the Constitution in the name of fighting a virus that thus far has not shown itself more deadly than the seasonal flu. Those numbers can change and it can be a serious disease, but as after 9/11 we are being told we must sacrifice our liberties in the name of security. Government did not deliver then and it will not deliver now. Liberty stolen will not be returned. Is there a better way? Watch today's Liberty Report:
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::. 1 day 48 minutes ago. Britain’s Daily Mail has turned into the People’s Daily Mail – after the supposedly right-wing outlet published Chinese Coronavirus propaganda.  The Daily Caller revealed that the Monday-Saturday edition of the British tabloid paper that usually backs British interests was reprinting Chinese Communist Party propaganda during the ongoing coronavirus crisis. In the investigation, it was discovered that over [...] The post The People’s Daily Mail: UK newspaper slammed after print
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::. 1 day 53 minutes ago. In late December, only a few hundred people knew of COVID-19. Now it’s March—just 90 days later—and much of the world has had to learn about and adapt and respond to the deadly disease. Though the highly contagious virus seems impossible to ignore today, it’s in part thanks to whistleblowers and critics around the world sharing warnings and information that some governments responded to the pandemic when they did. Even dissenting voices are critical when the literal health of millions i
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::. 1 day 1 hour ago. Austria’s conservative Chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, has criticized Germany’s hampering of his country’s efforts to get needed medical equipment during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. He says this is indicative of larger problems within the European Union as well that need to be addressed. Austria media has been reporting that the German border authorities prevented trucks carrying [...] The post Kurz slams Germany for blocking medical supplies bound for Austria appeared fir
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::. 1 day 1 hour 3 minutes ago. Giant Broadcasters Abuse Copyright Laws to Go After NonprofitSan Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today joined the legal team defending Sports Fans Coalition NY, Inc. (SFCNY), the nonprofit organization that runs Locast, a free, local TV streaming service facing bogus copyright infringement claims by broadcast giants ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox.Locast enables TV viewers to receive local over-the-air programming—which broadcasters must by law make available for free—using set-t
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::. 1 day 1 hour 43 minutes ago. The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) says it has intelligence which indicates that the Turkish government deployed state forces disguised as migrants to help incite riots at the Greek border. The BND has accused Turkish state actors of posing as migrants themselves at the Greek-Turkish border, starting fires and throwing projectiles at Greek border forces [...] The post German intelligence: Turkish government helped to start riots at Greek border by deploying agents disguised as migrant
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::. 1 day 2 hours 10 minutes ago. India’s Right-wing populist Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, is the leader a country that is one of the linchpins of the globalized world. Now, however, he thinks that the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic calls for a reevaluation of globalization. At the G20 summit that was held virtually on Thursday to address the coronavirus crisis, Modi called for [...] The post India: PM Modi says pandemic offers opportunity for a new concept of globalization appeared first on Voice of Europe.
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::. 1 day 3 hours 53 minutes ago. The US Justice Department unsealed an indictment on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and other government officials last week, accusing them of "narco-terrorism." The move is reminiscent of the 1988 indictment of former CIA asset and Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega. The Noriega indictment resulted in a US invasion of Panama that left hundreds – possibly thousands – of dead civilians in its wake. Attorney General William Barr took to the podium to announce Maduro’s indictment. Barr happ
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::. 1 day 4 hours 4 minutes ago. MADRID (AP) — In an abrupt turnaround, President Donald Trump extended lockdown measures across the United States as deaths in New York from the new coronavirus passed 1,000. Spain on Monday became the third country to surpass China in infections after the United States and Italy. With a population of only 47 million to China’s [...] The post Spanish infections surpass China’s; Trump extends US lockdown appeared first on Voice of Europe.
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::. 1 day 4 hours 20 minutes ago. September 17, 2019 was a significant day in American economic history. On that day, the New York Federal Reserve began emergency cash infusions into the repurchasing (repo) market. This is the market banks use to make short-term loans to each other. The New York Fed acted after interest rates in the repo market rose to almost 10 percent, well above the Fed’s target rate.The New York Fed claimed its intervention was a temporary measure, but it has not stopped pumping money into the repo market
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::. 1 day 13 hours 4 minutes ago. As the US confirms new cases at a rapid clip, with 911 calls in NYC at their highest level since 911, and ambulances dropping off comatose patient after comatose patient all of whom are have trouble breathing, the number of confirmed cases in the US is nearing 150,000, with 2,414 deaths.
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::. 1 day 13 hours 4 minutes ago. What better time could there be than a global pandemic, that has led to closures of museums and public landmarks across the world, to stage a historic heist in Europe, which has been rocked by several high-profile heists from the UK to Germany in recent years.
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::. 1 day 13 hours 4 minutes ago. All of a sudden, people all over the country are very afraid of travelers from New York, Louisiana and other COVID-19 “hotspots” across the nation. 
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::. 1 day 13 hours 4 minutes ago. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Friday officially declared that the global economy has entered recession as a result of the spread of the new coronavirus, which has shut down economic activities across the world.
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::. 1 day 13 hours 4 minutes ago. The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthi group in Yemen carried out several airstrikes on Monday on the capital Sanaa, Reuters reported, citing witnesses. A number of sensitive sites, including the presidential palace compound, a military school and an air base close to Sanaa airport, were hit. Loud explosions were heard across the city, according to residents.
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::. 1 day 13 hours 4 minutes ago. The requirement for Americans to obtain a Real ID for travel will be delayed one year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Thursday.
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::. 2 days 1 hour 33 minutes ago. 'Safe return'
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::. 2 days 6 hours 47 minutes ago. (Natural News) If you are still someone who does not believe that the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) is ‘real’ or ‘serious,’ you are in an ever-shrinking minority. On Friday, and in response to the still-rapidly expanding virus outbreak in the United States, President Donald Trump signed an exe
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::. 2 days 6 hours 48 minutes ago. (Natural News) South Africa began a nationwide military-patrolled lockdown on Friday, joining the growing number of African countries that have implemented stringent measures to prevent further spread of the coronavirus – a global pandemic currently taking the world by storm. During the three-week
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::. 2 days 6 hours 49 minutes ago. (Natural News) Social distancing has been one of the buzzwords that has been going around ever since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. Now, data collected from over a million smart thermometers shows it does play a crucial part in slowing down the spread of the disease. Kinsa Health has been tracki
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::. 2 days 6 hours 49 minutes ago. (Natural News) Ophthalmologists may be the first people to detect if a person is infected by the novel coronavirus. Reports have surfaced that the virus can cause pink eye or conjunctivitis, and that this may be a telltale sign of infection in people who otherwise show no coronavirus-related sympt
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::. 2 days 7 hours 34 minutes ago. (Natural News) President Donald Trump said as recently as last week that he did not think a national lockdown was necessary to battle the continuing spread of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19). But he didn’t say anything about regional lockdowns. As coronavirus infections nearly overwhelm New York C
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::. 2 days 7 hours 39 minutes ago. (Natural News) While the rest of the country is panic buying because of the COVID-19 pandemic, those who have taken up home gardening and prepping aren’t too worried about possible food shortages. After all, if you have a home garden, you can harvest vegetables in your backyard. Now’s the
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::. 2 days 13 hours 7 minutes ago. Turkish strikes continue. The post Iraq Daily Roundup: 9 Killed; Ongoing Anti-PKK Strikes appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
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::. 2 days 17 hours 54 minutes ago. $9,000,000,000,000: Former Fed Strategist Now Expects Fed's Balance Sheet To Double This Year Late on Thursday, we calculated that as of the end of this turbulent week, the Fed will have added a record $625 billion to its balance sheet, bringing the total to $5.5 trillion, an increase of $1.3 trillion in two weeks (6% of GDP), which was the amount the Fed monetized during all of QE1 in response to the financial crisis, but which took place over a period of almost 2 years. That's
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::. 2 days 18 hours 12 minutes ago. US Death Toll From COVID-19 Tops 2k After Doubling In 2 Days: Live Updates Summary: Global case total tops 600k Global COVID-19 death toll tops 30k US death toll tops 2k Japan fast-tracks approval of treatment drug for COVID-19 Third UK minister self-quarantines after showing symptoms of virus Calif. death toll tops 100 Trump weighing enforceable quarantine order for all of greater NY area Trump tells NBC reporter that quarantines of New York, NJ & Conn. were "possible" Axi
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::. 2 days 18 hours 19 minutes ago. "It's A Different World Now" - The Global Solvency Issue Is Becoming Systemic Via Doug Noland's Credit Bubble Bulletin blog, Being an analyst of Credit and Bubbles over the past few decades has come with its share of challenges. Greater challenges await. I expect to dedicate the rest of my life to defending Capitalism. One of the great tragedies from the failure of this multi-decade monetary experiment will be the loss of faith in free market Capitalism – along with our instituti
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::. 2 days 18 hours 24 minutes ago. The controversial speech of Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., on the floor of the House of Representatives shows how members can fuel rather than fight hysteria and panic. The incredible scene was played out as the very task force members who she referenced are trying to rebut some alarmist predictions and estimates. Much of the nation is sheltering in place. We get it. However, Rep. Stevens seems intent on elevating not the discussion but the volume of the national discourse. What was most notable
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::. 2 days 18 hours 47 minutes ago. This Is The Only Question Goldman's Clients Are Asking Let's face it: after the fastest bear market crash in history, which saw the S&P500 tumble 35% from an all time high in less than a month, a faster and more chaotic decline than the crashes of either 1987 or 1929 which set off the Great Depression, culminating with the S&P500 hitting its lowest level since 2016 on Monday... ... this however was followed by the fastest "bull market" in history (as the WSJ declared), with the S
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::. 2 days 18 hours 52 minutes ago. 'RECALLED'
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::. 2 days 19 hours 9 minutes ago. 'Without Us, Instacart Will Grind to a Halt': Delivery Workers Threaten Strike Over Hazard Pay Authored by Julia Conley via CommonDreams.org, Contract workers for Instacart, the Silicon Valley startup that employs 175,000 people to deliver groceries nationwide via its online platform, plan to walk off the job Monday if the company does not immediately provide them with hazard pay and increased safety precautions to protect them from the deadly coronavirus now ravaging the nation.
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::. 2 days 19 hours 34 minutes ago. 4 Passengers Die Aboard Carnival Cruise Ship Stranded Near Panama As Company Begs For Bailout Cash As cruise lines bitch about potentially being excluded from the US government bailouts passed as part of the US CARES act, one cruise ship owned by a Dutch company has reported some of the worst news we've heard aboard a cruise ship since the Diamond Princess departed Yokohama. On Friday, Holland America Line announced that four passengers had died aboard its cruise ship, the Zaandam,
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::. 2 days 22 hours 29 minutes ago. Wow
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::. 2 days 23 hours 10 minutes ago. French President Emmanuel Macron, while speaking with the heads of state of 26 EU countries during a video-conference on Thursday about the coronavirus pandemic, warned that the bloc’s core pillars like a no-border zone could be undone entirely if individual nation-states fail to maintain a unified front to combat the crisis. “What’s at stake is [...] The post Macron: ‘The European project is at stake’ due to the virus appeared first on Voice of Europe.
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::. 2 days 23 hours 32 minutes ago. President Donald Trump is traveling to Norfolk, Virginia, on Saturday to say bon voyage to USNS Comfort, the U.S. navy hospital ship departing for New York City to aid in the city's response to the coronavirus.
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::. 2 days 23 hours 52 minutes ago. A gang of youths in masks and hoods attacked a convoy of ambulances with a police escort in La Línea de la Concepción that was bringing elderly people from Alcalá del Valle. Later, they attacked the building where the pensioners are being housed. The police said that the youths threw stones at the vehicles as [...] The post Spain: “Youths” attack ambulances and police carrying elderly people infected with COVID-19 virus appeared first on Voice of Europe.
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::. 3 days 38 minutes ago. The Humberside Police department – which handles policing for East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston upon Hull, and North and Northeast Lincolnshire – is encouraging residents to report others for not observing the “social distancing” regulations that have been enacted in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. They have created a portal on their website which [...] The post UK: Police create an online portal for snitching on people who don’t practice “social dis
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::. 3 days 48 minutes ago. (AFP) — Europe was reeling from a staggering surge in coronavirus deaths Saturday, still days or weeks from what experts desperately hope will be the epidemic’s peak. Grim new tolls from Italy and Spain came as the IMF confirmed the world economy has plunged into a historic slump, and the US invoked wartime procurement powers. [...] The post Spain sees 832 virus deaths in single day; world economy plunges into recession appeared first on Voice of Europe.
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::. 3 days 1 hour 4 minutes ago. President Trump posted a powerful video from his reelection campaign highlighting the administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic and heaping praise on the American people, who are "rallying together to defeat the unseen enemy."
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::. 3 days 1 hour 11 minutes ago. Next month, the European Union will begin conducting sea and air patrols off the Libyan coast in an effort to prevent armaments from being illegally delivered to the various factions currently at war there. They will also rescue any migrants who are found in the Mediterranean, as is required by international law. The EU’s Minister [...] The post EU to resume patrols off Libyan coast; increased migrant pick-ups likely to occur appeared first on Voice of Europe.
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::. 3 days 1 hour 25 minutes ago. As a social, cultural, and medical episode about a virus becomes more surreal each day, Congress passed a law to spend massive amounts of money the federal government does not have to assist a badly damaged economy the government itself caused -- along with mass media -- by their frantic, fear-generating publicity that emboldened state governors and local mayors to illegally give orders to restrict and shut down the very movement of people and their participation in personal, family, religious,
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::. 3 days 1 hour 45 minutes ago. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) used an unfortunate metaphor Friday when she figuratively urged Michiganders to "lock arms" to fight the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.
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::. 3 days 1 hour 55 minutes ago. Senior WHO Official Cuts Off Interview When Reporter Implies Taiwan Isn't Part Of China
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::. 3 days 1 hour 55 minutes ago. Despite serious shortages of test kits to screen crucial frontline healthcare workers for coronavirus, migrant invaders who are caught attempting to illegally cross the English Channel are tested for coronavirus immediately.  As Voice of Europe reported earlier this week, about 80 illegal migrants in five small boats were intercepted by the UK Border Force while [...] The post UK: Despite serious shortages of virus testing kits for frontline medical workers, migrant invaders caught crossing the
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::. 3 days 2 hours 10 minutes ago. Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (R) cast doubt Friday on President Trump's hope to reopen the economy by Easter, at least in the Bay State, citing information from public health experts and healthcare providers.
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::. 3 days 2 hours 20 minutes ago. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is requiring travelers from Louisiana to self-isolate for 14 days and said the Florida Highway Patrol will install checkpoints on major roads to screen travelers from that area, he announced on Friday.
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::. 3 days 3 hours 31 minutes ago. Abbott announced on Friday that it has developed a five-minute test for coronavirus and will begin shipping 50,000 of the tests a day to hospitals, doctors' offices, and emergency clinics next week.
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::. 3 days 13 hours 4 minutes ago. For the past three years, several dozen New Yorkers have gathered each Saturday at Union Square, at 11:00 a.m. to vigil for peace in Yemen. Now, however, due to the coronavirus, the vigil for peace is radically altered. Last week, in recognition of the city’s coming shelter in place program, participants were asked to hold … Continue reading "Vigil for Peace in Yemen, a New Norm" The post Vigil for Peace in Yemen, a New Norm appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
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::. 3 days 17 hours 34 minutes ago. Today, EFF once again joined a coalition of privacy advocates filing comments with the California Attorney General (AG) on the latest proposed regulations for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The CCPA was passed in June 2018 and took effect on January 1, 2020. Later this year, the AG will finalize regulations that dictate how exactly the law will be enforced. While the first set of proposed regulations were (as we wrote at the time) a “good step forward” that could have gone furth
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::. 3 days 18 hours 20 minutes ago. As the proposed sale of the .ORG domain registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital plays out, we see more and more why this sale was rushed through: the longer we have to look at it, the more questions we all have, and the fewer answers we get. For the second time, some of the people questioning the wisdom of this sale are members of the U.S. Congress. On March 18, Senators Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden, Richard Blumenthal, Edward Markey, and Representative Anna Eshoo sent a new letter [.pdf] 
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::. 3 days 19 hours 7 minutes ago. ‘It is important for us to abide by our international commitments’
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::. 3 days 19 hours 19 minutes ago. New Orleans Mayor: Mardis Gras Go-Ahead Was 'Trump's Fault' As Big Easy Becomes Southern Epicenter "Hot spots like Detroit, like Chicago, like New Orleans... will have a worse week next week than what they had this week," US Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams warned in a "CBS This Morning" on Friday. This as Louisiana has surpassed 2,300 confirmed cases, and New Orleans seemingly 'out of nowhere' emerged as a US epicenter alongside New York, given it was only two weeks ago Louisiana
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::. 3 days 19 hours 33 minutes ago. Fitch Downgrades UK Credit Rating To AA- After Sterling's Best Week Since 1985 Plaza Accord The Pound Sterling soared a stunning 7.1% this week - its greatest weekly gains since 1985 and the beginning of the Plaza Accord - but apparently that strengthening currency was not enough for Fitch who downgraded The United Kingdom's credit rating to AA-. The downgrade of the UK's IDRs reflects the following key rating drivers and their relative weights: HIGH The downgrade reflects a
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::. 3 days 19 hours 39 minutes ago. Not All Americans Are Fighting Over Toilet Paper: 5 Good Deeds Done During The COVID-19 Pandemic Authored by Cassius K. via The Organic Prepper blog, During difficult times, you’ll notice an emergence of conscience and courage in a lot of people. You might see people being willing to help others even when they are at risk themselves, acting courageously in conscience. The coronavirus pandemic is no different. While you might see more coverage in the mainstream media about peop
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::. 3 days 19 hours 59 minutes ago. JPMorgan's Equity Derivatives Desk Has Made A Massive $1.5 Billion Score So Far This Year While there has been widespread chaos among Wall Street, with the coronavirus proving to some alpha male traders that they're not as tough as they think there are, there has been one sliver of the street that has been making a score during the recent panic.  Cash is coming in non-stop at J.P. Morgan's equity derivatives unit, which has generated $1.5 billion in revenue so far this year, accor
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::. 3 days 20 hours 19 minutes ago. When, Exactly, Was The Moment When The Financial World Broke With Reality? Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, Historians of the future, pan-roasting fresh-caught June bugs over their campfires, may wonder when, exactly, was the moment when the financial world broke with reality. Was it when Nixon slammed the “gold window” shut? When “maestro” Alan Greenspan first bamboozled a Senate finance committee? When Pets.com face-planted 268 days after its IPO?
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