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American music executive Andre Harrell dies at 59
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American music executive Andre Harrell dies at 59

Andre Harrell, an American music executive and founder of Uptown records died at the age of 59, the cause of his death is still unclear. Harrell started his career in music as an artist, one-half of the early rap duo Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, whose single “Genius Rap” was a minor hit in 1981. In 1983 Harrell teamed with Russell Simmons, the founder of Def Jam Records

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Sat May 09 - Variety
Google celebrated English Footballer Frank Soo
Sports
Google celebrated English Footballer Frank Soo

Google Doodle celebrated England’s forgotten footballer, Frank Soo. Soo, whose father was Chinese, became the first player of Asian heritage to represent England when he appeared in a wartime international against Wales in 1942. Legendary Stoke City player, went on to make a further eight international appearances during the Second World War before going on to play for Luton and embarking on a coaching career

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Sat May 09 - SkySports
FC Barcelona returns to training
Sports
FC Barcelona return to training, all eyes on La Liga now

Football star Linoel Messi along with other teammates of Barcelona returned to practice as the club allowed team members to enter their facility to prepare for a potential restart to football in Spain. “Finally we are getting back to normal.” Barcelona player Arturo Vidal told sports daily Marca. Other La Liga teams Sevilla, Villarreal, Osasuna, and Leganes also returned to training

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Sat May 09 - Scroll.in
11 U.S. Secret Service agents have tested positive for Coronavirus
International
11 U.S. Secret Service agents have tested positive for Coronavirus

Yahoo News obtained a document from the U.S Department of Homeland Security which shows that 11 of the Secret Service agents have been tested positive for COVID-19. Although, It's still not clear if any have recently been working at the White House or have had any contact with Trump or Pence. President Trump and VP Pence are both regularly tested for the virus, and neither has tested positive so far

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Sat May 09 - TheHill
Correlation between Vitamin C deficiency and coronavirus
International
Correlation between Vitamin D deficiency and coronavirus mortality rates

According to a new study conducted at Northwestern University, researchers have found a strong correlation between vitamin D deficiency and mortality rates from the novel coronavirus. The study is backed by the examples in the Eurozone area as the patients from countries with Vitamin D deficiency like Italy, Spain suffered a lot more than the patients from countries with less deficiency of Vitamin D

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Sat May 09 - MarketWatch
Lockdown has already cost the Indian economy around $350 billion
Business
Lockdown has already cost the Indian economy around $350 billion

The impact of coronavirus has been severe in sectors like travel and mobility. According to a recent report, India’s daily GDP now stands at around $8 billion, Indian has been under lockdown for 44 days, which makes the overall economy to suffer around $350 billion in GDP loss. Small and Medium enterprises sector has suffered the most in these difficult times as most of the companies have shut down operations

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Sat May 09 - TOI
Technology
More worries for Elon Musk
Sat May 09
Tesla has been ordered to keep the US plant closed
Technology
More worries for Elon Musk

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been in the news recently due to his “Interesting tweets” and views about coronavirus lockdown, now, Tesla has been ordered to keep its biggest plant in the US closed adding worries for Tech Entrepreneur. "Tesla has been informed that they do not meet reopen criteria and must not reopen," Alameda County authorities said in a statement

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Sat May 09 - BBC
Wuhan’s wet market played a role in coronavirus outbreak
International
Wuhan’s wet market played a role in coronavirus outbreak, WHO says

According to the World Health Organization, the Wholesale wet market in Wuhan played a significant role in the virus outbreak last year. Although, it’s still not clear whether live animals or infected vendors or shoppers may have brought the virus into the market. “The market played a role in the event, that’s clear. But what role we don’t know,” said Dr. Peter Ben Embarek, a WHO expert on food safety

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Fri May 08 - CNBC
Sea levels could rise more than a metre by 2100, experts say
Science
Sea levels could rise as much as 1.3 meters, report says

According to a recent research report, In the worst-case scenario , with rising emissions and global heating of 4.5C above pre-industrial levels, the study estimates the surface of the world’s oceans in 2100 will be between 0.6 and 1.3 meters higher than today, which would potentially engulf areas home to hundreds of millions of people.

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Fri May 08 - Theguardian
When Did Mars Lose its Global Magnetic Field?
Science
Mars and its Global Magnetic Field?

According to a recent study, Like Earth, Mars's global magnetic field is believed to have been the result of a dynamo effect caused by an action in its core. However, rock samples that were taken from three large Basins – Hellas, Argyre, and Isidis – which formed 3.9 billion years ago – led most scientists to the conclusion that the dynamo was inactive by this time

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Fri May 08 - Universetoday
Space agency: Human urine could help make concrete on moon
Science
Urea could help make concrete on moon

The European Space Agency said researchers in a recent study it sponsored found that urea, the main organic compound in urine, would make the mixture for a “lunar concrete” more malleable before it hardens into its sturdy final form. “The hope is that astronaut urine could be essentially used as it is on a future lunar base, with minor adjustments to the water content,” study co-author Marlies Arnhof said

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Fri May 08 - Apnews
Scientists Just Found Closest Black Hole to Earth
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Scientists Discovered Closest Black Hole to the Earth

The European astronomers have found the closest black hole to Earth yet, so near that the two stars dancing with it can be seen by the naked eye. The black hole is part of what used to be a three-star dance in a system called HR6819.

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Fri May 08 - Indiagoneviral
China’s new spacecraft—which resembles a Crew Dragon—just landed
Science
China’s new spacecraft looks like a Crew Dragon

China's new spacecraft just landed and it looks like a crew dragon, The mission also served to test a new variant of the country's most powerful rocket, the Long March 5B, which also was deemed a success. This is on par with the high-speed return made by NASA's Orion spacecraft during its uncrewed Exploration Flight Test-1 mission in 2014, when the capsule reached a peak altitude of 5,800km.

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Fri May 08 - Arstechnica
The most challenging stretch of the Dolphins' 2020 NFL schedule
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Miami Dolphins' 2020 NFL schedule is out

The much awaited NFL schedule for 2020 is out, with that Miami Dolphins’ 2020 schedule is also here, and the Dolphins are going to have to hit the ground running with two road games in the first three weeks of the season and then a two game road-trip to end the year.

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Fri May 08 - Usatoday
Marquise Brown expects to make a “big statement” in second season
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Marquise Brown plans to leave a mark in second season

Ravens wide receiver Marquise Brown got off to a good start as a rookie by catching two touchdowns in Baltimore’s Week One rout of the Dolphins and he closed the year with seven catches for 126 yards in a playoff loss to the Titans, but the 2019 first-round pick never felt entirely like himself. “I give respect to all the guys who came before,”Brown said

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Fri May 08 - Nbcsports
India coronavirus cases jump past 50,000 amid strict lockdown
International
Indian coronavirus cases above 50,000

Coronavirus cases in India jumped above 50,000, the health ministry confirmed on Thursday, with the pace of new infections showing no signs of abating despite a strict weeks-long lockdown in the world's second-most populous country. Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said Maharashtra, the state where Mumbai is located, was an area of particular concern and said the federal government stood ready to help.

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Fri May 08 - Aljazeera
Kenyans Held For Weeks in Quarantine Were Told to Pay to Get Out
International
Quarantined Kenyans were told to pay to Get Out

Kenyans Held For Weeks in Quarantine Were Told to Pay to Get Out Hundreds in the East African nation were put in quarantine for breaking curfew or not wearing masks. That, some said, was just the start of their ordeal. According to residents of A government-designated quarantine facility in Nairobi, Kenya, in early April.

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Fri May 08 - Nytimes
Trump: US would send ‘army’ to overthrow Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro
International
Trump commented on Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro statement

Describing the operation as a “rogue group,” Trump said the mercenaries launched a haphazard attack after they were arrested on the beach and walked to shore at gunpoint by Venezuelan police. This was a rogue group that went in there, a lot of Venezuelans, I think people from other countries also,” Trump said.

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Fri May 08 - Nypost
Kim Jong Un praises China's handling of coronavirus
International
Kim Jong Un praises China for COVID-19 handling

According to the media reports, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reached out to President Xi Jinping to congratulate him on China's handling of the coronavirus. Korean Central News Agency released a report that the North Korea chairman sent a “verbal message” to President Xi, congratulating him on “registering a success” in the fight against COVID-19.

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Fri May 08 - Foxnews
Hong Kong parliament in chaos as politicians fight for chair
International
Political Chaos in Hong Kong parliament

There is a massive political chaos in Hong Kong, Hong Kong’s legislative council descended into extraordinary scenes on Friday, with opposing lawmakers throwing placards and scrambling over each other to take control of a house committee that has been unable to elect a new chairperson. The incumbent committee chair, Starry Lee, reached the seat first and was surrounded by security guards.

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Fri May 08 - Theguardian
International
US-China trade negotiations
Fri May 08
US, China trade negotiators talk about phase one deal as uncertainty looms
International
US-China trade negotiations

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer also spoke to Chinese Vice Premier Liu He about the economic and public health issues, according to the government from both sides.
But during the Thursday call, both sides "agreed that in spite of the current global health emergency, both countries fully expect to meet their obligations under the agreement in a timely manner," according to the Office

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Fri May 08 - CNBC
UN chief says pandemic is unleashing a ‘tsunami of hate’
International
Coronavirus unleashing a ‘tsunami of hate’, says UN

UN Chief appealed to address and counter COVID-19-related hate speech follows his April 23 message calling the coronarivus pandemic “a human crisis that is fast becoming a human rights crisis.” Guterres said then that the pandemic has seen “disproportionate effects on certain communities, the rise of hate speech, the targeting of vulnerable groups, and the risks of heavy-handed security responses undermining the health response.”

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Fri May 08 - Mercurynews
America’s meat shortage is more serious than your missing hamburgers
Business
America’s rising meat shortage

The vast majority of meat processing takes place in a small number of plants controlled by a handful of large corporations, namely Tyson Foods, Smithfield Foods, JBS USA Holdings Inc., and Cargill Inc. More than a dozen of these companies’ beef, chicken, and pork plants closed in April, and despite an order by President Trump to reopen the plants, managers fear that doing so will put lives at risk sofacilitiescontinuetoclose.

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Fri May 08 - Vox
Business
Trump's hard time with China
Fri May 08
Trump says he’s having a ‘very hard time’ with China and is undecided about trade deal
Business
Trump's hard time with China

US President Donald Trump on Friday said he’s having “a very hard time with China” and hasn’t decided how to handle the international trade relationship, following a call between top trade representatives of the two nations. Trump spoke in a Fox News interview, after U.S. and Chinese trade officials discussed their phase-one trade deal Thursday night.

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Fri May 08 - Marketwatch
Business
NASDAQ in green for the year
Fri May 08
Tech stocks are in the green for the year. Here are Wall Street's favorite picks in the industry
Business
NASDAQ in green for the year

The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite has erased its 2020 losses and turned positive on the year, lifted by companies whose online businesses proved resilient amid the coronavirus lockdowns. After a strong four-day winning streak, the Nasdaq was able to climb into positive territory on Thursday, rebounding more than 30% since late March.

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Fri May 08 - CNBC