| Evidence emerges for sex-assault allegation against Biden Posted: 29 Apr 2020 01:56 PM PDT  Former Senate staffer Tara Reade has alleged that presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993, a charge the former vice president's campaign denies.
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| U.S. death toll passes 60,000 mark Trump said would mark success in coronavirus fight Posted: 29 Apr 2020 12:54 PM PDT  Until recently, the president touted that projection as proof his administration's COVID-19 response was working.
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| Indiana Postal Worker Shot Dead After Refusing to Deliver Mail to Man With Aggressive Dog: Court Docs Posted: 30 Apr 2020 11:36 AM PDT  An Indiana man charged with murdering a U.S. postal worker this week admitted he confronted her because his mail delivery had been suspended due to his "aggressive dog," prosecutors said.Tony Cushingberry-Mays, 21, was charged with second-degree murder, assaulting a federal employee, and discharging a firearm during a crime for the death of Angela Summers, a 45-year-old postal worker who was gunned down Monday afternoon during her mail delivery route in east Indianapolis, according to the United States District Court of Southern Indiana.The mother-of-one, who had joined the U.S. Postal Service in 2018, died in the hospital. According to federal law, killing an on-duty federal employee can be punishable by death or a life sentence. To date, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says four postal workers have been killed during workplace homicides in the last seven years. "Angela was such a joy to be around, she was such a breath of fresh air. This is the worst thing that's happened in my career," Paul Toms, president of the National Association of Letters Carriers' Indianapolis branch, told The Daily Beast on Wednesday. "This is a federal crime, but more importantly this is a senseless crime that should have never happened. It breaks my heart." Summers, a city carrier assistant at the USPS Linwood Indianapolis Post Office, was delivering mail at about 4 p.m. Monday when she bypassed Cushingberry-Mays' home in compliance with a suspension that had been put in place until he contained his dogs, according to court documents obtained by The Daily Beast. An angry Cushingberry-Mays approached Summers on his neighbor's front porch, standing about 6 feet away, and repeatedly asked her for the mail.Both Toms and a witness who spoke to WTHR said Cushingberry-Mays was allegedly upset about not getting his COVID-19 stimulus check when he confronted Summers.Summers, however, could not deliver his mail "because she was having a problem with the dog at his residence," the complaint said, adding that Summers had reported "several issues" with the dog, which had resulted in mail being held.Prosecutors said the USPS Linwood Indianapolis Post Office last sent a letter to the Cushingberry-Mays residence on April 13 indicating they would have to pick up mail from the post office.Toms said that, in compliance with USPS guidelines, Summers had reported an issue with dogs at the home. After three warning letters were sent, mail had been blocked from the home for about two weeks and "wasn't even given to Angela that day of the incident.""She was just following protocol, and the Postal Service curtailed the mail. It was not her fault that she didn't have the mail that day," Toms said. "My understanding is that she tried to explain that the mail could be picked up at another location and an argument ensued. I heard she was called horrible, horrible names." The postal worker's response triggered an argument, escalating to the point that Summers had to use pepper spray on the 21-year-old. "Cushingberry-Mays then pulled his handgun from the right side of his waistband (no holster), pointed his handgun at the letter carrier, and fired one shot at the letter carrier," the criminal complaint states. "He acknowledged the mace was not deadly but led to discomfort from his asthma."According to the complaint, Cushingberry-Mays admitted in a Tuesday interview with police that he ran away after shooting Summers, first going to his aunt's house before hiding the gun in the garage at his mother's. He told authorities "he did not mean to kill the letter carrier but wanted to scare her," according to court documents.Immediately after the shooting, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service launched an investigation and offered a $50,000 reward for any information leading to an arrest. It's not clear if Wednesday's arrest was made due to information obtained through the reward. "U.S. Postal Inspectors are charged with ensuring the safety and security of USPS employees, and that is a charge that we do not take lightly," Felicia George, USPI Detroit Division Acting Inspector in Charge, said in a statement. "Anyone who threatens, assaults, or otherwise harms a postal employee fulfilling her critical mission will be apprehended and held fully accountable."Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Top coronavirus model predicts 100,000 dead by the end of the pandemic's 1st wave this summer Posted: 29 Apr 2020 04:21 PM PDT  By the end of the coronavirus's "first wave" this summer, America will likely have buried close to 100,000 victims of the disease, researchers predict.
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| The Next-Gen Air Force One Is Already Over Budget Posted: 30 Apr 2020 12:22 PM PDT  The converted Boeing 747s, designed to carry the POTUS, will fly in 2024.
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| Top European Union diplomat denies bowing to China pressure Posted: 30 Apr 2020 10:43 AM PDT  The European Union's top diplomat denied Thursday that his agency bowed to pressure from China and watered down a report that criticized the country's role in promoting disinformation about the coronavirus. In an April 24 article, the New York Times said EU officials had "softened their criticism of China" in a report on the way governments push disinformation during the pandemic because the officials were "worried about the repercussions" of angering one of the bloc's biggest trading partners. The article, backed by internal email correspondence, caused an uproar at the European Parliament, with EU lawmakers angry that the 27-nation bloc's reputation was at stake.
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| One dead, five missing after Canadian helicopter goes missing during NATO exercise Posted: 30 Apr 2020 05:38 AM PDT  Canadian prime Minister Jusin Trudeau has confirmed that one man has died and five others are missing after a Canadian military helicopter went missing during a NATO operation. Debris and the aircraft's black box have been found in the sea between Greece and Italy, a Greek military officer and public television said Thursday. Canada's armed forces said the helicopter had been involved in an accident after taking off from the Canadian frigate Fredericton on Wednesday. "Debris has been found in Italy's zone of control and intervention" in the Ionian Sea, the Greek military officer told AFP, specifying the wreckage belonged to the Canadian helicopter. Six crew were aboard the helicopter when it disappeared, the officer said on condition of anonymity. Greek public television reported that a body had been found amid the wreckage in international waters off the Greek island of Kefalonia. Greek public television ERT said Italian and NATO vessels were also taking part in the search while Turkey said one of its frigates was also involved. Canada said on Twitter that it contacted the family members of those who were on board the missing CH-148 Cyclone helicopter.
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| Newsom expected to close all California beaches Posted: 29 Apr 2020 11:34 PM PDT  Throngs of people headed to beaches in Southern California during a weekend heat wave.
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| The New York Times clarifies it didn't clear Biden of sexual assault allegation despite what campaign suggests Posted: 29 Apr 2020 12:15 PM PDT  Talking points from former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign suggest The New York Times found that Tara Reade's sexual assault allegation against him is false, but the Times would like to clarify it did not reach this conclusion.BuzzFeed News on Tuesday reported that Biden's campaign had sent out talking points regarding Reade's allegation that Biden assaulted her in 1993 when she worked for him as an aide. The talking points assert "a thorough review by the New York Times has led to the truth: this incident did not happen."Asked about the allegation against Biden on Tuesday, former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams echoed these talking points, telling CNN, "The New York Times did a deep investigation, and they found that the accusation was not credible."But a spokesperson for the Times on Wednesday said this characterization of their reporting is not accurate."BuzzFeed reported on the existence of talking points being circulated by the Biden campaign that inaccurately suggest a New York Times investigation found that Tara Reade's allegation 'did not happen,'" the Times spokesperson said. "Our investigation made no conclusion either way."Rather, the Times said no former staff members of Biden's corroborated Reade's allegation during their reporting and that "the Times found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Mr. Biden," but it did not determine Reade's allegation didn't happen. The Times spokesperson noted Wednesday that it "spoke to a friend who said Reade told her the details of the allegation at the time" and "another friend and Reade's brother say she told them of a traumatic sexual incident involving Biden."Earlier this week, a former neighbor of Reade's told Insider she told her about the alleged assault in the 1990s. The Biden campaign has denied the allegation, but Biden hasn't commented on it personally.More stories from theweek.com Trump's 'mission accomplished' moment Gun-toting protesters' dramatic stand inside Michigan's statehouse, in 5 photos and videos The Justice Department is apparently working with conservative Christian groups to fight COVID-19 policies
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| Trump's coronavirus math problem Posted: 29 Apr 2020 12:06 PM PDT  President Trump responded late Tuesday to the news that the United States had topped more 1 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus, roughly one-third of the reported global total to date.
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| Most Americans cannot or will not use COVID-19 contact tracing apps: poll Posted: 29 Apr 2020 10:38 AM PDT  More than half of all Americans either do not own smartphones or would not use apps backed by Alphabet Inc's Google and Apple Inc to trace who has been exposed to the new coronavirus, according to a poll by the Washington Post and University of Maryland released on Wednesday. The two tech companies have been working with public health experts and researchers to write apps that people can use to notify those they have come in contact with if they come down with COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus.
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| Robber attacks 77-year-old woman with metal pipe to steal her pizza Posted: 29 Apr 2020 02:21 PM PDT  A man hit a 77-year-old woman on the head with a metal pipe, before stealing one of her pizzas.In a video, released by the Tucson police Department, a woman carrying two pizzas attempted to leave Peter Piper Pizza, in Arizona.
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| 23 photos show what life in North Korea is like during its coronavirus lockdown Posted: 30 Apr 2020 02:15 PM PDT  North Korea has implemented a number of measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but its claims of zero cases are highly unlikely.
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| Venezuela refuses to withdraw diplomats from Brazil Posted: 30 Apr 2020 01:53 PM PDT  Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro's government stepped up a diplomatic spat with neighbor Brazil on Thursday, accusing it of putting Venezuelan diplomats under "undue pressure" to leave the country within 48 hours. Brazil is one of around 60 countries to recognize Maduro's opposition rival Juan Guaido as Venezuela's acting president and announced on March 5 it was ordering Maduro-appointed diplomats to withdraw. The foreign ministry in Caracas accused Brazil of "attempting to force the premature departure of Venezuelan diplomatic and consular staff by May 2," and said no talks had taken place over the exit.
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| Philippines rejects China's territorial label on island Posted: 30 Apr 2020 05:49 AM PDT  The Philippines protested on Thursday China's designation of a disputed South China Sea reef, which it has turned into a heavily fortified island base, as a Chinese "administrative center." The Department of Foreign Affairs issued a statement objecting to what it called China's "illegal designation" of Fiery Cross Reef as a regional administrative center in the hotly contested Spratly archipelago. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused China last week of taking advantage of widespread distraction over the pandemic to advance its territorial claims.
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| Remdesivir could help end coronavirus lockdown despite failure of Chinese trials, scientists say Posted: 30 Apr 2020 06:39 AM PDT  A coronavirus drug which initially failed in Chinese trials is now working and could help end lockdown restrictions, scientists have said. Remdesivir, a broad-spectrum antiviral, was developed more than a decade ago to cure an unknown "Disease X" and is currently being trialled on patients in the NHS. In results published in The Lancet on Wednesday, Chinese scientists said the drug worked no better than placebo. But less than 24 hours later, US health officials reported that their own trial, on more than 1,000 severely ill patients in 75 hospitals around the world, had seen recovery times cut from 15 days to 11, and mortality rates fall by nearly 30 per cent. British scientists involved in the UK trials said the results were "exciting" and, once rolled out, the drug could help lessen the need for lockdown restrictions by removing the burden on the NHS and cutting deaths. Patients who were being given placebo in the British trials are now being moved on to remdesivir.
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| Citing no evidence, Trump says he’s seen information that coronavirus originated in a Wuhan lab Posted: 30 Apr 2020 03:20 PM PDT  Without citing any evidence, President Trump said he's seen information that the coronavirus originated in a lab in Wuhan, China. When pressed by a reporter to back up his claim, Trump said he wasn't at liberty to do so.
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| Trump backtracks after saying U.S. would "very soon" hit 5 million tests a day Posted: 29 Apr 2020 12:35 PM PDT  On Tuesday, the president, asked whether he was confident the U.S. could reach 5 million COVID-19 tests a day, said the U.S. would be there "very soon."
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| A New York City man stole $12,000 worth of coronavirus stimulus checks from mailboxes, cops say Posted: 30 Apr 2020 08:14 AM PDT  Police arrested Feng Chen, 31, after finding him looking in mailboxes and a medical collection bin in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood,
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| 'A near impossibility': Experts doubt North Korea's claim of zero coronavirus cases Posted: 30 Apr 2020 01:32 PM PDT  Experts say there's evidence of at least a small-scale COVID-19 outbreak in North Korea. And some fear Kim Jong Un's lockdown could spark a famine.
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| Cuomo on McConnell: 'We bail them out every year' Posted: 29 Apr 2020 10:25 AM PDT  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo addressed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell during his Wednesday press briefing.
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| Fourth stimulus bill may not be needed if states bounce back: White House Posted: 30 Apr 2020 07:38 AM PDT  A fourth bill to provide stimulus to the U.S. economy may not be needed if states are able to successfully reopen their economies "relatively quickly," as some forecasters and equity markets expect, a White House economic adviser said on Thursday. "I think probably very soon, very shortly, we'll have a better idea about whether we need to extend the current existing things or move on to new ideas," presidential adviser Kevin Hassett told Fox News Channel. More than 30 million Americans have joined the unemployment benefit rolls over the past six weeks, and Hassett said the unemployment rate this month likely jumped to around 19% from 4.4% in March.
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| Brexit trade talks face collapse unless EU abandon demands for continued access to UK fishing waters Posted: 30 Apr 2020 11:38 AM PDT  Brexit trade negotiations face collapse unless the EU abandons its demands for continued access to UK fishing waters, sources close to the talks have said. Brussels has called for EU boats to keep access under "existing conditions" as a price for the free trade agreement being negotiated by the two sides. The UK insists any fishing agreement must be separate from the trade deal with access negotiated annually in a similar fashion to Norway's agreement with the bloc. A UK source close to the negotiations said that the EU's red line would need to change, otherwise the talks could be terminated in June. "There are some fundamentals that we're not going to change, nor going to move on. Because they are not so much negotiating positions as they're sort of what an independent state does" the source said. "An independent state has independent control over coastal waters," the source added, "what we are wanting now is an EU understanding that we are not going to subordinate our laws to them in any areas". Michel Barnier accused Britain of wasting time in the trade negotiations, which have a deadline of the end of the year, after a round of talks last week. He criticised British negotiators for failing to present a text on fisheries for negotiations. UK sources said there was no point presenting a text when the two sides were "talking across each other". Downing Street has called on EU national leaders to intervene to break the deadlock in the talks but that is not expected to happen before June, when a joint conference will be held to evaluate progress towards the agreement. The source said that the UK would consider walking away in June and begin preparing for a no trade deal exit at the end of the transition period. "We do need to prepare for the end of the transition period, focus on that as well. If we don't look like we are going to get a deal that will become the primary focus of effort," the source said. The deadline to finalise the trade deal, which has come under pressure from the coronavirus pandemic, is the end of the year, when the Brexit transition period finished. The transition period deep-freezes UK membership of the Single Market and Customs Union. Boris Johnson has vowed to not extend the transition period, despite the EU being ready to negotiate a delay and despite the risk of the UK failing to agree a deal in time, which would mean trading on less advantageous WTO terms.
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| Transgender fire chief files discrimination suit over firing Posted: 29 Apr 2020 11:00 AM PDT  A transgender fire chief has filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the small Georgia city where she led the fire department for more than a decade, then was fired 18 months after she began coming to work as a woman. Rachel Mosby says her firing last summer by the city of Byron not only cost her wages and retirement benefits, but also tarnished her reputation. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Macon says city officials fired Mosby "based on her sex, gender identity, and notions of sex stereotyping."
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| Newly engaged lesbian couple missing in North Carolina Posted: 30 Apr 2020 08:13 AM PDT  Stephanie Mayorga, 27, and Paige Escalera, 25, disappeared in mid-April under "suspicious" circumstances, according to the Wilmington Police Department.
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| US intelligence community says it concurs with the 'wide scientific consensus' that the coronavirus was not 'man-made or genetically modified' Posted: 30 Apr 2020 08:07 AM PDT  The announcement comes after weeks of speculation in the right-wing and far-right media that the coronavirus was created in a Wuhan lab.
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| Last Israeli farmers leave enclave after Jordan deal ends Posted: 30 Apr 2020 06:27 AM PDT  Israeli farmers left an agricultural enclave in neighbouring Jordan possibly for the last time Thursday, as the extension of a lease enabling their use of the border land expired. Ghumar, known as Tsofar in Hebrew, is a Jordanian territory south of the Dead Sea that was occupied by Israel during the Six Day War of 1967. Under the 1994 peace deal, Jordan retained sovereignty over the area, along with another territory called Baqura, seized when Israeli forces infiltrated Jordan in 1950.
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| 2 men detained in burning deaths of transgender women Posted: 30 Apr 2020 01:49 PM PDT  One of the men admitted to the double killings, saying it was done for "reasons of revenge."
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| Assault allegation puts Joe Biden — and the Democratic Party — in a bind Posted: 29 Apr 2020 07:00 PM PDT  Joe Biden has tried to move past an allegation that he assaulted a female staffer decades ago by not talking about it. It isn't working. Some Democrats worry the story line will fester into a much bigger problem for him and the party if he keeps ignoring it.
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| Elon Musk, who predicted 'close to zero' new coronavirus cases by the end of April, demands we 'free America' Posted: 29 Apr 2020 09:58 AM PDT  Tesla CEO Elon Musk's coronavirus tweets from last month sure haven't aged well, but he's still got even more to confidently declare about the pandemic.Musk on Twitter this week criticized lockdown measures put in place in the United States to slow the spread of COVID-19, demanding in one, "FREE AMERICA NOW." He applauded Texas for its plan to begin reopening the state's economy, and said the U.S. should "reopen with care and appropriate protection, but don't put everyone under de facto house arrest."Musk also replied to a user who claimed the "scariest thing" about the pandemic isn't the coronavirus but seeing Americans willing to give up freedom, to which the Tesla CEO responded, "true."These tweets, as Gizmodo points out, come after Musk previously downplayed the threat of the coronavirus and in March predicted that by the end of April, there would be "close to zero" new coronavirus cases in the United States. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. continues to rise and just passed one million on Tuesday.> Based on current trends, probably close to zero new cases in US too by end of April> > -- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 19, 2020"The coronavirus panic is dumb," Musk also wrote in early March regarding a virus that would go on to kill over 58,000 Americans as of this week, more than were killed in the Vietnam War.Experts have repeatedly warned about the dangers of reopening the economy too quickly, and recent polls have found a majority of Americans are fearful of the U.S. reopening too soon. "If you jump the gun, and go into a situation where you have a big spike, you're going to set yourself back," Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, recently stressed.More stories from theweek.com The Justice Department is apparently working with conservative Christian groups to fight COVID-19 policies How Tara Reade's allegations could bring down Joe Biden Trump and Cuomo's 'feud' is essentially a performance, political insiders say
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| Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin tells Putin he has coronavirus Posted: 30 Apr 2020 10:00 AM PDT  Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin told President Vladimir Putin on Thursday that he had been diagnosed with the new coronavirus and was temporarily stepping down to recover. Mishustin, 54, suggested that First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov serve as acting prime minister in his absence. Putin, who was listening on a televised video conference, sighed when he heard the news, wished Mishustin a speedy recovery and said he agreed with the proposed replacement.
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| Satellite images reveal Kim Jong-un may be at luxury family villa Posted: 29 Apr 2020 03:22 AM PDT  New satellite images showing the recent movements of luxury boats by Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, have provided further indications that he may be ensconced in his seaside villa in Wonsan, on the country's east coast. The location of the reclusive leader has been a mystery since his unprecedented no-show at April 15 events to mark the birthday of his late grandfather and North Korea's founder, Kim Il Sung. His absence, for the first time since he took power in 2011, unleashed a torrent of speculation about his health conditions, with unverified and conflicting reports claiming he was both recuperating from cardiovascular surgery and in "grave danger." On Tuesday, commercial satellite imagery obtained by North Korea-monitoring website NK PRO showed boats often used by Kim had made movements in patterns that suggested he or his entourage may be in the Wonsan area. "Extensive analysis shows that similar leisure boat movements at an exclusive villa in Wonsan and a nearby island near the Kalma peninsula have aligned with Kim's public appearances in the area in every one of a half-dozen instances since last summer, and many more dating back to 2013," it said. The imagery adds to earlier satellite pictures studied by the Washington-based North Korea monitoring project 38 North, which appeared to show that a train similar to Kim's was parked in the resort's so-called "leadership station" reserved for the use of the Kim family a week ago.
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| US approves Apache, Viper attack helicopter options for Philippines Posted: 30 Apr 2020 11:56 AM PDT  The Philippines is not going to buy both.
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| 80,000 cruise workers are still stuck aboard ships in US waters. Staff members say it's 'embarrassing' they're not allowed to disembark. Posted: 30 Apr 2020 01:34 PM PDT  Up to 80,000 crew members are stuck on 120 cruise ships on US waters, and it's unclear when they'll touch land again.
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| Trump harshly blames China for pandemic; a lab 'mistake'? Posted: 30 Apr 2020 06:52 AM PDT  President Donald Trump on Thursday speculated that China could have unleashed the coronavirus on the world due to some kind of horrible "mistake," and his intelligence agencies said they are still examining a notion put forward by the president and aides that the pandemic may have resulted from an accident at a Chinese lab. Trump even suggested the release could have been intentional. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the clearinghouse for the web of U.S. spy agencies, said it had ruled out the virus being man-made but was still investigating the precise source of the global pandemic, which has killed more than 220,000 people worldwide.
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| No arrests after black man shot dead while jogging Posted: 30 Apr 2020 02:06 PM PDT  Ahmaud Arbery's mother says she feels "very discouraged" by the investigation into her son's death.
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| California Republican Party suing governor over "ballot harvesting" Posted: 30 Apr 2020 03:50 AM PDT  The group's chairwoman sent Governor Gavin Newsom a letter weeks ago asking him to halt the practice of ballot collecting for two upcoming special elections amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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| Far too many patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Georgia are black, new CDC data shows — a staggering 83% Posted: 30 Apr 2020 02:25 PM PDT  The findings highlight stark racial disparities in the coronavirus outbreak, reinforcing national data showing that black communities are hardest hit.
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| Nairobi hair salon defies pandemic with 'coronavirus' style Posted: 30 Apr 2020 03:11 AM PDT  Through winces and grins, two girls wearing face masks and surrounded by posters of different hairstyles bowed their heads for their hairdressers. In Kibera, Kenya's largest slum, hairdressers have created a new style, designed to emulate the prickly appearance of the virus under a microscope. "It's just simple and very cheap for every person to do it," stylist Diana Andayi told Reuters.
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| JetBlue wants to suspend service at 16 major airports; Delta wants to halt service to 9 cities Posted: 29 Apr 2020 03:07 PM PDT  On Tuesday, JetBlue asked the Department of Transportation to let it suspend service at 16 major airports. Delta sought its OK for nine smaller ones.
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| Torment in Ecuador: virus dead piled up in bathrooms Posted: 28 Apr 2020 06:42 PM PDT  Front line medics in one of Latin America's coronavirus epicenters are lifting the lid on the daily horrors they face in an Ecuadoran city whose health system has collapsed. In one hospital in Guayaquil overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients, staff have had to pile up bodies in bathrooms because the morgues are full, health workers say. Ecuador has recorded close to 23,000 coronavirus cases and nearly 600 deaths, with Guayaquil by far its worst affected city.
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| Coronavirus: The leopard on India's streets and other claims fact checked Posted: 30 Apr 2020 07:06 AM PDT  What misleading stories about the coronavirus are doing the rounds in India?
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| Ex-Honduran national police chief charged in New York Posted: 30 Apr 2020 01:08 PM PDT  The former chief of the Honduran National Police faces drug and weapons charges in New York, where prosecutors claimed Thursday that he traded his law enforcement clout to protect U.S.-bound shipments of cocaine. The charges were brought against Juan Carlos Bonilla Valladares, known as "El Tigre" or "The Tiger," in Manhattan federal court. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said Bonilla played a key role in a violent international drug conspiracy, working on behalf of former Honduran congressman Tony Hernández Alvarado and, his brother, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández.
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