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Liberty University’s Jerry Falwell Jr. Gets Holy Hell As Students Fall Sick
Falwell partially reopened the school, and now the New York Times reports that nearly a dozen students have symptoms. Source link More
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Alan Merrill, Songwriter Of ‘I Love Rock and Roll,’ Dies Of COVID-19
The 69-year-old died Sunday in New York of complications from the virus, his daughter confirmed. Source link More
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‘Listen Up, Dips**ts’: Kentucky Mayor Rips People Ignoring Coronavirus Warnings
Walton Mayor Gabe Brown lays out what’s on the line right now. Source link More
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John Krasinski chats 'The Office' reunion with Steve Carell on cheery new show 'Some Good News'
Last week, John Krasinski asked his Twitter followers to share #SomeGoodNews as a little break from… well, all the news that isn’t very good. Now, that Twitter thread is a show, with Krasinski joining the pro late night hosts by turning his home office into an incredibly wholesome little DIY “news network for good news”, […] More
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Biden Goes After ‘Reckless’ Trump Claim That Hospitals Are Using Too Many Face Masks
“This is ridiculous and completely false,” the former veep said of the president’s claims. Source link More
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‘Last Week Tonight’ Issues Brutal ‘Correction’ Comparing Trump To Joe Exotic
John Oliver revises a 2016 comment about the subject of “Tiger King” on Netflix. Source link More
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Illinois Taking Charge Of COVID-19 Testing After Trump Administration’s ‘Profound Failing’
The missed opportunity of testing triggered an “exponential” increase in the spread of coronavirus, Gov. Pritzker said. Source link More
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Fox News Explains Twitter Speculation Over Jeanine Pirro’s Erratic Performance
The host prompted questions when she appeared disheveled and 15 minutes late on her “Justice with Judge Jeanine” show. Source link More
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As Death Toll Mounts, Trump Brags That His TV Ratings Are As Big As ‘The Bachelor’
Trump’s top health adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci warned that the U.S. death toll could hit 200,000. Source link More
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HQ Trivia is actually back for real, just when we need it most
Remember when the only thing we were all doing online together at the same time, except live-tweeting reality shows, was playing HQ Trivia? The massively popular trivia game stages a comeback on Sunday night, at 9 p.m. ET, after a year of ups, downs, cancellations, firings, and contradictory statements. In a single week in February, […] More
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‘Where Are The Masks Going?’ Trump Questions Use Of Supplies As Coronavirus Cases Surge
‘Where Are The Masks Going?’ Trump Questions Use Of Supplies As Coronavirus Cases Surge Source link More
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Liberty University Students Showing Signs Of COVID-19 After Returning To Campus
Jerry Falwell Jr. has been criticized for welcoming students back to campus after spring break amid a global pandemic. Source link More
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The Station: Bird and Lime layoffs, pivots in a COVID-19 era and a $2.2 trillion deal
Hello folks, welcome back (or hi for the first time) to The Station, a weekly newsletter dedicated to the all the ways people and packages move around this world. I’m your host, Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. I also have started to publish a shorter version of the newsletter on TechCrunch . That’s […] More
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Saudi spies tracked phones using flaws the FCC failed to fix for years
Lawmakers and security experts have long warned of security flaws in the underbelly of the world’s cell networks. Now a whistleblower says the Saudi government is exploiting those flaws to track its citizens across the U.S. as part of a “systematic” surveillance campaign. It’s the latest tactic by the Saudi kingdom to spy on its […] More
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White House extends social distancing guidelines to April 30
Only a few days after saying that he would like to see the country “opened up and raring to go by Easter” and maybe relax rules for at least some parts of the U.S. sooner than later, President Trump today announced that he is extending the government’s social distancing guidelines through April 30. “Nothing would […] More
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Trump Says Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Must Pay For Their Own U.S. Security
“They must pay!” the president tweeted Sunday following unconfirmed reports that the couple had moved to Los Angeles. Source link More
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Divesting from one facial recognition startup, Microsoft ends outside investments in the tech
Microsoft is pulling out of an investment in an Israeli facial recognition technology developer as part of a broader policy shift to halt any minority investments in facial recognition startups, the company announced late last week. The decision to withdraw its investment from AnyVision, an Israeli company developing facial recognition software, came as a result […] More
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‘Grim Sleeper’ Serial Killer Lonnie Franklin Dies In California Prison
Franklin was on death row since 2016 for the deaths of nine women and a teenage girl in South Los Angeles. Source link More
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People Are Throwing Coronavirus Parties, Prompting Arrests And Citations
One man threw two parties in a week while a second man crammed 47 people and a DJ into a small apartment, police said. Source link More
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TikTok love story documents next-level dating in the time of quarantine
Social distancing has made dating more complicated, but that doesn’t mean it’s off the table entirely. Brooklyn-based photographer Jeremy Cohen stepped up social-distancing dating and documented it all in a series of TikToks. Last week he noticed his neighbor, Tori Cignarella, dancing on her roof across the street from his apartment and took a chance. […] More
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CBS News Veteran Journalist Maria Mercader Dies From Coronavirus
The 54-year-old cancer survivor had been on medical leave for an unrelated issue since February. Source link More
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TV Hosts Fail To Ask Joe Biden Questions About Sexual Assault Allegation
A woman has accused the former vice president of assaulting her in 1993. Source link More
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UK police dye blue lagoon black to ward off pesky influencers who should be staying home
If you dye it, they will not come. Police in Buxton, England found a clever way to prevent would-be influencers from flocking to the town’s Instagrammable Caribbean-blue quarry lake — they dumped buckets of black dye in the water and called it a day. According to a Facebook post by the local police department, they’d […] More
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Mariah Carey Celebrates Her 50th Birthday, Insists She’s ‘Eternally 12’
Did we say birthday? We meant anniversary. Source link More
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Striking photos show empty landmarks around the world
Coronavirus has created a new normal, and it’s quieter and far less crowded. With more than one-third of the world’s population hunkered down indoors, once-bustling international landmarks and attractions are now vacant. The near-total absence of people has allowed for extraordinary photographs that show some of world’s most celebrated places as quiet shadows of their […] More
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You're Gonna Need A Bigger Nice Things
Happy Sunday to all you people hunkering down. We have nice things for you! I spent most of Saturday offline and if if you can tear yourself away from your computer, I’d recommend the occasional break. After you read Wonkette, of course. I’m not a dangerous radical. Patrick Stewart Has Some Sonnets For You Patrick […] More
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Museum asks people to recreate art from household items while social distancing and it's delightful
Most people are staying at home, but that doesn’t mean we can’t appreciate good art. To combat the spread of the coronavirus, the state of California issued a stay at home order last week. That means that all non-essential businesses, including museums, have to close for the foreseeable future. To keep the appreciation for the […] More
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NYC Mayor On His Coronavirus Response: Now’s Not The Time To ‘Look Backwards’
Bill de Blasio’s remarks appeared hypocritical given his frequent criticism of Trump’s handling of the pandemic. Source link More
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Turn off your Screen Time notifications for your own good
Let me make this incredibly clear *clears throat*: Turn off your iPhone Screen Time notifications. Go ahead, do it. It’s OK. When every day of coronavirus social distancing feels like a Tuesday on repeat, the weekly iPhone Screen Time alert is one way to know it’s actually Sunday. And friends, it’s a brutal reality to […] More
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Texas GOPer Super Jazzed About All The Abortions COVID-19 Will Prevent
One of the main lessons we’ve learned during this pandemic is that “pro-life” is a moral philosophy that applies only to fetuses and brain dead born humans who are related to people who can afford to keep them on life support against the wishes of doctors or their spouses. So really just fetuses, Terri Schiavo, […] More
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Fauci: US can expect more than 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, millions of cases
On CNN’s State of the Union Sunday, the leading U.S. authority on the COVID-19 pandemic made some grim predictions about the course of the novel coronavirus as it rages through communities within the United States. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime director for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and emerging face of American […] More
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Demi Lovato Accidentally Makes It Instagram Official With Rumored New Boyfriend
The singer has reportedly been dating actor Max Ehrich for a few weeks now. Source link More
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Dr. Anthony Fauci Predicts Hundreds Of Thousands Of Coronavirus Deaths
The top health expert predicted 100,000 to 200,000 Americans could die and millions more could be infected. Source link More
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2 Weeks Ago I Could Have Sex Whenever I Wanted. The Coronavirus Changed That.
The last person I touched before going into isolation was a stranger I had semi-regular sex with. Source link More
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Mnuchin: Americans Can Expect Coronavirus Relief Checks In 3 Weeks
How each person receives the money will depend on whether the IRS has their direct deposit information, he said. Source link More
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Florida Gov. DeSantis Really Mad New York Gave His State Coronavirus
Ron DeSantis looks like the bumbling governor Leslie Nielsen might’ve played in a comedy, but he’s managed the coronavirus outbreak in Florida far less seriously. He wouldn’t close public beaches even as horny spring breakers flocked to them, so local officials had to step up. DeSantis has issued executive orders limiting face-to-face interaction and encouraged […] More
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Nancy Pelosi: Trump’s Slow Response To Coronavirus Pandemic Was ‘Deadly’
“As the president fiddles, people are dying,” the House speaker said. Source link More
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Elizabeth Warren for President open-sources its 2020 campaign tech
Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren may have ended her 2020 presidential run, but the tech used to drive her campaign will live on. Members of her staff announced they would make public the top apps and digital tools developed in Warren’s bid to become the Democratic nominee for president. “In our work, we leaned heavily on […] More
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20 of the Top Virtual Keynote Speakers
With the world on lockdown due to this Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, conferences and workshops are being cancelled or postponed until further notice. If you were organizing an event for your company and don’t know how to continue, contact a virtual keynote speaker. With modern technology, video conference calls are easy to set up and can […] More
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No, your brain isn't 'too busy' for meditation
March Mindfulness is Mashable’s series that examines the intersection of meditation practice and technology. Because even in the time of coronavirus, March doesn’t have to be madness. My mind is too active to meditate. Too busy. There’s too much going on. Those feelings are valid. Meditation, even in normal times, is not easy. If you […] More
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Watch Rick and Morty fight for their lives in anime short
Rick and Morty fans, rejoice! As you’re waiting for news about the last five episodes of the show’s fourth season, watch as the duo temporarily enters the anime world. In this animated short titled “Samurai & Shogun,” Rick and Morty fight off a group of vengeful ninja Ricks who insist he kidnapped Morty. Fans are […] More
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White House Coronavirus Official: ‘No Metro Area Will Be Spared’ From Outbreak
“Every metro area should assume that they will have an outbreak equivalent to New York,” said Dr. Deborah Birx. Source link More
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ER Doctor Sick With Coronavirus: ‘Nothing Right Now Is Sustainable’
She was infected as her ER saw a surge in COVID-19 patients, and she told HuffPost that she doesn’t see an end in sight. Source link More
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5 essential Zoom hacks to make your virtual hangouts way better
Weird times call for weird measures, and that means thousands and thousands of people using a business video conferencing app to show off their cats to their friends during a nationwide quarantine. Zoom has gotten a bunch of interest in the past few weeks as Americans scramble to figure out the right video chat app […] More
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Test and trace with Apple and Google
After the shutdown, the testing and tracing. “Trace, test and treat is the mantra … no lockdowns, no roadblocks and no restriction on movement” in South Korea. “To suppress and control the epidemic, countries must isolate, test, treat and trace,” say WHO. But what does “tracing” look like exactly? In Singapore, they use a “TraceTogether” […] More
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The Best Recipes, Apps And Other Life-Saving Hacks We Tried This Week
Our editors share what’s keeping them calm, productive and entertained during coronavirus social distancing. Source link More
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Oops! We all missed water bottles in the background of 'Little Women'
Wooing March sisters requires proper hydration. And Laurie was thirsty. Little Women suffered a Game of Thrones Starbucks cup moment, but none of us noticed until now. Twitter user @DUNENATION spotted a plastic water bottle and a Hydro Flask (or possibly a Yeti — the internet is divided) in the background of a scene in […] More
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North Korea Test Fires Missiles Amid Worries About Coronavirus Outbreak
The launches suggest leader Kim Jong Un is trying to strengthen domestic support as concern over the pandemic grows. Source link More
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Girl, 4, Found Unharmed In Woods With Dog After Missing 48 Hours: Sheriff
Vadie Sides disappeared from her babysitter’s sight while they were walking the dog in eastern Alabama. Source link More
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How to Provide Customer Support on Social Media Faster
Providing customer support on social media isn’t optional for brands these days. When it takes days or weeks to get a reply on social media, your customers lose interest in your brand, which can ruin your reputation. The days when using phone calls were enough to provide customer support are far behind us. Over the […] More
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