The economic devastation wrought by the coronavirus pandemic is about to come into plain view. What’s happening: The jobs report issued by the US government for April, due Friday, is expected to show that layoffs surged last month and unemployment rose to Great Depression levels. Economists surveyed by Refinitiv predict that the US economy shed
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In 2018, infectious disease experts at the University of Hong Kong came across an unusual patient. The 56-year-old man, who had undergone a liver transplant, was showing abnormal liver functions with no obvious cause. Tests found that his immune system was responding to hepatitis E — but they couldn’t actually find the human strain of
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — An outage left nearly 2,000 El Paso Electric customers without power for about two hours. A spokesman for the utility said the outage was caused by a large tree falling on a power line near Viscount Blvd. The outage started around 4 a.m. and was completely fixed by 5:30 a.m.
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Elon Musk and Grimes have garnered plenty of attention since announcing the name of their newborn baby, but now it seems they can’t agree on how it should be pronounced. Speculation over the name X Æ A-12 has been a major topic of conversation since the couple welcomed the baby boy into the world on
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Son Heung-min’s eye for a goal is well known — the Tottenham Hotspur star was this week voted to have scored the Premier League goal of the season — and he’s put that 20/20 vision to good use as he completed his military service in South Korea. The Spurs forward scored 10 out of 10
Continue Reading It had been three weeks of gradually debilitating, searing pain before Johnny Staggs decided to call his local clinic for advice. As a bariatric patient, Staggs, a 43-year-old food stamp office employee in Tennessee, had a history of dealing with hemorrhoid flare-ups, but they usually abated after a few days. He’d use over-the-counter pain medications,
Continue Reading Like many places around the world, Turkey has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Over 100,000 cases have been registered in the country, with the vast majority recorded in Istanbul. But this isn’t the first time Turkey’s largest city has been devastated by an outbreak of disease. Around 540 CE, Istanbul, known as Constantinople
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With nearly all states partially reopened this week, backlash and frustrations are growing as Americans struggle with ways to combat the deadly coronavirus. More than 40 states by Friday are opening some businesses and restarting economies crushed by a pandemic that has killed nearly 76,000 people and infected over 1.2 million. Vulnerable communities such as
Continue Reading In the years after coronavirus, nothing will be as it was before, Pulitzer-prize winning public health journalist Laurie Garrett said Thursday. “I think we’re going to get four, five years from now and there will not be a single aspect of our lives that’s been unchanged,” she said at CNN’s ongoing coronavirus townhall. “It’s almost
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In the years after coronavirus, nothing will be as it was before, Pulitzer-prize winning public health journalist Laurie Garrett said Thursday. “I think we’re going to get four, five years from now and there will not be a single aspect of our lives that’s been unchanged,” she said at CNN’s ongoing coronavirus townhall. “It’s almost
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Brazil’s coronavirus cases have spiked to 135,106 including 9,146 deaths, according to numbers released Wednesday by the Brazilian Health Ministry. This surge comes as President Jair Bolsonaro’s spokesman, Gen. Otavio Santana do Rego Barros, confirmed he tested positive for Covid-19. Yet Bolsonaro said earlier this week he believed “the worst had passed” for the coronavirus
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Not all businesses are feeling the pandemic squeeze. Video game companies, e-commerce sites and online messaging systems are thriving right now. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up
Continue Reading Not all businesses are feeling the pandemic squeeze. Video game companies, e-commerce sites and online messaging systems are thriving right now. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up
Continue Reading Indian police are investigating whether a deadly gas leak at a chemical plant near the city of Visakhapatnam amounts to culpable homicide. At least 12 people died and another 350 people were hospitalized after toxic gas seeped from the South Korean-owned LG Polymers plant in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in the early
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Life under lockdown can be challenging for elite sports stars, but not many world champions have to share a confined space with a fellow world champion, teammate and brother all rolled into one. Marc Marquez, who has six MotoGP titles among the eight world championships to his name, has been quarantined at his parents’ house
Continue Reading Ichthyosaurs were the main predators of the oceans millions of years ago. Like reptilian dolphins with a mean streak, they grew between 10 and 43 feet long and had a long snout armed with viciously sharp teeth. But early ichthyosaurs were much different, with all the signs of awkward evolutionary growing pains, according to a
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With nearly all states partially reopened this week, backlash and frustrations are growing as Americans struggle with ways to combat the deadly coronavirus. More than 40 states are opening some doors to revive crushed economies as the nation digs itself out of a pandemic that has killed nearly 76,000 people and infected over 1.2 million.
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President Donald Trump has spent three years discrediting and sidelining institutional sources of facts, truth and trust that threaten his political and personal goals. Rarely has that mission combined in a single day to such a grave result as it did this week. The White House rejected new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance
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With nearly all states partially reopened, fears and frustrations are growing as Americans struggle with how to combat the deadly coronavirus. More than 40 states are opening some doors to revive crushed economies as the nation tries to dig itself out of a pandemic that has killed nearly 76,000 people and infected over 1.2 million.
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Global stocks are climbing on signs that China and the United States might avoid another bruising confrontation over trade. Dow futures were last up 230 points, or 1%, after surging more than 300 points earlier. Futures for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq increased 1% and 0.9%, respectively. In Europe, France’s CAC 40 and Germany’s DAX
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With nearly all states partially reopened, fears and frustrations are growing as Americans struggle with how to combat the deadly coronavirus. More than 40 states are opening some doors to revive crushed economies as the nation tries to dig itself out of a pandemic that has killed nearly 76,000 people and infected over 1.2 million.
Continue Reading Visitors from surrounding states rushed to Georgia after the state lifted restrictions to curb the spread of coronavirus, according to an analysis of cell phone location information. After Georgia partially reopened on April 24, out-of-state trips to the state from across the nation rose by 13%, or 62,441 trips a day, according to researchers at
Continue Reading Visitors from surrounding states rushed to Georgia after the state lifted restrictions to curb the spread of coronavirus, according to an analysis of cell phone location information. After Georgia partially reopened on April 24, out-of-state trips to the state from across the nation rose by 13%, or 62,441 trips a day, according to researchers at
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With nearly all states partially reopened, fears and frustrations are dividing the nation as Americans struggle with how to combat the deadly coronavirus. More than 40 states are opening some doors to revive crushed economies as the nation tries to dig itself out of a pandemic that has killed nearly 76,000 people and infected over
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EL PASO, Texas — It’s a deep clean, Centers for Disease Control certified, and offered by a local firm with locations in both El Paso and Las Cruces. “With businesses opening up everyone wants to get back to business and to some normalcy,” said Heidi Avedician, owner of ServiceMaster Clean. “We want to make sure we
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Add another giant bug to the list of things Washington state is working to handle right now. Earlier this week, scientists said they had spotted Asian giant hornets in the state — and it’s still unknown how they got there. Now there’s another threat: a non-native gypsy moth. Such a threat, in fact, that Gov.
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Officials in the city that has been the hardest hit in Chihuahua state by Covid-19 are taking more aggressive steps to fight the spread of the virus. The Juarez virus death count stood slightly above the century mark Thursday as the case count continues to grow. The city of Juarez is
Continue Reading A former truck driver has been arrested in a Tennessee murder case from 1991 and in two similar cases in Wyoming the following year, officials said. Clark Perry Baldwin, 59, was charged with two counts of murder in the 1991 death of a woman in Tennessee, because the victim was 24 weeks pregnant at the
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EL PASO, Texas — Precautions against Covid-19 inside a retail store should be different than the ones you need to take inside a mortgage company or bank. That’s why a newly formed group is examining and tasked with coming up with specific guidelines for specific businesses. The guidelines, which are yet to be released, revolve
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