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Donald Trump Jr. suspended from Twitter for promoting false cures for COVID
Aug 06, 2020 03:16Donald Trump Jr., the eldest child of President Donald Trump, has received a suspension from the social media site Twitter for sharing potentially harmful information related to coronavirus.
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The way the coronavirus messes with smell hints at how it affects the brain
Aug 05, 2020 09:00The virus responsible for COVID-19 can steal a person’s sense of smell, leaving them noseblind to fresh-cut grass, a pungent meal or even their own stale clothes. But so far, details remain elusive about how SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, can infiltrate and shut down the body’s smelling machinery.
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Showing 'contempt for the American people,' GOP floats slashing boosted unemployment payments to $100 per week
Aug 04, 2020 14:43Economic Policy Institute research director Josh Bivens estimated that reducing the weekly unemployment insurance (UI) boost from $600 to $100 would cost the U.S. more than four million jobs over the next year.
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This is a pandemic. You cannot hide it: Experts denounce White House secrecy in private warning to cities to take 'aggressive' COVID action
Aug 04, 2020 14:34A private warning about rising coronavirus cases made to leaders in 11 US cities by White House official Dr. Deborah Birx on Wednesday July 22nd is the latest sign that the Trump administration must end the secrecy surrounding its response to the pandemic, an investigative journalism group said.
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How the US Chamber of Commerce wrecked the economy and made the pandemic worse
Aug 04, 2020 14:32This is not the first time the US Chamber of Commerce has successfully pursued policies that put Americans enormously at risk — for years it has been one of the major forces preventing Washington from adopting even the most modest efforts to accelerate a transition off fossil fuels to save lives and protect the climate.
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US tech giants eye lucrative rent market as end to eviction moratorium could leave millions homeless
Aug 02, 2020 14:24A “tsunami” of evictions is about to sweep across the United States when the 120-day moratorium ends, threatening millions of Americans with homelessness or worse – a new set of landlords called Facebook, Google and Apple.
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Brazilian health workers file ICC complaint arguing Bolsonaro COVID-19 response has been crime against humanity
Aug 02, 2020 04:37A network of unions and social organizations representing over a million health workers in Brazil filed a complaint recently calling on the International Criminal Court to investigate President Jair Bolsonaro's widely condemned handling of the coronavirus pandemic, arguing it amounts to a crime against humanity.
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Senate GOP slammed for allowing eviction moratorium to expire, putting millions of US families at risk during Covid-19 crisis
Aug 01, 2020 03:35A study released in mid-July by the Colorado-based Covid Eviction Defense Project found that as many as 23 million U.S. families could be evicted by October without assistance from the federal government.
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Tens of thousands of shuttered US businesses now closing permanently
Aug 01, 2020 03:31A survey released recently by AP-NORC found that while 78% of American workers who were furloughed or laid off in the early days of the pandemic believed in April that they'd be able to return to work eventually, just 34% are optimistic about their prospects now. Just 18% have already returned to their jobs, and 47% say they no longer believe their old jobs will be available ever again.
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COVID-19 compounds debt burdens of developing countries
Jul 31, 2020 03:29The 2020 Financing for Sustainable Development Report shows debt vulnerability growing in many developing countries well before the coronavirus pandemic.