Trump Just Announced a MASSIVE Expansion in our Nation’s COVID-19 Testing Capability!
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Boris Johnson adopts cautious approach to second UK coronavirus lockdown
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U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson | Leon Neal/Getty Images Pubs and restaurants will be forced to close at 10 p.m. and people will be encouraged to work from home under new restrictions announced Tuesday. LONDON — Boris Johnson took a softly-softly … Read More
Coronavirus death toll hits 1M worldwide
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The news comes as Europe braces for a ‘second wave’. There have been over 1 million coronavirus-associated deaths worldwide since the illness was first reported in Wuhan, China, in late 2019, according to Johns Hopkins University data. In January, as the virus … Read More
Germany’s debt hits record high due to fiscal splurge in pandemic
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s massive spending to shield Europe’s largest economy from the coronavirus shock has pushed overall debt to its highest level on record, data showed on Tuesday. The overall debt from federal government, regional states, municipalities and social … Read More
Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 25 September 2020
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Greetings from Tyler, Oh no! A second wave has hit. Who saw this coming? “New York Eyes New Shutdown,” reads the NBC headline. Of course they do, we were sure they would. Every time there’s some hint that the pandemic … Read More
The Latest: Venezuela’s Guaidó urges nations to decry Maduro
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UNITED NATIONS — The Latest from the U.N. General Assembly (all times EDT): 8:10 p.m. He didn’t get a spot at the U.N. General Assembly. But U.S.-backed Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó still put out his own online message during … Read More
House approves spending bill in effort to avoid government shutdown during pandemic
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The House voted 359-57 to approve the stop-gap measure. The House easily passed a temporary government-wide funding bill Tuesday evening in a bipartisan effort to keep the government funded through the beginning of December. The House voted 359-57 to approve the stop … Read More
Migrants displaced by Lesbos fire say conditions at new camp are inhumane
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Greek authorities have moved almost all of the 12,000 displaced migrants and refugees on Lesbos island into a new camp after the Moria camp where they were living was destroyed by fire. Since the fire that engulfed Moria camp on … Read More
U.S.-Mexico border crossings continue to rise, with 50,000 arrests made amid pandemic restrictions
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Apprehensions of unauthorized migrants along the southern border rose for a fourth consecutive month in August, with U.S. immigration authorities making nearly 50,000 arrests and expelling the majority of those apprehended under pandemic-era restrictions. More than 43,000 of the apprehensions … Read More