When will baseball and hockey return? At this point, it’s anyone’s guess.

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‘Saturday Night Live’ Halts Its Season

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Connecticut Man Charged With Threatening to Kill Adam Schiff

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‘Our Lives Are at Stake’: U.S. Residents Scramble to Find Coronavirus Testing

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Isolation doesn’t require you to forgo good food or good wine, our wine critic writes.

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Inside the Coronavirus Response: A Case Study in the White House Under Trump

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The World of Books Braces for a Newly Ominous Future

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Trump Urges Limits Amid Pandemic, but Stops Short of National Mandates

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Grieving for My Sick City

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Coronavirus Restrictions Force Cancellation of Arctic Research Flights

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Working from home with musical accompaniment.

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Britain Stiffens Its Response to the Coronavirus, Somewhat

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Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today

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Vittorio Gregotti, Modernist Architect, Dies in Pandemic at 92

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Trump tries to ease concerns of a nation increasingly rattled over coronavirus

For the third time in three days, President Trump addressed the nation in an effort to address growing fears about the pandemic that has now infected about 3,200 Americans and killed more than 60.

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'Dead Sea Scrolls fragments' at Museum of the Bible are all fakes, study says

* Washington museum hired experts to examine purchases * Artefacts came from controversial ‘Post-2002’ collectionWhen Steve Green paid millions of dollars from his family fortune for 16 fragments of the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls, it seemed the perfect addition to their new Museum of the Bible in Washington DC.But now experts have confirmed what has long been suspected: the artefacts proudly displayed in the nation’s capital by the owners of the Hobby Lobby chain of stores are not part of one of the most significant archaeological finds of all time.They are worthless forgeries, probably made from old shoe leather.Confirmation of the hoax came in a report published online by a team of five art fraud investigators, after a two-day conference at the museum focusing on the comprehensive testing of the supposed scroll fragments was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.The experts spent six months analyzing each fragment, concluding a study born from 2017 revelations that the lucrative international trade in Dead Sea Scroll pieces was awash in suspected forgeries and indications that at least five pieces bought by Green, the museum’s chairman, for an undisclosed amount ahead of its opening that year, were fake.“After an exhaustive review of all the imaging and scientific analysis results, it is evident that none of the textual fragments in [the] Museum of the Bible’s Dead Sea Scroll collection are authentic,” wrote Colette Loll, the founder and director of Art Fraud Insights, the Washington company contracted to examine them.“Moreover, each exhibit’s characteristics that suggest they are deliberate forgeries created in the 20th century with the intent to mimic authentic Dead Sea Scroll fragments.”The investigators outlined how they believe the deception was perpetrated and a succession of biblical scholars and the museum’s curators fooled. The forgers, they suggest, used Roman-era leather, possibly from boots or sandals, to imitate parchment, and attempted to recreate the handwriting of ancient Hebrew scribes.Using microscopes and a variety of other scientific techniques including chemical analysis, the team found inconsistencies such as the presence of a shiny coating suspected to be animal glue, which wouldn’t have existed at the time, and clues in the spread, position and pooling of ink.There was also evidence that writing was added after attempts were made to artificially age the surface.The exposure of the fakes does not affect the authenticity of the genuine Dead Sea Scrolls. The oldest known pieces of the original Hebrew bible, dating from about 400BC to 300AD, were discovered rolled in clay pots in caves in Palestine’s West Bank in the 1940s.But it casts doubt on almost every piece of the so-called Post-2002 fragments, a collection of about 70 items that entered the market in the early years of this century after William Kando, the son of an antiquities dealer who bought the original scrolls from Bedouin shepherds seven decades ago, claimed to have opened a family vault in Switzerland.According to National Geographic, Green invested heavily between 2009 and 2014 to acquire 16 of those pieces, as he built a collection for the family’s showpiece museum.Until this weekend the scrolls were displayed under soft lighting in the museum’s Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit. They will be removed during its closure for the duration of the coronavirus crisis, beginning on Monday.“Notwithstanding the less than favorable results, we have done what no other institution with post-2002 fragments has done,” said Dr Jeffrey Kloha, the chief curatorial officer.“The sophisticated and costly methods employed to discover the truth about our collection could be used to shed light on other suspicious fragments and perhaps even be effective in uncovering who is responsible for these forgeries.”

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Have a dry cough or a sore throat? 9 steps to take if you might have coronavirus

Here are nine actions recommended by health experts and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention if you think you might have COVID-19.

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'Try getting it yourselves': Trump told governors they're responsible for getting their own medical equipment to treat coronavirus patients

Trump's directive reportedly took some of the governors by surprise given that states are already working overtime to contain the spread of the virus.

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The Latest: IRC starts $30M campaign to aid vulnerable areas

IRC President and CEO David Miliband said that “while coronavirus is a serious threat where there is a health system, its dangers are magnified in communities where there is no such system.” COVID-19 is now confirmed in crisis-affected countries where the IRC operates like Afghanistan, Iraq, Burkina Faso and Venezuela, Miliband said, warning that the virus “will thrive in active war zones like Yemen and Syria, putting the lives of thousands of civilians in even more danger.” A Pennsylvania distillery owner who grew increasingly angry as he saw the skyrocketing price of hand sanitizer has decided to temporarily convert his operation into a production line for the suddenly hard-to-find, alcohol-based disinfectant.

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American Airlines cutting international flights by 75% amid demand collapse

WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - American Airlines Inc said Saturday it plans to cut 75% of its international flights through May 6 and ground nearly all its widebody fleet, as airlines respond to the global collapse in travel demand due to the coronavirus pandemic. The dramatic announcement by the largest U.S. airline came hours after the White House said the United States would widen new travel restrictions on Europeans to include travelers in the United Kingdom and Ireland, starting Monday night. The Trump administration also signaled Saturday it wanted Congress to quickly back financial support for troubled U.S. airlines.

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Sanders keeps arguing for a revolution most Democrats don't want: Mastio & Lawrence

Biden did a good job of being calm and reassuring, just the opposite of Bernie’s hand-waving. But both missed an opportunity to transcend politics.

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Multiple cruise ships have been denied entry to port and are stranded at sea — some with coronavirus cases on board

Countries have been closing ports amid the ongoing pandemic, leaving multiple cruise ships stranded at sea, some with coronavirus cases.

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Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib Retweets: 'F*** Trump's National Day of Prayer' to Her Social Media Followers

President Trump's proclamation naming Sunday, March 15 as a national day of prayer invited all faiths to participate in asking God for added wisdom, comfort, and strength.  But this apparently was unacceptable to Muslim Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), who chose to retweet Parkland High School shooting survivor and gun control advocate David Hogg's tweet.

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