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To Donald Trump, coronavirus is just one more chance for a power grab Impeachment

To Donald Trump, coronavirus is just one more chance for a power grab

Photograph: Patrick Semansky/APThe utter chaos in America’s response to the coronavirus pandemic – shortages of equipment to protect hospital workers, dwindling supplies of ventilators and critical medications, jaw-dropping confusion over how $2.2tn of aid in the recent coronavirus law will be distributed – was perhaps predictable in a nation that…
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April 5, 2020
This Week in Geek History April 5 Jackie Chan

This Week in Geek History April 5

April 51588 - English philosoper Thomas Hobbes 1614 - Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe 1726 - Benjamin Harrison (Signer of the Declaration of Independence) 1856 - American author/educator Booker T. Washington 1900 - American actor Spencer Tracy 1908 - American actress Bette Davis 1916 - American actor Gregory Peck…
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April 5, 2020
Trump tells Americans to take unproven malaria drug to prevent Covid-19 Alibaba

Trump tells Americans to take unproven malaria drug to prevent Covid-19

Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty ImagesDonald Trump has directly urged Americans worried about Covid-19 to take a little-studied anti-malaria drug for the disease, despite potentially serious side effects and a lack of data on safety and efficacy in treatment of the pandemic virus.Related: How science finally caught up with Trump's…
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April 5, 2020