India, Pakistan troops trade heavy fire in Kashmir; 3 killed

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Canada coronavirus toll rises, officials probe seniors' home deaths

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The number of Canadian deaths from the new coronavirus rose by more than 12% to 674 in a day, official data showed on Sunday, and Quebec officials opened a probe into the deaths of 31 people in a seniors' residence. The public health agency said that by 11:00 eastern time (1500 GMT), the total number of positive COVID-19 diagnoses had risen to 23,719. Many of the victims died in seniors' residences, which health officials say are particularly vulnerable.

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Push-ups to fake guests: Curious African coronavirus moments

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Free buses, a mock wedding, hands-free taps and round-robin poetry are part of life under lockdown.

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Alaska Dems says they received twice as many ballots than in 2016

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Joe Biden is the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee after Sanders suspended his campaign earlier this week, although Sanders remained on the ballot in Alaska.

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'End of the beginning?' Governor invokes Churchill to suggest New York deaths may be levelling off

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In his Saturday pandemic briefing, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo invoked Winston Churchill as he updated the state’s grim death toll, but observed that the data implies that the impact of the coronavirus may be levelling off.“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning,” the governor said, quoting the wartime British prime minister.

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Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines, The promise of COVID-19 antibody testingLatest Yahoo News & Headlines

We do not yet know if all COVID-19 patients are able to mount effective immunity and prevent reinfection.

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We do not yet know if all COVID-19 patients are able to mount effective immunity and prevent reinfection.

Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines, Assange's partner reveals they had 2 children and urges bailLatest Yahoo News & Headlines

Julian Assange's partner revealed Sunday that she had two children with him while he lived inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and she issued a plea for the WikiLeaks founder to be released from prison over fears for his health during the coronavirus pandemic. Assange has been imprisoned at London's Belmarsh prison since police dragged out of the embassy a year ago. In a video uploaded onto YouTube, Stella Moris said she met Assange in 2011 when she helped out his legal team and that they got together four years later.

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Julian Assange's partner revealed Sunday that she had two children with him while he lived inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and she issued a plea for the WikiLeaks founder to be released from prison over fears for his health during the coronavirus pandemic. Assange has been imprisoned at London's Belmarsh prison since police dragged out of the embassy a year ago. In a video uploaded onto YouTube, Stella Moris said she met Assange in 2011 when she helped out his legal team and that they got together four years later.

Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines, 100 more sailors from the USS Theodore Roosevelt have tested positive for coronavirus, making up 75% of the Navy's total cases worldwideLatest Yahoo News & Headlines

A total of 550 cases have now been linked to the ship, which is harbored in Guam with sailors being taken ashore.

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A total of 550 cases have now been linked to the ship, which is harbored in Guam with sailors being taken ashore.

Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines, El Salvador president threatens drivers violating coronavirus rulesLatest Yahoo News & Headlines

President Nayib Bukele said anyone driving cars in El Salvador without having justification for being out of their homes would be stripped of their driving license, doubling down on attempts to enforce rules to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. Bukele and other Central American leaders have implemented swift and strict measures after the first cases of the novel coronavirus were registered but in recent weeks thousands of people in the region were detained for violating the rules. At his request, El Salvador's Congress on March 14 approved an emergency regime, which temporarily suspended the right to free movement and free association.

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President Nayib Bukele said anyone driving cars in El Salvador without having justification for being out of their homes would be stripped of their driving license, doubling down on attempts to enforce rules to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. Bukele and other Central American leaders have implemented swift and strict measures after the first cases of the novel coronavirus were registered but in recent weeks thousands of people in the region were detained for violating the rules. At his request, El Salvador's Congress on March 14 approved an emergency regime, which temporarily suspended the right to free movement and free association.

Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines, At least 3 dead in Mississippi as Easter Sunday tornadoes hit the South; more storms forecast for Monday in the EastLatest Yahoo News & Headlines

The National Weather Service reported tornadoes over northwest and north central Louisiana. The severe weather will move into the East on Monday.

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The National Weather Service reported tornadoes over northwest and north central Louisiana. The severe weather will move into the East on Monday.

Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines, Kentucky Cops Take Down License Plates at Easter Church Service Defying LockdownLatest Yahoo News & Headlines

Kentucky police officers on Sunday wrote down the license plate numbers of roughly 50 cars parked outside a church where an in-person Easter service took place in defiance of the state’s lockdown orders to fight the spread of the coronavirus. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said on Friday that residents who flout the stay-at-home order must self-quarantine for 14 days, warning that authorities would record the license plates of those who attend in-person Easter services or other mass gatherings and follow up with them. Shortly before Maryville Baptist Church’s Easter service, piles of nails appeared to be intentionally dumped in the parking lot of the church, the Courier-Journal reported.As Pastors Make Unusual Easter Plans, One Vows ‘Satan and Virus’ Won’t Stop 2000-Person Service The church’s pastor, Rev. Jack Roberts, has previously disregarded the state ban on gatherings, saying that he “believed in the spiritual necessity of church before COVID-19. After COVID-19, we don’t have fewer spiritual crises; we have more.” He also asserted that he has a constitutional right to hold services and accused the governor of “infringing on the church’s rights.” Roberts covered his license plate on Sunday, as did several members of his congregation, but state troopers took down their vehicle identification numbers instead, the Journal reported.Sgt. Josh Lawson of the Kentucky State Police said that there have been no additional violations of the statewide order, noting that several drive-in services that took place around the state “were specifically mentioned by the governor as being allowed.” “This is a time and weekend, a whole week for multiple faiths, that is about faith. It’s about knowing we have faced as people—as Christians, as Jews, as members of many faiths—many difficult, dark times, and we have prevailed,” Gov. Beshear said on Friday. “We know that the weeks or the months ahead will be difficult. We know that there are going to be tougher days before there are easier days.”Beshear also said that anyone who holds in-person Easter services would be charged with a misdemeanor violation of the governor’s statewide order. With at least 316 million Americans under orders to stay at home to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, governors have been at odds with some religious leaders who were defiant in their determination to celebrate Easter with their congregations.Reverend Tony Spell, a pastor of the evangelical Life Tabernacle Church in Louisiana, told Reuters that “Satan and a virus will not stop us,” and vowed to hold his service on Sunday despite Gov. John Bel Edwards’ statewide stay-at-home order. The pastor said he expected over 2,000 worshippers to attend. “We are not afraid. We are called by God to stand against the Antichrist creeping into America’s borders. We will spread the Gospel,” Spell told Reuters. Central Police Department Chief Roger Corcoran told The Washington Post that he waited outside the megachurch and said that roughly 330 people attended Spell’s Sunday service. “No one has advised him he couldn’t hold church,” Corcoran reportedly said. “It’s been suggested he do it a different way, just like every other church in the nation, by social media and live stream.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

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Kentucky police officers on Sunday wrote down the license plate numbers of roughly 50 cars parked outside a church where an in-person Easter service took place in defiance of the state’s lockdown orders to fight the spread of the coronavirus. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said on Friday that residents who flout the stay-at-home order must self-quarantine for 14 days, warning that authorities would record the license plates of those who attend in-person Easter services or other mass gatherings and follow up with them. Shortly before Maryville Baptist Church’s Easter service, piles of nails appeared to be intentionally dumped in the parking lot of the church, the Courier-Journal reported.As Pastors Make Unusual Easter Plans, One Vows ‘Satan and Virus’ Won’t Stop 2000-Person Service The church’s pastor, Rev. Jack Roberts, has previously disregarded the state ban on gatherings, saying that he “believed in the spiritual necessity of church before COVID-19. After COVID-19, we don’t have fewer spiritual crises; we have more.” He also asserted that he has a constitutional right to hold services and accused the governor of “infringing on the church’s rights.” Roberts covered his license plate on Sunday, as did several members of his congregation, but state troopers took down their vehicle identification numbers instead, the Journal reported.Sgt. Josh Lawson of the Kentucky State Police said that there have been no additional violations of the statewide order, noting that several drive-in services that took place around the state “were specifically mentioned by the governor as being allowed.” “This is a time and weekend, a whole week for multiple faiths, that is about faith. It’s about knowing we have faced as people—as Christians, as Jews, as members of many faiths—many difficult, dark times, and we have prevailed,” Gov. Beshear said on Friday. “We know that the weeks or the months ahead will be difficult. We know that there are going to be tougher days before there are easier days.”Beshear also said that anyone who holds in-person Easter services would be charged with a misdemeanor violation of the governor’s statewide order. With at least 316 million Americans under orders to stay at home to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, governors have been at odds with some religious leaders who were defiant in their determination to celebrate Easter with their congregations.Reverend Tony Spell, a pastor of the evangelical Life Tabernacle Church in Louisiana, told Reuters that “Satan and a virus will not stop us,” and vowed to hold his service on Sunday despite Gov. John Bel Edwards’ statewide stay-at-home order. The pastor said he expected over 2,000 worshippers to attend. “We are not afraid. We are called by God to stand against the Antichrist creeping into America’s borders. We will spread the Gospel,” Spell told Reuters. Central Police Department Chief Roger Corcoran told The Washington Post that he waited outside the megachurch and said that roughly 330 people attended Spell’s Sunday service. “No one has advised him he couldn’t hold church,” Corcoran reportedly said. “It’s been suggested he do it a different way, just like every other church in the nation, by social media and live stream.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines, Coronavirus: Fauci says US 'could have saved lives' with earlier actionLatest Yahoo News & Headlines

Experts called for social distancing in February but there was "pushback", a top health official says.

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Experts called for social distancing in February but there was "pushback", a top health official says.

Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines, U.K.’s Johnson Says He Risked Dying During Virus TreatmentLatest Yahoo News & Headlines

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Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines, Sanders' exit highlights asymmetry between the partiesLatest Yahoo News & Headlines

Analysis: The Republican Party was more susceptible to an ideological takeover in the Obama era than Democrats have proven to be in Trump's.

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Analysis: The Republican Party was more susceptible to an ideological takeover in the Obama era than Democrats have proven to be in Trump's.

Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines, Canada coronavirus toll rises, officials probe seniors' home deathsLatest Yahoo News & Headlines

The number of Canadian deaths from the new coronavirus rose by more than 12% to 674 in a day, official data showed on Sunday, and Quebec officials opened a probe into the deaths of 31 people in a seniors' residence. The public health agency said that by 11:00 eastern time (1500 GMT), the total number of positive COVID-19 diagnoses had risen to 23,719. Many of the victims died in seniors' residences, which health officials say are particularly vulnerable.

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The number of Canadian deaths from the new coronavirus rose by more than 12% to 674 in a day, official data showed on Sunday, and Quebec officials opened a probe into the deaths of 31 people in a seniors' residence. The public health agency said that by 11:00 eastern time (1500 GMT), the total number of positive COVID-19 diagnoses had risen to 23,719. Many of the victims died in seniors' residences, which health officials say are particularly vulnerable.

Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines, 'Take this seriously': Southeast may see severe storms and tornadoes on Easter SundayLatest Yahoo News & Headlines

Forecasters are particularly concerned about the prospect of tornadoes staying on the ground for several minutes.

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Forecasters are particularly concerned about the prospect of tornadoes staying on the ground for several minutes.

Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines, Empty churches and the empty tombLatest Yahoo News & Headlines

One year ago on Monday, hundreds of millions of people the world round reacted with horror to images of the cathedral church of Our Lady of Paris burning. She did not collapse, as some feared she would. But it was announced with regret that throughout Holy Week and on Easter Sunday, Notre Dame would be empty for the first time since the days of the Revolution.Now nearly all of our churches appear empty. I say "appear" because in many of them there will in fact be priests offering the one acceptable sacrifice, in union with the angels and saints. But it is almost certainly the case that fewer people will attend Mass on Sunday than on any Easter in more than a thousand years.It is difficult to say exactly when the present reality no longer seemed shocking. I cannot be the only person who feels as if the last few months have been mostly indistinguishable. In January and February, a single day did not pass upon which all five members of our family were in good health. Then on my birthday, February 22, our daughter, Winifred Flosshilde, was stillborn. On Ash Wednesday she received Catholic burial at the diocesan cemetery. The following Sunday my wife was still recovering from Winifred's delivery and we did not attend Mass. The next week we entered our parish church and found it somewhat barer than usual; the following Sunday, by which time the obligation to attend Mass had been waived in our diocese, the church looked only somewhat emptier. Our bishop was the last in the United States to suspend public Masses. After that, the church doors remained unlocked. Opening them in order to confess my sins was an experience I shall never forget: a handful of masked women and teenagers hiding in corners like suspicious criminals, all of us praying before the exposed Body of Christ. Beneath the statue of St. Joseph, a handmade system of green and red light bulbs indicated whether the adjacent storage room was empty for the next penitent. It was of a piece with empty streets and empty parks, miserable weather, an atmosphere of relentless dread that many of us will no doubt refer to as "the long Lent." These have been the strangest and most miserable three months of my life.Why then do I now find myself resisting the urge to be giddy? I am tempted to say it is because I know that sooner or later all of this will come to an end, that out of the darkness we will emerge with our own candles, from the digital cold to the warmth of human affection and communion. But the eventual end of the pandemic and the return of normal human social relations, including the resumed public celebration of Mass, is only a proximate cause. The joy I find building in myself, quietly but undeniably, transcends the gloom of recent days.It does not, however, transcend bodies. The significance of this fact cannot be overstated. It is the supreme truth of the Christian religion that our faith is grounded not in anagogic speculations but in the reality of flesh and blood, the flesh and blood of a victim who won a victory, total and final, over the forces of sin and darkness, a human sacrifice who was Himself a sacrificing high priest, a non-citizen peasant who was king of all worlds.Christianity is not a matter of privately affirming certain propositions. The Church is herself a society, both natural and supernatural, a society of human believers whose shared joy is the affirmation of a truth. This truth is, reduced to its barest essence, that a certain body which ought to have been in a tomb was sought and found elsewhere. What this meant was a riddle to which only a few clever women guessed the answer immediately.We too must stand, like St. Mary Magdalene and her companions, before an emptiness and see beyond it a great light and a body, one both like and radically unlike that for which they had been seeking. This is the Resurrection, the hope of Easter, which must be commemorated with empty churches in spite of, nay because of, the fact that it is founded upon the realization that emptiness means not an absence but the presence of something for which we have longed without knowing it our entire lives.More stories from theweek.com 5 radically funny cartoons about the end of Bernie 2020 Coronavirus and the mystery of St. Mark's Easter story Sting, Jimmy Fallon, and the Roots perform 'Don't Stand So Close to Me' remotely, creatively

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One year ago on Monday, hundreds of millions of people the world round reacted with horror to images of the cathedral church of Our Lady of Paris burning. She did not collapse, as some feared she would. But it was announced with regret that throughout Holy Week and on Easter Sunday, Notre Dame would be empty for the first time since the days of the Revolution.Now nearly all of our churches appear empty. I say "appear" because in many of them there will in fact be priests offering the one acceptable sacrifice, in union with the angels and saints. But it is almost certainly the case that fewer people will attend Mass on Sunday than on any Easter in more than a thousand years.It is difficult to say exactly when the present reality no longer seemed shocking. I cannot be the only person who feels as if the last few months have been mostly indistinguishable. In January and February, a single day did not pass upon which all five members of our family were in good health. Then on my birthday, February 22, our daughter, Winifred Flosshilde, was stillborn. On Ash Wednesday she received Catholic burial at the diocesan cemetery. The following Sunday my wife was still recovering from Winifred's delivery and we did not attend Mass. The next week we entered our parish church and found it somewhat barer than usual; the following Sunday, by which time the obligation to attend Mass had been waived in our diocese, the church looked only somewhat emptier. Our bishop was the last in the United States to suspend public Masses. After that, the church doors remained unlocked. Opening them in order to confess my sins was an experience I shall never forget: a handful of masked women and teenagers hiding in corners like suspicious criminals, all of us praying before the exposed Body of Christ. Beneath the statue of St. Joseph, a handmade system of green and red light bulbs indicated whether the adjacent storage room was empty for the next penitent. It was of a piece with empty streets and empty parks, miserable weather, an atmosphere of relentless dread that many of us will no doubt refer to as "the long Lent." These have been the strangest and most miserable three months of my life.Why then do I now find myself resisting the urge to be giddy? I am tempted to say it is because I know that sooner or later all of this will come to an end, that out of the darkness we will emerge with our own candles, from the digital cold to the warmth of human affection and communion. But the eventual end of the pandemic and the return of normal human social relations, including the resumed public celebration of Mass, is only a proximate cause. The joy I find building in myself, quietly but undeniably, transcends the gloom of recent days.It does not, however, transcend bodies. The significance of this fact cannot be overstated. It is the supreme truth of the Christian religion that our faith is grounded not in anagogic speculations but in the reality of flesh and blood, the flesh and blood of a victim who won a victory, total and final, over the forces of sin and darkness, a human sacrifice who was Himself a sacrificing high priest, a non-citizen peasant who was king of all worlds.Christianity is not a matter of privately affirming certain propositions. The Church is herself a society, both natural and supernatural, a society of human believers whose shared joy is the affirmation of a truth. This truth is, reduced to its barest essence, that a certain body which ought to have been in a tomb was sought and found elsewhere. What this meant was a riddle to which only a few clever women guessed the answer immediately.We too must stand, like St. Mary Magdalene and her companions, before an emptiness and see beyond it a great light and a body, one both like and radically unlike that for which they had been seeking. This is the Resurrection, the hope of Easter, which must be commemorated with empty churches in spite of, nay because of, the fact that it is founded upon the realization that emptiness means not an absence but the presence of something for which we have longed without knowing it our entire lives.More stories from theweek.com 5 radically funny cartoons about the end of Bernie 2020 Coronavirus and the mystery of St. Mark's Easter story Sting, Jimmy Fallon, and the Roots perform 'Don't Stand So Close to Me' remotely, creatively

Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines, 6 people were shot at a 'large party' held in California despite the state's social distancing orderLatest Yahoo News & Headlines

Police said they have not made any arrests in the case. All victims were treated at a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

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Police said they have not made any arrests in the case. All victims were treated at a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines, Democrats Fear Trump’s New 2020 Strategy Is WorkingLatest Yahoo News & Headlines

President Donald Trump and his allies are leaning heavily into a new 2020 strategy tying Democrats and their presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden not just to China but to its role in spreading the coronavirus.Democrats are increasingly worried that the strategy will work.The Trump re-election campaign released a new ad this week going after Biden over his opposition to restrictions on travel from China designed to control the spread of the coronavirus outbreak. That was followed with a fundraising solicitation on Saturday that hammered home the point: “I am TOUGH ON CHINA and Sleepy Joe Biden is WEAK ON CHINA,” it declared.There’s a Huge Hole in Biden’s Coronavirus PlanInside the campaign, the strategy is simple: make China the villain of a global pandemic that has complicated well-laid electoral plans and sparked growing criticism of the president.“[China’s] among many weaknesses, but when people learn about Biden’s attack on the president’s China travel ban, his other weak positions on China, and his conflict with Hunter Biden’s business deal with China, voters are horrified,” John McLaughlin, a Trump pollster, told The Daily Beast on Friday. Other Trump 2020 officials said that the campaign had always intended to hammer Biden on China until the election in November, and the coronavirus “angle” was merely another way to go after the Bidens and China simultaneously.In one sense it’s simply an extension of Team Trump’s months-long strategy to tie Biden to a country increasingly viewed with suspicion by American voters. The campaign and the Republican National Committee have been hammering Biden for months over his youngest son Hunter’s past business dealings in China.But the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan, has made the country a far more potent political villain. And the massive disruptions in daily life caused by the virus virtually guarantee that China will remain in the headlines—and on the minds of American voters—for months as election day approaches. Polls already indicate that Americans of both parties overwhelmingly blame China for the virus’ initial spread.For a Trump campaign that’s a potential political goldmine. “China was an effective wedge issue for Trump in 2016,” said one Republican strategist close to the campaign. “Now that it’s at the top of everyone’s mind, and Biden has a long record of being weak on China, just imagine how much more effective it will be in 2020.”They Said They Were Bernie or Bust. Then They Talked Themselves Into Biden.The new tactic from Trump has not gone unnoticed by Democrats who fear that it may be the type of opening that a cynical president could effectively use—even one who has made a point of going soft on China’s leader, Xi Jinping, whom Trump routinely praises as an “incredible guy” who’s doing a great job handling the virus. Navigator Research, a progressive polling outlet that has taken the lead for the party in public opinion surveying around the virus, included an alarm bell nugget in its Friday dispatch. “Warning” the item read, “Trump’s China rhetoric may be resonating and gaining traction.” As evidence, the firm noted that 43 percent of respondents in its survey said “China bears more responsibility than the federal government for the way coronavirus has spread in the U.S.”“A lot of times people on the left tend to have a knee-jerk reaction to Trump's racism and xenophobia that disallows them from taking it as seriously as a messaging tactic as it is,” said Ian Sams, a top official at Navigator. “The public is pretty anti-China right now. And I think there is validity to the idea that they’ve been less than transparent and hid information on this virus. And Trump is seizing on that… We can’t just let Trump’s lies be the only thing out there.” To that point, Democrats have largely stopped pushing back against Trump’s anti-China push on grounds that it’s xenophobic and adopted the posture that it’s all a big lie, pointing to, among other things, the fact that his administration sent China medical supplies as it was battling coronavirus, only to then have a shortage of them when it hit the U.S. Democratic National Committee talking points, obtained by The Daily Beast, say that Trump’s claim to have “acted early with his China travel restrictions,” was in reality “too little too late.” The Democratic Party’s top think tank, Center for American Progress, put together a memo that encouraged officials not to “concede a thing on Trump’s travel ban.”“The reality is, Trump was slow in instituting the ban,” it reads. “And the ban was so leaky that 40,000 more people entered from China after the ban was in place.”But Sams conceded that it likely would not be good enough to merely call Trump a liar on China. The case needed to be made, he said, that the president had coddled Beijing at a time when the country should have been warning the U.S. about the seriousness of COVID-19. Top Democratic officials said that they were gearing up to more proactively make that point in the days ahead. And Biden’s campaign, for its part, seems to be there already. Trump’s Sick Reality Show Is Built on Coronavirus Corpses“Despite repeated warnings from the U.S. intelligence community—and public warnings from Joe Biden—that he shouldn't take China's word about containment of the outbreak, Donald Trump praised China's response for weeks while downplaying the threat to us,” said Andrew Bates, a Biden campaign spokesman. “Now we have the most coronavirus cases in the world and we’re losing millions of jobs. Any time Donald Trump says the word ‘China,’ he accomplishes one thing: reminding the American people of his historic failure to prepare our nation for the worst public health crisis in generations.”Indeed, this comes at a time when Trump’s poll numbers on his handling of the coronavirus crisis have seen significant dips in recent days. In late March, major public polls showed a spike in how the American people judged the president’s response to the pandemic and collapsing economy. White House officials were delighted that they were able to print out and slip into Trump’s reading materials some favorable coverage, including this Fox News article titled, “60 percent of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of coronavirus: Gallup poll,” said a senior administration official.White House staff knew how much this would please the president and were confident he would incorporate the news into his daily messaging. However, as Trump’s poll numbers on the virus slumped, these aides quickly stopped including the newer data in the president’s daily batches of articles and reading material, for fear it would “upset him,” the official added.Some Trump allies, though, are convinced that they can both ding Democrats’ presidential nominee and boost their own public profiles—and standing with the president himself—by invoking China’s role in the coronavirus’ spread. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) even went so far as to buy television ads in Ohio ahead of that state’s Democratic presidential primary attacking Biden on the China issue.Cotton and other Senate Republican China hawks, such as Missouri’s Josh Hawley and Texas’ Ted Cruz, have found China-bashing to be an effective strategy in its own right. All three have taken out Facebook ads criticizing the country for its role in the spread of the coronavirus.Outside advocacy groups have gotten in on the action as well. Stand Up to China, a new dark money outfit, has spent about $36,000 on Facebook ads hammering Beijing on issues from the coronavirus to its mass internment of Uyghur Muslims. It’s not clear who, exactly, is behind the group, which has targeted the vast majority of its anti-China ads at Facebook users in Florida.Perhaps the most dramatic China-themed advertising, though, has come from Kathaleen Wall, a Republican House candidate in Texas. In a video ad that began airing last week, she dubs China a “criminal enterprise masquerading as a sovereign nation,” which “has poisoned our people.”“President Trump has the courage to call it what it is,” the 30-second spot says, with a clip of Trump referring to “the Chinese virus.” The ad promises, “Kathaleen Wall has his back.” Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

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President Donald Trump and his allies are leaning heavily into a new 2020 strategy tying Democrats and their presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden not just to China but to its role in spreading the coronavirus.Democrats are increasingly worried that the strategy will work.The Trump re-election campaign released a new ad this week going after Biden over his opposition to restrictions on travel from China designed to control the spread of the coronavirus outbreak. That was followed with a fundraising solicitation on Saturday that hammered home the point: “I am TOUGH ON CHINA and Sleepy Joe Biden is WEAK ON CHINA,” it declared.There’s a Huge Hole in Biden’s Coronavirus PlanInside the campaign, the strategy is simple: make China the villain of a global pandemic that has complicated well-laid electoral plans and sparked growing criticism of the president.“[China’s] among many weaknesses, but when people learn about Biden’s attack on the president’s China travel ban, his other weak positions on China, and his conflict with Hunter Biden’s business deal with China, voters are horrified,” John McLaughlin, a Trump pollster, told The Daily Beast on Friday. Other Trump 2020 officials said that the campaign had always intended to hammer Biden on China until the election in November, and the coronavirus “angle” was merely another way to go after the Bidens and China simultaneously.In one sense it’s simply an extension of Team Trump’s months-long strategy to tie Biden to a country increasingly viewed with suspicion by American voters. The campaign and the Republican National Committee have been hammering Biden for months over his youngest son Hunter’s past business dealings in China.But the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan, has made the country a far more potent political villain. And the massive disruptions in daily life caused by the virus virtually guarantee that China will remain in the headlines—and on the minds of American voters—for months as election day approaches. Polls already indicate that Americans of both parties overwhelmingly blame China for the virus’ initial spread.For a Trump campaign that’s a potential political goldmine. “China was an effective wedge issue for Trump in 2016,” said one Republican strategist close to the campaign. “Now that it’s at the top of everyone’s mind, and Biden has a long record of being weak on China, just imagine how much more effective it will be in 2020.”They Said They Were Bernie or Bust. Then They Talked Themselves Into Biden.The new tactic from Trump has not gone unnoticed by Democrats who fear that it may be the type of opening that a cynical president could effectively use—even one who has made a point of going soft on China’s leader, Xi Jinping, whom Trump routinely praises as an “incredible guy” who’s doing a great job handling the virus. Navigator Research, a progressive polling outlet that has taken the lead for the party in public opinion surveying around the virus, included an alarm bell nugget in its Friday dispatch. “Warning” the item read, “Trump’s China rhetoric may be resonating and gaining traction.” As evidence, the firm noted that 43 percent of respondents in its survey said “China bears more responsibility than the federal government for the way coronavirus has spread in the U.S.”“A lot of times people on the left tend to have a knee-jerk reaction to Trump's racism and xenophobia that disallows them from taking it as seriously as a messaging tactic as it is,” said Ian Sams, a top official at Navigator. “The public is pretty anti-China right now. And I think there is validity to the idea that they’ve been less than transparent and hid information on this virus. And Trump is seizing on that… We can’t just let Trump’s lies be the only thing out there.” To that point, Democrats have largely stopped pushing back against Trump’s anti-China push on grounds that it’s xenophobic and adopted the posture that it’s all a big lie, pointing to, among other things, the fact that his administration sent China medical supplies as it was battling coronavirus, only to then have a shortage of them when it hit the U.S. Democratic National Committee talking points, obtained by The Daily Beast, say that Trump’s claim to have “acted early with his China travel restrictions,” was in reality “too little too late.” The Democratic Party’s top think tank, Center for American Progress, put together a memo that encouraged officials not to “concede a thing on Trump’s travel ban.”“The reality is, Trump was slow in instituting the ban,” it reads. “And the ban was so leaky that 40,000 more people entered from China after the ban was in place.”But Sams conceded that it likely would not be good enough to merely call Trump a liar on China. The case needed to be made, he said, that the president had coddled Beijing at a time when the country should have been warning the U.S. about the seriousness of COVID-19. Top Democratic officials said that they were gearing up to more proactively make that point in the days ahead. And Biden’s campaign, for its part, seems to be there already. Trump’s Sick Reality Show Is Built on Coronavirus Corpses“Despite repeated warnings from the U.S. intelligence community—and public warnings from Joe Biden—that he shouldn't take China's word about containment of the outbreak, Donald Trump praised China's response for weeks while downplaying the threat to us,” said Andrew Bates, a Biden campaign spokesman. “Now we have the most coronavirus cases in the world and we’re losing millions of jobs. Any time Donald Trump says the word ‘China,’ he accomplishes one thing: reminding the American people of his historic failure to prepare our nation for the worst public health crisis in generations.”Indeed, this comes at a time when Trump’s poll numbers on his handling of the coronavirus crisis have seen significant dips in recent days. In late March, major public polls showed a spike in how the American people judged the president’s response to the pandemic and collapsing economy. White House officials were delighted that they were able to print out and slip into Trump’s reading materials some favorable coverage, including this Fox News article titled, “60 percent of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of coronavirus: Gallup poll,” said a senior administration official.White House staff knew how much this would please the president and were confident he would incorporate the news into his daily messaging. However, as Trump’s poll numbers on the virus slumped, these aides quickly stopped including the newer data in the president’s daily batches of articles and reading material, for fear it would “upset him,” the official added.Some Trump allies, though, are convinced that they can both ding Democrats’ presidential nominee and boost their own public profiles—and standing with the president himself—by invoking China’s role in the coronavirus’ spread. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) even went so far as to buy television ads in Ohio ahead of that state’s Democratic presidential primary attacking Biden on the China issue.Cotton and other Senate Republican China hawks, such as Missouri’s Josh Hawley and Texas’ Ted Cruz, have found China-bashing to be an effective strategy in its own right. All three have taken out Facebook ads criticizing the country for its role in the spread of the coronavirus.Outside advocacy groups have gotten in on the action as well. Stand Up to China, a new dark money outfit, has spent about $36,000 on Facebook ads hammering Beijing on issues from the coronavirus to its mass internment of Uyghur Muslims. It’s not clear who, exactly, is behind the group, which has targeted the vast majority of its anti-China ads at Facebook users in Florida.Perhaps the most dramatic China-themed advertising, though, has come from Kathaleen Wall, a Republican House candidate in Texas. In a video ad that began airing last week, she dubs China a “criminal enterprise masquerading as a sovereign nation,” which “has poisoned our people.”“President Trump has the courage to call it what it is,” the 30-second spot says, with a clip of Trump referring to “the Chinese virus.” The ad promises, “Kathaleen Wall has his back.” Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

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The Islamic Republic has recorded 71,686 cases of the new coronavirus which causes the disease, Jahanpur said. Iran has been the country hardest hit by the pandemic in the Middle East. Ten thousand graves have been dug in a new section of the sprawling Behesht-e Zahra cemetery south of Tehran to deal with coronavirus deaths, the official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday.

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The Islamic Republic has recorded 71,686 cases of the new coronavirus which causes the disease, Jahanpur said. Iran has been the country hardest hit by the pandemic in the Middle East. Ten thousand graves have been dug in a new section of the sprawling Behesht-e Zahra cemetery south of Tehran to deal with coronavirus deaths, the official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday.

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Coronavirus cases in Mumbai's densely populated Dharavi slum -- one of Asia's biggest -- have risen to 43 including four deaths, officials said Sunday, as they ramp up testing in a race to contain its spread. Since the first virus death in early April, Indian authorities have stepped up measures to close off areas where cases have emerged in Dharavi, which is home to around a million people. Testing sites have also been set up in recent days to pick up asymptomatic carriers of the virus, Khabale-Patil said, adding that "as a result more positive cases have emerged".

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Coronavirus cases in Mumbai's densely populated Dharavi slum -- one of Asia's biggest -- have risen to 43 including four deaths, officials said Sunday, as they ramp up testing in a race to contain its spread. Since the first virus death in early April, Indian authorities have stepped up measures to close off areas where cases have emerged in Dharavi, which is home to around a million people. Testing sites have also been set up in recent days to pick up asymptomatic carriers of the virus, Khabale-Patil said, adding that "as a result more positive cases have emerged".

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COVID-19 has spread to hundreds of cruise-ship passengers and crew members while threatening the cruise industry's financial health.

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The Trump administration is proposing that a significant amount of the $25 billion in cash that airlines expected to keep workers on the job will instead be low-interest loans that big airlines will have to repay, according to two people familiar with the matter. The Treasury Department began sending proposals for aid to airlines on Friday. American Airlines and United Airlines confirmed receiving responses to their applications for grants.

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The Trump administration is proposing that a significant amount of the $25 billion in cash that airlines expected to keep workers on the job will instead be low-interest loans that big airlines will have to repay, according to two people familiar with the matter. The Treasury Department began sending proposals for aid to airlines on Friday. American Airlines and United Airlines confirmed receiving responses to their applications for grants.

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Open the country back up, prematurely, could leave us stuck in our homes until at least October, Harvard's Ashish Jha told Business Insider.

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Open the country back up, prematurely, could leave us stuck in our homes until at least October, Harvard's Ashish Jha told Business Insider.

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India will export 50,000 tonnes of wheat to Afghanistan and 40,000 tonnes of the grain to Lebanon in diplomatic deals, the Indian farm minister said on Friday. Since India has produced more wheat than it consumes, New Delhi has decided to export the grain to Afghanistan and Lebanon after receiving requests from the two countries, Narendra Singh Tomar said in a Tweet. The Indian government has asked the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd, a farmers' cooperative, to supply wheat to Afghanistan and Lebanon under a government-to-government deal, Tomar said.

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India will export 50,000 tonnes of wheat to Afghanistan and 40,000 tonnes of the grain to Lebanon in diplomatic deals, the Indian farm minister said on Friday. Since India has produced more wheat than it consumes, New Delhi has decided to export the grain to Afghanistan and Lebanon after receiving requests from the two countries, Narendra Singh Tomar said in a Tweet. The Indian government has asked the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd, a farmers' cooperative, to supply wheat to Afghanistan and Lebanon under a government-to-government deal, Tomar said.

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Free buses, a mock wedding, hands-free taps and round-robin poetry are part of life under lockdown.

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Pence suggests coronavirus social distancing won’t end soon

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At the daily briefing of the White House coronavirus task force on Thursday evening, Vice President Mike Pence indicated that the end to those restrictions might not come anytime soon. 

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Boeing's Washington facilities closed indefinitely due to COVID-19. Take a look at the greatest successes and failures which were built there.

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Boeing has been building iconic passenger aircraft at three production facilities in the Seattle area since World War II.

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20,000: US death toll overtakes Italy's as Midwest braces

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The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus eclipsed Italy's for the highest in the world Saturday, surpassing 20,000, as Chicago and other cities across the Midwest braced for a potential surge in victims and moved to snuff out smoldering hot spots of contagion before they erupt. Chicago's Cook County has set up a temporary morgue that can take more than 2,000 bodies. In Europe, countries used roadblocks, drones, helicopters, mounted patrols and the threat of fines to keep people from traveling over Easter weekend.

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Faulty masks. Flawed tests. China's quality control problem in leading global COVID-19 fight

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Chinese companies producing faulty testing kits and masks are marring Beijing's attempts to assert leadership in the fight against the coronavirus.

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'We've taken nothing off the table': US Defense Secretary open to reinstating fired navy captain who sent letter asking for coronavirus help

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Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said he would consider reinstating US Navy Captain Brett Crozier, who was relieved of duty from the USS Theodore Roosevelt after sending a letter requesting the ship be evacuated over a spreading coronavirus infestation on board."We've taken nothing off the table," Mr Esper told CBS News. "My inclination is always to support the chain of command, and to take the recommendations seriously."

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In parts of Africa, police are accused of excess force amid coronavirus lockdowns

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Days after Congo announced emergency restrictions to curb the new coronavirus, a police video started circulating online showing an officer in the capital beating a taxi driver for violating a one-passenger limit. Sylvano Kasongo, who heads the Kinshasa police and is seen in the March 26 video, sent a copy to Reuters because he said he wanted to encourage others to obey the rules. The force respects human rights, he said.

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