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DeBlasio Calls for Extension of Eviction Moratorium; Wants Economic Relief for Over 2 Million New Yorkers 

Edited by: JV Staff As New Yorkers continue to struggle during these economically challenging times, on Friday, Mayor Bill DeBlasio called on the state to extend the inability of courts to have tenants legally evicted for non-payment of rent to 60 days past the end of the devastation that the coronavirus crisis has caused, according […]

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Satellite Imagery Finds likely Kim Train Amid Health Rumors

By: Hyung jin-Kim A train likely belonging to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been parked at his compound on the country’s east coast since last week, satellite imagery showed, amid speculation about his health that has been caused, in part, by a long period out of the public eye. The satellite photos released […]

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Pompeo: Iran’s Satellite Launch is “Dangerous” – Urges Int’l Community to Intervene

Edited by: JV Staff Tensions between Washington and Tehran flared anew recently as Iran’s Revolutionary Guard conducted a space launch that could advance the country’s long-range missile program and President Trump threatened to “shoot down and destroy” any Iranian gunboats that harass Navy ships, according to an AP report. Fox News reported that Secretary of […]

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Saturday Update; Cuomo: ” All this inconvenience. Think of it this way: what you’re doing is actually saving lives.”

“All evidence says we’re on the decline,” New York governor Andrew Cuomo says, noting that total hospitalizations are down again to around 1,100 – a level where they were three weeks ago. However, the death toll increased slightly to 437 people in the last 24 hours – 418 in hospitals and 19 in nursing homes […]

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Anti-unity Government Protesters Return to Tel Aviv

(AP) Several thousand Israelis rallied Saturday to demonstrate against a unity government deal reached last week that leaves Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in power as he prepares to go on trial for corruption charges. The protesters oppose having Netanyahu as prime minister as long as he is a criminal suspect. The protesters say the unity […]

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“We’ve been ignored’: Nursing homes plead for more testing

BERNARD CONDON, MATT SEDENSKY AND JIM MUSTIAN (AP) After two months and more than 10,000 deaths that have made the nation’s nursing homes some of the most terrifying places to be during the coronavirus crisis, most of them still don’t have access to enough tests to help control outbreaks among their frail, elderly residents. Neither […]

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Virus pushes US unemployment toward highest since Depression

By DAVID CRARY, REGINA GARCIA CANO and ANGELA CHARLTON (AP) Unemployment in the U.S. is swelling to levels last seen during the Great Depression of the 1930s, with 1 in 6 American workers thrown out of a job by the coronavirus. More than 4.4 million laid-off Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, the government […]

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