Politics

April 19, 2020
Textile firms join forces to churn out medical equipment

It started as a small-scale effort to help friends on the front lines of northwest Georgia's coronavirus response. Within days it blossomed into an unusual partnership between a handful of...

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April 19, 2020
Urban farm is experimental site for sister garden in Ghana

South Carolina summers are notoriously hot. Luckily for Carmen Ketron, the Palmetto State's hot summer climate means she can grow peppers, yams, beans, tomatoes and other traditional staples of West...

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April 19, 2020
Report: McMaster plans to have retail stores reopen Tuesday

South Carolina retail stores and public beach access points that had been closed to halt the spread of the coronavirus will be allowed to reopen next week, The Post and...

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April 18, 2020
Pennsylvania to start curbside pickup at liquor stores

Pennsylvania is starting curbside pickup at liquor stores around the state a month after Gov. Tom Wolf ordered them closed as part of a broader shutdown of businesses deemed nonessential....

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April 18, 2020
Washington bus driver dies after contracting coronavirus

A King County Metro bus driver who worked in a highly-populated area that includes Seattle has died after contracting the coronavirus. Metro in a statement to The Seattle Times confirmed...

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April 18, 2020
This is how UK media covers Britain’s Covid-19 response & that is how it covers Russia’s (is this FAIR journalism?)

You'd think humanity is facing a common enemy in the Covid-19 pandemic. For the UK media, the enemy is clear – it's the Russians, whose pandemic measures are tyrannical and...

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April 18, 2020
If new data suggesting Covid-19 no more lethal than FLU is correct, should the world REVERSE its lockdown strategy?

With each passing day, we learn more about the coronavirus. And some studies suggest that the virus's bark may be worse than its bite. Now that the initial panic is...

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April 18, 2020
The week that was: Stories from the coronavirus saga

The pressure is on to reopen America for business — even as the hardest hit areas in the United States and around the world are still struggling mightily to contain...

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April 18, 2020
Virus death toll nears 700 as Georgia reports new numbers

Georgia's death toll from COVID-19 is nearing 700 as new numbers were reported Saturday, health officials said. At least 673 deaths statewide have been linked to the virus. Infections have...

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April 18, 2020
New health care degree to be offered at Kennesaw State

A new degree program is being offered at a Georgia college for those looking to enter the healthcare industry. A Bachelor of Science in Integrated Health Science has been approved...

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April 18, 2020
Pandemic costing youth sports millions, creating uncertainty

Less than a month ago, AAU President Roger Goudy watched membership in the long-running youth sports organization drop from 20,000 ahead of last year's pace to about 3,000 behind in...

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April 18, 2020
Testing push may be leading providers to adopt faulty tests

Herington Municipal Hospital got fed up with long waits for lab results that would tell its patients with respiratory symptoms whether they have the novel coronavirus. So when a sales...

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April 18, 2020
Forest Service OKs expanded Reno ski resort, skier bridge

The Forest Service has approved the expansion of a ski resort on a national forest between Reno and Lake Tahoe, including a skier bridge over a highway as part of...

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April 18, 2020
Georgia brewery donates home-brewed hand sanitizer to police

A brewery in one of Georgia's communities most affected by the coronavirus is thanking police with donations of home-brewed hand sanitizer. The Pretoria Fields Collective donated 200 bottles of the...

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April 18, 2020
Lacking US coordination, states team up on when to reopen

President Donald Trump, in a roller-coaster week of reversals and contradictions, told governors to “call your own shots” on lifting stay-at-home orders once the coronavirus threat subsides. But then he...

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April 18, 2020
Former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill dies at age 84.

Paul O'Neill, a former Treasury secretary who broke with George W. Bush over tax policy and then produced a book critical of the administration, died Saturday. He was 84. O'Neill's...

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April 18, 2020
Lawsuit: Christian health care ministry was deceptive

A Christian health care sharing ministry sold “inherently unfair and deceptive health plans" to Missouri residents and failed to provide them with coverage, a class action lawsuit alleges. The federal...

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April 18, 2020
10 years after BP spill: Oil drilled deeper; rules relaxed

Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are drilling into deeper and deeper waters, where the...

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April 18, 2020
10 years after BP spill: Oil drilled deeper; rules relaxed

Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are drilling in deeper and deeper waters, where payoffs...

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April 18, 2020
Teachers on TV: Classes hit the airwaves during pandemic

Using his cat's blanket as green screen, history teacher Bill Smith recorded himself teaching a lesson on New Jersey's underground railroad, taking student viewers on a tour of sites including...

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April 18, 2020
Foreign ski workers stranded by virus get helping hand

They were far away from home -- young adults from Latin America, working seasonally at U.S. ski resorts. Then the coronavirus arrived, even before the snows departed. Though some made...

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April 18, 2020
Dogs, toys makeshift prompters: How TV anchors stay-at-home

In this new era of social distancing and working from home, many people are getting used to meeting online. Maybe a few of us have even thought about what's on...

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April 18, 2020
Cleanup of contaminated Illinois site delayed due to virus

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says work is expected to begin later this year to clean up contaminated soil on residential yards in a northern Illinois town where a zinc...

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April 18, 2020
Illinois’ capital city suffers financially from pandemic

Coronavirus outbreak has left Illinois' capital city devastated as the pandemic dealt a massive blow to the city's economy. In normal times, the spring season brings more people to the...

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April 18, 2020
The Latest: Queen Elizabeth aims for low-key birthday

The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can...

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April 18, 2020
AP FACT CHECK: Trump is not a king

Over the past week, President Donald Trump was pretender to a throne that doesn't exist as he claimed king-like powers over the coronavirus pandemic response and Congress. He also denied...

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April 18, 2020
Nations debate easing lockdown as economic hardship grows

Facing rising unemployment and with many of their citizens struggling to make ends meet, governments around the world are wrestling with when and how to ease the restrictions designed to...

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April 18, 2020
The Latest: Spain reaches 20,000 deaths from coronavirus

The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can...

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April 18, 2020
Miami-Dade’s jobless rate doubled in March. And that’s shy of the true picture

Among Miami-Dade's unemployed is Michael Palou, a chef laid off from Tigertail + Mary restaurant in Coconut Grove. … Click to Continue »

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April 18, 2020
All plop, no fizz: Miami’s event companies, workers can’t get relief

As Congress bickers over when and how to get out additional stimulus money to businesses, Alexsandar Sale has a message: You forgot about us. His company Funkshion Productions is a...

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April 18, 2020
Covid-19 is deadly, but it will never kill the relentless stupidity of Wokeness

As the ‘woke' reaction to coronavirus has shown, even a pandemic won't slow down the incessant political correctness of woke culture. The coronavirus pandemic is a very scary and unsettling...

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April 18, 2020
So a Swedish professor quotes a Swedish professor on the flaws of Sweden’s Covid-19 response… and that’s RUSSIAN propaganda?

A Swedish professor Cecilia Soderberg-Naucler has been harshly criticized for sharing an article on Sweden's failed coronavirus strategy not because of its content, but because it was published by RT....

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April 18, 2020
Friday Sports in Brief

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said it remains impossible for the NBA to make any decisions about whether to resume this season and that it is unclear when that will change....

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April 18, 2020
App helps consumers know what’s ‘InStock’ at grocery stores

Two Orlando developers have built an app that could limit shoppers' potential exposure to coronavirus by telling them what's on the shelves at nearby grocery stores. The free InStock app...

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April 18, 2020
Nations debate easing virus restrictions as economies falter

Governments around the world are wrestling with when and how to lift economically painful virus-control measures as unemployment rises and rent payments come due. Many places have mandated strict restrictions...

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April 18, 2020
Horse racing gets more TV time with other sports on hold

Socially distanced crews in New York and California are keeping horse racing on television in the U.S. during the coronavirus pandemic. Horse racing is one of the few sports ongoing,...

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April 18, 2020
Analysis: With new virus plan, Trump passes buck to states

President Donald Trump's guidelines for states to reopen their economies had the hallmarks of a permission structure. But what he really created was a blame structure. On Friday, he emphatically...

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April 18, 2020
California struggles to slow COVID-19 among homeless

With California's death toll from the coronavirus topping 1,000, lawmakers are looking at ways to slow the spread, especially in vulnerable populations such as the homeless. The pandemic that has...

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April 18, 2020
50 years after Apollo 13, Fred Haise talks virus, regrets

Fifty years after Apollo 13 blasted into space, carrying Biloxi, Mississippi native Fred Haise Jr., Commander James Lovell Jr. and John Swigert Jr. to the moon, the “unlucky 13” seems...

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April 18, 2020
Anti-Asian “Zoombombing” of NC woman shows troubling trend

J Chong had her culinary lesson set. Pesto pasta, made from ingredients she discovered in her cupboards, would make for a flavorful, accessible meal, one her homebound audience could replicate...

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