Latest World News: March 2020

Tuesday 31 March 2020

Coronavirus: Hospitals urged to use lab space to test NHS staff

The advice comes as the government faces growing criticism over a lack of testing for frontline staff.

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Coronavirus: A fifth of smaller UK firms 'will run out of cash'

Despite government help, almost 20% of UK firms are unlikely to get the money they need to survive.

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Climate change: Warming clips the nightingale's wings

Rising temperatures may be having a profound impact on one of the world's favourite songbirds.

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As Furloughs Grow, Kennedy Center Defends Use of $25 Million in Aid

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Coronavirus: When 76 strangers sang happy birthday to a neighbour

A woman surprised her fiancé for his birthday by organising a mass sing-along in their apartment building.

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Coronavirus: 3D-printer owners rally to create NHS face masks

More than 1,000 people volunteer to help make face shields for front-line workers.

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Coronavirus: MSPs to agree emergency laws

MSPs are expected to pass new emergency powers in a single day in response to the Covid-19 outbreak.

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Coronavirus' 'minimum wage heroes'

Hear from the people on low wages who are taking a risk to keep the country running.

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Coronavirus: How a professional deep clean is carried out

Specialist cleaning services are being inundated with requests to disinfect buildings during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Coronavirus: Playing classical music for South Korea hospital patients

Musicians in South Korea have played a classical music concert for coronavirus patients.

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How birth is changing in the age of coronavirus

Coronavirus is throwing many birth plans up in the air and leading some health trusts to increase home births.

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Coronavirus: How it’s affecting young people’s mental health

The coronavirus crisis is having a huge impact on young people with existing mental health conditions.

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Jay Blades: From repairing lives to hosting TV hit The Repair Shop

Jay Blades, host of BBC One's surprise hit The Repair Shop, never aimed for a career on screen.

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Big splash: The world's largest designer of water parks

Geoff Chutter is the founder of Whitewater West, the world's largest water park design firm.

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How Dua Lipa and The Weeknd are bringing the 80s back… again

The 1980s are once again influencing some of the world’s biggest artists like Dua Lipa and The Weeknd.

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Las domadoras de leones de Egipto dominan el negocio

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$30 Million in Illegal Drugs Seized From Cross-Border Tunnel in San Diego, U.S. Says

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‘Never Thought I Would Need It’: Americans Put Pride Aside to Seek Aid

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Human Rights Group Says Two U.S. Strikes Killed Somali Civilians

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Hellmut Stern, 91, Dies; Violinist Returned to Germany After Fleeing

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Coronavirus: Are loss of smell and taste key symptoms?

However, experts say a fever and a cough are still the main ones to look out for.

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Bristol GP surgery's dances a hit with care home

Staff at Green Valleys Health are dancing every lunchtime to entertain residents next door.

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Coronavirus Spreads in Veterans’ Home, Leaving ‘Shuddering Loss for Us All’

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Monday 30 March 2020

A Bitter Herb From the Lower East Side

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An Easter Egg From Beverly Hills

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For Your Quarantine Pizza Cravings

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Tempting Pastas and Sauces From Sicily

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A Knife to Add Flash to Your Kitchen

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A Haggadah for Seders Near and Far

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Virus Prompts Workplace Protests Over Health Concerns

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Trump to Governors: I’d Like You to Do Us a Favor, Though

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Alison Roman’s Seder Table

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Trump’s Virus Defense Is Often an Attack, and the Target Is Often a Woman

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Listen to the Call: Bullock and Trump Discuss Testing

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Keep It Simple, Albany. This Is No Time for Budget Games.

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Congress Just Spent $2 Trillion on Coronavirus Relief. It’s Eying More.

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Coronavirus: Free school meals children to get food vouchers

Ministers say the vouchers could be available to families in England as early as Tuesday afternoon.

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Blood test 'can check for more than 50 types of cancer'

The test could help diagnose tumours sooner, often before any symptoms, scientists hope.

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Coronavirus: Airport handlers at risk of collapse

Aviation services companies are calling on the government for urgent assistance due to the pandemic.

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Delay Brexit deadline amid coronavirus, say MEPS

The UK is due to stop following EU rules by the end of 2020 but a group of MEPs say the date should be pushed back.

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Coronavirus: Protecting yourself in a migrant camp

The often unsanitary conditions in refugee and migrant camps, like this one on Lesbos, pose a challenge for residents trying to avoid coronavirus.

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Coronavirus: Has the virus brought borders back to Europe?

The BBC’s Gavin Lee took a road trip in Europe's Schengen area to see how free movement has changed.

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How (not) to cut your hair at home

Stuck at home, some people have enlisted their children to help cut their hair.

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Coronavirus: The good that can come out of an upside-down world

There are reasons to believe the world may emerge from this upheaval enhanced, writes Matthew Syed.

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'The phone slipped into the bath': Conference call tales

How to avoid some of the pitfalls of teleconferencing and how it is changing the way we meet and do business.

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Coronavirus: What should you do if you are stuck abroad?

The government has outlined plans aimed at bringing stranded Britons home.

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Sunday 29 March 2020

Coronavirus Live Updates: 200,000 Americans Could Die, Warns Top Health Officials

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‘Westworld’ Season 3, Episode 3 Recap: Predators and Prey

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Coronavirus: 20,000 former NHS staff return to fight virus, PM says

In a video posted online, Boris Johnson says the UK can get through the pandemic "together".

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Trump concedes US death toll could be 100,000 or more

President Donald Trump acknowledged Sunday for the first time that deaths in the United States from coronavirus could reach 100,000 or more, adding that if the death toll stays at or below 100,000, "we all together have done a very good job."

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Armed vigilantes blocked a neighbor's driveway to force him into quarantine

A Maine man said armed neighbors descended on his home and chopped down a tree to block his road and prevent him from leaving because they believed he may have coronavirus.

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Joe Diffie, Grammy-Winning Country Music Star, Dies at 61

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‘Group of Local Vigilantes’ Try to Forcibly Quarantine Out-of-Towners, Officials Say

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TUNE IN: Elton John, Mariah Carey and more on 'FOX Presents the iHeart Living Room Concert for America'

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The Best Movies and Shows on Hulu Right Now

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Trump Extends Social Distancing Guidelines Through End of April

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The Politics of a Pandemic

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Coronavirus: Mercedes F1 to make breathing aid

Thousands of the devices, which deliver oxygen to the lungs without needing a ventilator, could be made.

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Coronavirus: Fake news crackdown by UK government

A rapid response unit is working with social media firms to take down misleading or harmful content.

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Regional connectivity at risk, says airline boss

The head of Loganair, the UK's biggest regional airline, says he will ask the government for help.

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The Marvel Spiderman artist teaching children in Ireland to draw

Irish artist Will Sliney is keeping thousands of kids entertained with daily drawing challenges.

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Coronavirus social distancing advice: What two metres looks like

The UK government is advising us to stay two metres apart - but what does that look like?

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Rob Lawrie, the ex-squaddie, and the girl taken

Rob thought he was helping a refugee girl and her father as they struggled to get to the UK. But he found out it was all a lie.

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Timelapse: The streets of London during the coronavirus pandemic

Have you ever seen the streets of the capital so empty?

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Coronavirus doctor's diary: Why are people stealing hospital supplies?

Dr John Wright explains how Bradford Royal Infirmary is preparing for a "tsunami" of Covid-19 cases.

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Coronavirus and sex: What you need to know

All your questions about sex in the time of coronavirus, answered.

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A place that makes you ask the questions that really matter

The BBC's Justin Rowlatt found a visit to Antarctica made him emotional, and ultimately hopeful.

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Coronavirus: The woman behind India's first testing kit

With the first made-in-India kits, the country could hugely scale up testing for the coronavirus.

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'My $60m weight-loss app cured my personal pain'

Victoria Repa has created an app to help people lose weight, an issue she struggled with growing up.

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Saturday 28 March 2020

Coronavirus: Lessons for lockdown from an Italian family

The Aninnis have been in lockdown in Rome for nearly three weeks. What advice do they have for other families?

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'Memes should be archived in a museum'

People social distancing are sharing memes to feel connected but could they be preserved in a museum?

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Raving to the BBC News theme tune goes viral

Have you seen the kitchen 'remix' of the BBC News theme tune yet?

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Coronavirus: Meet the ‘shielded’ enduring 12 weeks of isolation

Some people face months of coronavirus isolation because of medical conditions. How will they cope?

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Coronavirus: The volunteers feeding the NHS

Meet the people who have made it their mission to feed the National Health Service for free.

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Lockdown, what lockdown? Sweden's unusual response to coronavirus

While swathes of Europe are under lockdown, Sweden is allowing life to go on much as normal.

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Coronavirus: Six things that are booming in sales

Amid the virus, some retailers are seeing trade collapse, but others are overwhelmed by demand.

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Introducing the soaring melodies of Azure Ryder

How one of pop’s brightest new voices found confidence by taking control of a plane.

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More than 2,000 deaths are in the US, where a travel advisory has been issued for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut

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Love under lockdown: The couples pushed together and kept apart by coronavirus

Henny Ansell is effectively in a long-distance relationship with her boyfriend -- but her boyfriend is only a few miles away.

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North Korea launches sixth unidentified projectile in under a month

North Korea fired an unidentified projectile into the sea off the coast of Japan Sunday morning, the sixth launch by the Kim Jong Un regime in less than a month.

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Domestic workers are being infected by their employers who traveled internationally

When the coronavirus outbreak reached Hong Kong, domestic worker Jinkie Alhambra followed guidance from the government and stayed home on her day off.

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Trump announces quarantine on New York, parts of New Jersey and Conn. 'will not be necessary;' CDC to issue 'travel advisory'

03/28/20 5:34 PM

How Much Should the Public Know About Who Has the Coronavirus?

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Mike Longo, Jazz Pianist, Composer and Educator, Dies at 83

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Figuring Out Home Schooling in the Age of Coronavirus

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Tornado Strikes Jonesboro, Ark., Causing Injuries, Official Says

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Coronavirus: Things will get worse, PM says in letter to Britons

Writing to all UK households, Boris Johnson warns measures to combat coronavirus could get tougher.

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Coronavirus: What we still don't know about Covid-19

There are many unanswered questions about the new coronavirus, Covid-19.

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Alex Salmond's accusers 'devastated' by court verdict

A jury found the former first minister not guilty on 12 sexual assault charges, while another was found not proven.

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Bob Weighton turns 112: The times and life of the world's oldest man

Bob Weighton, from Hampshire, turns 112 today. What has the world's oldest man lived through?

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SNP urges UK government to 'hit pause' on Brexit due to coronavirus

The party says UK ministers should focus on the coronavirus pandemic and seek to extend the transition period.

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Dua Lipa releases new album 'Future Nostalgia'

Dua Lipa dropped a new album that might just blow your mind.

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Friday 27 March 2020

Coronavirus: From clapping to kindness, five reasons to be hopeful

As coronavirus continues to spread, the worst of the crisis has brought out of the best in humanity.

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Coronavirus: The fake Bill Gates post and other claims to ignore

Here are the latest examples of coronavirus disinformation.

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Manu Dibango: The saxophone legend who inspired a disco groove

Manu Dibango, whose Soul Makossa filled New York dance floors, died this week at the age of 86.

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Vietnamese beauty brand Skinlosophy fuses tradition with technology

International labels dominate Vietnam's market for high-end beauty products, but that did not deter Do Duy Khanh and Dinh Phuong Anh, who have carved out a niche for their brand -- Skinlosophy.

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Coronavirus: Stranded in another country

BBC News speaks to some of the people from the UK who have been stranded abroad due to the pandemic.

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The 'Aids quilt' that showed the scale of suffering

In 1985, LGBT activist Cleve Jones came up with a creative idea to spotlight Aids deaths in the US.

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Week in pictures: 21-27 March 2020

A selection of news photographs taken around the world this week.

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U.S. Cuts Health Care Aid to Yemen Despite Worries About Coronavirus

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How the UK’s coronavirus epidemic compares to other countries

Comparing the UK’s epidemic to other countries after Friday saw the biggest rise in deaths so far.

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The Papers: Virus 'strikes at heart of government'

The news that the prime minister has tested positive for coronavirus features on the front pages.

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Analyzing the Patterns in Trump’s Falsehoods About Coronavirus

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Price Gouging Complaints Surge Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

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A Silent Spring Is Saying Something

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Un ejército de costura cose mascarillas para Estados Unidos

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One Continent, Two Very Different Political Responses to the Pandemic

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Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today

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Locked Out of the Virtual Classroom

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In This Emergency, Mom Knows Best

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‘We Have Lost It All’: The Shock Felt by Millions of Unemployed Americans

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For Dr. Deborah Birx, Urging Calm Has Come With Heavy Criticism

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Country star John Rich puts on a special show from his Nashville home. Watch 'Fox Nation Presents a Night with John Rich LIVE' o

03/27/20 4:59 PM

Millions of chickens are used to make vaccines each year. But that won't work for coronavirus

Across the United States, prized chickens are laying life-saving eggs at secret farms.

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Thursday 26 March 2020

The uncertain future for China's electric car makers

China is the biggest market for electric vehicles, but the coronavirus is the latest blow to shake the industry.

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Little Mix star Perrie Edwards talks new music, panic attacks and knitting

The singer says Little Mix are going back to "pure pop" after splitting with Simon Cowell.

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Skilled at Dodging

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Opera Star, Charged With Sexual Assault, Is Fired by University of Michigan

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Early Graduation Could Send Medical Students to Virus Front Lines

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EPA dials back environmental enforcement during pandemic

The Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency is indefinitely dialing back enforcement of regulations and fines for companies during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Justice Department should charge intentional coronavirus spreaders as terrorists

This week, the Justice Department took an aggressive step toward holding individuals who knowingly spread the coronavirus accountable for their actions. The new guidance could serve as a powerful deterrent to those contemplating weaponizing the virus in the weeks ahead.

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