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President Trump declares emergency order to free funds and loosen regulations for healthcare facilities Nancy Pelosi

President Trump declares emergency order to free funds and loosen regulations for healthcare facilities

In an announcement from the White House Friday afternoon, President Donald Trump said that he has announced an emergency declaration to free up more federal resources that states can access as they respond to the novel coronavirus outbreak. “I am officially declaring a national emergency. Two very big words,” said…
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March 13, 2020
Minecraft and Reporters Without Borders team to create virtual library of banned journalism Jamal Khashoggi

Minecraft and Reporters Without Borders team to create virtual library of banned journalism

Proponents of free speech and uncensored reporting may find a new safe haven for articles, reporting, and other potentially banned text: Minecraft. The hit building game for consoles and PC has allowed inventive players to construct in-game computers, logic games, and massive feats of engineering. And they've been able to do…
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March 13, 2020
How has the battle to remove far-right extremism online fared after the Christchurch attacks? Christchurch

How has the battle to remove far-right extremism online fared after the Christchurch attacks?

Updated March 14, 2020 09:59:48 On March 15 last year, a gunman armed with two semi-automatic weapons killed 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch and live streamed his attack on social media. Key points: Christchurch will mark the first anniversary of the mosque attacks on March 1551 people were…
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March 13, 2020
Inside the Survivalist Bunker Where Some Wealthy People Hope to Ride Out Coronavirus Hurricane

Inside the Survivalist Bunker Where Some Wealthy People Hope to Ride Out Coronavirus

A pandemic, like any other crisis, has a way of exposing the chasm between the haves and have-nots, and perhaps the deepest trench right now is the one between the one percenters self-quarantining in dramatic and expensive fashion—and the rest of humanity. While most of us scroll social media and…
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March 13, 2020
Ukraine to suspend all passenger flights from March 17: Interfax Ukraine Ukraine

Ukraine to suspend all passenger flights from March 17: Interfax Ukraine

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine will suspend all passenger flights from March 17, Interfax Ukraine quoted Parliament Speaker Dmytro Razumkov as saying on Friday evening. Ukraine earlier announced that it was banning foreign nationals from entering the country to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The country recorded its first death…
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March 13, 2020
What winter? Earth just had its second-warmest December-February on record NOAA

What winter? Earth just had its second-warmest December-February on record

What winter? The months of December, January and February – which meteorologists define as winter here in the Northern Hemisphere – were the second-warmest on record, federal scientists announced Friday.Only the El Niño-fueled winter of 2015-16 was warmer, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. El Niño, a natural warming of sea…
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March 13, 2020
Jack Ma to donate test kits, masks to U.S. in fight against coronavirus Alibaba

Jack Ma to donate test kits, masks to U.S. in fight against coronavirus

March 13 (Reuters) - Chinese billionaire and Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma said he will donate 500,000 coronavirus testing kits and 1 million masks to the United States and urged international cooperation to fight the health crisis.Ma's initiative, a collaboration between his private charity and Alibaba Foundation, had recently donated relief…
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March 13, 2020