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News Pentagon focusing on most vital personnel for virus testing ROBERT BURNS , Associated Press • April 26, 2020 9 Comments 1 / 3 Virus Outbreak Navy Guam In this April 7, 2020, photo released by the U.S. Navy, sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt move ready to eat meals for sailors who have tested negative for COVID-19 and are being taken to local hotels in an effort to implement social distancing at Naval Base Guam. People in Guam are used to a constant U.S. military presence on the strategic Pacific island, but some are nervous as hundreds of sailors from the coronavirus-stricken Navy aircraft carrier flood into hotels for quarantine. Officials insist they have enforced strict safety measures. (Mass Communication Specialist Julio Rivera/U.S. Navy via AP) More WASHINGTON (AP) — With limited supplies of  coronavirus  tests available, the Pentagon is focusing first on testing...

News Iran says virus cases pass 90,000 AFP • April 26, 2020 15 Comments Iranian authorities since April 11 have allowed the phased reopening of some businesses and have relaxed some domestic travel restrictions put in place to curb the spread of the virus (AFP Photo/ATTA KENARE) More Tehran (AFP) - The number of novel coronavirus cases in Iran has passed 90,000, according to official figures released Sunday, as Tehran announced its lowest number of new deaths in weeks. Health authorities have registered 1,153 new cases of the COVID-19 illness since midday Saturday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 90,481, health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour told a daily news briefing. Sixty additional fatalities were recorded, with the overall death toll reaching 5,710, he added. It is the country's lowest number of officially declared deaths since March 10. Iran announced its first novel coronavirus cases in February, and is the...

Abortion-rights advocates rally amid SCOTUS case USA TODAY • March 4, 2020 13 Comments     Ad: 11s Abortion-rights advocates rally in New Orleans as the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a challenge to the constitutionality of a Louisiana law regulating abortion. (March 4)

EPA administrator criticizes inspector general's conclusions on Scott Pruitt's alleged abuses Alexander Nazaryan National Correspondent , Yahoo News • March 4, 2020 0:43 1:52 EPA administrator criticizes inspector general's conclusions on former head Pruitt's alleged abuses Scroll back up to restore default view. WASHINGTON — Scott Pruitt, the onetime administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, was once a potent symbol of corruption within the Trump administration,  as well as of its push to roll back environmental protections . With his  penchant for first-class flights  and other reported excesses — including, most infamously, an ill-fated search for  a used mattress  from the Trump International Hotel — Pruitt became an increasing problem for a White House that had promised to hold public officials accou...

News Esper says new virus won't prevent military operations by LOLITA C. BALDOR , Associated Press • March 5, 2020 1 Comment Defense Secretary Mark Esper testifies to the Senate Armed Services Committee about the budget, Wednesday, March 4, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) More WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military and its warfighting command centers in the Pentagon are prepared to continue operations even if there is a local outbreak of the new coronavirus, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Thursday, as the department began finalizing its response plans. Although only one soldier and a handful of family members and Defense Department civilians have so far tested positive for the virus, tens of thousands of troops are in countries and regions that have been hardest hit, including South Korea and portions of Europe. The nation's more than 2.1 million active duty, Guard and Reserve forces are ...

Storm Ciara batters Britain, hitting flights, trains and soccer Reuters • February 9, 2020 1 / 3 Storm Ciara batters Britain, hitting flights, trains and soccer A car drives through a flood water during Storm Ciara in Brighouse LONDON (Reuters) - Storm Ciara lashed Britain with heavy rain and winds of more than 90 miles an hour (145 km/hour) on Sunday, forcing the cancellations of flights, train services and sports matches. More than 200 flood warnings were issued across the country by authorities, including one severe warning in Yorkshire, northern England, where water was predicted to overflow flood defenses and potentially threaten lives. The national meteorological service said it had recorded a maximum wind speed of 93 miles an hour at Aberdaron in Wales, on a day of storm disruption that stretched into northern continental Europe. The weather caused major disruption to tran...