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Trump admin’s small business bailout has been plagued by waste, fraud and abuse
Sep 09, 2020 05:43The Trump administration failed to design and implement a program that would help actual small businesses and their workers. Instead, they cut corners and kept the American people in the dark. In the end, the wealthy and well-connected were showered with our tax dollars and fraudsters took advantage of the troubling lack of transparency.
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On Labor Day, remember this: Trump’s America works only for the rich
Sep 09, 2020 05:35On Labor Day weekend, eight weeks before one of the most consequential elections in American history, it’s useful to consider the inequalities of income and wealth that fueled Donald Trump’s victory four years ago — and which are now wider than ever.
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FDA-required tests on puppies slow progress to COVID treatment
Sep 08, 2020 15:44The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is slowing the search for treatments and cures for COVID-19 and other illnesses by forcing pharmaceutical manufacturers to conduct unscientific and outdated drug safety tests on puppies.
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Russia completes early trials of second potential COVID-19 vaccine: Interfax
Sep 08, 2020 11:47Siberia's Vector virology institute on Tuesday completed early-stage human trials, known as Phase II, of a second potential Russian vaccine against COVID-19, the state consumer safety watchdog was cited by the Interfax news agency as saying.
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WHO officials congratulate China on 20-day streak of zero local COVID-19 cases
Sep 08, 2020 11:45Several senior World Health Organization (WHO) officials on Monday congratulated China on a 20-day streak of zero locally transmitted cases on the mainland.
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Iran calls on WHO to make efforts to end the illegitimate US sanctions
Sep 08, 2020 11:40Health Minister Saeed Namaki has written to the World Health Organization (WHO) chief, asking for global efforts towards ending America’s “unilateral and illegitimate” sanctions against Iranians amid a deadly coronavirus pandemic.
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West taking big risk shutting out students from China
Sep 08, 2020 04:44Last year US universities woke up to the grim reality of a sharp decline in enrollment by Chinese international students caused by the trade war between Washington and Beijing, ultimately leading to harsher immigration policies.
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Israel planning to exploit COVID-19 to close al-Aqsa, says Palestinian cleric
Sep 08, 2020 01:15Sheikh Ekrima Sa’id Sabri is a former Grand Mufti of al-Quds who has come out in denunciation of Israeli intentions for exploiting the coronavirus crisis to close the al-Aqsa Mosque compound to Muslim worshipers.
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Health experts horrified as new Trump Covid-19 adviser pushes 'herd immunity' strategy
Sep 06, 2020 08:57Sweden's decision to forego strict lockdowns in favor of more relaxed social distancing guidelines has been criticized by public health experts as a reckless approach to the pandemic that contributed to the country's high death rate compared to other European nations. Pursuing a similar strategy in the U.S., a country with a population of 328 million, would be catastrophic, experts warned.
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Locked out by pandemic, refugees' lives put on hold
Sep 06, 2020 07:50UN data show in the first half of 2020, refugee resettlements fell 69 percent from 2019 levels to just over 10,000. The program resumed in June, but at a much slower pace. The coronavirus pandemic has hit as attitudes to immigrants have been hardening, loosening another thread in increasingly frayed international efforts to maintain global solidarity.