Coronavirus, Donald Trump and Asia: Here’s what you need to know.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Captain of Aircraft Carrier Pleads for Help as Virus Cases Increase Onboard
By Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Helene Cooper from NYT U.S.
It’s Time to Make Your Own Face Mask
By Farhad Manjoo from NYT Opinion
Oil Companies on Tumbling Prices: ‘Disastrous, Devastating’
The use of gasoline and other fuels is dropping as Saudi Arabia and Russia increase production, sending oil prices to their lowest level in a generation.
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Human Rights Group Says Two U.S. Strikes Killed Somali Civilians
A report by Amnesty International challenges the American military’s claim that the February strikes hit only terrorists and no innocent bystanders.
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Infected but Feeling Fine: The Unwitting Coronavirus Spreaders
The C.D.C. director says new data about people who are infected but symptom-free could lead the agency to recommend broadened use of masks.
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Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today
The C.D.C. is considering a recommendation that many more people — maybe everyone — wear masks in public.
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‘Never Thought I Would Need It’: Americans Put Pride Aside to Seek Aid
With coronavirus-related job losses, many workers are reluctantly seeking charity and unemployment benefits for the first time in their lives.
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Monday, March 30, 2020
Coronavirus Prompts Instacart and Amazon Strikes Over Health Concerns
Instacart and Amazon are the latest targets of labor action by groups fearing coronavirus exposure on the job.
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U.S. Retail Crisis Deepens as Hundreds of Thousands Lose Work
Furloughs by Macy’s and Gap will affect the majority of their work forces, and show how the pandemic will devastate many retailers.
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Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today
Three in four Americans are under instruction to stay home, and federal guidelines will be extended for another month.
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Restrictions Are Slowing Coronavirus Infections, New Data Suggest
A database of daily fever readings shows that the numbers declined as people disappeared indoors.
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For India’s Laborers, Coronavirus Lockdown Is an Order to Starve
Despite leaders’ decrees on staying home, laborers who live hand-to-mouth say they have no choice but to keep hitting the streets. Here are their stories.
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Keep It Simple, Albany. This Is No Time for Budget Games.
Governor Cuomo and state lawmakers should pass a streamlined budget and fight their policy battles another day.
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Trump to Governors: I’d Like You to Do Us a Favor, Though
Once again, the president is using aid to extort re-election help.
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Sunday, March 29, 2020
Coronavirus Live Updates: 200,000 Americans Could Die, Warns Top Health Officials
President Trump extended social distancing guidelines to April 30 as cases in the U.S. topped 140,000. The doctors advising him said without any restrictions on movement that more than 1 million Americans could die.
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Stock Markets in Asia Signal Lingering Unease: Live Updates
Live updates on stock market and business news during the coronavirus outbreak.
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Your Monday Briefing
Coronavirus, Social distancing, Sweden: Here’s what you need to know.
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Trump Extends Social Distancing Guidelines to April 30 as U.S. Cases Top 140,000
The global count has passed 700,000, an official warns Britain that some kind of lockdown may last for months and Joe Biden urges mail-in elections.
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India’s Coronavirus Lockdown Leaves Vast Numbers Stranded and Hungry
By Maria Abi-Habib and Sameer Yasir from NYT World
Coronavirus Slowdown in Seattle Suggests Restrictions Are Working
By Mike Baker from NYT U.S.
New York State Exceeds 1,000 Coronavirus Deaths
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Short Attention Span? All These Movies Are Under 90 Minutes
By Jason Bailey from NYT Movies
Trump Extends Social Distancing Guidelines Through End of April
The president, facing grim figures from his health advisers, starkly reversed an earlier upbeat assessment that the country could relax the guidelines by Easter.
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‘A Heart-Wrenching Thing’: Hospital Bans on Visits Devastate Families
To curb the risk of spreading the coronavirus, hospitals nationwide are banning visits from family and friends.
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White House Airlifts Medical Supplies From China in Coronavirus Fight
Officials have teamed up with medical supply companies to speed the arrival of masks, gloves, gowns and other goods.
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Doctors Must Ration Ventilators as Coronavirus Rages. The Decisions Are Painful.
Don’t underestimate the moral anguish of deciding who gets a ventilator.
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Trump Is Hurting His Own Re-election Chances
Don’t be fooled by snapshot polls.
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The Politics of the Coronavirus Pandemic
Trump wants us to see him as defeating a foreign enemy.
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Coronavirus Slowdown in Seattle Suggests Restrictions Are Working
Officials in Washington State worry that their gains are precarious, but they see evidence that containment strategies have lowered the rate of virus transmission.
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Trump Said He Was the President of Manufacturing. Then Disaster Struck.
For a leader who has embraced the language of a wartime president, it is as if the Pentagon asked for missiles and bombers but wouldn’t say how many or where they should be delivered.
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Saturday, March 28, 2020
‘White-Collar Quarantine’ Over Virus Spotlights Class Divide
By Noam Scheiber, Nelson D. Schwartz and Tiffany Hsu from NYT Business
Who Should Be Saved First? Experts Offer Ethical Guidance
Well before rationing caused by coronavirus, protocols were established about “who lives and who dies.”
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America Stress-Bought All the Baby Chickens
In times of anxiety, we hoard the sources of eggs.
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North Korea Launches Two Short-Range Ballistic Missiles
The country has carried out a handful of similar tests this month. The missiles fell into waters between the North and Japan.
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‘Women Will Not Be Forced to Be Alone When They Are Giving Birth’
By Katie Van Syckle and Christina Caron from NYT Parenting