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Stocks poised to extend losses, Amazon walkout, Monday Night Football games: 5 things to know Monday

Stocks were poised to extend losses Monday as the coronavirus pandemic deepened over the weekend, with the U.S. death total escalating. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2020/03/30/coronavirus-stocks-amazon-walkout-james-corden-5-things-know-monday/2915784001/

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Trump says coronavirus ‘peak in death rate’ likely in 2 weeks, extends social-distancing guidelines through April 30

Speaking at a contentious White House coronavirus news briefing on Sunday that involved testy standoffs with multople reporters, President Trump declared that “the peak in death rate” in the coronavirus pandemic “is likely to hit in two weeks,”…

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Trump weighs rolling coronavirus quarantines

According to people close to the president, he may soon announce an approach that would suggest the quarantines should end on a rolling basis — keeping heavily infected hotspots like New York City shuttered for longer than areas…

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273 Americans stuck in Central America flown back to U.S. on ICE deportation flights

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2020/03/27/coronavirus-americans-stuck-central-america-return-ice-flights/2932039001/ Nearly 300 Americans stranded in Central America due to the spread of the coronavirus have returned to the U.S. this week aboard flights used by U.S. immigration authorities to deport people back to their home countries.

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Race to build temporary hospitals nationwide as coronavirus spreads

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is looking at 114 facilities in all 50 states to convert into potential temporary hospitals in an effort to increase the nation’s hospital capacity in preparation for an expected influx of hundreds…

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Aydin Buyuktas bends drone images into otherworldly urban landscapes

The resulting photo series, “Flatlands,” uses these surreal, digitally-manipulated scenes to warp the viewer’s sense of time and space, Buyuktas said in an email interview. https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/drone-photography-istanbul-aydin-buyuktas/index.html

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Trump signs historic $2 trillion stimulus after Congress passes it Friday

President Donald Trump signed into law Friday afternoon a historic $2 trillion stimulus package as the American public and the US economy fight the devastating spread of Covid-19. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/27/politics/coronavirus-stimulus-house-vote/index.html

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