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White House Announces Nearly $13 Billion In Aid For Puerto Rico Three Years After Hurricane Maria
The U.S. emergency agency is sending almost $13 billion to Puerto Rico, directed at the territory's energy and education systems, to help it recover from 2017's devastating Hurricane Maria, the White House said on Friday.
NYC Tries $50 Fines To Get Scofflaws To Don Masks On Subway
The young man slouched against the inside of the subway doors as the No. 3 train headed south along Broadway. Across the aisle, another young man lay asleep, sprawled across three seats.
White House Announces $11.6 Billion Aid For Puerto Rico
The federal government will award an $11.6 billion aid package to Puerto Rico, focused on the territory's energy and education systems, to help the island recover from the devastation brought by 2017's Hurricane Maria, the White House said on Friday.
Trump Gives Award To Kuwait's Ruling Emir
President Donald Trump has bestowed a top U.S. honor on Kuwait's ruling emir, who has played a central role in resolving a yearslong fournation boycott of Qatar and is now ill and receiving treatment in the U.S., the White House said Friday.
Whole Of Iran On Coronavirus Red Alert Due To Rise In Deaths - Health Official
A senior Iranian health official has declared a coronavirus red alert covering the entire country as daily deaths and cases increase at an alarming rate, Iranian state TV reported on Friday.
'The Vanishing Half' Nominated For National Book Award
Two of the summer's most talked about novels, Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half and Megha Majumdar's A Burning, are on the National Book Awards fiction longlist. Judges also nominated the story collection If I Had Two Wings, by Randall Kenan, who died in...
Big Wedding In Fictional Home Of 'The Godfather' Fuels Virus
The Sicilian town of Corleone, made famous by the fictional Mafia clan in The Godfather, has ordered schools closed and a limited lockdown after a spate of coronavirus infections were tied to a big wedding there last week.
End Of The Runway? Fashion World Mulls Post-COVID Future
Its the September fashion week season, and in any other year London would be abuzz with fashionistas zipping across town in Mercedes Benzes, hobnobbing with celebrities at glittering catwalk shows before sipping champagne at latenight parties.
What Is The Science Behind The Moo-ve From Cattle Methane Emissions?
Scientists have worked for years to reduce methane emissions from cattle burps by changing what cattle eat, or through research on vaccines, genetic modification of cattle and even foreheadmounted masks and backpacks to trap vapors.
Lightning Kills 7 In Cambodia, Storm Hits Land In Vietnam
A tropical storm made landfall in central Vietnam on Friday, killing one person, while seven people died in a lightning strike in neighboring Cambodia.
Second UK Lockdown? Hospital COVID Admissions Doubling Every 8 Days
Britain's health minister said on Friday that the novel coronavirus was accelerating across the country with hospital admissions doubling every eight days but refused to say whether or not another national lockdown would be imposed next month.
Somali President Names Newcomer Roble Premier As Elections Loom
Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has picked political newcomer Mohamed Hussein Roble as prime minister, his office said on Friday, cementing power around the presidency ahead of elections due next year.
U.S. Justice Department Leaders Encourage Sedition Charges For Violent Protesters
Top officials in the U.S. Justice Department are encouraging prosecutors to consider sedition charges against protesters who have burned buildings and engaged in other violent activity, according to a memo seen by Reuters on Thursday.
Firefighters Make Headway In Subduing U.S. Western Wildfires
Crews who struggled just days ago against deadly wildfires raging unchecked across California, Oregon and Washington have now taken the offensive, making substantial progress in subduing the blazes, officials in all three states said on Thursday.
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VIRUS OUTBREAK-GLOBAL DAILY NEW CASES Table. A sortable, searchable table of country by country 7-day rolling averages of new daily coronavirus cases and deaths per capita. This table will update automatically each day. Source: Johns Hopkins University.
AP FACT CHECK: Biden Distorts Trump's Words On Virus 'Hoax'
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is presenting a distorted account of President Donald Trump's words on the coronavirus, wrongly suggesting Trump branded the virus a hoax.