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Little Progress Made In Trump’s Plan For Private Retailers To Test For Coronavirus

The White House promised widespread COVID-19 testing at CVS, Target, Walgreens and Walmart locations nationwide. But months later, testing is being offered at only a tiny fraction of their stores. (Image credit: Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Domestic Abuse Can Escalate In Pandemic And Continue Even If You Get Away

Loosened quarantine restrictions have given some people an opportunity to flee violence at home, but cyberstalking and high unemployment have also made it harder to completely escape after moving out. (Image credit: Roos Koole/Getty Images)

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Restaurant Owner Whose Business Burned Calls For Justice For George Floyd

Somali immigrant Safia Munye opened the Minneapolis restaurant Mama Safia’s Kitchen with her retirement savings. It was destroyed. “This can be replaced. George’s life cannot,” she says. (Image credit: Jim Urquhart for NPR)

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Trump Seems Likely To Use Law And Order As A Wedge Issue After George Floyd’s Killing

President Trump called Floyd’s death a “grave tragedy” that “should never have happened.” But once he was back on Twitter, he again inflamed tensions, with machismo and politics at the forefront. (Image credit: John Locher/AP)

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2 Tribal Casinos In Connecticut Roll The Dice And Reopen

Gov. Ned Lamont says it’s too soon, but the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes say they are taking numerous steps to ensure that Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun are safe for patrons. (Image credit: Mary Altaffer/AP)

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Australian channel sorry for Hitler pic in TV report on rugby game’s ‘fake fans’

Fox Sports Australia apologizes after show superimposes image of Nazi leader over cardboard cutouts that have been populating stadiums amid pandemic

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Minnesota Said Those Arrested Were From Out of State. Records Suggest That Isn’t True. – Slate

Minnesota Said Those Arrested Were From Out of State. Records Suggest That Isn’t True.  Slate George Floyd died a week ago, rocking Minneapolis and its mayor  Los Angeles Times Philadelphia faces looting, police cars ransacked as Trump demands ‘Law & Order’ amid

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LA County issues 6 pm curfew – Santa Clarita Valley Signal

LA County issues 6 pm curfew  Santa Clarita Valley Signal Santa Barbara County law enforcement agencies head to San Francisco to assist with protest response  KSBY San Luis Obispo News Day 5 Of Protests: Follow Our Live Coverage  LAist Peaceful protests, looting, arrests

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Stocks scale 3-month peak, dollar sags on reopening joy

World stocks were just shy of three-month highs and the dollar weakened further on Monday as optimism on economies opening up boosted risk appetite, shrugging off worries over riots in the U.S. and unease over Washington’s power struggle with Beijing.

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Thousands of students sent into isolation as more virus cases found in schools

Staff and children at schools in Hadera, Jerusalem and Beersheba are quarantined as cases continue to rise in the education system

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