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HOTELS, AIRBNB BEEF UP CLEANING STANDARDS TO CALM TRAVELERS
Hotels and home-sharing companies are beefing up their cleaning efforts in order to soothe jittery travelers.
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May 02, 2020
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FACEBOOK REVENUE GROWTH SLOWS, BUT ‘SIGNS OF STABILITY' RISE
Facebook reported its slowest quarterly growth as a public company, pressured by the coronavirus pandemic and a resulting global slowdown in digital advertising.
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May 02, 2020
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EUROPEAN DOCTORS WARN RARE KIDS' SYNDROME MAY HAVE VIRUS TIE
Doctors in Britain, Italy, and Spain have been warned to look out for a rare inflammatory condition in children that is possibly linked to the new coronavirus.
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May 02, 2020
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CALIFORNIA SCALES UP 1ST-IN-US ELECTRIC TRUCK SALE PROPOSAL
California regulators strengthened a proposed first-in-the-nation rule that would force automakers to sell more electric delivery vans and work trucks in a state with the country’s worst air quality.
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May 02, 2020
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MAKING PUBLIC TRANSIT SAFE A NEXT HURDLE IN EASING LOCKDOWNS
In cities around the world, public transportation systems are key to getting workers back on the job and restarting devastated economies. Yet methods of getting around, ranging from trains and buses to ferries and bicycles, will have to be re-imagined for the coronavirus era.
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May 02, 2020
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COMCAST PROFIT SLIDES AS PANDEMIC HITS MOVIES, THEME PARKS
Comcast’s net income slid in the first three months of the year as the coronavirus pandemic forced it to shut down its theme parks and its movies were kept out of shuttered theaters.
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May 02, 2020
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AMERICAN AIRLINES POSTS $2.2 BILLION LOSS DURING PANDEMIC
American Airlines reported a staggering loss of $2.24 billion for the first quarter, when the coronavirus pandemic triggered a sharp drop in air travel.
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May 02, 2020
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30 MILLION HAVE SOUGHT US UNEMPLOYMENT AID SINCE VIRUS HIT
More than 3.8 million laid-off workers applied for unemployment benefits last week as the U.S. economy slid further into a crisis that is becoming the most devastating since the 1930s.
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May 02, 2020
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VIRGIN GALACTIC COMPLETES FIRST GLIDE FLIGHT IN NEW MEXICO
Virgin Galactic’s spaceship VSS Unity landed in the New Mexico desert last Friday, marking its first glide flight from Spaceport America as the company moves toward commercial operations.
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May 09, 2020
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NINTENDO MARKS PROFIT JUMP AS PEOPLE STAY HOME AMID PANDEMIC
Japanese video-game maker Nintendo Co. scored a 33% jump in annual profit, as people stuck at home turn to playing games.
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May 09, 2020
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CHINA EXPORTS REBOUND IN APRIL BUT MORE WEAKNESS AHEAD
China’s exports rebounded in April to rise 3.5% over a year earlier, but forecasters warned that strength is unlikely to last as the coronavirus pandemic depresses global consumer demand.
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May 09, 2020
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GLOBAL LUXURY GOODS SALES TO SLIDE UP TO 35% - STUDY
The global luxury goods sector is heading for a stunning collapse of up to 35% this year due to coronavirus lockdowns, according to a new study by the Bain consultancy published Thursday.
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May 09, 2020
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STAR WARS: TAIKA WAITITI TO DIRECT NEW FILM
Taika Waititi, the New Zealand filmmaker of “Jojo Rabbit” and “Thor: Ragnarok,” will direct a new “Star Wars” film.
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May 09, 2020
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TESLA HITS TARGET TO QUALIFY CEO ELON MUSK FOR BIG PAYDAY
Tesla CEO Elon Musk appears to have hit all the milestones he needed to receive a stock award now worth about $730 million, a payday that will further pad the eccentric billionaire’s vast fortune.
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May 09, 2020
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EU FORECASTS ‘RECESSION OF HISTORIC PROPORTIONS' THIS YEAR
The European Union predicted “a recession of historic proportions this year” due to the impact of the coronavirus as it released its first official estimates of the damage the pandemic is inflicting on the bloc’s economy.
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May 09, 2020
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Conspiracy Theorists Burn 5G Towers Claiming Link To Virus
The CCTV footage from a Dutch business park shows a man in a black cap pouring the contents of a white container at the base of a cellular radio tower. Flames burst out as the man jogs back to his Toyota to flee into the evening.
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April 25, 2020
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26 Million Have Sought US Jobless Aid Since Virus Hit
More than 4.4 million laid-off workers applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week as job cuts escalated across an economy that remains all but shut down, the government said Thursday.
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April 25, 2020
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Belgian Port to Test Virus Bracelets Amid Tech Tracing Fears
As the spread of the coronavirus eases and people gradually return to work pondering the impact it might have on their jobs, Europe’s second-biggest port is getting ready to test a device aimed at helping thousands of people employed there to respect social distancing.
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April 25, 2020
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‘Beastie Boys Story' Isn't A Sure Shot, But It'll Do
Little was predictable about the Beastie Boys in their three-plus decades of making music. They were spontaneous, always evolving, off-the-cuff pranksters who turned pro without ever losing the punchline.
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April 25, 2020
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LEGAL BATTLES LOOM AS BUSINESSES HIT BY VIRUS SUE INSURERS
A once-bustling bar and grill tucked below a Michigan Avenue overpass famously inspired a “Saturday Night Live” skit starring John Belushi and Bill Murray. But the money the Billy Goat Tavern is losing during the coronavirus outbreak is no joke.
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April 25, 2020
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VENTILATOR FROM OLD CAR PARTS? AFGHAN GIRLS PURSUE PROTOTYPE
On most mornings, Somaya Farooqi and four other teenage girls pile into her dad’s car and head to a mechanic’s workshop. They use back roads to skirt police checkpoints set up to enforce a lockdown in their city of Herat, one of Afghanistan’s hot spots of the coronavirus pandemic.
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April 25, 2020
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EU LEADERS WEIGH MASSIVE VIRUS ECONOMIC RECOVERY MEASURES
The new coronavirus is devastating lives, health care systems, and economies, and European Union leaders must work together, using every lever at their disposal, to rebuild and restore public faith in the EU project, the head of the bloc’s parliament warned.
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April 25, 2020
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AMID PANDEMIC, CHARITIES AND NONPROFITS FACE HUGE CHALLENGES
While celebrities and billionaires have announced huge gifts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, many charities and nonprofits are still struggling. Donations to some churches have plummeted, and many charities have had to cancel crucial fundraising events such as galas, bike races, and walkathons.
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April 25, 2020
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THINK THINGS ARE BAD FOR AIRLINES? IT'S ABOUT TO GET WORSE
The biggest and most profitable U.S. airline just posted its first quarterly loss in more than five years. Now things are going to get really bad.
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April 25, 2020
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TYSON FOODS IDLES LARGEST PORK PLANT AS VIRUS SLAMS INDUSTRY
Tyson Foods suspended operations at an Iowa plant that is critical to the nation’s pork supply but was blamed for fueling a massive coronavirus outbreak in the region.
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April 25, 2020
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Richest Countries Agree To Freeza Poorer Nations' Debt
The world’s richest countries agreed to freeze poor nations’ debt obligations, shortly after nearly 20 European and African leaders made a joint appeal for a massive international effort to boost Africa’s coronavirus response, saying that “only a global victory that fully includes Africa can bring this pandemic to an end.”
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April 18, 2020
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Broadcast Crews Struggling After Sports Go Dark
Greg Calvin believed his job as an audio technician could survive most economic downturns because people will keep watching sports while the networks that air the games still receive advertising revenue.
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April 18, 2020
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Can You Fix Ventilators? A Fuel Cell Engineer Figures It Out
It was late when engineer Joe Tavi’s boss called with an odd question: Could their company, which makes fuel cells, learn how to fix a ventilator?
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April 04, 2020
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TIRED OF ‘FROZEN?' STREAM THESE LESS OBVIOUS KIDS MOVIES
Weeks of quarantine with kids have a way of burning through a movie collection.
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April 18, 2020
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PENTAGON: $10B CLOUD CONTRACT THAT SNUBBED AMAZON WAS LEGAL
The Pentagon’s process for awarding a highly lucrative cloud computing contract to Microsoft instead of Amazon was in line with legal and government purchasing standards, a government watchdog agency said Wednesday.
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