‘Hard stop’: US states could lose National Guard virus workers
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Explosive whistleblower complaint by ousted US Health and Human Services official says he was pressured to give contract to Donald Trump-friendly pharma firm
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China has imposed an import ban on four Australian abattoirs in an apparent escalation of Beijing's trade war tactics
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The four men responsible for America’s COVID-19 test disaster
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison unveils "a three-step plan and a national framework to achieve a COVID-safe economy and society" by July
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Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing – first major study of scheme comes as economic toll of coronavirus prompts fresh interest in idea
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In Helsinki's climate plan, community comes before bureaucracy
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“Political connections and cronyism”: In blistering whistleblower complaint, Rick Bright blasts Team Trump’s pandemic response
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How Jared Kushner's volunteer force led a fumbling hunt for US supplies
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How Georgia is reopening amid the coronavirus pandemic
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Science-fiction visionary Kim Stanley Robinson makes the case for quantitative easing our way out of planetary doom
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Spoiling rice in Vietnam show perils of food protectionism
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Google to require all advertisers to pass identity verification process
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A handful of US cities have passed soda taxes, but are they working?
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The Australian government has finalised a deal with Qantas and Virgin to underwrite a minimum domestic network, to the value of $165 million
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Border wall work in Arizona speeds up, igniting contagion fears
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo orders all people to wear face coverings in public
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For eleven years, the Soviet Union had no weekends
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Denmark may issue securities in foreign currencies for the first time in years to finance programs to support the economy through the coronavirus crisis
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South Dakota’s governor resisted ordering people to stay home. Now it has one of the nation’s largest coronavirus hot spots
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Mayor London Breed’s early and aggressive moves to contain the outbreak have made San Francisco a national model in fighting the pandemic
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The Pope just proposed a universal basic income. Is the United States ready for it?
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More than 2,200 coronavirus deaths in nursing homes, but US federal government isn't tracking them
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The Cantillon Effect: Why Wall Street gets a bailout and you don't
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For jobless Americans, Obamacare is still a potential lifeline
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Scotland's chief medical officer has resigned after making two trips to her second home during the coronavirus lockdown
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New York is merging all its hospitals to battle the coronavirus
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Social Security recipients who don’t usually file tax returns will automatically get $1,200 payments, US Treasury says in reversal
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Social Security recipients who don’t usually file tax returns will automatically get $1,200 payments, Treasury says in reversal
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Finland's center-left government gave its blessing to majority state-owned Fortum's strategy to cut emissions, but promised to push the company further
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Larry Hogan, Ralph Northam, Muriel Bowser order residents in Maryland, Virginia, DC to stay at home
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Preliminary evidence suggests Bay Area shelter-in-place order is flattening the curve
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Norway is postponing a decision on whether to allow companies to construct a new subsea power cable between it and Scotland
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LA, other SoCal cities cracking down on crowds at parks, beaches to stem spread of COVID-19
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Mexican president passes coronavirus buck to allies, rivals, business
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The US's foreign entanglements
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California’s stay-at-home order is a legal mess
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Denmark is helping those who can't work due to coronavirus – why isn't the UK?
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San Francisco mayor calls for calm — panic at grocery stores and pot dispensaries ensues
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Internal TikTok policies instructed moderators to suppress videos featuring unattractive, disabled, or poor people so they wouldn't scare off new users, as well as to remove specific types of content
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How Helsinki and Oslo cut pedestrian deaths to zero – after years of committed action, neither city recorded a single pedestrian fatality in 2019
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US President Donald Trump says he could demote Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, risking more market turmoil
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Everyone travelling to New Zealand from overseas to self-isolate
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US President Donald Trump's mismanagement helped fuel coronavirus crisis
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Why are we so slow today?
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California hotels are being used for coronavirus quarantines, Gavin Newsom announces
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Rep. Katie Porter gets US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief to agree to pay for coronavirus testing
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The White House has ordered federal health officials to treat top-level coronavirus meetings as classified
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Health ministers squabble over face masks at coronavirus talks
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Why Sweden's negative interest rate experiment is a failure
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