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A "TRUMP Death Clock" has been beamed onto an enormous Times Square billboard to show the US coronavirus death toll in real-time. The enormous ticking tracker was brought to NYC on May 8 and the 56-foot LED screen keeps a running count of the lives lost 'unnecessarily' during the COVID-19…

What happens when someone with coronavirus coughs into their hand before eating at a buffet? Interested in seeing how the virus might have spread on cruise ships, NHK, Japan's national broadcasting company, conducted a so-called experiment with 10 volunteers at a buffet. Before anyone went to get their food, a…

In hopes of minimizing the spread of coronavirus in their community, the Cheyenne River Sioux have established a series of checkpoints on state highways that run through tribal reservations in South Dakota. As Truthout explains: Commercial drivers and South Dakota residents are being allowed to travel on tribal lands, but…

By Mikelle Leow, 13 May 2020 Image via lev radin / Shutterstock.comThe city that never sleeps has been kept awake by a newly-emerged billboard at Times Square claiming to count the number of COVID-19 deaths that could have been prevented if not for the United States’ delayed response to the…

Members of the Gonobikerreas. Photo: Mark Peterson/markpeterson/reduxpictures 2020 The law of entropy states (more or less) that when a place is left alone, things start to get weird, and at around 12:30 a.m. on an April night in Times Square, they did. Bikers from around the tristate area roared into…

Firestorm Bookstore Co-op is a collectively-owned radical bookstore and community event space in Asheville, North Carolina that describes itself as an essentially anti-capitalist business, in as much as they can be. And on May 7, someone smashed their through their window and robbed the cash register. (They also behind a…

An almost-empty Times Square in April. | Kena Betancur/Getty Images NEW YORK — New York City will remain largely shut down at least into June, but could begin to ease some restrictions next month if progress in combating the coronavirus pandemic continues, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday. “We’re clearly…

One of the Charleston region’s largest technology employers was front and center in the heart of a mostly vacant Times Square in New York City last week in a convergence of finance and philanthropy.The Nasdaq stock market picked Blackbaud Inc. to participate in its virtual opening bell ceremony Tuesday to…

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, former boxer and owner of Times Square fixture Jimmy's Corner, has died from complications of the coronavirus. He was 89. The New York Daily News reports he was hospitalized in mid-April and never recovered.A South Carolina native, Glenn opened the bar just off Broadway on W. 44th St in…