CLEVELAND – As the Indians and the rest of the Major League Baseball prepare to begin a condensed season after a freeze due to the coronavirus pandemic, Cleveland Indians president Chris Antonetti confirmed that some Indians players tested positive for COVID-19, but said that all cases were isolated. Antonetti did …
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United States Imposes New Sanctions on Chinese Leaders Over Hong Kong Laws | China News
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday that U.S He was imposing visa restrictions on Chinese Communist Party officials believed to be responsible for restricting freedoms in Hong Kong. The move comes ahead of a Chinese parliament meeting next week that is expected to enact new national security legislation for …
Read More »A bordering county in Texas had the coronavirus under control. Then the governor intervened.
In Starr County, Texas, the pandemic has become a “before and after” story, before the state took over, and after it did. The large but sparsely populated county on the Texas-Mexico border had managed to keep the coronavirus contained in the first few months by imposing 14-day quarantine restrictions on …
Read More »Oregon could see 4,800 new cases of COVID-19 a day in mid-July if trends continue, researchers warn.
New disease models released today by the Oregon Health Authority warn that daily COVID-19 infections could increase 20-fold in mid-July if trends continue. The June 25 report from the Institute of Disease Modeling projects that, in the worst case, Oregon could see up to 4,850 daily cases of COVID before …
Read More »‘All I can say’: the life and death of a rock star, in his own words
In 1990 Richard Shannon Hoon began filming himself. It looks like it could be any young time-killer guy in Lafayette, Indiana: upside-down baseball cap, sandy blonde stubble, a slight hint of a southern flair, across the entire United States of the early 1990s, in other words. Hoon has a girlfriend …
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