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Coronavirus18 hours ago

Germany sees rising coronavirus infection rate, lockdown protests days after easing restrictions

The number of coronavirus cases is once again on the rise in Germany just days after the country began easing lockdown measures, according to Saturday’s report from the country’s public health agency.

Boris Johnson17 hours ago

UK's Boris Johnson issues new guidelines on beating coronavirus, reopening country

United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson thanked his constituents for helping bring down the number of infections from the novel coronavirus during a televised speech on Sunday, but warned that the country needs to continue to "stay alert" as businesses there start to reopen.

Coronavirus21 hours ago

Bolsonaro called 'biggest threat' to Brazil's coronavirus response as cases spike

Brazil's president comes under increased criticism for his response to the pandemic.

Middle East

Iran4 days ago

Iran faces further allegations of corruption in coronavirus fallout

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VIDEOApril 24

Iran military chief warns forces will 'destroy' US warships if threatened in Persian Gulf

OPINIONApril 22

Israeli UN Ambassador Danon: Palestinians getting coronavirus aid from Israel respond with outrageous claims

CoronavirusApril 19

Orthodox Easter celebrated in near-empty Jerusalem

Europe

Coronavirus18 hours ago

Germany sees rising coronavirus infection rate, lockdown protests days after easing restrictions

United Kingdom22 hours ago

UK’s Boris Johnson to unveil new coronavirus lockdown rules, including controversial ‘stay alert’ slogan

Coronavirus1 day ago

Turkey's Erdogan calls to 'revitalize' relationship with EU amid coronavirus pandemic

Coronavirus1 day ago

Russia records muted V-Day celebrations as coronavirus cases continue to spiral

Latin America

Latin America17 hours ago

Coronavirus preventing Venezuelan diaspora from sending money to family back home

Venezuelan Political Crisis4 days ago

US raises questions over Maduro's involvement in alleged kidnap plot against him

Venezuelan Political Crisis5 days ago

America's involvement in regime changes over the years

Venezuelan Political Crisis5 days ago

Trump denies US government involved in foiled Venezuela attacks

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Weather8 mins ago

Off-duty California police officer rescues hiker trapped in whirlpool

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VIDEO9 mins ago

Driver runs over headstones at Houston National Cemetery

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VIDEO13 mins ago

Rep. Collins: Flynn 'unfairly targeted' by FBI to get at Trump

Departed16 mins ago

Grammy-winning soul singer Betty Wright dead at 66

Iran6 hours ago

Iranian missile fired during training exercise hits support ship, killing 19 sailors

Coronavirus15 hours ago

On Mother's Day, world leaders try optimistic tone as coronavirus spreads

Latin America17 hours ago

Coronavirus preventing Venezuelan diaspora from sending money to family back home

Boris Johnson17 hours ago

UK's Boris Johnson issues new guidelines on beating coronavirus, reopening country

Coronavirus18 hours ago

Germany sees rising coronavirus infection rate, lockdown protests days after easing restrictions

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Coronavirus2 days ago

Human contact during coronavirus: Artist captures group's efforts to unite families through donated iPads

Fox News Flash5 days ago

Early COVID-19 survivor mobilizing others to donate plasma: 'We have issued a call to arms, literally'

Coronavirus: How to helpApril 23

Mission to collect iPads for hospital patients in isolation goes national

CoronavirusApril 17

Dying alone from coronavirus: Group collects used iPads to virtually connect patients with family

Asia

Kim Jong Un praises China's handling of coronavirus

Coronavirus2 days ago

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Keane on future of relationship between US and China

VIDEO3 days ago

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Haley: China poses more dangers than just COVID-19 actions

VIDEO4 days ago

Ben Shapiro: China's push to silence coronavirus survivors 'really not shocking in the slightest'

Fox News Flash4 days ago

China silencing Wuhan coronavirus survivors, bereaved families through hush money, police interrogation

China4 days ago

Africa

Kenya flooding, landslides leaves more than 100 dead, over 1,800 homeless

FloodsMay 3

Robot 'spy' gorilla records wild Ugandan gorillas singing and farting

NATURAL SCIENCEMay 2

UN warns coronavirus fallout will lead to the next pandemic – global starvation

CoronavirusApril 29

Lara Logan: Media must 'look at themselves' and 'show moral courage' by examining claims against Biden

Fox News FlashApril 27

Kenya will now arrest anyone not wearing face masks during coronavirus outbreak

CoronavirusApril 15

Australia/Pacific

Australia could lift coronavirus restrictions two weeks early, officials say

AustraliaMay 1

Vets remove entire beach towel from Monty the python

AustraliaFebruary 29

Australian family claims son's headstone was removed without knowledge over 'offensive' picture: report

AustraliaFebruary 22

Australia's destructive wildfires seen from space in NASA images

FiresJanuary 5

Sydney suburb becomes hottest place on Earth as temps reach 120 degrees; wildfire death toll reaches 23

AustraliaJanuary 5

World3 days ago

The week in pictures, May 2 - May 8

Here's a selection of some of the most poignant images in the past seven days, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage the world.

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VIDEO2 days ago

Gen. Jack Keane on VE Day 75th anniversary

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VIDEO2 days ago

Streets of London eerily quiet on 75th anniversary of VE Day

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VIDEO3 days ago

Keane on future of relationship between US and China

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VIDEO3 days ago

Maduro airs video of American detained in alleged Venezuela coup attempt

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VIDEO4 days ago

Venezuela state TV claims US mercenaries attempted to 'capture Maduro'

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VIDEO4 days ago

Swedish ambassador to the US on her country's path to 'herd immunity' against the coronavirus

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VIDEO4 days ago

Haley: China poses more dangers than just COVID-19 actions

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VIDEO4 days ago

New images of Americans held in Venezuela after apparent failed coup

Wuhan Lab Hack Reveals Unreported COVID-19 Cases, Evidence Records Were Deleted

“A Cabal Of Liars” – Sara Carter Demands Top Obama Officials Need To Be Held Accountable

What We Learned about Flynn, Comey, and Obama Brutally Summed Up By 5 Cartoons

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1904 Salvador Dalí Spanish artist 1918 Richard Feynman American physicist 1933 Louis Farrakhan American religious leader 1984 Andrés Iniesta Spanish football player 1888 Irving Berlin American composer 1811 Chang and Eng American showmen

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2010: Scottish-born British politician Gordon Brown officially resigned as prime minister of the United Kingdom, ending 13 years of Labour Party rule. [Test your knowledge of British culture and politics.]

1997: IBM's chess-playing computer Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in the last game of a six-game match to claim a 3.5–2.5 victory (it won two games and had three draws); it marked the first time a current world champion had lost a match to a computer under tournament conditions. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about chess.]

1981: Jamaican reggae star Bob Marley died of cancer. [Test your knowledge of reggae.]

1943: U.S. troops invaded Attu, one of the Aleutian Islands captured by the Japanese in 1942.

1918: American theoretical physicist Richard Feynman was born in New York City. [ Sort fact from fiction in our physics quiz.]

1910: Glacier National Park was established in the Rocky Mountain wilderness of northwestern Montana.

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Good morning. Worried you're starting to unravel? Over the weekend, a man who had been kicked out of a McDonald's for not wearing a mask threw a rock through the window, stole some underwear from a Walmart, then surrendered to police. If you didn't do that...keep up the great work.

MARKETS YTD PERFORMANCE NASDAQ 9,121.32 + 1.66% S&P 2,929.80 - 9.32% DJIA 24,331.32 - 14.74% GOLD 1,704.80 + 12.16% 10-YR 0.690% - 123.00 bps OIL 24.63 - 59.76% *As of market close Markets: Despite historic unemployment numbers Friday, the stock market continued to go up and to the right. And don’t forget about small caps. The Russell 2000 index (average market cap = $2 billion) has almost doubled up the S&P’s 6% gain in the past month. Jobs: "The worst is yet to come on the job front, unfortunately,” Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari told ABC yesterday. "I think Congress is going to need to continue to give assistance to workers who have lost their jobs."

AUTO Musk Wants to Ditch Tacos for Brisket

Tesla The debate over reopening the economy has reached Act II, with none other than Elon Musk as the lead character. On Saturday, Musk's Tesla sued California’s Alameda County for prohibiting the automaker from restarting manufacturing operations at its plant in Fremont. Tesla had been preparing to get the assembly lines running again Friday, but the county said the company “must not reopen” due to local restrictions on nonessential businesses.   Telling Elon Musk he can’t go to work is like telling Miguel he can’t play guitar. On Twitter earlier Saturday, Musk called the county’s order the “final straw.” He threatened to move Tesla’s HQ "and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately,” while the status of its Fremont plant will depend "on how Tesla is treated in the future.”  That opened a can of worms One California politician attacked Musk with language not fit for a PG-13 newsletter, but others defended his calls to restart production. Fremont Mayor Lily Mei said she was “growing concerned about the potential implications for our regional economy” under lockdown orders, and assured Musk the city is “prepared to support Tesla as soon as they are able to resume automobile manufacturing operations.” Translation: This is not my call; please don’t go anywhere. Down in Austin, lawmakers were putting the Shiner Bock on ice. Sen. Ted Cruz retweeted Musk, saying “We would welcome Tesla HQ in Texas...We make lots of cars & trucks in Texas, and we’d love more!!”   Big picture: Tesla’s Fremont, CA, factory is considered the crown jewel of its global manufacturing operations. It employs more than 10,000 people and is the only U.S. facility producing the Model S, Y, and 3.  The even bigger picture The Tesla episode highlights the growing tensions between those who think businesses can reopen safely (Tesla said its restart plan followed months of “careful planning and preparation”), and officials who argue a hasty easing of restrictions will reverse progress in reducing the spread of the virus.

MARKETS What’s Up With the Stock Market? Two things happened on Friday: The U.S. unemployment rate jumped to 14.7% and data showed 20.5 million jobs were lost in April. The Dow, S&P, and Nasdaq all rose more than 1.5%. The Nasdaq even turned positive for the year. So...what’s up with the stock market? Here are a few theories: An effective government response. Early action by the Fed to provide liquidity prevented a financial crisis in the corporate sector. Meanwhile, Congress sent checks to the majority of working Americans and provided $670 billion in forgivable loans to small businesses. Many experts think more relief is needed, but obviously investors are satisfied, so far.  The stock market = lots of Big Tech. Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, and Facebook account for more than 20% of the S&P’s total value. As we noted, those firms are likely to emerge from the crisis relatively unscathed.  Corporate earnings for the last quarter weren’t as bad as feared. Finally, investors could be wrong, and we’ll look at this story in a month and shake our heads.

SOCIAL MEDIA Coronavirus Conspiracy Theorists’ Weapons of Choice Are YouTube, Facebook, and Amazon—Dr. Peter Hotez’s words, not ours. Hotez, the dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, was responding to a video that went viral last week, in which discredited scientist Dr. Judy Mikovits made false claims about the coronavirus.  In the video, an extended trailer for a film called Plandemic, Mikovits spreads dangerous health misinformation and claims that figures such as Bill Gates and Dr. Anthony Fauci pushed pandemic messaging to grab power.   The video racked up 1.8 million views, 17,000 comments, and almost 150,000 shares on Facebook before it was removed on Thursday. YouTube also removed the video, but Twitter did not—instead marking some links as "unsafe." Mikovits’s book, Plague of Corruption, leapt to the top of Amazon’s print bestseller list last week. Amazon says the book does not violate its content policies. We really hope we don’t have to say this, but...the only thing Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates are conspiring on is how to pull off the bespectacled turtle look.

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ENTERTAINMENT Pandemic No Match for Cotton Candy

Francis Scialabba Let’s be honest: We’re all a bit more frazzled than usual...which may be why many people are seizing opportunities to blow off steam on a 1,000-foot ship or at a Disney park.  Shanghai Disneyland reopened today after closing in late January. There will be major adjustments—guests have to wear masks at all times except when eating, social distancing will be enforced in lines, restaurants, and rides, and some typically crowded experiences will remain closed.  But...it’s not staring at your wall, and it’ll be open, so people are clamoring for tickets. As of this weekend, the first two days were already sold out.  This is a crucial test for Disney, which last quarter lost $1 billion due to COVID-19 in its highly profitable parks segment.  Cruises are in high demand, too. In the three days following Carnival's announcement that it'll resume some trips in August, a booking company told TMZ it saw a 600% increase in volume compared to the three days before the announcement. That's also a 200% increase over the same period last year.

TRENDS Two Biz Stats That Make You Go…“Huh. Makes Sense.” 15–25%: The increase in the weight of residential waste since lockdown orders went into effect, Waste Management’s CFO told the WSJ. Conversely, commercial and industrial waste weight dropped 16%.  1.8 million: The number of pay-TV subscribers lost in Q1, the sector's worst quarter on record, per MoffettNathanson. Why more cord-cutting than usual? A) no live sports and b) commercial customers like bars and hotels have paused service.

CALENDAR The Week Ahead Today marks two months, or 1/6 of a year, since Morning Brew has been working from home. What's one more?  Monday: Earnings (Under Armour, Marriott)  Tuesday: CPI inflation data; International Nurses Day; earnings (Toyota, Allianz, Casper)  Wednesday: Fed Chair Jerome Powell will give a speech; earnings (Tencent, Cisco, Sony); happy 70th, Stevie Wonder  Thursday: Jobless claims; earnings (Brookfield Asset Management, Aurora Cannabis) Friday: Retail sales for April; earnings (JD.com, DraftKings, VF Corp)

WHAT ELSE IS BREWING UFC 249, the first U.S. major sporting event since lockdowns started, took place without fans Saturday night.  Seoul, South Korea, closed 2,100+ bars and nightclubs following a new cluster of coronavirus cases.  The owner of Emirates, the biggest airline in the Middle East, posted a 28% drop in profit in the last fiscal year. It said it will raise debt to see it through the crisis.  The FDA approved its first coronavirus antigen test for emergency use.  Pics from countries easing lockdowns around the world.

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Giphy One of the bright spots during quarantine has been communal Sunday night viewings of ESPN/Netflix's Michael Jordan doc, The Last Dance. ESPN is even pushing up the release dates of other documentaries to feed sports-starved Americans.  Here's a great thought starter, per our friends at Awful Announcing: What other athletes/teams/sports events deserve a mega-documentary series like The Last Dance? Share your answer.

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