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Libertarians debate: How to respond to coronavirus pandemic?
NEW YORK — Steve Baker, one of the British parliament’s leading libertarians, was nearly in tears as he addressed the House of Commons in support of a bill that once seemed unthinkable: a massive economic aid package in response to the coronavirus pandemic. “Libertarian though I may be, this is...
Coronavirus ravages storied New Orleans Mardi Gras group
NEW ORLEANS — On Fat Tuesday, 51-year-old Cornell Charles was taking part in a storied New Orleans Mardi Gras tradition central to the city’s African American community — driving a car in the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club’s parade. A month later his wife of three decades was watching...
Dr. Louis Falo talks Southwest Greensburg, Pitt coronavirus vaccine and Dr. Anthony Fauci
He learned teamwork on the football field at Greensburg Central Catholic High School more than 40 years ago. Like three classmates on that 1977 team, Louis Falo went on to medical school. Today, the Southwest Greensburg native and researcher at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine leads an elite...
Henry L. Hillman Foundation giving more than $4 million in emergency grants to help fight covid-19
The Henry L. Hillman Foundation has released more than $4 million in emergency grants since mid-March in response to the unfolding covid-19 pandemic. More funds are anticipated to be released in the coming days and weeks, foundation officials said Friday. “Our board convened right away wanting to offer what we...
Advocates furious after outbreak at San Francisco shelter
SAN FRANCISCO — In the biggest outbreak at a homeless shelter in California to date, San Francisco’s mayor announced Friday that 70 people have tested positive for the coronavirus, infuriating advocates who had sought more aggressive action to protect homeless people. Mayor London Breed said that the outbreak involving 68...
Paul Newberry: What’s wrong with UFC ruler Dana White?Video
What’s wrong with Dana White? Almost everyone else in the world of sports understands it’s time to stand down, but not this guy. The UFC’s undisputed ruler is determined to put others in harm’s way to provide his Roman gladiator-style of alleged entertainment, even if it means taking it to...
Court lifts part of order blocking Texas abortion ban
AUSTIN, Texas — A federal appeals court on Friday partially rescinded a lower-court order that had largely blocked the enforcement of an abortion ban in Texas during the coronavirus pandemic. By a 2-1 vote, the three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld enforcement of an executive...
Airlines and Trump administration haggle over payroll grants
The Trump administration is proposing that a significant amount of the $25 billion in cash that airlines expected to keep workers on the job will instead be low-interest loans that big airlines will have to repay, according to two people familiar with the matter. The Treasury Department began sending proposals...
1 dead from covid-19 at Concordia’s Butler senior community; 2 employees infected in Monroeville, Baden
Concordia Lutheran Ministries confirmed Friday that a Butler assisted living community resident has died of covid-19, marking the first death linked to the coronavirus outbreak at the network’s senior care facilities in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida. The person who died Thursday night at Concordia at the Orchard in Butler...
Mental health experts, sports figures ‘Team-Up to Cope with Covid’
Social distancing, self-isolation, working from home — or no work at all — have added to the mental health challenges people face during the covid-19 crisis. And the postponement of public events and sports seasons has taken away what would certainly be welcome distractions. With these elements in mind, Embrace...
Erin Wall: How I miss you, my high school students, but we will meet again
Erin Wall teaches AP English at Woodland Hills High School, where she has worked since 2005. The sounds of our schools are silenced. The tapping of pencil marks, the screeching of desks, the ticking of the clock, the chiming of the bell, the laughter and chatter of voices that flow...
From Science Bowl to stay-at-home: Murrysville brothers adjusting to life amid pandemicVideo
Six weeks ago, Urvish Jain and his high-school teammates were earning a third-place finish at the National Science Bowl’s regional competition in West Mifflin, and his brother, Bhav, was kicking into high gear during his first spring semester at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. Now, the Murrysville brothers...
Fearing hospital bankruptcy, Gov. Wolf offers $450M in loans to financially strapped providers
Gov. Tom Wolf on Friday announced more than $450 million in low-interest loans meant to keep hospitals afloat as they continue to lose revenue amid the coronavirus pandemic. Hospitals statewide have canceled elective surgeries and nonurgent procedures to free up bed space and limit the spread of covid-19. At the...
Cornerstone Network spreads message of hope amid pandemic from ‘spiritual front lines’Video
A broadcast tower stretches up from atop a hill in Wall, streaming what producers at Cornerstone Network hope is a guiding message to those navigating the unfamiliar reality created by the coronavirus. The network, which has broadcast several programs from its location tucked between Pitcairn and North Versailles since 1979,...
3 coronavirus deaths now reported at Kane Community Living in Glen Hazel
Three Kane Community Living residents have now died from coronavirus-related complications, according to data from Allegheny County. That’s up from two deaths that were reported Friday. The deaths occurred in Kane’s Glen Hazel location, where at least 25 residents have tested positive for covid-19. Eight tests among residents still are...
How Western Pa. religious leaders are altering Easter sermons during coronavirus pandemic
Father Tom Gramc used to spend entire days surrounded by people and parishioners. He went from preaching morning Mass to hearing afternoon confessions to visiting grade schools in the Diocese of Pittsburgh. Yet as Easter approaches, he spends his days in Zoom meetings or fielding calls and emails from parishioners,...
Doctors, nurses participate in lonely Good Friday procession at Vatican
VATICAN CITY — Nurses and doctors wearing their white hospital coats joined a torch-lit Good Friday procession in a hauntingly almost empty St. Peter’s Square, as Pope Francis presided over the ceremony which couldn’t be held at Rome’s Colosseum as tradition holds because of Italy’s lockdown in the covid-19 pandemic....
Beach towns in Mexico block themselves off because of virus
MEXICO CITY — In Mexico, beach towns have begun blocking off roads — in some cases, constructing barricades of rubble across roadways — to seal themselves off from the outside world in a bid to stop the new coronavirus from entering. The Gulf of California beach town of Puerto Peñasco...
Alaska Democrats hold mail-only presidential primary
JUNEAU, Alaska — Alaska Democrats are deciding their choice for the party’s presidential nominee, as just one major candidate — former Vice President Joe Biden — remains actively campaigning. Results are expected Saturday in the party-run primary, which became an exclusively vote-by-mail affair after concerns with COVID-19 scrapped plans for...
After months in space, astronauts returning to changed world
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Two NASA astronauts said Friday they expect it will be tough returning to such a drastically changed world next week, after more than half a year at the International Space Station. Andrew Morgan said the crew has tried to keep atop the pandemic news. But it’s...
Apple, Google to adapt phones for virus infection tracking
Apple and Google launched a major joint effort to leverage smartphone technology to contain the covid-19 pandemic. New software the companies plan to add to phones would make it easier to use Bluetooth wireless technology to track down people for who may have been infected by coronavirus carriers. The idea...
Alex Jones gets warning from FDA for pushing phony coronavirus cures online
Infowars founder Alex Jones has received an official warning from the Food and Drug Administration for peddling phony coronavirus cures online. In a formal letter to the alt-right television personality on Thursday, the agency ordered Jones to stop telling viewers of his widely watched broadcasts that they can stave off...
Worldwide deaths from the coronavirus top 100,000
NEW YORK — The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus has hit 100,000, according to the running tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. The sad milestone comes as Christians around the globe mark a Good Friday unlike any other — in front of computer screens instead of in church pews....
Inmates rampage through offices, set fires at Kansas prison
LANSING, Kan. — Inmates at a Kansas prison where at least 26 people have been sickened by the coronavirus rampaged through offices, breaking windows and setting small fires for several hours before the facility was secured, prison officials said Friday. The disturbance, involving about 20 men, began about 3 p.m....
New York coronavirus deaths rise fast, but hospitalizations slow
NEW YORK — New York covid-19-related deaths jumped yet again by more than 700 in a day, while hospitals battling the outbreak reported encouraging news. On the economic front, New York tried to improve its overwhelmed unemployment insurance website. Here are developments in the coronavirus outbreak. THE NUMBERS Coronavirus deaths...
