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David Caplan
May 01, 2020 - 12:57 pm

Has NY Gov. Cuomo Found Love During the Pandemic? He Tells 1010 WINS: 'I'm Eligible'

During an interview Thursday with 1010 WINS about cleaning up NYC’s subway system, he was asked what he thought about the results of a survey by matchmaker Maureen Tara Nelson finding that women want a man like the governor or his brother Chris.
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FILE - This April 18, 2020, file photo, shows the JBS USA Pork Plant in Worthington, Minn. Officials estimate that about 700,000 pigs across the nation can't be processed each week and must euthanized. Most of the hogs are being killed at farms, but up to 13,000 a day also may be euthanized at the JBS pork plant in Worthington. (Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune via AP)
Associated Press
May 01, 2020 - 12:45 pm

Healthy Pigs Being Killed As Meatpacking Backlog Hits Farms

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — After spending two decades raising pigs to send to slaughterhouses, Dean Meyer now faces the mentally draining, physically difficult task of killing them even before they leave his northwest Iowa farm. Meyer said he and other farmers across the Midwest have been devastated...
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David Caplan
May 01, 2020 - 12:39 pm

Michael Cohen Won't Be Released Early From Prison After All: Report

President Donald Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen will not be leaving prison to serve out the rest of his sentence in home confinement, reports indicate. Read more.
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President Donald Trump, followed by Vice President Mike Pence, arrives to speak about reopening the country, during a roundtable with industry executives, in the State Dinning Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 29, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Associated Press
April 30, 2020 - 6:18 pm

Grim Count: US Virus Toll Passes Trump's 60,000 Marker

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump likes to talk about the most, the best, the thing that nobody has ever seen. Now he is trying to make a virtue of a lower number, arguing that the efforts of his administration have warded off a far greater death toll than otherwise would have been seen. But...
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Associated Press
April 30, 2020 - 4:38 pm

Milwaukee Man Charged With Killing 5 Family Members

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Milwaukee man shot and killed five of his family members, including four teenagers, before calling police and saying “I just massacred my whole family,” according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday. The Milwaukee County District Attorney's office charged Christoper Stokes...
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Johnny Lopez
April 30, 2020 - 8:30 am

Mattel Unveils New Action Figures Honoring Everyday Heroes Fighting Coronavirus

The coronavirus pandemic has put a spotlight on those individuals who are doing their part to make the sure rest of us are safe and healthy. To further honor those heroes, Mattel is launching a new line of toys in the likeness of front-line workers.
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Workers manufacture face masks at a workshop in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, April 29, 2020. Oscar Henao a taxi driver by profession and his partner Adan Fajardo, owner of the small packaging workshop, created the plastic protection mask model they called the "mask of life,” to protect people from the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Associated Press
April 29, 2020 - 10:53 pm

Drug Proves Effective Against Virus As Economic Damage Rises

Scientists on Wednesday announced the first effective treatment against the coronavirus — an experimental drug that can speed the recovery of COVID-19 patients — in a major medical advance that came as the economic gloom caused by the scourge deepened in the U.S. and Europe. The U.S. government...
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John Warminski prepares meat at Ronnie's Quality Meats in Detroit Wednesday, April 29, 2020. President Donald Trump has ordered meat processing plants to stay open amid concerns over growing coronavirus COVID-19 cases and the impact on the nation's food supply. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Associated Press
April 29, 2020 - 7:35 pm

Meatpackers Welcome Trump Order; Others Question Virus Risks

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Big meatpacking companies that have struggled to keep plants running during the coronavirus crisis said Wednesday that they welcomed President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring them to stay open, but unions, some employees and Democrats questioned whether workers...
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FILE - In this March 2020 photo provided by Gilead Sciences, a vial of the investigational drug remdesivir is visually inspected at a Gilead manufacturing site in the United States. On Wednesday, April 29, 2020, the company says its experimental antiviral drug has proved effective against the new coronavirus in a major U.S. government study that put it to a strict test. (Gilead Sciences via AP)
Associated Press
April 29, 2020 - 5:00 pm

A 1st: US Study Finds Experimental Drug Works Against Coronavirus

For the first time, a major study has found that an experimental drug works against the new coronavirus, and U.S. government officials said Wednesday that they would work to make it available to appropriate patients as quickly as possible. In a study of 1,063 patients sick enough to be hospitalized...
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FILE - In this April 7, 2020 file photo, voters observe social distancing guidelines as they wait in line to cast ballots in the presidential primary election in Milwaukee. More than 50 people who voted in person or worked the polls during Wisconsin's election earlier this month have tested positive for COVID-19 so far. But there are no plans to move or otherwise alter a special congressional election coming in less than two weeks. (AP Photo/Morry Gash File)
Associated Press
April 29, 2020 - 3:08 pm

52 Who Worked Or Voted In Wisconsin Election Have COVID-19

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — There are no plans to postpone or otherwise alter a special congressional election in Wisconsin that is less than two weeks away, even though more than 50 people who voted in person or worked the polls during the state's presidential primary this month have tested positive for...
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