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Virus Outbreak, ADVISORY
Scientists have announced the first effective treatment against the coronavirus — an experimental drug that can speed the recovery of COVID-19 patients — in a major medical advance that comes as the economic gloom caused by the scourge deepens in the U.S. and Europe. The U.S. government says it is working to make the medication available to patients as quickly as possible.
What you need to know today about the virus outbreak
On a day of economic gloom, scientists offered a ray of hope: the first effective treatment
NYC mayor takes heat after lashing out at Jewish funeral
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio defended his tweets criticizing a large Orthodox Jewish funeral. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said daily deaths are down but still “disgustingly high.” Front-line health care workers and first responders will be mass tested for antibodies.
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Drug proves effective against virus as economic damage rises
Harland Svare, ex-Giant and Rams, Chargers coach, dies at 89
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Harland Svare, a starting linebacker on the New York Giants’ 1956 NFL championship team and later the team’s defensive coach while still a player, has died. He was 89.
Virus-ravaged Europe nudges some doors open, not others
PARIS (AP) — Europeans are starting to venture outside after weeks of confinement, scarred by a virus that has overwhelmed some of the world's best health care systems and killed more than 120,000 in the continent, yet yearning to rediscover signs of normalcy.
In New Orleans, friends respond as virus claims a Zulu king
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — If he had died in a normal time, Larry Arthur Hammond would have had a funeral befitting a Zulu king, with more than a thousand mourners in the church and marching in second-line parades celebrating a mainstay of New Orleans Mardi Gras royalty.
William J. ‘Bill’ Barker
August 3, 1948 – April 1, 2020
Harland Svare, ex-Giant and Rams, Chargers coach, dies at 89
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Harland Svare, a starting linebacker on the New York Giants’ 1956 NFL championship team and later the team’s defensive coach while still a player, has died. He was 89.
Former Giant Harland Svare, Rams, Chargers coach dies at 89
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Harland Svare, a starting linebacker on the Giants’ 1956 NFL championship team and later the team’s defensive coach while still a player, has died, He was 89.
Pope urges virus lockdown obedience amid church-state debate
ROME (AP) —
Riots in crisis-hit Lebanon reflect growing poverty, despair
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — Hundreds of protesters in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli clashed with troops until late Tuesday night leaving several injured on both sides in some of the most serious riots triggered by an economic crisis spiraling out of control amid a weeks-long virus lockdown.
Virus-ravaged Europe nudges some doors open, not others
PARIS (AP) — Europeans are starting to venture outside after weeks of confinement, scarred by a virus that has overwhelmed some of the world's best health care systems and killed more than 120,000 in the continent, yet yearning to rediscover signs of normalcy.
Clashes in impoverished Lebanese city as crisis deepens
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — Hundreds of protesters in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli set fire Tuesday to two banks and hurled stones at soldiers, who responded with tear gas and batons in renewed clashes triggered by an economic crisis spiraling out of control amid a weeks-long virus lockdown.
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Hundreds take part in funeral of man killed in Lebanon riots
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — Hundreds of angry Lebanese took part Tuesday in the funeral of a young man killed in riots overnight in the northern city of Tripoli that were triggered by the crash of Lebanon's national currency that sent food prices soaring.
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