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Trump Picks Ex-Drug Company Executive to Lead Accelerated Coronavirus Vaccine Effort

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America’s True Covid Toll Already Exceeds 100,000

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The Electoral College Is a Confusing Mess

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M.I.T. Closes ‘Food Computer’ Project After Scientists Raised Doubts

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Republicans Release Names of Obama-Era Officials in ‘Unmaskings’ That Revealed Flynn

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Wisconsin Supreme Court Strikes Down Stay-at-Home Order

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Tropical storm will likely miss Florida this weekend. But beach conditions may get dangerous.

As the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season gets an early start near Florida, Typhoon Vongfong is approaching the Philippines.

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Coronavirus: US 'won't use Russian ventilators' linked to fires

The ventilators have been linked to two deadly hospital blazes in Russia and are being investigated.

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US says China trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine as markets slump

Chinese hackers are trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine research, US authorities said Wednesday, ratcheting up tensions between the superpowers as markets slumped on warnings from the US Federal Reserve that prolonged shutdowns could cause "lasting damage". Europe, meanwhile, pushed ahead with plans to gradually reopen for summer tourism, even as fears persist of a second wave of infections in the pandemic that has forced more than half of humanity behind closed doors in recent months. With some countries scrambling after a fresh surge in cases and the global death toll exceeding 294,000, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Wednesday that the virus "may never go away."

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A train station worker has died after a man who said he had the coronavirus spat at her

Ticket office worker Belly Mujinga died with Covid-19 two weeks after a member of the public who claimed he had the disease approached her and spat at her.

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New Zealand still supports Taiwan at WHO despite Chinese rebuke

New Zealand's foreign minister on Tuesday said the country has to stand up for itself after China warned its backing of Taiwan's participation at the World Health Organization (WHO) could damage bilateral ties. Taiwan, with the strong support of the United States, has stepped up its lobbying to be allowed to take part as an observer at next week's World Health Assembly (WHA), the WHO's decision-making body - a move which has angered China. Taiwan is excluded from the WHO due to the objections of China, which views the island as one of its provinces.

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The Supreme Court just heard a pair of cases that could decide whether anyone will see Trump’s tax returns

The Supreme Court on Tuesday met by teleconference to hear a pair of cases that will likely determine whether anyone sees Trump’s tax returns and related financial records.

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Ahmaud Arbery: What do we know about the case?

The fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery has drawn national attention. Here's what we know.

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France requires face masks but still bans Islamic face coverings

All citizens must wear a mask — but women in face-covering Islamic garb could be punished.

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The WHO warned this summer's expected heatwaves will be especially dangerous during lockdown

Heat can trigger exhaustion and heat stroke, and can aggravate existing conditions, the World Health Organization warned several European nations.

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Putin's spokesman becomes fifth senior Russian official to get coronavirus

Biden is crushing Trump among older Wisconsin voters in new Marquette poll

A poll of Wisconsin voters from Marquette University Law School released Tuesday shows former Vice President Joe Biden beating President Trump in the crucial swing state by 3 percentage points, 46 percent to 43 percent, within the margin of error. But mind the age gap: Trump leads Biden among voters 30-59, "a pattern that has held in most of the Marquette Law School polls since August," Marquette notes, but Biden's lead among voters 60 and older — 18 points — is larger than his 10-point advantage in voters 18 to 29.> In presidential race in WI, Biden holds an advantage over Trump among 18-29 year old voters, leading in that group 51% to 41%. Biden also leads among voters 60 and over, 55% to 37%. mulawpoll> > — MULawPoll (@MULawPoll) May 12, 2020Biden also led Trump by 3 points, 48 percent to 45 percent, in the last Marquette poll in March, and polls since August have shown a close race, with Trump leading in November and the two candidates tied in February. Marquette's new poll was conducted via phone May 3-7 among 811 Wisconsin registered voters. The margin of error is ±4 percentage points.Nationally, Trump won voters 65 and up by 7 points, and he led Democrat Hillary Clinton by 5 points at this point in 2016, The New York Times notes. Some public polls and internal campaign polling now show Biden winning by at least 10 points nationally, the Times reports, and some Trump campaign officials attribute the dangerous softening of support among older voters to Trump's coronavirus briefings, arguing that "older voters will return now that Mr. Trump has phased out his self-congratulatory version of a fireside chat."Vox's Sean Collins writes that publicly available national polling still has Trump leading among seniors but consistently losing to Biden among the general electorate, and "much of what is driving Biden's advantage appears to be support among Generation Z and millennial voters." But even if Biden just peels off some of Trump's support among senior citizens, one of the president's most important constituencies, that could tip what is expected to be a close election, the Times notes, in Wisconsin and other swing states.More stories from theweek.com Coronavirus will win. America needs to make a plan for failure. Will the Supreme Court crown Trump king? White House reportedly trying to lower coronavirus death rates by changing counting method

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Gunmen storm Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kabul, killing two newborns

Several doctors leapt to an adjacent building after at least three attackers wearing police uniforms entered the hospital, according to officials.

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Poll: Taiwanese distance themselves from Chinese identity

About two-thirds of Taiwanese don’t identify as Chinese, according to a survey released Tuesday that highlights the challenge China would face in bringing the self-governing island under its control. The U.S.-based Pew Research Center found that 66% view themselves as Taiwanese, 28% as both Taiwanese and Chinese and 4% as just Chinese. The results are consistent with other polls showing that people in Taiwan increasingly identify only as Taiwanese, Pew said.

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Coronavirus: Brazil records highest daily rise in deaths

The country, which is at the centre of the Latin American outbreak, registers 881 deaths in a day.

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Number of COVID-19 cases rising in California's Orange County, but health official says no apparent link to beach crowds

Orange County, California, is seeing its weekly coronavirus case count rise, but health officials say this doesn't necessarily have anything to do with crowds of people who gathered at the county's beaches on April 25 and 26."As of now, that is not something we are pointing to as a cause of cases," Orange County Health Officer Dr. Nichole Quick told the Los Angeles Times. After seeing images and video showing throngs of people at Huntington Beach not social distancing, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) moved to temporarily close Orange County's beaches. There have also been two protests in Huntington Beach against the state's stay-at-home measures, with most participants standing next to each other without masks.Orange County confirmed 441 new COVID-19 cases between April 20 and 26, with the number jumping to 664 the next week and 787 the week after that. Dr. George Rutherford, an epidemiologist and infectious disease expert at UC San Francisco, told the Times further study is needed to determine whether the beaches contributed to the increase in cases, but "just us looking at it, there was a big jump in Orange County that was temporally consistent with possible transmission from that crowd event."Quick said more tests have been conducted daily since April 28, and "as we loosen up any amount of the stay-at-home order or put more people to work, we do expect to see an increase in cases. So that would be something that would be expected." The Orange County Health Care Agency reported that as of Monday, there are 3,557 coronavirus cases in the county, with the death toll at 76.More stories from theweek.com 1 of these 7 women will likely be Joe Biden's running mate How Trump lost his Electoral College edge to Biden The dark decade ahead

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Burkina prosecutor launches probe after 12 detainees die in custody

A Burkina Faso prosecutor has launched an investigation after 12 people died during the same night in detention cells, hours after they were arrested for suspected terrorism-related offences in a town in the east of the country.

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