Law:
Law Firm Conducts Firmwide Layoffs, Furloughs Citing Coronavirus Concerns
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Associates Take A 20 Percent Pay Cut And Some Staff Gets Furloughed At This Am Law 100 Firm
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We worked harder than today’s young lawyers, nearly half of surveyed partners say
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Pay Cuts Continue to Sweep Across America’s Top In-House Lawyers
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The Am Law 100 COVID-19 Furloughs Continue
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Legal industry loses 1,700 jobs in March • Legal Jobs Fell by 1,700 in Early Weeks of Pandemic in U.S.
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COVID-19 Shifts Law Firms' Hiring, Onboarding Process Online - To a Limit
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Some law firms delay start of summer associate programs because of novel coronavirus
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Massive Furloughs Hit This Biglaw Firm
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One Of Vault’s ‘Best Law Firms To Work For’ Slashes Salaries By 20 Percent
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Am Law 200 Firm Goes With A Sampler Platter Of Cost-Cutting Measures
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Biglaw Layoffs In A Pandemic: Opportunistic Or Necessary?
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Lawyers re-tool to take on restructuring boom
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Legal aid programs likely to be hard hit by drop in IOLTA funds, group warns
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As US Unemployment Soars, Legal Industry Hopes to Avoid Widespread Layoffs
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Staying Connected While Working Remotely
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6 Ways Tech Can Help Keep Attorneys Engaged, Even While Remote
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Tomorrow Is Here
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MoFo Can Get Some Personnel Records From Ex-Lawyers’ Other Firms
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O'Melveny Knocks Out $54M Malpractice Case Claiming It Cheated Ex-Client
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Arnold & Porter Partner Channels Deepak Chopra From Home for 400
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Law School Student Governments Petitioning For Diploma-Privileged Admission
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Jones Day Puts Out Promotional Video About Their Arsonist Space Program Or Something
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Trump fires intelligence official who helped initiate impeachment
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After Kushner Mangles Stockpile Law At Corona Presser, HHS Mangles Stockpile Website
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Even Now, Criminal Defendants Have Rights
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Judge Demands Details on FBI Surveillance
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Trump Picks White House Lawyer as Watchdog for Virus Bailout
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Barr orders increase in home confinement as virus surges • U.S. attorney general orders release of more federal inmates due to coronavirus pandemic
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‘I’m scared to leave’: Freed inmates face new challenges in the age of coronavirus
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Mobsters, killers, rapists seeking prison release because of coronavirus
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Constitutional law professor slams CNN’s Jim Acosta as source of ‘press pandemic’
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1st federal inmate to die of coronavirus wrote heartbreaking letter to judge
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‘Courageous, resilient’: Detroit police solider on, despite COVID-19 outbreak
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Drug dealers adapt to life under coronavirus lockdown
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Aggressive Cops Bust Brooklyn Youth Brawl Which Violated Quarantine Guidelines
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Out-of-Staters Unwelcome: Golfers Arrested for Violating Coronavirus Quarantine Orders
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Woman Charged with Manslaughter After Allegedly Hitting Elderly Patient Who Wasn't Social Distancing
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Deputy Suspended for Having ‘Personal Relationship’ with Murder Defendant: Officials
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For Now, US Judge Won’t Release Immigrants With High Virus Risks
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Illegal Mexican border crossing at a standstill as coronavirus pandemic rages in US
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Facing coronavirus pandemic, Trump suspends immigration laws and showcases vision for locked-down border
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Migrants are the unsung heroes of the pandemic
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Two Men Claimed to Have COVID-19, Then Stole Two Cases of Corona Beer: Police
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New York City Sees More 75% More Burglaries of Businesses Under Coronavirus Emergency Measures • Store owners boarding up buildings across Manhattan
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Arizona hospital aide steals coronavirus protective equipment, supplies worth $1,700, police say
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Illinois Murder-Suicide: Man Shoots Wife Before Killing Self Fearing They Had Coronavirus
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Police issue citation, fine woman who was just ‘going on a drive’ amid coronavirus stay-at-home order
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Law and order fears for NYC as nearly 10,000 NYPD and FDNY members call out sick amid a rise in burglaries
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Coronavirus scofflaws arrested, criminally charged as California cracks down
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Even with a pandemic, many older Americans are carrying on as usual
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Los Angeles prosecutors charge ‘non-essential’ shops for staying open
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Cops break up Brooklyn funeral for coronavirus victim as mourners ignore social distancing
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You Can’t Get Either Married or Divorced in N.Y. Right Now
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U.S. Will Give Terrorist Label to White Supremacist Group for First Time
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Judges:
BK SD NY and BK ED NY: Bankruptcy Judgeship Vacancy – [Extension of application period until April 17]
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A Case Study in How Judges Determine Witness Credibility
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Bankruptcy Courts: Open for Business
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COVID-19 Related Updates to Bankruptcy Courtroom Policies and Procedures
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Trump, McConnell Keep Up Drive to Fill Up Courts Amid Outbreak • Trump’s imprint on federal courts could be his enduring legacy
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Trump nominee to DC Circuit was rated ‘not qualified’ by ABA for trial court judgeship • Trump Nominates Judge Once Rejected by ABA for D.C. Circuit
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Speedy-Trial Right Suspended for a Year in U.S. Border Court
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Supreme Court Postpones April Arguments; 20 Cases Delayed • Supreme Court cancels April arguments, unclear how it will finish term
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Florida Governor Expresses Concern That 'Zoombombing' Could Sabotage 'Poll Tax' Trial
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Wall Street:
Stocks are set to jump, with Dow futures pointing to a more than 800 point gain
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Dow tumbles 360 points after rough March jobs report
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Trump Organization has laid off about 1,500 employees as pandemic hits business
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JPMorgan Says Slowing U.S. Virus Cases to Put Floor Under Stocks
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Layoffs:
Thomas Health furloughs hundreds of workers unrelated to virus response
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How the coronavirus job cuts played out by sector and demographics
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Consumer sector drives US job losses in March but worse days ahead – experts
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Hundreds of thousands of retail workers are being furloughed or permanently laid off during the coronavirus pandemic. Here's who has been affected.
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18,000 Factory Workers Lost Jobs in March
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Change in Payroll Jobs Per Month Since 2008
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Mindbody lays off 700
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The Henry Ford to layoff 1,400
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100+ layoffs: North Bend Medical Center on historic, difficult decision
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Under Armour Lays Off 6,700
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Risk to jobs now 'unprecedented since the Great Depression' • Economists think coronavirus could push unemployment above Great Depression levels. Here's why the pain won't be as prolonged this time.
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U.S. Jobless Claims Seen in Millions for Third Straight Week
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America's Unemployment Apocalypse
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Former Everlane Employees Claim They Were Unlawfully Fired After They Tried To Unionize
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Early coronavirus job losses hitting minorities, women, teens particularly hard
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History:
America’s Devastating First Plague and the Birth of Epidemiology
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Why We Keep Getting the Lessons of the Spanish Flu Wrong
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The Killer Virus of 1918: A Philadelphia Story
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Education:
How NYC moved the country’s largest school district online
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Banking:
FDIC closes small West Virginia bank, moves deposits to MVB Bank
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U.S. banks to defend dividend payments in stress tests
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Wells Fargo Says Fed Cap Is Limiting Relief for Small Businesses
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Pharma:
FDA Commissioner Says China Not Creating Drug Shortages in U.S.
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Student Debt:
As Americans faced layoffs and lost wages, student loan companies kept going to court to collect
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We Should Forgive Student Loans For Doctors Risking Their Lives To Fight Coronavirus
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Politics:
Trump, Republicans resist calls for widespread use of mail-in ballots as coronavirus pandemic persists • Republicans Now Just Admitting They Want Fewer Americans To Vote • Trump Rejects Voting-by-Mail Amid Virus, Citing Fraud Concerns
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Trump reportedly dismissed January coronavirus warnings from Health Secretary Alex Azar as 'alarmist'
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Trump Veers Off to Attack Ukraine Whistleblower at Coronavirus Briefing • Trump suggests firing watchdog was payback for impeachment • Trump pursues impeachment vendetta amid coronavirus crisis • Grassley demands ‘explanation’ for firing of intel community watchdog
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FEMA Spending Millions on Trump Properties
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Stretching the International Order to Its Breaking Point
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President Trump and Nancy Pelosi have not spoken in five months
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Trump wants Cuomo to be more ‘gracious’ amid coronavirus aid
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Clyburn: House coronavirus panel ‘will be forward-looking,’ not review Trump’s early response
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Mark Cuban opens door to 2020 run • Mark Cuban says coronavirus changes 'everything' in US -- so leaders should 'step up'
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Andrew Cuomo supporters quietly angling him for 2020 vice president gig
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Top Sanders advisers urge him to consider ending run
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Trump Organization Requests Reduction or Delay in Deutsche Bank Loan Payments, Report Says
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Ambassador Zero: A Virus’s Toll on U.S. Diplomats at Home and Abroad
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‘That Woman From Michigan’ Talks Trump
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Jared Kushner's coronavirus 'impact team' mocked as the 'Slim Suit Crowd' and a 'frat party' descended from a UFO
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Illinois governor: "The president does not understand the word 'federal'"
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Unafraid to call out Trump, Hogan emerges as lead GOP voice for urgent action on pandemic
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Early on, Cheney and Cotton warned about the coronavirus. They still face push back in the GOP.
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Trump's new purge • Trump ousting intelligence community inspector general
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Gov. DeSantis Blamed Outsiders for COVID-19 Spread, But His Top Donor Reportedly Got to Fly in Employees
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Newly launched ‘Catholics for Trump’ initiative sets sights on winning critical voting bloc in November
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Wisconsin Republicans rebuff governor’s 11th-hour bid to delay Tuesday’s election
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Conservative Columnist Looks At History, Concludes Trump Is Worst President Ever
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Circuses:
Cirque du Soleil in talks with Caisse for funding lifeline
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Coal:
Murray Energy, UMWA reach tentative agreement
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Education:
Coronavirus Pushes Higher Education to the Brink
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College Made Them Feel Equal. The Virus Exposed How Unequal Their Lives Are.
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NYU professor Scott Galloway: The pandemic will reshape the future of higher education — and many universities may not make it
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Education: US teachers had days to re-define class
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As USC forces pay cuts amid pandemic, its president gets a new Santa Monica home
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Military:
Navy captain fired by Trump over coronavirus letter tests positive for COVID-19: report • Whistleblower’s Lawyer Encourages Fired Navy Captain to File Reprisal Complaint • Fired US Navy captain reportedly emailed his coronavirus warning because he believed his boss would have prevented it • Trump says Navy captain letter asking for help on coronavirus-stricken ship ‘was terrible’ • Mark Esper defends firing of Navy captain: It’s ‘how we hold leaders accountable’ • Thank You, Captain Crozier • Roosevelt Skipper Should be Praised • Skipper Followed in Namesake's Footsteps • Why Forcing Capt. Crozier Out was Unusual
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U.S. Military Seeks More Funding for Pacific Region After Pandemic
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Sports:
Trump talks with US pro sports leaders to discuss virus
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Trump sees "sooner rather than later" return of pro sports
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After call with sports leaders, Trump says he can't commit to date for having fans in stadiums
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MLB considers quarantining players, playing in empty spring training parks to start season: report
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Spanish Players Criticize League’s Call for Furloughs
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English footballers go on the defensive in pay cut row
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Maritime:
Ships Are Moving, but Exhausted Sailors Are Stuck at Sea Under Coronavirus Restrictions
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Fraud:
Luckin Coffee apologizes for alleged fraud
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Experts warn about big dollar fraud in $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief package
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Hotels:
A brief history of hotels in times of crisis
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Agribusiness:
Food Supplies Worry Farmers
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Hotels:
Hotel lobbies go quiet as demand drops during coronavirus pandemic
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Gambling:
Bookies offer desperate gamblers bizarre options in world without sports
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Taxis:
A New York City taxi driver kept working to pay bills. Now he and his family are sick
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Dairy:
Bankruptcy judge to approve Dean sale
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Utilities:
Third member of PG&E bankruptcy committee resigns, criticizes PG&E plan
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PG&E Plan Gaining Broad Support From Fire Victims, Lawyers Say
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Fire Claimants Denounce PG&E $13.5 Billion Settlement Estimation as Unfair Backup Plan
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Newspapers:
Long-Struggling Local Newspapers Pushed to Brink by Coronavirus
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Autos:
Car plant shutdowns may cost auto industry more than $100bn
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Automakers Have One Hot Seller Left: The Seven-Year Car Loan
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Tesla Shows Ventilator Prototype Made From Car Components
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‘Cash for Clunkers’ Overseer Backs Ford’s Pitch for a Sequel
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A fire at a Florida airport destroyed more than 3,500 rental cars
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US auto industry yet to see extent of COVID-19 demand shock – trade group CEO
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Zoos:
In hard-hit New York City, even a tiger tests positive for coronavirus
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Distressed Investing:
Some Big Investors Smell Profit in Virus-Plagued Companies
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In a hunt for returns, many investors are buying junk bonds
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Nursing Homes:
75 Test Positive at Denton Facility
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Non-Profits:
Financial distress of the COVID-19 pandemic on not-for-profits
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Economy:
The government's official scorekeeper just poured cold water all over the Trump administration's predictions of a rapid economic recovery from the coronavirus
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Don’t count on a fast global economy bounceback
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‘We have to open our country again,’ says Trump, even as he warns of ‘a lot of death’ in coming weeks
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When Can America Reopen?
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Apollo Co-Founder Sees Economy in ‘Shambles’ Without Key Fed Relief
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World Bank’s Private Arm Seeks to Prevent Wave of Bankruptcies
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Dr. Birx now warns Americans NOT to go to the grocery store or pharmacy unless it's essential during the next 14 days
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Most Americans will stay home this month even if lockdown lifted: poll
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Regulators free up $500bn capital for lenders to fight virus storm
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Fed’s Bullard: US economy not in free fall despite 32% unemployment projection
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St. Louis Fed’s Bullard pitches daily COVID-19 testing to help restore economy’s health • Are coronavirus immunity certificates really such a good idea? • This terrible idea might be the way our coronavirus quarantines end
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The CDC has begun testing blood for immunity against coronavirus
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Economist Stephen Moore warns US could be headed toward a Great Depression
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Bankruptcy attorney says Hawaii could see ‘mother of all recessions’
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The Economic Damage From The Coronavirus Recession In Five Numbers
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What top CEOs fear telling America about the coronavirus shutdown
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2020′s economic free fall is not another Great Depression: Leuthold’s Jim Paulsen
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Americans hit by economic shocks as confusion, stumbles undermine stimulus effort
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Global economy screeches to a halt as coronavirus job losses take toll
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Americans are underestimating how long coronavirus disruptions will last, health experts say
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Fauci says it's likely coronavirus will be seasonal
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The jobs numbers have been so bad that even the good news is bad news
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Top science adviser says mass tests way to ease lockdown by end of May
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ISM Non-Manufacturing Index decreased to 52.5% in March
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U.S. sheds 701,000 jobs in March • March Employment Report: 701,000 Jobs Lost (718,000 Lost ex-Census), 4.4% Unemployment Rate • Comments on March Employment Report • A bleak US jobs report likely portends even deeper losses
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Job Losses Worse Than Great Depression
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Record Number Not in Labor Force
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The Road to Semi-Normal
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He Needs Jobless Benefits. He Was Told to Find a Fax Machine • Countless Americans cannot complete unemployment applications
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Coronavirus and Paid Sick Leave: A Quarantined Uber Driver’s Quest
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America's small business bailout is off to a bad start • Skepticism rises over government's small business bailouts • A $5.4 Billion Day for Main Street Ends in Frustration, Relief • 3 ways to ensure SBA aid for small businesses helps those who need it most • Banks scramble to make small business loan applications available • US Small Businesses Seek $5.4 Billion In Virus Relief Loans • Thousands of applicants, zero loans: Trump's small businesses lending program is a failure to launch • How to Get Your Small Business Loan Forgiven • Bankers Struggle to Get Virus Relief Loans to Small Businesses • Banks Made Direct Appeal to Ivanka Trump Over SBA Program • Rescue Fund for Small Firms Starts Without Wells Fargo, JPMorgan
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The Paycheck Protection Program: The Chaos Begins
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Bank of America CEO Says Half a Million Customers Have Deferred Payments
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Speaker Pelosi Aims to Bring Up Next Virus Stimulus This Month
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Trump says he will immediately ask for more small business money if relief fund runs out
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What the $2 trillion coronavirus bailout is really going to cost
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Trump’s pick for coronavirus inspector general wins praise from some oversight experts as Democrats slam pick • Pelosi, Schumer blast Trump pick to oversee $2T stimulus, call for ‘urgent’ House oversight
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Bailouts should come with strings attached so taxpayers can profit
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Lawmakers worry about coronavirus stimulus rollout
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More states issue stay-at-home orders as coronavirus crisis escalates • Fauci advises all states issue stay-at-home orders • Florida’s slow response: How the sunshine state got it so wrong • In Georgia, Shelter-in-Place Order Closes Businesses and Reopens Beaches • Mayor of Georgia coastal town assails governor’s ‘reckless mandate’ to reopen the state’s beaches • Why these 8 Republican governors are holding out on statewide stay-at-home orders
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Despite stay-at-home orders, 6 out of 10 are on roads
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Some New Yorkers riding crowded subway commutes during coronavirus pandemic
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The coronavirus outbreak is going to get worse still, but it’s not too soon to think about how we will start to come out of this
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Agriculture Secretary Perdue: Despite coronavirus, America’s food supply is safe, secure and abundant
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Rep. Chip Roy: Coronavirus shutdowns and rising unemployment causing economic pain that must be considered
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What's next in the economic battle against coronavirus
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The rich pull up the drawbridges • Inside the luxurious underground bunkers where the rich bug out
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Immigrants on the front lines in the coronavirus fight
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The Recession Bread Lines Are Forming in Mar-a-Lago’s Shadow
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Data Suggests Many New York City Neighborhoods Hardest Hit by COVID-19 Are Also Low-Income Areas
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AAR: March Rail Carloads down 6.0% YoY, Intermodal Down 12.2% YoY
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Class 8 Truck Orders Crashed in March
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FT editorial board calls for 'radical reforms' like basic income and wealth taxes amid pandemic
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Emergency legislation and measures around the world (COVID-19)
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US Debt Clock
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World Debt Clock
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How People Really Live
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Real Estate:
Sears (MOAC v. Transform): Landlord May Rest (Adequately) Assured of ‘Similar’ Financial Condition and Operating Performance, But Not Necessarily Tenant Mix
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America’s housing market is showing the first signs of trouble from the coronavirus pandemic
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Mortgage firms teeter near crisis that regulators saw coming
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Landlords in Peril as Chains Like H&M Refuse to Pay Rent
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Mortgage Crisis Prompts U.S. to Weigh Harder Line With Borrowers
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After $50 Billion of Losses, No One Comes to Save the Mortgage Market
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Construction in New York Limps Forward Despite Shutdown Order
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L.A. has a coronavirus eviction ban, but landlords are finding ways to demand rent
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Tenants fear eviction. Landlords fear bankruptcy. How can Philly balance the two?
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Landlord waives April rent for 200 tenants amid pandemic, wants everybody ‘healthy’
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Municipalities:
Puerto Rico Discovers Personal Protective Equipment Supply Stash Amid COVID-19 Outbreak
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Moody's: States Hardest Hit Financially
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Near-Junk Illinois Faces Record Bond Penalties on Financial Risk
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Oil/Gas:
Oil majors raise $32bn of debt to weather crisis
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Oil’s Stunning Demand Collapse Threatens Closures Everywhere
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Trump’s Oil Diplomacy Is Probably Doomed, so Brace for $10 a Barrel
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Operators stand to lose hedging protection at year’s end
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Trump Says He’d Use Tariffs If Needed to Protect Oil Industry • US and Canada discuss putting tariffs on Saudi and Russian oil • Trump Says He Doesn’t Expect to Impose Tariffs on Oil Imports
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Chaos and Scrambling in the Oil Patch
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We Should Be Celebrating OPEC’s Price War, Not Trying To End It
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Oil billionaire Dan Wilks acquiring stakes in hard-hit U.S. service firms
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Trump calls to fill up more places with oil
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Oil prices hit an 18-year low amid coronavirus lockdown
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Oil prices could plunge below $20 a barrel in Q2 as demand craters: CNBC survey
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Oil Retreats as Doubts Surface on Potential Price War Truce
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Brent crude could plunge to ‘single-digit lows’ if OPEC+ can’t agree on output cuts, says Fitch
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U.S. Energy Chief Tells Industry He Sees Oil Deal Within Days
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OPEC+ virtual meeting slated for Monday in doubt after Saudi Arabia sharply criticizes Russia • OPEC-Russia meeting delayed until April 9 amid turmoil in energy markets • Saudi Arabia, Russia push negotiations for global oil pact • Oil Negotiators Race for Global Pact With U.S. Role in Balance
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Coronavirus fuels historic drop in gasoline demand
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The US oil industry is more likely to be saved by a government bailout than by OPEC
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Oil set to ‘crater’ Monday as OPEC meeting delayed, tensions flare
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Big Oil is using the coronavirus pandemic to push through the Keystone XL pipeline
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Possible Production Cut Could Save Chesapeake Energy
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Healthcare:
Medicare and Medicaid Developments in Health Care Bankruptcies
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A mounting casualty of coronavirus crisis: Health care jobs
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KKR-Backed Envision Withholds Doctor Pay as Routine Care Slows
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Just When They’re Needed Most, Clinics for the Poor Face Drastic Cutbacks
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How Doctors Broke Health Care
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Quorum says it may have to file for bankruptcy • Quorum’s 24 Hospitals Face Bankruptcy Amid Covid-19 Pressure
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Trump and Pence Say There Are Signs U.S. Outbreak ‘Stabilizing’
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The noble lie about masks and coronavirus should never have been told • US firm denies German ‘piracy’ claims over vanished face masks • Abrupt reversals on face mask policy raise new questions • Wear a mask: it may be our best weapon against coronavirus • Majority of NYS COVID-19 death victims over 70 years old • New York in ‘race against time’ as Trump stresses face masks are voluntary • US cast as culprit in global scrum over coronavirus supplies • Using blue shop towels in homemade face masks can filter particles 2x to 3x as well as cotton, some clothing designers discovered after testing dozens of fabrics • Biden says he'll follow CDC mask guidance: "Listen to the Faucis of the world" • Everything you need to know about making your own face mask • A California county takes unusual step to slow coronavirus spread; state braces for jump in cases • Finland: ‘Prepper Nation of the Nordics’ Isn’t Worried About Masks • What’s the Best Material for a Mask for Coronavirus? • COVID-19 Warning: Coronavirus Could Be Spread By Talking And Surprisingly, Even Breathing
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U.S. coronavirus updates: Death toll passes 8,500 • With worst to come, 3 in 4 hospitals already facing COVID-19 • New York reels as 630 die in a day, the state’s bleakest toll yet • 1.22 million diagnosed cases worldwide, 65,884 deaths; glimmer of hope for Spain as death rate slows • Fauci says coronavirus deaths will keep rising as new cases stabilize • Surgeon general: This week will be "Pearl Harbor" or "9/11 moment" in U.S. • Trump says 1,000 military personnel deploying to NYC, warns coming week toughest yet in virus fight • US coronavirus hotspots desperately seek trained medical staff • Cuomo says New York could hit coronavirus peak in 7 days: ‘We’re not yet ready’ • This week will be coronavirus’s worst yet in the US, experts warn • Louisiana parish has highest coronavirus death rate in US • Governor Cuomo Suggests Number of New York’s COVID-19 Deaths Dropping Over Past Few Days • Official Counts Understate the U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll • Death toll from coronavirus passes 300 in California on L.A. County’s worst day yet • Coronavirus Hot Spots Emerging Near New York City • Most people recover from Covid-19. Here’s why it’s hard to pinpoint exactly how many • Half of Minnesota Deaths from Nursing Homes • All across the United States, the coronavirus is killing more men than women, data show • Virus overwhelms southern Georgia county
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Over a thousand doctors, nurses heading to New York City to fight coronavirus: Esper
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April 5 Update: US COVID-19 Test Results
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Iceland’s early coronavirus testing model shows 50% of cases have no symptoms • How Iceland turned into the world’s biggest study of Covid-19 – and what it’s teaching us
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U.S. ‘wasted’ months before preparing for virus pandemic • The U.S. was beset by denial and dysfunction as the coronavirus raged • Dr. Fauci Warned In 2017 Of ‘Surprise Outbreak’ During Trump Administration • Report: Federal Agencies Didn’t Bulk Order Coronavirus Protection Equipment Until March
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Coronavirus peak death rate will strike U.S. in 11 days when 2,644 people will die in 24 hours
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Map Reveals Hidden U.S. Hotspots of Coronavirus Infection • Shocking map reveals small rural towns have been hit with some of the most deadly coronavirus outbreaks
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These 19 companies are working on coronavirus treatments or vaccines — here’s where things stand
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The mystery of why the coronavirus kills some young people • More young people are dying of coronavirus, WHO warns
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How hospitals may choose who lives and dies of coronavirus
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Surgeon writes haunting letter about rationing care for patients
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Coronavirus taking toll on nurses, doctors around the globe
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Giuliani, a familiar voice in Trump’s ear, promotes experimental coronavirus treatments
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Fauci: no evidence anti-malaria drug Trump pushes works against virus • Trump Continues Bizarre Fixation on Malaria Drug, May Pop Pills Himself • Trump Says He Wants to Keep People Off Ventilators in Favor of Unproven Drug Combination • Trump is touting experimental drugs for COVID-19, saying it's 'not going to hurt' people. But the drug has severe side effects and its misuse has led to poisoning and even death • Inside the epic White House fight over hydroxychloroquine
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Bill Gates calls coronavirus pandemic a ‘nightmare scenario,’ but predicts lower death toll than Trump
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Health care insurers expected to jack up premiums as much as 40 percent to recoup coronavirus losses
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When Is Trump Ordering A National Quarantine? Probably Never.
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Government will cover uninsured patients' coronavirus treatment
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New Yorkers stop and give daily thanks and gratitude for coronavirus frontline workers
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Louisiana governor says state will run out of ventilators on April 9
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Cuomo denies he’ll ‘seize’ ventilators from upstate for NYC, says order promotes ‘sharing’
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Cuomo says New York is "literally going day-to-day with our supplies"
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Ventilators Are the Last, Best Hope for Coronavirus Patients—but Save Only a Fraction
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What Percentage of Infected Actually Die?
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New York coronavirus deaths surpass 3,500 as Trump urges states to share ventilators
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Trump administration tells states to step up as governors plead for aid
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Despite What Trump Says, His Administration Is Legally Required to Act as an ‘Ordering Clerk’ During Pandemic
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The desperate hunt for coronavirus personal protective equipment • How the Trump administration has stood in the way of PPE distribution
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The push to multiply limited medical supplies
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China is donating 1,000 ventilators to help New York in coronavirus fight
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Hunt for medical supplies creates marketplace of desperation
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3M hits back at Trump, says ceasing exports of N95 masks will have ‘opposite’ effect, humanitarian consequences • A White House order to keep masks in the US could limit supply, companies warn
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Trump Says He’ll Use Defense Act to Retaliate on Virus Supplies
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America’s emergency medical stockpile is almost empty. Nobody knows what happens next.
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US allies express dismay over US handling of global medical supply chain
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‘Long on fear, short of gear’: Inside California hospitals as they wait for coronavirus surge
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‘That would be a false statement’: Dr. Fauci knocks down claim virus is ‘under control’
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Nearly 40k flew to U.S. from China after Trump's coronavirus travel ban
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Map: Where coronavirus treatments and vaccines are being tested on patients in the US
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There’s scant evidence so far for chloroquine as a COVID-19 drug — but there’s already a shortage
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A funeral is thought to have sparked a covid-19 outbreak — and led to many more funerals
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NYC social distancing policies making police and civilians more vulnerable to coronavirus, critics say
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Faced with their own coronavirus fears, crisis hotline counselors answer surge in calls
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Coronavirus reshapes American families
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‘As you get older, the physical stuff is hard.’ Meet the hospital cleaner on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic
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Firefighters say coronavirus will obstruct emergency service during wildfires
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Where will the bodies go? Morgues plan as virus grows • “A backlog of funerals” in coronavirus’ epicenter • ‘We’re Going to See What Else the Word Funeral Can Mean’
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In Elmhurst, Queens, I’m a Doctor at the ‘Epicenter of the Epicenter’ in New York
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The Nurse Was Holding Up. Then Her 3 Close Relatives Were Brought In
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As coronavirus cases grow, some of the largest US employers including Walmart and Amazon turn to thermometers as detection tool
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Retailing:
Bankruptcies won’t save retail this time
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List Of Retail Companies On Bankruptcy Watch Is Growing Fast Amid Coronavirus Crisis
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List Of Retail Companies On Bankruptcy Watch Is Growing Fast Amid Coronavirus Crisis
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Retailers furloughed nearly 1 million workers this week. But the industry's troubles are just beginning.
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Neiman Marcus advances bankruptcy preparations, sources say
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Luxury Retailer 10 Corso Como Closes Up Shop. Was Coronavirus The Last Straw?
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Walmart limits number of customers in stores
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Amazon is now recommending the workers sorting and moving your online orders wear face masks but will have only 'limited' quantities
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'I'm worried that I have infected 1000 people in the last three days': Amazon workers reveal all the reasons why they're afraid to go to work
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Grocery Workers Put Their Health on the Line • Grocery Workers are Afraid
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Amazon white-collar employees are fuming over management targeting a fired warehouse worker
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Boston authorities shut down GameStop and stores close statewide
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Owner of Dutch mall takes on might of Li Ka-shing chain
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Hobby Lobby is closing all stores and furloughing 'nearly all' employees without pay after it defied stay-at-home orders by quietly reopening locations around the nation
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Retailers lost 46,200 jobs in March but could lose millions by May
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Luxury companies reluctantly slash prices amid demand plunge
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Two workers at the same Walmart store die of coronavirus
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
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Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory
Chapter 7, 12 & 13 Private Trustee Locator
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Recent Ch. 11 Filings (23 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (6 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Code (html) - Bankruptcy Code (pdf) • Prior BK Codes (pick year from list) - Bankruptcy Rules
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UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Case Studies
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Bankruptcy Jobs:
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)
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Bankruptcy Strategy:
Filing for bankruptcy? Understand your lenders' leverage
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When Financial Stress Turns to Distress–Restructuring Tools to Avoid Disaster Parts 1 and 2: Chapter 11 Checklist and What Else Is in the Toolbox
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Bankruptcy Reform:
The CARES Act Expands Access to Bankruptcy Relief
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Bankruptcy Implications of the COVID-19 Relief Legislation
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CARES Act Enhances Eligibility for Small Businesses to Declare Bankruptcy
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Sovereign Immunity:
The Katz Principle Resurgent: State Sovereign Immunity Remains Abrogated in Bankruptcy
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Contracts:
COVID-19 and Force Majeure Claims in Performance of Contracts
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Miscellaneous:
Rochelle
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Impact of Covid-19 on Bankruptcy Plans
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D&O:
Coronavirus and D&O Insurance: An Interim Update
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PLUS Perspectives on the Coronavirus Outbreak: D&O Focus Update
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Tech:
Google Is Tracking Whether You’re Staying Home
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Aviation:
Ravn Air Group and Affiliates File in BK DE - First Day Dec
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Top Democrats Press Treasury to Accelerate Airline Bailout • Democrats Urge Mnuchin to Avoid ‘Unreasonable’ Terms on Airlines
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Airlines May Pick Bankruptcy Over Government Aid
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Cleary's Advising US Treasury on COVID-19 Air Carrier Loans
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Cash Crunch Pits Airlines Against Customers in Refund Disputes • U.S. airlines ordered to pay refunds for flights canceled by virus
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Travelers Dealt Double Blow When Insurers Refuse Virus Payouts
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Airlines slash more than 90% of flights to coronavirus hot spot NYC
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway sold nearly $390 million worth of Delta and Southwest shares this week
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Boeing Extends Closing of Seattle-Area Factories on Virus Worry
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Boeing Max Suffers Blow as Leasing Firm Scraps $8 Billion Order • This Big Boeing 737 MAX Order Cancellation Could Be Start Of A Wave
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“Like Sheep for Slaughter”: American Airlines Flight Attendants Speak Out
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Woman Flying to See Her Dying Mother Gets Upgrade to First Class, Is Only Passenger on Flight
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United Airlines Thanked Customers For Its Bailout Money. Then It Carried On Treating Them Badly
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US Airlines Apply for US Payroll Help • U.S. Airlines Apply for Government Aid With Sales in Freefall
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U.S. says airlines must maintain domestic service
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Air France-KLM in talks on state-backed loan package
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Turkish Airlines Suspends All Domestic Flights Until April 20
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Lufthansa Under Mounting Pressure to Accept Government Stake
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Planes Repossessed From Mexico’s Interjet in Omen for Airlines
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Religion:
Buffalo Diocese urges parishes to retain bankruptcy lawyers
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Pope Francis delivers Palm Sunday sermon to empty St. Peter’s Basilica • Pope Urges Courage As Global Death Toll Tops 65,000
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The Americans defying Palm Sunday quarantines: "Satan's trying to keep us apart"
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20,000 Worshipers Quarantined In Pakistan After Major Search
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Restrictions on religious gatherings prompt clashes
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Louisiana church holds services, defying coronavirus stay-at-home order
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Defiant pastors vow to host Palm Sunday mass during coronavirus pandemic
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Mormons start crowd-less conference due to pandemic
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Archbishop delivers Palm Sunday blessing by helicopter
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Food/Beverage:
Davis Wright Lawyer Helps Guy Fieri Create Worker Relief Fund
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Trouble signs mount for Logan’s Roadhouse
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Shake Shack’s Business Model Slammed by Virus as Sales Plunge
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6 chains including Starbucks and Krispy Kreme are offering free food and drinks for healthcare workers and other first responders
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Maker of Corona Suspends Beer Production After COVID-19 Order from Mexico’s Government
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Chipotle to honor $6.5 million in quarterly bonuses. CEO says it’s the ‘right thing to do’
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Cruise Lines:
Carnival’s struggle to survive the coronavirus as it wipes out cruise industry
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Australia: Virus-stricken cruise ship faces police probe
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Another Cruise Ship With Virus Victims Docks in Florida
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Two passengers dead on Coral Princess cruise ship, captain says
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Carnival Finds That Even 2021 Cruises Are Hard to Sell Right Now
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Personal Finance:
How to thrive at work during coronavirus outbreak
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A survival guide to food shopping in New York — the epicenter of coronavirus
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Rules for Using the Sidewalk During the Coronavirus
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They Were the Last Couple in Paradise. Now Their Resort Life Continues.
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No parties, no problem: Introverts don’t mind sheltering at home
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After Just Weeks Of Dating, My Boyfriend And I Are In Coronavirus Lockdown Together
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AOC offers advice for young people to get around stimulus check exclusion
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Millions of dads are stuck at home. That could be a game changer for working moms
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No Salon, No Problem: Americans Are Becoming Their Own Stylists
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Sovereigns:
Emerging economies set to struggle to meet debt obligations
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UK:
NMC creditor applies to UK court to bring in administrators
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'We are facing the biggest financial crash for 100 years': Economists warn the UK economy could shrink by 7.8 per cent overall in 2020
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U.K. Lockdown Hits Young, Low-Paid and Women Most, Study Finds
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What measures are in place concerning real estate in the UK and Europe
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Changes to the UK Government financial measures mean more small and mid-tier businesses can benefit
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UK construction activity falls in March at fastest rate since 2009 – PMI
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U.K. Confidence Drops Most on Record as Lockdown Bites
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700 Northern Ireland jobs on line as Debenhams faces insolvency • Debenhams prepares to file for bankruptcy
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Queen Elizabeth II to praise virus response in rare address • ‘If We Remain Strong, We Will Overcome. We Will Meet Again’
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U.K.’s Rebooted Business Rescue Meets a Wall of Waiting and Pain
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Coronavirus has hit Boris Johnson hard • Boris Johnson’s pregnant fiancée recovering from coronavirus symptoms • British PM Boris Johnson admitted to hospital for tests over ‘persistent’ coronavirus symptoms
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Britain unlikely to lift coronavirus lockdown until end of May: government expert • UK coronavirus deaths up 20% in one day, lockdown expected through May
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Matt Hancock reveals he’s lost two people to coronavirus as he threatens to ban ALL outdoor exercise • Hancock backtracks on tightening lockdown rules
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Bailey rejects monetary financing as tool in virus crisis
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Channel 4 pays millions in bonuses amid coronavirus TV ad slump
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Many in the UK are turning to mail-order coronavirus test kits
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What can the UK learn from smaller countries on how to avoid total lockdown
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Hospital suffers critical incident on day UK deaths rise above 4,300
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Scotland’s Top Doctor Resigns After Flouting Virus Lockdown
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EU:
Ripping Up Europe’s Insolvency Rules Won’t Save Its Companies
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Europe prepares to ease coronavirus lockdowns
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These Are the Options for Europe’s Giant Virus Rescue Package
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European Banks Prepared for a Crisis. But Not This One.
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Canada:
Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau joined by Newfoundland’s premier in decrying Trump ban on exports of N95 protective masks • Justin Trudeau Says Canada Won’t Retaliate Against U.S. for Banning Exports of N95 Masks
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Wild Variations in Canadian Jobs Poll Reflect Employment Chaos
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Bankruptcies Begin as Pandemic Halts Financing: Cannabis Weekly
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PIIGS:
In Italy, Going Back to Work May Depend on Having the Right Antibodies
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Italy Nears Decree on $216 Billion in Guarantees to Companies
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Italy cheers first drop in critical virus patients • Fewer deaths in Veneto offer clues for fight against virus • Death at home: the unseen toll of Italy’s coronavirus crisis • Europe sees more signs of hope as Italy’s virus curve falls • As COVID-19 deaths steady, Italy’s health minister eyes next phase
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Why the Fate of Milan Will Be the Fate of Italy
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Ireland’s Prime Minister Will Practice Medicine Again During Coronavirus Pandemic
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Spain To Extend Lockdown, As Deaths Down For Second Day
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Spain’s Coronavirus Cases Rise to 124,736, Surpassing Italy
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Spain’s Government Must Do More Now or Face a Debt Spiral
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Spanish Government Aims to Roll Out Basic Income ‘Soon’
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Switzerland:
Swiss lead way with crisis loans to small businesses
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France:
French Virus Fatalities Hit 6,507 in Deadliest Day of Outbreak
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Argentina:
Moody's downgrades Argentina, warns of 'significant' creditor losses
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Hungary:
Hungary Puts Burden of Virus Battle on Banks, Political Parties
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Germany:
A German Exception? Why the Country’s Coronavirus Death Rate Is Low
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‘Stress-Free’: Coronavirus Aid Flows Quickly to Berlin’s Self-Employed
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MENA:
U.A.E. Amps Up Stimulus, Unveils New Aid Package
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Dubai Islamic Bank Faces $541 Million Exposure to NMC Healthcare
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Iran’s Rouhani says low-risk economic activities to resume from April 11
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Iraqis Rally To Help Needy Families As Virus Hits, Economy Falters
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Reuters stands by report on Iraq coronavirus cover-up
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Dubai imposes two-week lockdown as Gulf states step up coronavirus fight • Dubai Extends Restrictions on Movement of People to 24 Hours
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Ecuador:
Ecuador stores coronavirus victims in giant fridges as morgues fill up
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Uncollected bodies lie for days in the streets of Guayaquil, Ecuador, the emerging epicenter of the coronavirus in Latin America
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Africa:
‘Complete collapse of economies’ ahead as Africa faces virus
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Fitch Kicks South Africa Deeper Into Junk a Week After Moody’s
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Mexico:
How the coronavirus lockdown is hitting Mexico’s drug cartels
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Mexico’s AMLO Pledges Public Works, Loans to Aid in Recovery
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President, No Big Coronavirus Related Economic Stimulus in Mexico
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Australia:
Australian PM orders all foreign tourists home after fury at bad behaviour during coronavirus crisis
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Albania:
Albania’s coronavirus cases surge for third day in row
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Japan:
Japan’s Virus Stimulus Package To Come in Two Phases
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Japan Could Declare Emergency in Tokyo by Tuesday, Yomiuri Says
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Singapore:
Singapore reports record new cases, quarantines 20,000 migrant workers • Singapore is racing to stop coronavirus spreading in migrant worker dormitories
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Singapore announces third stimulus package worth $3.6 billion to soften coronavirus impact
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Hong Kong:
Hong Kong Faces Delays in Giving Cash Away With Virus Hitting Economy
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Myanmar:
Myanmar Mulls IMF, World Bank Emergency Loans as Slowdown Bites
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Latin America:
14 Latin American nations seek IMF help to combat big recession
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South Korea:
South Korea’s return to normal interrupted by uptick in coronavirus cases
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Taiwan:
Taiwan’s coronavirus response is among the best globally
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Sweden:
Sweden seeks U-turn on coronavirus restrictions • Sweden Girds for Thousands of Deaths Amid Laxer Virus Response
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China:
‘Our Goal Is to Survive’: Wuhan Cautiously Emerges From Lockdown
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As China Reopens, Africa’s Woes Threaten to Starve Its Factories
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China Is Reopening Its Wet Markets. That's Good
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Tourist sites packed as China comes out of lockdown. Experts say risk is high
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China Central Bank Worries About Depression
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Zambia:
Moody’s Sees Zambian Debt Restructuring as Highly Likely
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Philippines:
Man shot dead for flouting coronavirus rules
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Philippines Says Emerging Consensus Is for Lockdown Extension
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Venezuela:
Trump Tightens Pressure on Maduro as Virus Threatens Disaster
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