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Coronavirus liquor store closures drive drinkers to seek alcohol options
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Coronavirus liquor store closures drive drinkers to seek alcohol options

The unparalleled decision a month ago to close the state-owned stores that sell nearly all of Pennsylvania's liquor and much of its wine prompted some people to drive across state lines to stock up, risking a misdemeanor charge.
Many liquor cabinets are running low and the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board's pivot to online sales has been, for most, an exercise in frustration in a state of nearly 13 million people.

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Sun Apr 19 - Google
Lady Gaga, Celine Dion, Andrea Bocelli, John Legend Offer ‘The Prayer’ for ‘Together at Home’ Special
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Lady Gaga, Celine Dion, Andrea Bocelli, John Legend Offer ‘The Prayer’ for ‘Together at Home’ Special

Lady Gaga, who helped curate Global Citizen’s One World: Together at Home special, brought together iconic vocalists Celine Dion, Andrea Bocelli and John Legend to sing “The Prayer.” The song was originally released in 1999 as a duet between Dion and Bocelli.

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Sun Apr 19 - Google
Global concert 'One World' raises $127 million to fight coronavirus pandemic
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Global concert 'One World' raises $127 million to fight coronavirus pandemic

A cadre of renowned musicians on Saturday helped raised more than $127 million for the World Health Organization (WHO) and other regional charities working to address the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. The Hill's Campaign Report: 200 days to Election Day 2020 MORE and Laura Bush, raised $55.1 million for the WHO's COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund and $72.8 million for local and regional charities responding the pandemic, Global Citizen said.

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Sun Apr 19 - Google
Taylor Swift Performs a Moving Version of ‘Soon You’ll Get Better’ for ‘Together at Home’
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Taylor Swift Performs a Moving Version of ‘Soon You’ll Get Better’ for ‘Together at Home’

Taylor Swift didn’t need to look any farther than her own latest album, “Lover,” for the song “Soon You’ll Get Better,” which was written for her mother, Andrea — who has been battling cancer for several years — but certainly applies to countless people praying for the recovery of loved ones affected by the coronavirus pandemic that the show is working to rally relief for.

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Sun Apr 19 - Google
Broadway star Nick Cordero had his leg amputated due to coronavirus complications
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Broadway star Nick Cordero had his leg amputated due to coronavirus complications

Broadway actor Nick Cordero is recovering after having his right leg amputated following complications with coronavirus, his wife said. While hospitalized, he started having clotting issues on his right leg, and could not get blood down to his toes. "They had him on blood thinners for the clotting, unfortunately the blood thinners were causing other issues," she said Saturday.

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Sun Apr 19 - Google
Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts plays ‘air drums’ during coronavirus-relief gig
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Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts plays ‘air drums’ during coronavirus-relief gig

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts didn’t let the lack of a drum kit stop him from joining his bandmates in a live performance from their respective homes on Saturday. The legendary rock band was among the performers participating in the “One World: Together At Home” event that raised money for coronavirus relief efforts.

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Sun Apr 19 - Google
NASA team is controlling the Mars Curiosity rover from home — take a look at their work from home setups
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NASA team is controlling the Mars Curiosity rover from home

The Curiosity team, which typically works from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, has been working remotely since California officials issued a "stay at home" order for all non-essential workers to help stop the spread of coronavirus in March, the space agency said in a blog post this week.

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Sun Apr 19 - Google
iPhone SE: Unlike the original, the new one doesn't have a headphone jack
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iPhone SE: Unlike the original, the new one doesn't have a headphone jack

With a four-year gap between the new iPhone SE and the older one, Apple included many welcomed upgrades, including wireless charging, better camera specs and water resistance. But for wired headphone users, another change may be more of a drag: The new iPhone SE doesn't have a headphone jack. Since 2017 and starting with the iPhone 7, Apple began to leave out the audio port from its handsets

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Sun Apr 19 - Google
Work from home: Security risks lurk in virtual meetings
Technology
Work from home: Security risks lurk in virtual meetings

Gerry Firmansyah of Wantiknas said the organizer of the webinar had in fact taken security measures from the get-go, including by screening the participants, subscribing to the Zoom premium plan, using a unique password and IDs, as well as employing up to five cohosts to moderate the session.

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Sun Apr 19 - Google
Technology
What is contact tracing?
Sun Apr 19
What is contact tracing? – TechCrunch
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What is contact tracing?

If and only if a person is determined to be infected with the virus, a hospital (not the person) is authorized to activate the contact tracing app, which will send a notification to all the ID numbers stored in the person’s phone.

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Sun Apr 19 - Google
Turkey now has more coronavirus cases than Iran
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Turkey now has more coronavirus cases than Iran

Turkey’s confirmed coronavirus cases have risen to 82,329, overtaking neighbouring Iran for the first time to record the highest total in the Middle East. Turkey recorded 3,783 new COVID-19 cases and 121 coronavirus-linked deaths in the previous 24 hours, taking Turkey’s total death toll to 1,890. The country is now just behind China in the most number of COVID19 cases. Turkey extended nationwide travel restrictions for a further 15 days

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Sun Apr 19 - Ahvalnews
International
Five Misconceptions About Africa
Sun Apr 19
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International
Five Misconceptions About Africa

Africa emerges as one of the continents that civilization is rooted in its origin, without influence from other nations. Five misconceptions about Africa are
1. Africa is riddled with diseases
2. Africa is always hot
3. All Africans are dark-skinned
4. Africa had no civilization in its history
5. All African countries are poor

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Sun Apr 19 - Afriupdate
Global coronavirus cases above 2.3 million
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Global coronavirus cases above 2.3 million

Coronavirus cases jumped above 2.3 million on Sunday morning as the number of recovered cases crossed 600,000. USA tops the list with the most number of COVID19 cases, a massive 738,000 people in the country now have coronavirus. Spain comes in the second spot with Italy at third. The total number of deaths around the world jumped above 160,000. Several countries announced lockdown extensions to curb the impact

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Sun Apr 19 - Worldometers
Backing Trump, US Republicans call for WHO chief to resign
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US Republicans call for WHO chief to resign

Republican United States lawmakers called on President Donald Trump on Thursday to withhold payments to the World Health Organization (WHO) until its director-general resigns, backing Trump's criticism of the agency's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Seventeen of Trump's fellow Republicans on the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee wrote a letter to Trump supporting his announcement this week that he was withholding funding for the WHO.

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Sat Apr 18 - Google
Wild animals are reclaiming cities and streets during coronavirus lockdown
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Wild animals are reclaiming cities and streets during coronavirus lockdown

Amid the global lockdowns to curb the spread of the coronavirus, striking images taken in South Africa’s popular Kruger National Park — which has remained shut since March 25 — show a pride of some 15 lions napping in the middle of an empty paved road. In March, with Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium closed to the public, penguins got the opportunity to explore their home thanks to no human visitors

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Sat Apr 18 - Google
10 African Countries Have No Ventilators. That’s Only Part of the Problem.
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10 African Countries Have No Ventilators. That’s Only Part of the Problem.

In all, fewer than 2,000 working ventilators have to serve hundreds of millions of people in public hospitals across 41 African countries, the World Health Organization says, compared with more than 170,000 in the United States.
Glaring disparities like these are just part of the reason people across Africa are steeling themselves for the coronavirus, fearful of outbreaks that could be catastrophic in countries with struggling health systems.

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Sat Apr 18 - Google
International
Coronavirus and Iran
Sat Apr 18
'Strange times': Iranians cautious as coronavirus measures eased
International
Coronavirus and Iran

In an attempt to contain the virus, the government ordered stores and businesses across Iran to shut down on March 18, days before the two-week Nowruz holidays (Persian New Year). "I've stayed home for the past 45 days, but I've to go back to work starting next week despite all the risks to my health because I can't pay my rent and bills without a salary," an employee said.

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Sat Apr 18 - Google
Police in Hong Kong arrest 14 activists amid autonomy warnings
International
Police in Hong Kong arrest 14 activists

The arrests took place just hours after China’s top representative office in the semi-autonomous city declared it is not bound by Hong Kong’s constitutional restrictions that bar Chinese government from interfering in local affairs. But the liaison office statement, published late on Friday, asserts that “a high degree of autonomy is not complete autonomy.” It stresses that Hong Kong’s right to self-rule is “authorised by the central government.”

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Sat Apr 18 - Google
Coronavirus: Orthodox Easter weekend marked under lockdown
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Coronavirus: Orthodox Easter weekend marked under lockdown

This Easter authorities have banned attendance of church services, which would normally attract hundreds of thousands of worshippers. The Church has backed the ban and thousands of police have been deployed to prevent Greeks using the holiday to visit relatives or second homes.

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Sat Apr 18 - Google
Elon Musk is tech Covidiot No. 1 during coronavirus pandemic
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Elon Musk and his tweets during coronavirus pandemic

March 6: “the coronavirus panic is dumb,” Musk tweeted to his 32 million followers. In November 2019, The Buffalo News reported that Tesla was getting an $854 million write-down on the plant: “New York State spent $958.6 million to build Tesla Inc.’s solar panel factory in South Buffalo and buy a big chunk of the equipment inside.

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Sat Apr 18 - Google
Colorado’s expanded unemployment system, $600 CARES Act payments will launch Monday
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Colorado’s expanded unemployment system, $600 CARES Act payments will launch Monday

The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment on Monday will begin accepting applications for the new pandemic unemployment assistance program that extends benefits to a range of previously uncovered workers and people affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. After creating a new claims system independent from the one that processes applications for Colorado’s standard unemployment insurance program, the labor department is hopeful it will be able to handle the needs.

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Sat Apr 18 - Google
Antiviral drug remdesivir shows promise in trial on monkeys with coronavirus
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Antiviral drug remdesivir shows promise in trial on monkeys with coronavirus

"Early treatment with the experimental antiviral drug remdesivir significantly reduced clinical disease and damage to the lungs of rhesus macaques infected with SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19," said a press release from the National Institutes of Health, which ran the experiment.

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Sat Apr 18 - Google
Procter & Gamble reports sales bounty from pandemic hoarding
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Procter & Gamble reports sales bounty from pandemic hoarding

Procter & Gamble on Friday reported its U.S. sales during the first three months of the year as Americans overflowed their shopping carts with toilet paper, paper towels and other household staples sold by the consumer-products company. P&G reported net sales for the quarter of $17.2 billion, an increase of 5% from the year-earlier period.

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Sat Apr 18 - Google
Walmart requiring all employees to wear face masks beginning Monday
Business
Walmart requiring all employees to wear face masks beginning Monday

Walmart is requiring all of its employees to wear face masks in an effort to protect both customers and team members amid the COVID-19 pandemic. While the company has “evolved [their] policy on face coverings from optional to mandatory as public health guidance has shifted,” Walmart is not requiring customers to wear masks.

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Sat Apr 18 - Google
The US won’t run out of food during the coronavirus pandemic
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The US won’t run out of food during the coronavirus pandemic, but

The indefinite closure of a processing facility operated by Smithfield Foods, one of the US’s largest pork producers, after more than 640 workers have tested positive for the virus has raised new concern about potential pork shortages.
The supply chain has already had to adapt to America’s changing eating habits amid the pandemic — now, consumers are almost entirely dependent on supermarkets, rather than restaurants and the food service sector.

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Sat Apr 18 - Google