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'The Food Supply Chain Is Breaking.' Tyson Foods Warns of Meat Shortage as Plants Close Due to COVID-19

news.yahoo.com - Tyson Foods, one of the U.S.’s biggest meat processors, didn’t mince words in a full page New York Times spread that ran Sunday, in which they warned, “the food supply chain is breaking.” “As pork, b…

Russia Halts Wheat Exports, Deepening Fears of Global Food Shortages

time.com - For the first time in a decade, the world risks being cut off from Russian wheat at a time when some key buyers are rushing to import it. The top shipper last month limited sales through June to prot…

USDA let millions of pounds of food rot while food-bank demand soared

politico.com - Tom Vilsack, who served as agriculture secretary during the Obama administration, put it this way: “It’s not a lack of food, it’s that the food is in one place and the demand is somewhere else and th…

Billionaire Ray Dalio says America's jarring inequality is a 'national emergency' that is threatening capitalism

businessinsider.fr - The billionaire hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio said the American dream "does not exist" right now and that if leaders don't act, the whole economic system of capitalism could collapse. In an online vid…

White House issues coronavirus testing guidance that leaves states in charge

washingtonpost.com - President Trump at the White House on Monday. (Alex Brandon/AP) By Mike DeBonis, close Mike DeBonis Congressional reporter covering the House of Representatives Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow Chris …

What the Coronavirus Crisis Reveals About American Medicine

newyorker.com - Bowen kept thinking about the next pandemic, when the supply of masks from China might plummet and the demand for domestic masks might surge again. He sent letters warning about a potential supply-ch…

Georgia, Tennessee, And Alaska Want Restaurants To Reopen — But McDonald’s, Chick-Fil-A, And Dunkin’ Are Saying Not So Fast

buzzfeednews.com - The journalists at BuzzFeed News are proud to bring you trustworthy and relevant reporting about the coronavirus. To help keep this news free, become a member and sign up for our newsletter, Outbreak…

The Pandemic-Era Emergency Dep’t: Weirder, Wilder & Emptier Than Ever

medium.com - The radio toned at 3 a.m., a single long tone. No big deal, just a heads-up. If the patient had been “priority one” sick, or if paramedics had needed medical orders by radio, the tones would have bee…

President’s intelligence briefing book repeatedly cited virus threat

washingtonpost.com - President Trump delivers a television national address on the coronavirus pandemic from the Oval Office on March 11. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) By Greg Miller and close Greg Miller National…

The Virus vs The Virus

medium.com - Here’s a look at what the President of the United States was Tweeting as America’s Covid-19 body count continued to mount. The below examples are not exhaustive. But they are certainly exhausting. Of…

260,000 Words, Full of Self-Praise, From Trump on the Virus

nytimes.com - James S. Brady Press Briefing Room THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much, everyone. My administration will do everything possible to help those communities get back on their feet. We’re speaking with th…

How Las Vegas Became Ground Zero for the American Jobs Crisis

nytimes.com - Valicia and Jovaun Anderson with their daughter Nylah at their home in Las Vegas. When Valicia Anderson starts to count the people she knows in Las Vegas who have lost their jobs, she runs out of fin…

Coronavirus updates: COVID-19 deaths in Mass. pass 3,000; Mayor Walsh says Boston will not reopen May 4

boston25news.com - “The more we can expand our testing, the more we can learn how to use our medical resources more efficiently, and how we need to focus our current efforts to contain the virus," Walsh said. "I want t…

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buzzfeednews.com - The journalists at BuzzFeed News are proud to bring you trustworthy and relevant reporting about the coronavirus. To help keep this news free, become a member and sign up for our newsletter, Outbreak…

How Trump’s Foes Get Through His Daily Press Briefings

theatlantic.com - Updated at 1:54 p.m. ET on April 27, 2020. In the Chicago suburbs lives a four-year-old black Labrador retriever named Mabel, whose happiest part of the day is President Donald Trump’s daily briefing.

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****-trump-supporters" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">psmag.com - About 700 people gathered at the Minnesota capitol building in St. Paul, Minnesota, on March 4th, 2017, to show support for Donald Trump. (Photo: Fibonacci Blue/Flickr) Given the meteoric rise of Don…

In Just Months, the Coronavirus Is Killing More Americans Than 20 Years of War in Vietnam

theintercept.com - Born in controversy, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is now the most poignant monument on Washington D.C.’s National Mall. Designed in 1981 by a Yale undergraduate named Maya Lin, the memorial consists…

America's Super-Rich See Their Wealth Rise by $282 Billion in Three Weeks of Pandemic

mintpressnews.com - A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies found that, while tens of millions of Americans have lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic, America’s ultra-wealthy elite have seen their …

Waiting for life to return to pre-pandemic normal? 'It won't,' PM says

ctvnews.ca - OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that "normal" is a "long way off" for all Canadians — and that some differences implemented as a result of lessons learned during this pandemic will last …

A Soft Power Ploy? Cuba Continues to Aid the Poorest and Least Influential Nations

mintpressnews.com - Amidst a worsening COVID-19 pandemic, Cuba has answered an urgent South African request for aid. 217 medical personnel, including family physicians, epidemiologists, health technology engineers and b…

Exasperation Grows Over Delays Trying To Sign Up For Unemployment, 'People Have No Food, People Are Talking About Suicide'

newyork.cbslocal.com - NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Unemployment remains a major issue across the country. Many New York and New Jersey residents are losing hope, and are out of cash. Adam D’Aleo has listened to the New York De…

How Israel Legitimizes the Abuse of Palestinian Political Prisoners

mintpressnews.com - Each year Palestinian Prisoners Day comes and goes while the prisoners remain in their cells and their conditions worsen. The destructive effects that Israel’s imprisonment of thousands of Palestinia…

The Truth About China's COVID-19 Response

mintpressnews.com - While the U.S. took two-and-a-half years to identify HIV/AIDS after the discovery of the first symptomatic case in the country, China discovered, identified and contained COVID-19 within a few months…

Another Worrying Side Effect of Covid-19: More Guns

undark.org - Rick Friedman, owner of Right to Self Protect, a firearms store and training facility with two locations in New Jersey, is accustomed to seeing the same clients month after month. But when SARS-CoV-2…

Trump and Biden Trade Hit Pieces: Distinctions without a Difference

mintpressnews.com - This season’s sequel to the “Game of Thrones” features reality TV star and the current occupant of the Oval Office versus the former Senator from MBNA and two-term VP. It’s time to binge-watch duelin…

Dolphins reclaim Bosphorus as virus silences Istanbul - RFI

rfi.fr - A lull in boat traffic and a fishing ban in Istanbul forced by the coronavirus pandemic has proved good news for some of the city's most-loved inhabitants -- the dolphins that swim in the fish-rich w…

Is Hydroxychloroquine Making Covid-19 Clinical Trials Harder?

undark.org - At some point in late March, Roger Alvarez, a pulmonologist and critical care specialist at the University of Miami Health System, noticed that some of his patients with low oxygen levels continued t…

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