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Zoo May Feed Animals to Animals as Funds Dry Up in Pandemic
The New York Times - 15 Apr 2020 18:58
The zoo, in Germany, said its drastic plan would only be a last resort. One animal would be spared until the end, it said, a nearly 12-foot polar bear called Vitus.
Damaso Garcia, former MLB All-Star, dead at 63
New York Post - 15 Apr 2020 22:03
Damaso Garcia, a two-time All-Star and former Yankees second baseman, died Wednesday at 63, in his native Dominican Republic. Garcia, who was signed by the Yankees in 1975 as an amateur free agent and began his 11-year m...
Trump is having his signature printed on coronavirus stimulus checks
New York Post - 15 Apr 2020 04:36
The coronavirus stimulus checks are getting a bit of the president's personal flair. The Treasury Department has ordered President Trump's signature to be printed on the checks the IRS sending to tens of millions of Amer...
A healthy Bill Walton is doing what he can to help others
Boston - 15 Apr 2020 12:16
"This is the first time in 21 resets for me that I've been the healthy one."
Imagine how many lives could have been saved if Trump took the virus seriously from the start
CNN - 15 Apr 2020 04:49
It didn't have to be this way. President Donald Trump, who appears to blame the World Health Organization for all that has gone wrong with the pandemic, on Monday claimed he has "total power" to re-open the US. On Tuesda...
Trump approval rises, but more Americans support Biden for president: poll
Reuters - 15 Apr 2020 00:24
The number of Americans who approve of President Donald Trump rose by 5 percentage points over the past week, but registered voters still favored Democrat Joe Biden for president by a small margin, according to a Reuters...
Joshua Wong Crafting Sci-Fi Series 'Invasian' For Endless Media & The Laundromatte
Deadline - 15 Apr 2020 17:32
EXCLUSIVE: LA-based Endless Media and Hong Kong’s The Laundromatte are prepping sci-fi series Invasian, based on the short film from writer/director Joshua Wong. The English-language project's development has been fast...
Florida man freed from jail over coronavirus allegedly murdered someone the next day
New York Post - 15 Apr 2020 03:48
A Florida man released from jail last month to help limit coronavirus outbreaks in county lockups was arrested again Monday — accused of murdering a man the day after his release, a report said. Joseph Edwards Williams...
Michael Jordan: 'You're Going to Think I'm a Horrible Guy' on 'The Last Dance'
Bleacher Report - 15 Apr 2020 16:15
NBA legend Michael Jordan expressed concern to director Jason Hehir regarding how he will be viewed based on some of the footage set to be included in his The Last Dance documentary series on ESPN...
Asia shares consolidate, China cuts another interest rate
Reuters - 15 Apr 2020 04:37
Asian share markets took a breather on Wednesday as warnings of the worst global recession since the 1930s underlined the economic damage already done even as some countries tried to re-open for business.
Trump says he'll speak to all 50 governors and will be 'authorizing' reopenings. States disagree on his role
USA Today - 15 Apr 2020 03:53Report: Stimulus checks may be delayed over order to have Trump's name printed on them
The Week - 15 Apr 2020 05:29
The Internal Revenue Service's information technology team learned early on Tuesday that President Trump's name must appear on the stimulus checks being sent to millions of Americans, an order that will likely lead to a ...
China's wet markets are not what some people think they are
CNN - 15 Apr 2020 04:47
If you have ever been to shopping area where butchers and grocers sell fresh produce straight from the farm, then you have been to something that would, in some parts of the world, be called a wet market.
Australian Court Rules Search Warrant on Journalist Invalid
Time - 15 Apr 2020 04:12
A News Corp. journalist sought to overturn the warrant that was executed on her home last year
US factory output falls the most since 1946 as the coronavirus lockdown halts activity
Business Insider - 15 Apr 2020 16:55
New Balance Manufacturing output fell 6.3% in March, following a 0.1% decline in February, the Federal Reserve said in a Wednesday report. Total industrial production also fell 5.4% in March. Both figures posted their la...
Nearly a third of Spain's 255,000 nurses may be infected with coronavirus, study indicates
Market Watch - 15 Apr 2020 16:46
The results of a continuing survey by the Collegial Organization of Nursing, found that 70,000 of the 255,000 nurses in the country reported having had or currently having symptoms of the virus.
American factories just had their worst month since 1946
CNN - 15 Apr 2020 16:37
US factories just suffered their steepest one-month slowdown since 1946.
Some governors believe their states ready to reopen after coronavirus shutdown, CDC head says
Reuters - 15 Apr 2020 16:35
Governors of about 20 U.S. states where the new-coronavirus pandemic has had a low impact believe they may be ready to start the process of reopening their economies by President Donald Trump's May 1 target date, a top U...
Zoo says it may be forced to kill its animals to feed others
CBSNews - 15 Apr 2020 16:24
Director of the Neumünster Zoo says lack of paying visitors and restrictions on travel and business could force her to take the drastic measure.
Bill Gates: WHO funding cut during coronavirus pandemic 'as dangerous as it sounds'
Boston - 15 Apr 2020 16:23
"Their work is slowing the spread of COVID-19."
New York City posts sharp spike in coronavirus deaths after untested victims added
Reuters - 15 Apr 2020 04:39
New York City, the hardest hit U.S. city in the coronavirus pandemic, revised its official COVID-19 death toll sharply higher to more than 10,000 on Tuesday, to include victims presumed to have perished from the lung dis...
South Korea holds parliamentary polls amid coronavirus pandemic
Al Jazeera English - 15 Apr 2020 04:37
Voters required to use hand sanitiser and plastic gloves when casting ballots and maintain physical distance.