WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment aid rose slightly last week to 870,000, a historically high figure that shows that the viral pandemic is still squeezing restaurants, airlines, hotels and many other businesses six months after it first erupted.The figure coincides with evidence that some newly laid-off Americans are facing delays in receiving unemployment benefits as state agencies intensify efforts to combat fraudulent applications and clear their pipelines of a backlog of jobless claims.California has said it will stop processing new applications for two weeks as it seeks to reduce backlogs and prevent fraudulent claims.

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UK’s Johnson defends virus strategy as infections soar

LONDON – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended his handling of the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday despite weeks of rising infections, but warned that the country faced a “bumpy” winter ahead. Britain has Europe’s highest coronavirus death toll, at more than 42,400, and Johnson’s Conservative government is facing criticism from all sides.

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South African coffin-maker saw COVID-19 at work and at home

JOHANNESBURG – The coffin-maker knew death too well. The boxes were stacked in his echoing workshop like the prows of ships waiting for passengers.

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The very latest coronavirus infection rates for Greater Manchester

among the student population around Fallowfield is driving the increase in the city. A third of cases in Greater Manchester in the week ending September 30 were in the borough of Manchester alone.Across Greater Manchester as a whole, there are no signs that the seven-week spike in cases which began at the end of August is coming to an end.All ten boroughs in the region now have an infection rate of over 100.

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NCB's KPS Malhotra, investigating drug angle in Sushant's case, tests positive for coronavirus

#COVID19.NCB is probing the drug-angle in Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case and a drug racket in Bollywood. So far, actors Deepika Padukone, Shraddha Kapoor, Sara Ali Khan and Rakul Preet Singh have been questioned by NCB in the drugs case.According to reports, no links were found between drug peddlers and Padukone, Kapoor and Khan, who were questioned by the agency in late September.

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The Latest: Navajo Nation reports 17 new cases, no deaths

Trump improving, but not ‘out of the woods’ yet— Analysis: Trump faces credibility crisis over health scare— Pence ordered borders closed after CDC experts refused— South Africa and India have asked the World Trade Organization to waive some provisions in the international agreements that regulate intellectual property rights to speed up efforts to prevent, treat and contain the COVID-19 pandemic.— Madrid has started its first day under a partial lockdown with police controlling travel in and out of the Spanish capital. The Madrid region has become Europe’s most critical hot spot in the second wave of the coronavirus.

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Harrison Ford Narrates COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Trial PSA

Harrison Ford is lending his voice for a COVID-19 PSA.

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SCOTUS to open new term, Barrett confirmation pending

WASHINGTON, D.C. - MARCH 20: Morning light shines outside The United States Supreme Court building on March 20, 2017 in Washington, D.C.

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Gibson the Great: Rose, others recall the fearsome Cards ace

It was the summer of 1963, Bob Gibson was already well on his way to establishing himself as one of the most fearsome, intimidating pitchers in big league history. Pete Rose was a 22-year-old rookie, the cocky Cincinnati kid with a crew cut.As Rose recalls that night in St.

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UK death toll rises by 49 as over 12,000 new cases of coronavirus are confirmed

There have been a further 12,872 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK in the last 24 hours, the Government has announced.It brings the total number of cases in the UK to 480,017.The number of cases have nearly doubled in the last 24 hours, from 6,968 lab cases on Friday.A further 49 people have died after 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19, bringing the total number of UK deaths to 42,317.Separate figures published by the UK’s statistics agencies show there have now been nearly 57,900 deaths registered in the UK where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.The Government said that due to a technical issue which has since been resolved, there has been a delay in publishing a number of cases.This means the total

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UK coronavirus cases break 24 hour record and surge by 12,872 with 49 deaths

Coronavirus cases in the UK have surged by 12,782, breaking the country’s previous 24 hour record, latest Department of Health Figures show.The Department of Health confirmed cases skyrocket by 12,872 in the last 24 hours, nearly doubling the previous 24 hour record.Included in the figure are cases going back to September 24, which had been withheld due to a technical issue on the official website tracking cases and deaths.Deaths in all settings have increased by 49, bringing the UK’s coronavirus death toll to 42,317.The UK’s previous daily case record was 7,143, which was also recorded during the anticipated Covid-19 second wave.The Department of Health usually releases figures daily on its website at 4pm, but statistics were not made

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Every adult in UK could receive Covid-19 vaccine by Easter, scientists claim

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Donald Trump's Covid-19 symptoms 'concerning' and next 48 hours 'critical' report claims

coronavirus symptoms on Friday and is now being treated at Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. His physician, Dr Sean Conley, told press he was “doing very well”, adding that he was “in exceptionally good spirits”, but refused to put a date on when he might be discharged.

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AP source: Raiders fined $50,000 for COVID-19 violation

The Las Vegas Raiders have been fined $50,000 for allowing an unauthorized team employee into the locker room following a game this season.A person familiar with the punishment told The Associated Press on Saturday that the fine was issued for violating COVID-19 protocols following a win over New Orleans on Sept. 21.

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New Jersey governor to introduce bill codifying Roe v. Wade

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (Edwin J. Torres/Governor's Office)FOX NEWS - New Jersey Gov.

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Kathie Lee Gifford says Regis Philbin was 'depressed' over coronavirus months before death

Regis Philbin struggled with limitations brought on by the coronavirus pandemic in the months leading up to his death, according to his former longtime "Live!" co-host Kathie Lee Gifford. The iconic television personality died in July of heart disease and his manner of death was ruled natural, the Chief Medical Examiner Office in Connecticut confirmed to Fox News at the time. He was 88.

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Breonna Taylor case: Evidence reveals confusion surrounding police raid

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The police officer who fatally shot Breonna Taylor described seeing only “shadowy mass” and said he didn't recall firing the 16 bullets later matched to his gun.

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1 dead, 2 critical after car crash in North Philadelphia

NORTH PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia police say a woman has died and two men are in critical condition following a violent car crash early Saturday morning in North Philadelphia.The fatal accident happened at the intersection of Broad Street and Oxford Street around 2:30 a.m. Police say a Dodge Challenger was turning left onto Oxford Street when a speeding Chevy Malibu slammed into its passenger side door.The collision sent both cars onto the sidewalk, but police say no pedestrians were injured. The passenger of the Dodge was pronounced dead at Jefferson Hospital just before 3 a.m.

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Manitoba sees 22nd COVID-19 death Saturday

COVID-19 has been reported in the Winnipeg health region.The person was a woman in her 80s and a previously announced case connected to the Parkview Place personal care home outbreak.Also on Saturday, 38 new cases were announced.Two previously reported cases have been removed from the case totals, bringing the net number of new cases to 36 and the total number of cases in Manitoba to 2,108 as of Oct.

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Kathie Lee Gifford Opens Up About Regis Philbin’s Sad Final Days, Cooped Up Because Of COVID: ‘He Couldn’t Be Regis For People’

Kathie Lee Gifford guested on Friday’s edition of Global‘s “The Talk”, where she paid tribute to longtime television partner Regis Philbin.

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Bob Gibson, fierce Hall of Fame ace for Cards, dies at 84

(Original Caption) St. Cardinals pitching ace Bob Gibson received the 1970 National League Cy Young Award before the start of the Cardinals-Philadelphia Phillies game.

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Could there be a second national lockdown as coronavirus cases are rising?

hereOn Friday, it emerged that the coronavirus R rate is stubbornly above one and is continuing to creep up, which suggests "widespread growth of the epidemic across the country".Data released by Sage shows the estimate for R for the whole of the UK is between 1.3 and 1.6.Last week, the R number was lower - at between 1.2 and 1.5.And the latest daily growth rate range for the UK is from + 5 per cent a day to + 9.The latest figures on the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases were at the 6,900 mark with 66 new deaths reported in the UK in 24 hours as of 9am on Friday.Addressing the nation on Wednesday at a Downing Street briefing, the Prime Minister warned: "And yesterday we saw the biggest rise in daily cases since the pandemic began, today a

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West Bengal reports record 3,340 new Covid-19 cases

Kolkata: West Bengal on Saturday reported its highest single-day spike of 3,340 new COVID-19 cases, taking the tally to 2,66,974, according to a bulletin issued by the Health Department.Sixty-two more patients died in the state, following which the toll rose to 5,132, it said.The discharge rate in the state improved to 87.92 per cent as the state saw 3,013 fresh recoveries.The number of active patients stood at 27,130.In the last 24 hours, 41,128 samples have been tested for COVID-19 in the state, the bulletin said.So far, 2,34,712 patients have recovered in the state.Nineteen of the latest deaths were reported from the North 24 Parganas district, while 13 fatalities happened in Kolkata, the bulletin said.Six deaths each were reported from

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Kathie Lee: Regis was 'depressed' about Covid before death

effects of COVID-19 had hit Regis close to home, as well."One of his dearest friends had just recently died of Covid, so he was pretty much in a depression I think, his wife said," Kathie Lee said. "Regis just lived to make people happy.

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For the second day in a row, more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases in Quebec

[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]The number of people in hospital increased by 24 from the day before, to 326.Of those, 60 are in intensive care, an increase of 11 from the day before.Friday was the first time since early May that the province recorded more than 1,000 new cases in a 24-hour period.

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Ten more people have died in Greater Manchester's hospitals with Covid-19

The total number of coronavirus deaths at hospital trusts in Greater Manchester, as of Saturday, October 3 is:Nationally, a further 42 people who tested positive for coronavirus have died in hospital in England, bringing the total number of confirmed deaths in hospitals to 30,138.Patients were aged between 44 and 100 years old.

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Andrew Yang takes lead in California data privacy measure

SAN FRANCISCO – The Fitbits on our wrists collect our health and fitness data; Apple promises privacy but lots of iPhone apps can still share our personal information; and who really knows what they’re agreeing to when a website asks, “Do You Accept All Cookies?” Most people just click “OK” and hope for the best, says former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang. “The amount of data we’re giving up is unprecedented in human history,” says Yang, who lives in New York but is helping lead the campaign for a data privacy initiative on California’s Nov.

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Power claims another pole at Indy, Dixon's woes continue

INDIANAPOLIS – Will Power will start from the pole Saturday at Indianapolis after posting the fastest lap in morning qualifying.The Australian driver from Team Penske posted a fast lap of 1:08.9767 to earn his fifth career pole on the 14-turn, 2.439-mile road course. It's his fifth pole this season and the 61st career pole, which is second all-time behind Mario Andretti (67).Colton Herta starts second after going 1:09.1017.

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Coronavirus: India reaches grim milestone of over 100,000 COVID-19 deaths

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A look at big issues on Supreme Court's agenda in new term

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments Monday after a summer break. Here are some of the issues either already on the court's docket or likely to be before the justices soon:HEALTH CAREA week after the presidential election, the court will hear arguments in a bid by the Trump administration and Republican-led states to overturn the Obama-era health care law.

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Supreme Court opens new term on cusp of conservative control

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court opens a new term Monday with Republicans on the cusp of realizing a dream 50 years in the making, a solid conservative majority that might roll back abortion rights, expand gun rights and shrink the power of government.Eight justices are getting back to work at a most unusual, politically fraught moment in American history. They're still mourning the death of their colleague Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the leader of the court's liberal wing.

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Vile man broke into mortuary and committed sex crime on dead coronavirus victim

A vile man who slept with the dead body of woman who died from Covid-19 has been jailed for three years.

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Trump's diagnosis shows US vulnerability to the coronavirus

tested positive when he broke the news early Friday. First lady Melania Trump also tested positive, and both were described as having mild symptoms.

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Delhi's Covid tally reaches 2.87 lakh; death toll mounts to 5,472

New Delhi: The national capital recorded 2,258 fresh COVID-19 cases on Saturday, taking the tally to over 2.87 lakh, while 34 more fatalities took the death toll to 5,472, authorities said.This is the second day in a trot that the city reported less than 3,000 new cases. Authorities reported 2,920 new cases on Friday.The city reported 34 deaths on Saturday, the lowest since September 25 when 24 fatalities were recorded.Forty-eight deaths were reported on September 29, the highest in a day since July 16, when the city reported 58 deaths.The cumulative COVID-19 case count rose to 2,87,930 with 2,258 more people contracting the viral disease.

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Joyce Echaquan’s family taking legal action

Warning: Disturbing video. The family of Joyce Echaquan, a 37-year-old Indigneous woman who died at the Joliette, Quebec hospital Monday, says they’re planning legal action over her death.

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UK coronavirus deaths in hospitals rise by 51 - with number doubling in a week

The UK's coronavirus hospital death toll has risen by 51 - more than double the figure the same time last week.

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Four new coronavirus deaths in Scotland overnight as 764 new cases confirmed

coronavirus in Scotland in the past 24 hours, the Scottish Government has confirmed. The latest figures show there were 764 new coronavirus cases recorded overnight, bringing the total number of positive cases to 31,451 since the pandemic began.

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Small pipeline, large worries for some S. Carolina residents

PAMPLICO, S.C. – The land agent who arrived at Reatha Jefferson’s door in May, unannounced and unmasked in the middle of the pandemic, told her he was giving her one more chance.The agent was there on behalf of Virginia-based utility giant Dominion Energy.

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‘Fast And Furious 9’ release date pushed back again amid coronavirus concerns

And Furious film has been delayed again.The ninth instalment of the Vin Diesel-led franchise has been pushed back to May 28 2021 as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.F9 was one of the first films to have its release date pushed back as the pandemic took hold with Universal pushing the first release date back one year to April 2021.Fans of the long-running franchise will now have to wait a further month before seeing the return of Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Jordana Brewster, Nathalie Emmanuel and Helen Mirren alongside Diesel.It comes as news of the forthcoming James Bond movie No Time To Die has had its box office release delayed again.After being delayed from its original April 2, 2020 release date, fans were expecting

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Deaths from coronavirus in India surpass 100,000

Deaths from coronavirus in India passed 100,000 today, official data showed as the pandemic continued to rage across the world's second most populous country.

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Delhi's Covid-19 positivity rate has reduced to 5.19%: Satyendra Jain

Delhi recorded 37 COVID-19 fatalities and 2,920 cases on Friday, pushing the death toll to 5,438 and the caseload to over 2.85 lakh, officials said.On September 29, 48 deaths were reported, the highest number of fatalities recorded in a day since July 16, when the city saw 58 fatalities.The fresh cases came out of the 56,258 tests conducted the previous day, according to a bulletin issued by the Delhi health department.The active cases tally on Friday stood at 26,450.The bulletin said the total number of cases has climbed to 2,85,672.The number of containment zones in Delhi jumped to 2,648 on Friday from 2,615 on Thursday.The positivity rate stood at 5.19 per cent while the recovery rate was over 88 per cent, the bulletin said, adding the

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India on top with maximum Covid-19 recoveries, lowest mortality rate

New Delhi: India continues to occupy the top global position with the maximum number of COVID-19 recoveries and accounts for 21 per cent of the recovered cases worldwide, while its share in the total cases stands at 18.6 per cent, the Union health ministry said on Saturday.India has also maintained its global position with one of the lowest COVID-19 case fatality rates (CFR) when compared to several other countries.While the global CFR stands at 2.97 per cent as on date, the comparative figure for India is 1.56 per cent, it said.“The deaths per million population in India is one of the lowest in the world.

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Oxford covid vaccine: Canada launches real-time review of data

OTTAWA : Canada launched a real-time review of data from AstraZeneca and Oxford University's potential COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, the latest country to speed up its approval process.As the battle against the coronavirus pandemic intensifies, with infections and deaths still rising, Canada's health ministry said it had received its first submission for authorisation for the vaccine on Thursday.The aim of a rolling review is to accelerate the process and last month, Canada's health minister Patty Hajdu signed an order allowing companies developing vaccines to submit safety and efficacy data and information as they become available.The European Union's health regulator on Thursday also started a rolling review of the first batch of data for

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India’s coronavirus death toll surpasses 100,000 with no signs of slowing

India’s death toll from the novel coronavirus rose past 100,000 on Saturday, only the third country in the world to reach that bleak milestone, after the United States and Brazil, and its epidemic shows no sign of abating.Total deaths rose to 100,842, the health ministry said, while the tally of infections climbed to 6.47 million after a daily increase in cases of 79,476. India now has the highest rate of daily increase in infections in the world.

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Bob Gibson, Hall of Fame ace for Cardinals, dies at 84

Hall of Famer Bob Gibson, the dominating St. Louis Cardinals pitcher who won a record seven consecutive World Series starts and set a modern standard for excellence when he finished the 1968 season with a 1.12 ERA, died Friday.

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Recordings reveal confusion behind Breonna Taylor's death

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The police officer who fatally shot Breonna Taylor described seeing only “shadowy mass” and said he didn't recall firing the 16 bullets later matched to his gun. As she lay bleeding, Taylor's boyfriend called his mother before dialing 911.And neighbors roused by the gunfire at Taylor's apartment after midnight on March 13 only added to conflicting testimony about whether police serving a narcotics warrant announced themselves before using a battering ram to break down her door.Details of the chaos and confusion during the raid that resulted in the 26-year-old Black woman's death were revealed in 15 hours of audio recordings released Friday.

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India's COVID-19 fatalities top 100,000, behind US, Brazil

NEW DELHI – India has crossed 100,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths on Saturday, putting the country’s toll at nearly 10% of the global fatalities and behind only the United States and Brazil.The grim milestone comes at the heels of a growing crisis for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist government that has been criticized over the handling of the virus and doing very little to alleviate the contracting economy that has left millions jobless.

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Asia Today: Victoria premier concerned over mall outbreak

MELBOURNE – The COVID-19 figures in Australia’s Victoria state continued to show improvement on Saturday but officials are concerned about an outbreak at the country’s largest shopping center.Victoria reported three more COVID-19 deaths and eight more cases.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

Unemployment claims at 870,000 as fraud and backlogs cloud data

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