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With the coronavirus-induced market crash, the Great White North’s richest billionaires have seen their fortunes go downhill. With a weaker Canadian dollar and stock markets beset by the coronavirus pandemic, Canada’s wealthiest people are poorer than they were last year. The Great White North’s 10 richest billionaires have a combined…

From Singapore To New York City, more than 26% of the world’s 2,095 billionaires live in just 10 cities on three continents. Out of the 2,095 members of the 2020 Forbes World’s Billionaires list, 552 live in just ten cities. And for the sixth year in a row, more billionaires…

Though stocks of the world’s biggest tech companies fell in March in response to the coronavirus pandemic, founders of tech giants, starting with Jeff Bezos, still dominate the uppermost ranks of Forbes’ new billionaires list. The coronavirus pandemic not only dominated headlines for much of March, it also led to…

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is telling state governors battling the coronavirus to get ventilators and protective gear on their own, but officials who helped build the national stockpile say the trove of medical material was designed for this moment.Triggering confusion and competition among state governments, Trump has insisted that…

By: New York Times | Published: April 6, 2020 10:16:57 am “Comments like calling this ‘the Chinese virus’ have ramifications for someone like me,” said Lee, 34, whose father moved from Beijing to Albany, New York.(Representational Image)(Written by Tammy La Gorce) Dr. Peter Lee, an emergency room doctor from Montville,…

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…

April 4, 2020 | 1:55pm | Updated April 5, 2020 | 10:15pm In the life-and-death fight against the coronavirus pandemic, New York got another huge assist from the Nets and owner Joe Tsai. And Governor Andrew Cuomo thanked them Saturday for a huge shipment of expensive medical supplies, which he…

April 04, 2020 12:51 PM ET New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday that the Chinese government has arranged to send 1,000 ventilators to help the Empire State deal with the coronavirus pandemic that originated from China. “This is a big deal, and it’s going to make a significant difference…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York secured a planeload of ventilators from China on Saturday, and Oregon was sending a shipment of its own to battle the coronavirus pandemic at its U.S. core, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. But the governor's startling plan to force hospitals elsewhere in the…