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WHO Chief Pledges Independent Review Of Pandemic Response
The head of the World Health Organization is promising to launch an independent review of its handling of the coronavirus outbreak. WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Monday he&#...
May 18, 2020
HHS Secretary: Poor Health Part Of The Reason For High Death Toll
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar says America’s unhealth habits are part of the reason the coronavirus death toll has been so high in the U.S. Appearing on CNN’s State of the ...
May 18, 2020
Game-Worn Air Jordan Sneakers Sell for Record-Breaking $560,000
Michael Jordan’s iconic Air Jordan 1s hit the Sotheby’s auction block on Sunday. It was estimated that it would sell for $100,000-$150,000. They went for $560,000. The pair of sneakers wer...
May 18, 2020
Gov. Cuomo Expects Increase In Coronavirus Cases As Reopening Begins
About half of New York State is starting to reopen from the coronavirus lockdowns, but it won’t be business as usual at the beginning. Five of the state’s ten regions have met the seven cr...
May 18, 2020
Science Shows Wearing Masks Stops The Spread Of Coronavirus
According to numerous studies, if the vast majority of us were wearing masks in public, we could halt the spread of the coronavirus until a vaccine is ready. But how does it work? Data scientist Jerem...
May 18, 2020
New York Tourist Arrested After Posting Hawaiian Beach Photos
The law is pretty clear: anyone arriving in Hawaii from outside the state must go into quarantine for two weeks. So when Tarique Peters posted photos from the beach just hours after stepping off his f...
May 18, 2020
Shoplifters Use Hollowed-Out Watermelon As Masks, Cops Make Arrest
Shoplifters in Virginia thought they had a pretty good disguise worked out, wearing hollowed-out watermelons as masks. Unfortunately, those plans weren’t exactly the best laid, and cops made the...
May 18, 2020
When can fans race to the speedways?
NASCAR drivers will be racing around the track again beginning this weekend at Darlington, but how fast can fans get back in the seats? NBC Sports reports the league is hopeful that will happen someti...
May 16, 2020
Wall St. finishes the week down
Stocks end slightly up Friday but down for the week. The Dow lost 2.65% this week, ending at 23,685. The S&P is down 2.26% over the five days of trading, finishing at 2,864. The NASDAQ finished th...
May 16, 2020
NFL proposal incentivizes minority hires
NFL teams could improve their cache of draft picks by hiring minority head coaching and GM candidates under a new proposal. Sources tell ESPN that teams could move their third-round picks up 10 spots ...
May 16, 2020
