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Brazil’s Bolsonaro Slights Social Distancing As Coronavirus Deaths Hit 1,000 Brasilia

Brazil’s Bolsonaro Slights Social Distancing As Coronavirus Deaths Hit 1,000

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro talked to supporters as he left Alvorada Palace in Brasilia, ... Brazil this week. AFP via Getty Images Topline: As confirmed coronavirus deaths in Brazil topped 1,000 Friday, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro rebuffed social distancing measures to go out into the streets of Brasilia, the nation’s…
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April 11, 2020
As Virus Fears Mounted, Trump Scheduled Only 9 Intelligence Briefings In January Impeachment

As Virus Fears Mounted, Trump Scheduled Only 9 Intelligence Briefings In January

WASHINGTON — Even as experts in his own government were increasingly alarmed about a pandemic threat this January, President Donald Trump apparently remained unconcerned, with no scheduled intelligence briefings before Jan. 6 and only nine the entire month. In the first week of the year, when dire warnings about the…
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April 11, 2020
Belmarsh ‘barely functioning’: Assange tells friend Covid-19 is raging through British prison Julian Assange

Belmarsh ‘barely functioning’: Assange tells friend Covid-19 is raging through British prison

Julian Assange has revealed to a friend the harrowing details of his life in Belmarsh. WikiLeaks founder is still confined at the UK maximum security prison, despite it being stricken with the novel coronavirus. Covid-19 has spread around Belmarsh to such an extent that the prison is “barely functioning” any more at…
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April 10, 2020
Scott Gottlieb: Coronavirus Would Have Been ‘Far More Deadly than Spanish Flu’ if it Appeared in 1918 Spanish Flu

Scott Gottlieb: Coronavirus Would Have Been ‘Far More Deadly than Spanish Flu’ if it Appeared in 1918

Medics bring a patient who has tested positive for the coronavirus to the ambulance in Chelsea, Mass., April 10, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Former Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb on Friday warned that the coronavirus would have been more deadly than the Spanish flu if it had appeared in…
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April 10, 2020
Why Moviegoing May Have Changed For Good — IndieWire’s Movie Podcast Soundcloud

Why Moviegoing May Have Changed For Good — IndieWire’s Movie Podcast

Screen Talk, episode 285: Box office expert Tom Brueggemann makes a special appearance to discuss how the last few weeks have changed the exhibition landscape. In an alternate universe where movie theaters hadn’t closed and studios hadn’t postponed their upcoming releases, the new James Bond movie would be opening in…
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April 10, 2020
We Can Afford A Green New Deal Joe Biden

We Can Afford A Green New Deal

Photo: GettyThe Green New Deal has been pilloried by everyone from House Leader Nancy Pelosi to basically every Republican for being too expensive. Despite that, it turns out implementing it would be really cost effective.New research shows it’s not only “economically credible,” but also that it’s correct to assume that…
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April 10, 2020