Serena Williams says she is “on edge” as the US tennis star revealed the impact self isolating is having on her psychologically amid the novel coronavirus outbreak. The 23-time grand slam winner said last week she would be entering into six weeks of “solitude” to take precautions against contracting COVID-19, only spending time with her
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The Weeknd has dropped his new album just in time for, well, the weekend. The singer dropped “After Hours” at 9 p.m PST (midnight EST) and he made sure his followers were well aware it was coming. He started a countdown via his official Twitter account. “2 HOURS !!!!! TIME MOVING SLOW !!!,” he tweeted
Continue ReadingCHICAGO, Illinois — Illinois and New York state joined California on Friday in ordering all residents to stay in their homes unless they have vital reasons to go out, restricting the movement of more than 70 million Americans in the most sweeping measures undertaken yet in the U.S. to contain the coronavirus. The states’ governors
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(CNN Español)– Era un secreto a voces y este viernes se confirmó. Tom Brady firmó con los Buccaneers de Tampa, después de su salida de los Patriots.Uno de los quarterbacks más exitosos en la historia de la NFL estampó su firma con el equipo de la Florida y con una gran sonrisa se lo dejó
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Two regional airlines that fly feeder flights for United, Delta and American airlines will halt operations in the next few weeks, marking the first US carriers to be grounded by the coronavirus outbreak. The group representing these carriers, the Regional Airline Association, says the closures are only the beginning. The airline bailout bill, as currently
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Most people who contract the novel coronavirus experience mild symptoms, according to data from China, where the worst of the epidemic now appears to be over. Last month, scientists from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention published a research paper analyzing the data for the first 72,314 people diagnosed with Covid-19. Epidemiologists say
Continue Reading Even though the novel coronavirus has the United States essentially in lockdown mode, the American dollar continues to be viewed as the world’s safest and most stable currency. The value of the greenback is surging, up more than 7% against a basket of other currencies — such as the euro, British pound and Swiss franc
Continue Reading Americans are starting to lose their jobs in response to the coronavirus pandemic, and economists expect it’s only going to get worse from here. And quickly, too. Early Thursday, a government report showed 281,000 Americans filed for their first week of unemployment benefits last week. It was a sudden 33% jump over the week before
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Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, NC (WLOS ) — With schools and daycares closed because of the coronavirus, many parents are trying their hands at home schooling. But education doesn’t always have to come from a book. The people at Dancing Bear Toys have a few tools and solutions you may not
Continue Reading (CNN) – Todavía está por definirse lo que el Gobierno de EE.UU. hará para ayudar a la gente a superar lo que podría ser una recesión o una depresión total causada por el hiato económico casi completo que todos esperan que disminuya o detenga la propagación de covid-19. Los legisladores ya aprobaron dos proyectos de ley
Continue Reading The European Union on Tuesday introduced temporary restrictions on nonessential travel to and from the EU, as part of its efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced Monday. This follows the United States’ decision to suspend travel into the US from 28 European countries. With the World Health
Continue Reading “Lights Out with David Spade” and has now become “Lights Out, Live from the Bunker,” because, you know, coronavirus. Since production has been halted on his Comedy Central show, David Spade has been doing a nightly lo-fi monologue from his home in Los Angeles. He sits, dressed in a casual sweater and a baseball hat,
Continue Reading Netflix and YouTube will reduce streaming quality in Europe for at least the next month to prevent the internet collapsing under the strain of unprecedented usage due to the coronavirus pandemic. Both companies said the measures will affect all video streams for 30 days. “We estimate that this will reduce Netflix traffic on European networks
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Americans will have an additional three months to file their taxes amid the coronavirus pandemic, the US treasury secretary said on Friday. “We are moving Tax Day from April 15 to July 15,” Secretary Steven Mnuchin tweeted. “All taxpayers and businesses will have this additional time to file and make payments without interest or penalties.”
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FABENS, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a serious crash that sent one person to the hospital with life-threatening injuries Friday morning. EPCSO said the crash happened around 6:30 a.m. in the 18200 block of Alameda Ave. Investigators said the crash only involved one vehicle. It’s not clear how the
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This is the part where “warp speed” turns into “legislative slog.” Republicans have a proposal to deal with the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. Democrats, who were cut out of negotiating that proposal, are panning it. Friday marks the first day of negotiations between the two sides on a massive package that includes staggering
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, NE (WOWT ) — There’s one location where the coronavirus crisis was causing more people to gather. The lobby of The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office became so crowded changes had to be made. This morning the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office lobby wasn’t locked and got loaded with
Continue Reading The Department of Veterans Affairs is readying thousands of emergency personnel to be deployed to help reinforce the national response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie. “They know that they can be deployed anywhere in the country. Just like the reserves, their physicals are up to date, their shots are
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US presidents have been WFH for more than 200 years. While most of us are just getting used to confinement in our home offices, the most powerful men in the world have the whole caper down to a fine art. They long ago learned they could do official business in their PJs. They knew the
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Tom Brady is officially a Tampa Bay Buccaneers player as the free agency quarterback signed a multi-year contract, the NFL team announced Friday. The 42-year-old is widely considered the greatest quarterback of all time and and had spent his entire NFL career — 20 seasons — with the New England Patriots, winning six of the
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Tom Brady is officially a Tampa Bay Buccaneers player as the free agency quarterback signed a multi-year contract, the NFL team announced Friday. The 42-year-old is widely considered the greatest quarterback of all time and and had spent his entire NFL career — 20 seasons — with the New England Patriots, winning six of the
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WASHINGTON, DC — Americans will have an additional three months to file their federal income taxes amid the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. Treasury Secretary said on Friday. “We are moving Tax Day from April 15 to July 15,” Secretary Steven Mnuchin wrote on Twitter. “All taxpayers and businesses will have this additional time to file and
Continue Reading Walmart, the largest private employer in the United States, plans to hire 150,000 temporary workers by the end of May as the coronavirus pandemic continues to sweep through the country. The company said it is hiring the associates to work in stores, clubs, distribution centers and fulfillment centers. “These roles will be temporary at first,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LE CLAIRE, IA (WQAD ) — A distillery in LeClaire, Iowa has put their alcohol production on hold in favor of making hand sanitizer instead. The Mississippi River Distilling Company, located along Cody Road, announced Thursday, March 19 that they were making this change in response to the
Continue Reading To fight the coronavirus, President Donald Trump is adopting the audacity of false hope. For the past two days, Trump has said he is dispensing “game changer” breakthroughs on treatments and a wartime-style effort to mass produce medical supplies that appear as rays of light amid America’s darkening battle against the coronavirus pandemic. His eagerness
Continue Reading This week over 9 million people tuned in to Twitter to watch videos of penguins wobbling around outside their enclosures at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. That’s a bigger audience than a typical episode of “Saturday Night Live” derives. “Can you implement a live-feed?” commented Twitter user Mike Zillo. “We’ve got like 500 hours to
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Four men have been executed for the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on a New Delhi bus in 2012, a case that shone a global spotlight on shocking rates of sexual assault in India. Akshay Thakur, Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma were hanged at a jail in the Indian capital
Continue Reading The world needs more baby animals right now. At least that’s what Animal Planet believes. The network has launched a marathon of its old show “Too Cute!” which documents the first few months of animals lives. That’s right, more than 90 hours of puppies, kittens and other animals is winding its way through your television
Continue Reading Andrew Yang’s new non-profit will spend more than $1 million helping working families impacted by the spread of the coronavirus in the New York area and across the country, the group announced on Friday. Humanity Forward, the organization Yang founded after his 2020 presidential run to test his universal basic income theory, will begin sending
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A typical spring weather pattern returns and will continue through next week. Temperatures will slowly climb above normal this weekend. We will be on the breezy side with winds around 10-20 miles per hour and gusts a little higher. We will top off the mid-70s with sunny skies. El Paso has recorded the third wettest
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