Nathaniel Weixel — The Hill
South Dakota is the first state to conduct a full clinical trial on hydroxychloroquine to test its effectiveness in treating and potentially preventing COVID-19. The trial is being led by the largest rural health provider in the country, Sanford Health. The study will!-->!-->!-->…
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Pranav Dixit — BuzzFeed News
Facebook-owned WhatsApp is introducing new limits on forwarding messages to slow down the spread of misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Any message that has been forwarded more than 5 times will only be able to be forwarded to a single person or group one at!-->!-->!-->…
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Cristina Alesci and Shannon Liao — CNN
Joe Tsai, a Canadian billionaire businessman, and his wife, Clara Wu Tsai, have donated 2.6 million masks, 170,000 goggles, and 2000 ventilators to New York — the US epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. Mrs. Tsai said that her intention is to help the!-->!-->!-->…
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Gary Robbins — Los Angeles Times
A 4.9 earthquake struck Friday evening at 6:53 PM near Anza in Riverside County in Southern California. The quake was felt strongly in San Diego County, and even felt in downtown Los Angeles and other areas of LA County and the Inland Empire. The quake erupted!-->!-->!-->…
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Jason Green — The Mercury News
In order to help slow the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus), Stanford University has canceled all in-person classes for the last two weeks of the winter quarter, as well as their yearly Admit Weekend event for prospective undergraduates who have been offered!-->!-->!-->…
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Aubri Juhasz — National Public Radio
The Diamond Princess cruise ship, currently quarantined in Japan, has 44 Americans aboard infected with the novel coronavirus. With almost 3,700 individuals aboard the ship, this brings the total number of cases to 355 as of Sunday. The U.S. State Department!-->!-->!-->…
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Whitney J. Palmer — Diagnostic Imaging
Radiology researchers from the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor have determined what was in common in chest CT scans from patients who tested positive for coronavirus-associated pneumonia. The researchers!-->!-->!-->…
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Tomas Foltyn — We Live Security
A critical flaw in Android’s Bluetooth has led users vulnerable to attack by hackers. The vulnerability affects users running Android Oreo (8.0 and 8.1) or Pie (9.0), which accounts for almost two-thirds of Android devices in use. In order for an attacker to!-->!-->!-->…
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Lily Lee and Joshua Berlinger — CNN World
The US Embassy in Beijing confirmed that a 60-year-old US national has died from the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China on Thursday. Authorities believe this to be the first foreigner to die from the coronavirus. This was followed by China’s deadliest day!-->!-->!-->…
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Joel Gehrke — Washington Examiner
The Pentagon wants to deploy Patriot missile defenses, a surface-to-air missile system, to Iraq to provide protection against the recent Iranian ballistic missile strikes. This missile defense system would help ward off the kinds of ballistic missile!-->!-->!-->…
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Carolyn Y. Johnson — The Washington Post
Scientists are working to create a vaccine against the new coronavirus with a record-breaking speed — something they could have barely imagined only 10 years ago. Although, however fast the scientists work, the virus is still spreading more rapidly.!-->!-->!-->…
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Christopher Mele — The New York Times
A shooting in Virginia Beach on Friday afternoon at a municipal center has injured six people, including a police officer, and killed at least 11 others. The injured individuals have been taken to a local hospital for treatment. The gunman was found dead,!-->!-->!-->…
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ZACK BUDRYK — The Hill
A new Texan legislative bill that would allow Texan citizens to carry their guns for a full week after a natural disaster is headed to the governor’s desk. Currently, in order to carry a handgun, one must pass a course, a background check, a shooting test, and pay a fee.!-->!-->!-->…
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Dell Cameron — Gizmodo
An 8.0 magnitude earthquake hit the Amazon jungle, the Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve, on Sunday killing two people. Injuring 15, and affecting at least 284 families. The earthquake hit in the north part of Peru and was felt as far as Venezuela. Officials have warned for!-->!-->!-->…
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