Some of us are getting a small also comfy at quarantine. NASA can eat discovered a new "Earth." And you energy wish to place your beer down ago reading this.
It's Ashley. Let's address news.
But first, where are your pants, ma'am? Apparently some nation at Maryland aren't wearing shorts to refrain the mail, and police aren't having it. "This is your final warning," police said in a Facebook post. "Please remember to lay shorts on."
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Please, no the wine
If there’s one care that’s been helping many of us favour along the coronavirus dystopia we’re be in, it’s booze. Alcohol sales eat risen drastically along the say because this pandemic upended our lives. (See, it’s no just me). besides during I’ve got some bad news, unite drinkers: The earth Health Organization says alcohol can lay nation at increased danger although the coronavirus, weakening the body's immune system.
Where skill thou, stimulus checks? Wrong coast accounts and dead people.
Confused nearly where your coronavirus stimulus refrain is? The IRS seems to be having some technical difficulties. About 80 million nation expected to receive a stimulus deposit this week, besides during many who tracked their payment say their cash was sent to the wrong coast account. Some are having quite the opposite of that problem: Many eat been surprised to detect that dead loved ones got a check.
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IRS 'Get My Payment': Here's how to chase down your stimulus check.
What's the plan, headmaster Trump?
President Donald Trump, eager to revive the nation's finances, unveiled recommendations to begin the process of states reopening the U.S. economy. The "Opening up America Again'' plot includes three phases and will award governors the authority to compose decisions nearly how their states proceed. The first phase cannot holiday until a condition has 14 continual days of a decrease at cases.
Where’s the beef?
America's food furnish fasten is getting out of whack during the coronavirus pandemic. but little meat processing plants nearly the USA are closed between the COVID-19 crisis, experts care nearly shortages of beef, poultry and pork.
Give it to me straight
U.S. deaths spiked to a daily high of more than 2,400 yesterday. More than 654,000 nation eat tested certain although the coronavirus at the USA, and more than 31,000 eat died. shriek on a schedule of confirmed cases here.
What's everyone talking about? bet you can guess.
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What to know nearly COVID-19: Here is USA TODAY's one-stop guide.
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Police found 18 bodies at a "makeshift" facility at a New Jersey nursing home.
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Wait, what? Rosario Dawson says it's been "really challenging" to quarantine without her boyfriend, Sen. Cory Booker.
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CNN's Chris Cuomo confirmed that his wife too has coronavirus: "It just breaks my heart."
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Where are you required to wear a appearance mask? More and more states, cities and towns making it a rule.
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Dr. Fauci says coronavirus immunity certificates are "possible." Here's what that means.
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A stimulus program for small businesses officially ran out of cash.
Millions are without jobs
A record 22 million Americans eat filed for unemployment benefits at the past month, erasing a decade of profession gains since the big Recession. More than 5.2 million nation filed claims last week, the Labor conserve said Thursday, a stunningly high number besides during beneath record-breaking reports the past two weeks. That brings the total claims at the past four weeks to a staggering 22 million. By comparison, the labor impartial added 21.5 million jobs because the big Recession. Some economists worthy the unemployment worthy will wave to around 16% by July, higher than at any point because the big Depression.
A 'megadrought' energy be worse than any at 1,200 years
Megadroughts – intense droughts that final although decades or longer – once plagued the desert Southwest. although of global warming, an especially barbarous one appears to be emerging at the western USA, a new learn suggests. This is “a drought bigger than what modern federation has seen,” said learn direct author A. Park Williams. because temperatures are projected to hold rising, it is responsible the drought will thrive although the near future – or vanish briefly maiden to return, researchers said.
Real quick
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"Tommy Boy" player Brian Dennehy died at 81.
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They're b-b-b-b-back! Mario Lopez and Elizabeth Berkley reunite at Bayside high at the "Saved By the Bell" reboot trailer.
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A Maine paper mill exploded, sending up a immense plume of dim smoke.
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NFL parallel strength rankings 2020: Where teams situate hind many altered their looks this offseason.
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Howard Finkel, a legendary wrestling announcer and WWE Hall of Famer, has died.
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro make movie fans an present they cannot repel – a walk-on role at their next movie.
Just at time: eat we discovered a new Earth?
Exciting science news: Astronomers discovered a planet around the same size although earth where water could be – meaning the planet could uphold life. This newly construct world, Kepler-1649c, is 300 light-years away from earth and orbits a planet that is nearly one-fourth the size of our sun. What's exciting is that out of total the 2,000-plus exoplanets that eat been discovered by the Kepler space Telescope, this earth is the most comparable to earth both at size and estimated temperature, NASA said.
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Speaking of earth (our Earth, no Kepler-1649c), 2020 is expected to be the warmest year above record.
A ease from the news
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27 things that will compose your life easier at quarantine.
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A quarantined family perfectly re-created Journey's "Separate Ways" music video at home. It. Is. Truly. Spectacular.
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Nintendo Switches are selling out – here’s where you can but buy one.
Employee of the appointment
Now that many of us are WFH, you can eat construct yourself with a purr-fect new colleague: YOUR PETS! forward me their picture at TheShortList@usatoday.com.
Meet Ajax the donkey and Rémy the Great Pyrenees. They understand expectation walks nearly the Leaping donkey Farm in Leicester, Vermont.
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