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Italy is in a nationwide lockdown over the coronavirus. Here are the rules all 60 million citizens now have to follow.

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The nationwide lockdown began Tuesday. Citizens now need police permission to travel, and businesses can open only if customers stay 3 feet apart. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Q2Dojg via Latest News

Man shot by police in Chicago subway sues city, officers

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Lawyers for a short-order cook shot by Chicago police trying to arrest him for using a subway train's gangway doors filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging officers used excessive force in violation of policies laid out in court-monitored police reforms. Neither officer seeking to detain 33-year-old Ariel Roman — whose Feb. 28 shooting in a busy subway station was captured in bystander video widely viewed online — was properly trained before their deployment as part of a city bid to reduce violent crime on Chicago Transit Authority lines, according to the filing in U.S. District Court. The 12-page suit says the city hired the officer who shot Roman knowing she had been arrested in 2015 for assaulting a fast-food restaurant worker. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2W4AoGU via Latest News

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LV says will pause sale of travel insurance but existing customers will still be covered. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2Q5Q34W via Online Shopping

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No or low alcohol will drive the 2020 market, the craft beer trade body says, as it claims 23% of 18-24 year-olds are teetotal. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2U4eBg6 via Online Shopping

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Hakan Bulgurlu leads Arçelik, a multi-billion dollar white goods company, but he puts his success in life down to lessons he learned selling gold in a Turkish bazaar. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2W77kie via Online Shopping

Rare 'Nintendo PlayStation' fetches $360K at auction video - CNET

A leftover artifact from a gaming partnership that never was, a Nintendo PlayStation that's thought to be the only one in existence sold for $360,000 at auction. from CNET https://ift.tt/2UbwJon via Mobiles

Are the Tokyo Olympics canceled? No, but here's what you need to know - CNET

The Summer Games are still scheduled, for now, but coronavirus fears can't be discounted. from CNET https://ift.tt/38HxuKZ via Mobiles

Pandemic: Here's what's changed about the coronavirus video - CNET

As the new coronavirus spreads across the world and cases of COVID-19 mount, the World Health Organization has declared a global pandemic. Here's what that means for you. from CNET https://ift.tt/2TXmOCx via Mobiles

Despite coronavirus fears, Smurfs gather en masse to try to break world record - CNET

French mayor Patrick Leclerc defends the event, where over 3,500 cosplayers gathered in hopes of breaking the Guinness World Record for world's largest Smurfs gathering. from CNET https://ift.tt/2TECL1n via Mobiles

Chrome OS to get native app for printing and scanning documents - 9to5Google

Chrome OS to get native app for printing and scanning documents    9to5Google Chrome OS will soon have an app for managing print jobs    Android Police How to Run the Linux KDE Desktop on a Chromebook    LinuxInsider.com Chrome OS may soon get a native printing and scanning app    XDA Developers View Full Coverage on Google News from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/2w2i8n1 via Technology

Demand for Microsoft, Google, and Zoom's Video Conferencing Software Surges Amid the Coronavirus Outbreak - Motley Fool

Demand for Microsoft, Google, and Zoom's Video Conferencing Software Surges Amid the Coronavirus Outbreak    Motley Fool View Full Coverage on Google News from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/39Lbtfo via Technology

Salesforce adds new healthcare provider relationship management and analytics tools - TechCrunch

Salesforce adds new healthcare provider relationship management and analytics tools    TechCrunch from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/2vYAtBo via Technology

Protests erupt at Biden’s raucous Detroit rally

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Cory Booker and Kamala Harris joined Biden on stage in Detroit to a roaring crowd. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2TL51yc via Latest News

Trump's radical plan to waive payroll tax would punch hole in Social Security, Medicare budgets

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President Donald Trump has picked his favourite weapon to fight the economic fallout from the coronavirus - an elimination of the "payroll tax" on workers' gross earnings that is used to fund national retirement programs. Trump advisers on the White House economic team and Republican lawmakers are pushing for more targeted stimulus. Trump told Republican senators in a meeting Tuesday he would like to waive the payroll tax entirely through the end of the year, or even permanently suspend it, one attendee told Reuters. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3aLTohr via Latest News

A Seattle lab uncovered Washington's coronavirus outbreak only after defying federal regulators

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A lack of test kits for the new COVID-19 coronavirus is still obscuring the extent of the outbreak in the U.S., but for a critical period in February, there were no functional federal tests and "local officials across the country were left to work blindly as the crisis grew undetected and exponentially," The New York Times reports. The coronavirus has now infected more than 1,000 people in 36 states and Washington, D.C., according to Johns Hopkins University's count.The first U.S. outbreak was in Washington state, where authorities confirmed the first patient — suffering from respiratory problems after visiting Wuhan, China — only after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made an exception to strict testing criteria. In Seattle, Dr. Helen Chu, an infectious disease expert who was part of an ongoing flu-monitoring effort, the Seattle Flu Study, asked permission to test their trove of collected flu swabs for coronavirus.State health officials joined Chu in asking...

Former Bloomberg campaign staffers are reportedly being offered the chance to keep their work iPhones and laptops as a type of severance — but they'll have to pay taxes on them if they do

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The devices are reportedly worth $1,400 to $1,700, and the former staffers will have to pay taxes if they keep them. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3cSHzI3 via Latest News

'People here don't matter': arrival of coronavirus-hit ship in Oakland plucks at old hurts

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Grand Princess was originally headed for San Francisco but was rerouted to Oakland, a historically more racially diverse and impoverished cityThe port of Oakland spans more than 800 acres of land along the waterfront and includes 20 berths and an international airport. Its towering cranes are the first thing to greet visitors driving in from San Francisco, a constant flow of trucks and containers humming below.California officials chose the port this week to dock the Grand Princess, the coronavirus-stricken cruise ship originally headed for San Francisco, citing the port’s scale and its transportation connections. Emergency workers would easily be able to isolate an 11-acre stretch while passengers disembarked to their quarantine locations, officials said.But to many in Oakland, a historically more racially diverse and impoverished city long overshadowed by its counterpart across the bay, the decision – however rational - plucked at old hurts, steeped in racial and environmental discri...

There's another cruise ship being kept at sea pending COVID-19 testing

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Thousands of passengers on an additional Princess Cruises ship are being kept on board while crew members get tested for COVID-19. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2W4grzY via Latest News

US fighter jets escort Russian aircraft away from Alaskan coastline

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Two Russian jets that flew over the sea near the Alaska coastline were intercepted by US and Canadian aircraft, military officials said on Tuesday.The two planes were escorted by F-22 and CF-18 aircraft according to the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) after they flew as close as 50 nautical miles to the Alaska coast. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2W4KrM1 via Latest News

As the coronavirus epidemic spreads, the CDC says 136 kids have died from the flu this season — the highest on record in a decade

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The CDC said in a report published last week that there had been about 20,000 reported deaths in the 2019-2020 flu season, 136 of which were children. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Q2IxYI via Latest News

China slams US for warship sail-by in disputed waters

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Beijing on Wednesday accused the United States of a "provocative" act by sending a warship into disputed territorial waters in the South China Sea. The Paracel Islands are a chain of disputed islands and reefs in the South China Sea, claimed by China, Taiwan and Vietnam. "Under the guise of 'freedom of navigation', the US has repeatedly flexed its muscles, been provocative and stirred up trouble in the South China Sea," PLA Southern Theatre Command spokesman Colonel Li Huamin said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2W4AZIA via Latest News

Pro-gun worker who Biden said was 'full of ****' speaks out on Fox News

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"I thought I was pretty articulate and respectful. I didn't try to raise any feathers. And he kind of just went off the deep end," Wayne said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2U1XD1A via Latest News

Hillary Clinton: Any Afghan peace talks must include women

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Hillary Clinton urged Afghanistan's supporters on Tuesday to ensure that women are included in negotiations to end the country's long war — and to never again allow the Taliban to impose “a reign of terror against women and girls.” The former U.S. first lady, senator and secretary of state said Afghan women today are rightly afraid that the gains they have made since the Taliban were ousted from power in 2001 “will be washed away in a rush to achieve a peace that will not hold anyway.” “This is not just morally wrong, this is dangerous, dangerous to every country represented here,” she told a crowded U.N. meeting of the Group of Friends of Women in Afghanistan, co-sponsored by Afghanistan and the United Kingdom. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3aH62yj via Latest News