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Coronavirus update: U.S. death toll tops 71,000, as Trump backs off plan to wind down pandemic task force Beyond Meat

Coronavirus update: U.S. death toll tops 71,000, as Trump backs off plan to wind down pandemic task force

The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 rose above 71,000 on Wednesday, as President Donald Trump appeared to back off his announcement that he would phase out the government task force created to manage the pandemic. Trump said on a visit to Arizona on Tuesday that he…
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May 6, 2020
Thai elephants, out of work due to coronavirus, trudge home Animal Protection

Thai elephants, out of work due to coronavirus, trudge home

By Busaba Sivasomboon And Grant PeckThe Associated PressWed., May 6, 2020timer2 min. readBANGKOK - Thailand’s millions of unemployed due to the coronavirus include elephants which depend on the tourist industry to feed their voracious appetites. With scant numbers of foreign visitors, commercial elephant camps and sanctuaries lack funds for their…
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May 6, 2020
Becoming Reveals What Michelle Obama Has Been Doing Since Leaving The White House Michelle Obama

Becoming Reveals What Michelle Obama Has Been Doing Since Leaving The White House

Photo: Gary Miller/Getty Images.Following the 2018 release of her massively successful memoir “Becoming,” former First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama is bringing her documentary of the same name to Netflix on May 6. Becoming, created with the Obamas’ Higher Ground Productions company, follows the former FLOTUS on the…
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May 6, 2020
Creator of Stardew Valley: “It’s important to me not to just entertain, but to delight” Peace

Creator of Stardew Valley: “It’s important to me not to just entertain, but to delight”

Eric Barone is the creator and lead developer of Stardew Valley, the indie farming and life sim RPG that’s enchanted millions around the world.  He’s a 32-year old game developer based in Seattle, Washington, who grew up in a semi-rural area of the Pacific Northwest with dreams of one day…
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May 6, 2020
The Story of Charles Willson Peale’s Massive Mastodon Alexander von Humboldt

The Story of Charles Willson Peale’s Massive Mastodon

SMITHSONIANMAG.COM | May 6, 2020, 10:44 a.m. In the 18th century, French naturalist George-Louis Leclerc, Comte du Buffon (1706-1778), published a multivolume work on natural history, Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére. This massive treatise, which eventually grew to 44 quarto volumes, became an essential reference work for anyone interested in…
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May 6, 2020