Politics

April 6, 2020
Pennsylvania jobless claims exceed 1 million since outbreak

Unemployment compensation claims in Pennsylvania exceeded 283,000 last week, a massive number that nevertheless was a 30% drop from the prior week's all-time high as the state pressed for business...

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April 6, 2020
FIFA flexible to complete seasons, encourages pay-cut deals

FIFA is providing global coordination with competition organizers to provide flexibility to ensure coronavirus-derailed seasons can be completed with as little financial turmoil as possible. While FIFA does not set...

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April 6, 2020
SeaWorld CEO resigns five months into job, cites board

SeaWorld Entertainment's chief executive has resigned only five months into his job, becoming the third leader of the theme park company to depart in just over two years, according to...

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April 6, 2020
Review: A look at offerings on new mobile platform Quibi

Quibi may specialize in small, bite-sized videos, but its volume of shows is large. The media platform launches Monday with 175 new original shows — everything from scripted series, comedic...

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April 6, 2020
Grains mostly lower, livestock lower.

Grain futures were mostly higher Monday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for May delivery gained 6.80 cents at $5.5820 a bushel; May corn was fell...

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April 6, 2020
SeaWorld CEO resigns five months into job, cites board

SeaWorld Entertainment's chief executive has resigned only five months into his job, becoming the third leader of the theme park company to depart in just over two years, according to...

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April 6, 2020
Mass virus testing site opens in Georgia Tech parking deck

Drive-thru testing for COVID-19 will begin Monday at Georgia Institute of Technology, Gov. Brian Kemp announced. Kemp said the state is partnering with CVS Health to set up rapid testing...

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April 6, 2020
Editorial Roundup:

The Dallas Morning News. April 3, 2020. North Texas has a plan if hospitals become overwhelmed with coronavirus. Here it is Mass critical care could force very tough decisions, which...

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April 6, 2020
Saudi fund takes minority stake in Carnival

Saudi Arabia's public investment fund has taken an 8.2% stake in Carnival Corp., according to a Monday financial filing from the cruise giant. Carnival shares have fallen 83% year to...

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April 6, 2020
Court approves Dean Foods asset sale

A bankruptcy court has approved the asset sale of one of the U.S.'s biggest dairy companies, Dean Foods. Dean Foods Co. got the go-ahead to sell $433 million worth of...

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April 6, 2020
As scientists break down borders to fight Covid-19, nationalist leaders build them back up

Two opposing dynamics have emerged in the global race for a coronavirus vaccine: unprecedented scientific collaboration on the one hand; and a worrying strengthening of national autarky on the other....

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April 6, 2020
Covid-19 gave the shock every nation needed to reboot its independence

Globalism's open borders and just-in-time supply chains have been providing cheap labor and products — but the coronavirus pandemic has shown us the huge cost of neglected independence. Covid-19 has...

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April 6, 2020
Closing on a new condo amid coronavirus shutdown? More firms move away from paper signing

The coronavirus pandemic is forcing the real estate industry to lean more heavily on a digital notary process to close transactions. Some banks are accepting digital signatures but others are...

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April 6, 2020
South Florida real estate webinars for the week of April 6

Real estate leaders discuss affordable housing and closing deals this week amid a pandemic. Key to Re|source newsletter signup APRIL 7 ▪ The D.C.-based nonprofit Urban Land Institute is organizing...

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April 6, 2020
The Latest: Bayern Munich players return to training

The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: ___ Bayern Munich players have returned to training in small groups despite restrictions in place because...

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April 6, 2020
Japan PM to declare state of emergency as early as Tuesday

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that he will declare a state of emergency for Tokyo and six other prefectures as early as Tuesday to bolster measures to fight the...

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April 6, 2020
With worst to come, 3 in 4 hospitals already facing COVID-19

Three out of four U.S. hospitals surveyed are already treating patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19, according to a federal report that finds hospitals expect to be overwhelmed as cases...

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April 6, 2020
The Latest: British PM still in charge despite hospital stay

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 6, 2020
AP PHOTOS: Virus outbreak hurts Italian fishermen’s business

Italy's fishermen still go out to sea at night, but not as frequently in recent weeks since demand is down amid the country's devastating coronavirus outbreak. As a result, they...

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April 6, 2020
Businesses facing huge losses from pandemic thought their insurance would cover them. Not really

As the frantic queries for financial help came flooding in following the coronavirus shutdown orders, Holly McGlinn speedily assembled a spreadsheet to help her track the now 125 claims –...

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April 6, 2020
Canada’s oil-industry implosion could affect Enbridge’s Minnesota pipeline project

As Enbridge nears it goal of building a controversial $2.6 billion pipeline across northern Minnesota, Canada's oil industry is imploding. The U.S. is the largest market for Canadian oil, and...

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April 6, 2020
Boeing indefinitely extends production shutdown at Washington state plants due to coronavirus

Thirty thousand Boeing employees on Wednesday must start taking vacation or sick time, or apply for unemployment, after the region's largest private employer decided Sunday to keep its Puget Sound...

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April 6, 2020
Microsoft exec says coronavirus could spark big shift for AI in health care

Microsoft chief technology officer Kevin Scott grew up fascinated by the 1960s Apollo space program and then-President John F. Kennedy's vision of a moon shot. Now, he envisions just as...

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April 6, 2020
UN chief warns of violence at home, Japan nears emergency

With more than 1.2 million people infected with the new coronavirus, the U.N. chief appealed for “peace at home” — all homes — out of concern that domestic violence was...

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April 6, 2020
After virus, how will Americans’ view of the world change?

As the coronavirus spread across the world and began its reach into the United States, an assortment of Americans from the president on down summoned one notion as they framed...

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April 6, 2020
Shares rebound on signs of progress in battling virus

Asian shares and U.S. futures rebounded on Monday as investors grasped at threads of hope that the battle against the coronavirus pandemic may be making some progress in some hard-hit...

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April 6, 2020
Patients rush to join studies testing drug for coronavirus

The new coronavirus made Dr. Jag Singh a patient at his own hospital. His alarm grew as he saw an X-ray of his pneumonia-choked lungs and colleagues asked his wishes...

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April 6, 2020
Trump sees limits of presidency in avoiding blame for virus

President Donald Trump is confronting the most dangerous crisis a U.S. leader has faced this century as the coronavirus spreads and a once-vibrant economy falters. As the turmoil deepens, the...

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April 6, 2020
US sees coronavirus window to push Taiwan’s global status

The Trump administration is seizing the opportunity of the coronavirus pandemic to push a cause that has long been an irritant in U.S. relations with China: Taiwan. The virus has...

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April 6, 2020
Governors plead for food stamp flexibility amid pandemic

Yvonne Knight, who has respiratory problems that make her especially vulnerable in the coronavirus pandemic, can't buy groceries online with her food stamps — even though each trip to the...

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April 6, 2020
FACT CHECK: Trump pitches drug not approved for coronavirus

President Donald Trump is pitching a medicine for COVID-19 sufferers that science has not concluded is effective or safe for their use. “Take it,” he said of the drug. For...

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April 6, 2020
NC butcher shop busier than ever during coronavirus pandemic

Because of spotty selections in the meat departments of major supermarkets, consumers have turned to alternative sources of meat, including the old-fashioned butcher shop. One such shop is Winston-Salem's Ogburn...

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April 6, 2020
SC cadets build robot hands to teach American Sign Language

Mohamed Baghdady leans to the microphone and says the word “one.” A lone mechanical finger on the table responds with a curl, then rises upright. At another table in The...

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April 6, 2020
Shares rebound on glimmers of progress in battling virus

Asian shares and U.S. futures rebounded on Monday as investors grasped at threads of hope that the battle against the coronavirus pandemic may be making some progress in some hard-hit...

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April 6, 2020
Florida mayor: 1 more death tied to virus-stricken cruise

Fourteen people from a cruise ship that docked in Florida over the weekend with coronavirus victims aboard were hospitalized and one of them later died, authorities said Sunday. Two fatalities...

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April 6, 2020
Australia launches investigation into Ruby Princess after hundreds get the coronavirus

Australian police have launched a criminal probe into the handling of the Ruby Princess cruise ship, the source of more than 30 percent of the country's COVID-19 deaths. The ship...

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April 5, 2020
2 dozen at N. Carolina assisted living center test positive

About two dozen residents at an assisted living center in western North Carolina have tested positive for COVID-19, marking a new case cluster in the state at corporate living facilities...

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April 5, 2020
Missouri coronavirus cases rise as stay-at-home order nears

Missouri reported 10 more deaths from COVID-19 Sunday, even while a national database was reporting a higher number in the state. The state said 34 people have died from the...

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April 5, 2020
Boeing to continue production shutdown due to coronavirus

Boeing said Sunday it will continue its shutdown of production indefinitely at its Seattle area facilities due to the spread of the coronavirus. The company in an email to Washington...

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April 5, 2020
Chaos and scrambling in the US oil patch as prices plummet

In Montana, a father and son running a small oil business are cutting their salaries in half. In New Mexico, an oil truck driver who supports his family just went...

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