New York City’s Commission on Human Rights will launch an investigation into Amazon for firing a worker who organized a protest this week over fears of a coronavirus outbreak at the Staten Island warehouse where MORE
France’s drug safety agency warned on Monday of potentially serious side effects of treatments being tested against the new coronavirus after the deaths of three people possibly linked to self-medication. MORE
Europe and Iran have completed their first transaction under a complicated barter system set up to dodge US sanctions on the Islamic Republic. Germany’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that the creation of the INSTEX mechanism MORE
The COVID Tracking Project obtains, organizes, and publishes high-quality data required to understand and respond to the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States. We will do this work until official national sources take over and MORE
Please help me. I no longer understand some of my fellow countrymen. In the midst—not the end—of the COVID-19 pandemic, it seems that what I am watching, reading & hearing from the experts in the MORE
Reached via email, NIH said as of March 27, there were 28 staff members diagnosed with the novel coronavirus. The NIH cases are included in the Montgomery County and Maryland count. NIH explained in its MORE
Convicted of defrauding his employer of millions, a former United Way vice president has asked a federal judge to let him out of jail because his compromised immune system makes him vulnerable to COVID-19. District MORE
In Germany, the number of deaths from coronavirus is relatively low for the number of confirmed infections. The rate is lower than in Italy, where the number of deaths linked to confirmed Covid-19 infections remains MORE
Over the weekend, authorities in Las Vegas needed to find additional sleeping space for the city’s sizable homeless population when a 500-bed overnight shelter closed after a client tested positive for the new coronavirus. Officials turned a MORE
“Tiger King” is Netflix comfort food of the highest order: it immerses viewers in a mind-boggling lifestyle and series of scandals, and yet the term “true-crime” doesn’t do justice to its greatness. This is animal-print MORE
Report: Man ‘coughing and not covering’ led to shots fired at Johnstown Sheetz Source: Police say officers were called to the Sheetz on Broad Street last Saturday for reports of shots fired into an MORE
Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island, N.Y., and Instacart’s grocery delivery workers nationwide plan to walk off their jobs on Monday. The strikes come as both Amazon and Instacart have said they plan to hire tens MORE
At least four Washington D.C. area chefs are posting cooking videos on the internet: WTOP Lincoln Fuge and his wife: They recorded more than 10 videos in the first week of their channel, making dishes MORE
Should Germany concentrate more energy on digital surveillance in the fight against the new coronavirus? Spahn pointed to South Korea, saying, “We have seen how South Korea, a democratic country, was able to fight the MORE
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