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- Feds pressure Potbelly, Ruth’s Chris, other public companies to give back small-business loans
Thursday - 04/23/2020 - 03:53 PMBig public companies that received loans under a government program intended to help small businesses devastated by the coronavirus outbreak could be forced to return it. The Small Business Administration issued an advisory Thursday clearly aimed at companies like restaurant chains Ruth’s Chris...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 19 people who went to polls on election day in Wisconsin contracted coronavirus, but ties uncertain, officials say
Thursday - 04/23/2020 - 10:45 AMState health officials said 19 voters and poll workers in April’s spring election tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus afterward, but caution they can’t say for certain whether election exposure was the cause.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- New $310 billion for PPP small-business loans likely already gone, banks say
Thursday - 04/23/2020 - 02:02 PMThe more than $300 billion set aside to replenish the emergency loan program for small businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic is likely already all spoken for, banking industry groups said Wednesday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- At least 6 dead as apparent tornadoes tear through Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana
Thursday - 04/23/2020 - 08:49 AMSevere weather was moving through the South on Thursday after at least six people died in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana, including a factory worker whose body was found quarter-mile away after an apparent tornado struck his workplace and severely damaged the town nearby.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- CDC director warns of coronavirus and flu epidemics colliding in the fall
Wednesday - 04/22/2020 - 09:00 PMCould the United States face two epidemics at the same time next fall: flu and the coronavirus? That frightening idea was raised by Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, during an interview Tuesday with The Washington Post.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- President Trump says he ‘disagrees strongly’ with Georgia’s plan to reopen as state is struggling to increase coronavirus testin
Wednesday - 04/22/2020 - 10:20 PMPresident Donald Trump said Wednesday that he “disagreed strongly” with the decision by Georgia's Republican governor to reopen salons, gyms and other nonessential businesses later this week, saying, “It's just too soon.” During the daily White House briefing on the new coronavirus, the president...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Tyson Foods closes key Iowa pork plant after coronavirus outbreak
Wednesday - 04/22/2020 - 02:32 PMTyson Foods suspended operations Wednesday at an Iowa plant that is critical to the nation's pork supply but was blamed for fueling a coronavirus outbreak in the community. The Arkansas-based company said the closure of the plant in Waterloo would deny a vital market to hog farmers and further...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Foxconn’s Wisconsin plant now making masks, ventilators
Wednesday - 04/22/2020 - 08:28 AMThe Foxconn Technology Group has started making masks at its facilities in Mount Pleasant in southeastern Wisconsin in addition to working on medical ventilators for use during the coronavirus pandemic.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Still waiting for your federal stimulus check? Here are four possible reasons.
Wednesday - 04/22/2020 - 10:33 AMIf you’re still holding out on your stimulus check arriving, you are not the only one. Newsweek estimates that an estimated 60 million to 70 million Americans still haven’t received theirs, even though some reported seeing the money as early as April 10.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Vice President Mike Pence visits Wisconsin amid criticism of Trump administration’s COVID-19 response
Tuesday - 04/21/2020 - 12:33 PMVice President Mike Pence was highlighting the manufacturing of ventilators during a visit to battleground Wisconsin on Tuesday, a trip that Democrats used to blame the Trump administration for failing to deliver needed supplies to the state to fight the coronavirus.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- 1 in 5 New Yorkers may have had COVID-19, antibody tests described by Gov. Andrew Cuomo suggest
Thursday - 04/23/2020 - 05:12 PMOne of every five New York City residents tested positive for antibodies to the coronavirus, according to preliminary test results described by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday, suggesting the virus had spread far more widely than known.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Sen. Elizabeth Warren announces her oldest brother has died of coronavirus
Thursday - 04/23/2020 - 11:29 AMThe oldest brother of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Donald Reed Herring, has died from the coronavirus, the senator said Thursday. The former Democratic presidential candidate said her brother died Tuesday evening.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- In Wisconsin, the coronavirus pandemic creates a new front in long-simmering partisan wars
Thursday - 04/23/2020 - 03:29 PMWisconsin had barely finished its fight over whether to hold an election in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic before America’s foremost battleground state began another political brawl over the pandemic itself.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- House expected to send a nearly $500 billion coronavirus small business aid bill to Trump
Thursday - 04/23/2020 - 09:34 AMThe House is reassembling to send President Donald Trump a fourth bipartisan bill to help businesses crippled by the coronavirus, an almost $500 billion measure that many lawmakers are already looking beyond.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Doctor says he was removed from federal post after questioning coronavirus treatment embraced by President Trump
Wednesday - 04/22/2020 - 09:54 PMThe doctor who led the federal agency involved in developing a coronavirus vaccine said Wednesday that he was removed from his post after he pressed for rigorous vetting of hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug embraced by President Donald Trump as a coronavirus treatment, and that the administration...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Video shows thief stole a Vincent van Gogh painting from a Dutch museum with a sledgehammer
Wednesday - 04/22/2020 - 12:14 PMAll it took was a few sturdy swings with a sledgehammer and a prized painting by Vincent van Gogh was gone. A Dutch crime-busting television show has aired security camera footage showing how an art thief smashed his way through reinforced glass doors at a museum in the early hours of March 30....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How a seaside Irish village adopted Matt Damon during the coronavirus outbreak
Wednesday - 04/22/2020 - 04:39 PMOn Easter Sunday, while on her afternoon stroll, Irish novelist Denise Deegan realized she still had not yet called her mother. “Hello” she said cheerily into her phone. “Hello,” a man on the street replied.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Delta Air Lines loses $534 million in first quarter, with worse results looming
Wednesday - 04/22/2020 - 09:03 AMDelta Air Lines, the biggest and most profitable U.S. airline, lost $534 million in the first quarter, a setback that will appear trivial when the full force of the pandemic is revealed in the current quarter.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Wisconsin Republicans sue Gov. Tony Evers over stay-at-home order
Tuesday - 04/21/2020 - 05:29 PMRepublicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature asked the state Supreme Court on Tuesday to block an extension of the Democratic governor’s stay-at-home order, the most partisan divide yet in the fight against the coronavirus.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- First at-home coronavirus testing kit is approved by the FDA, allows people to collect their own sample
Tuesday - 04/21/2020 - 01:30 PMU.S. health regulators on Tuesday OK'd the first coronavirus test that allows people to collect their own sample at home, a new approach that could help expand testing options in most states.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Another meatpacking plant closes: Tyson plant in Indiana to shutter after 146 employees test positive
Thursday - 04/23/2020 - 04:02 PMTyson Foods Inc. announced Wednesday that it will temporarily close its meatpacking plant in north-central Indiana after 146 employees tested positive for cornavirus. The Tyson Fresh Meats plant in Logansport produced 3 million pounds of pork daily.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Rejecting Trump administration’s position, Supreme Court rejects EPA’s narrow view of the Clean Water Act
Thursday - 04/23/2020 - 01:38 PMThe Supreme Court ruled Thursday that sewage plants and other industries cannot avoid environmental requirements under landmark clean-water protections when they send dirty water on an indirect route to rivers, oceans and other navigable waterways.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- From bees to butterflies, researchers say Earth has lost more than a quarter of its insects in the past 30 years
Thursday - 04/23/2020 - 02:38 PMThe world has lost more than one quarter of its land-dwelling insects in the past 30 years, according to researchers whose big picture study of global bug decline paints a disturbing but more nuanced problem than earlier research.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Las Vegas mayor draws criticism for suggesting city become a ‘test case’ for reopening amid coronavirus pandemic
Wednesday - 04/22/2020 - 07:58 PMNevada officials condemned comments Wednesday by Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman after she called for casinos and other non-essential businesses to reopen and suggested the city could serve as a test case to measure the impact during the coronavirus pandemic.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Trump signs executive order that halts immigration for 60 days — but includes long list of exemptions
Wednesday - 04/22/2020 - 09:03 PMPresident Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that he had signed an executive order “temporarily suspending immigration into the United States.” But experts say the order will merely delay the issuance of green cards for a minority of immigrants.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- A commercial that aired during ESPN documentary ‘The Last Dance’ hints at advertising’s deepfake future
Wednesday - 04/22/2020 - 01:20 PMUnable to film new commercials during the coronavirus pandemic, advertising agencies are turning to technologies that can seamlessly alter old footage, sometimes putting viewers in a position of doubting what they are seeing.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- How social distancing became the heart of the national playbook for responding to a pandemic is one of the untold stories of the
Wednesday - 04/22/2020 - 03:02 PMFourteen years ago, two federal government doctors, Richard Hatchett and Carter Mecher, met with a colleague at a burger joint in suburban Washington for a final review of a proposal they knew would be treated like a piñata: telling Americans to stay home from work and school the next time the...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Earth is turning wilder and cleaner as people stay home because of the coronavirus pandemic
Wednesday - 04/22/2020 - 09:04 AMAn unplanned grand experiment is changing Earth. As people across the globe stay home to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, the air has cleaned up, albeit temporarily. Smog stopped choking New Delhi, one of the most polluted cities in the world, and India’s getting views of sights not visible...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump tweets that he ordered Navy to destroy any Iranian gunboats that harass US ships
Wednesday - 04/22/2020 - 10:49 AMPresident Donald Trump said Wednesday that he has ordered the Navy to “shoot down and destroy” any Iranian gunboats that harass U.S. ships, a directive that comes a week after the Navy reported a group of Iranian boats made “dangerous and harassing approaches” to American vessels in the Persian...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Seven people contract coronavirus from in-person voting in Wisconsin election, health officials say
Tuesday - 04/21/2020 - 02:37 PMHealth officials in Wisconsin said they have identified at least seven people who appear to have contracted the coronavirus from participating in the April 7 election, the first such cases following in-person voting that was held despite widespread concern about the public health risks.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share