1. Barack Obama labels Donald Trump's coronavirus response a 'chaotic disaster'  ABC News
2. Barack Obama labels Donald Trump’s coronavirus response ‘absolute chaotic disaster’  NEWS.com.au
3. Obama lashes out at Trump in call with supporters  Sydney Morning Herald
4. Coronavirus update: Barack Obama calls Donald Trump's coronavirus response a 'chaotic disaster'  ABC News
5. 'Chaotic disaster': Barack Obama unloads on Donald Trump's response to coronavirus  SBS News
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1. NY to expand testing for poor communities  NEWS.com.au
2. New York to expand coronavirus testing in 'low-income and minority' communities  SBS News
3. New coronavirus hospitalizations down to lowest number since the lockdown began in New York  Daily Mail
4. NY's Cuomo Criticized Over Highest Nursing Home Death Toll  The New York Times
5. One-third of US coronavirus deaths are nursing home residents or workers with one-fifth in New York  Daily Mail
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1. South Korea takes first cautious steps into a post-Covid world  The Guardian
2. S. Korea warned of COVID-10 second wave  NEWS.com.au
3. South Korea reverses on reopenings amid nightclub outbreak  The Age
4. S.Korea leader says no panic as cases rise  SBS News
5. Coronavirus: How South Korea 'crushed' the curve  BBC News
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1. Anthony Fauci, two other White House virus staff in quarantine  The Age
2. Coronavirus update: Barack Obama calls Donald Trump's coronavirus response a 'chaotic disaster'  ABC News
3. Key White House taskforce members in self-quarantine  Al Jazeera English
4. Global report: Anthony Fauci and two other White House Covid-19 taskforce members to self-quarantine  The Guardian
5. Dr Fauci enters ‘modified quarantine’ after contact with White House staffer who tested positive for Covid-19  The Independent
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1. Coronavirus Australia live updates: Jenny Morrison's reveals "honest" life in lockdown  NEWS.com.au
2. Isolated life at The Lodge brings the Morrisons closer  The Age
3. PM in lockdown with wife, daughters, mum and mum-in-law  Daily Telegraph
4. Jenny Morrison reveals why she used to hate Mother's Day  Daily Mail
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1. Coronavirus crisis: Premier Mark McGowan details phase two of WA’s road to recovery to roll out May 18  The West Australian
2. WA to ease coronavirus restrictions from May 18, with 20-person gatherings allowed  ABC News
3. WA to return to work from May 18  NEWS.com.au
4. WATCH LIVE: Premier Mark McGowan reveals which restrictions will be eased in WA’s coronavirus recovery plan  The West Australian
5. No new coronavirus cases in WA for ninth time in 10 days, as research fund launched  ABC News
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1. NSW warns ‘complacency biggest threat’ as most states move to ease Covid-19 restrictions  The Guardian
2. NSW coronavirus restrictions to lift from Friday, but will not follow all National Cabinet measures  ABC News
3. Coronavirus Australia: NSW Premier issues firm warning to NSW residents  Jimmys Post
4. NSW to ease lockdown restrictions from Friday  Sydney Morning Herald
5. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says relaxation of restrictions doesn't mean coronavirus is less deadly  ABC News
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1. Sydney mother defends decision to take her son to COVID-19 lockdown protest  Daily Mail
2. Coronavirus: Mother ripped away from son during protest | Nine News Australia  9 News Australia
3. 'Leave Mummy alone': Coronavirus protester arrested in Sydney's CBD in front of young son  9News
4. Coronavirus Australia: Dramatic arrest of a mother protesting in Sydney shocks bystanders  NEWS.com.au
5. 'Leave mummy alone': Woman protesting lockdown arrested in front of screaming son  Yahoo News Australia
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1. WA coronavirus restriction easing not enough for pubs, beauticians, tourism industry  ABC News
2. Coronavirus crisis: Weekends in Esperance back on the cards  The West Australian
3. WA's decision to keep its mines open amid coronavirus may have saved Australia's economy | ABC News  ABC News (Australia)
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1. Jackie Trad resigns as Queensland's Deputy Premier and Treasurer, Steven Miles and Cameron Dick to take on portfolios  ABC News
2. Poster girl’s fall a shock for the left of politics  The Australian
3. Corruption investigation into Queensland Deputy Premier Jackie Trad has potential to unravel Labor Government's five-year reign  ABC News
4. Editorial: Premier, Queensland needs a new treasurer now  Courier Mail
5. Analysis: Latest investigation not a good look for Jackie Trad  Courier Mail
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1. Ten arrested and police officer injured at protest against Victoria’s Covid-19 lockdown laws  The Guardian
2. Hundreds of anti-vaxxers clash with police during protest in Melbourne's CBD  Daily Mail
3. Coronavirus: Anti-lockdown protesters clash with police in Melbourne  NEWS.com.au
4. Ten arrested, police officer injured in anti-lockdown protest  The Age
5. Coronavirus Australia updates: anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne as NSW and WA set to ease Covid-19 restrictions – as it happened  The Guardian
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 When her big chance comes, however, she throws it all away to rescue a teenager drowning off the coast of her island home.
Interacting with a human is strictly forbidden in Diana's culture, let alone saving one and hiding them in a cave.

This, however is no ordinary human. Her name is Alia and unbeknownst to her she is a Warbringer, someone who may be responsible for the greatest war ever to befall the human race.

Using a controversial myth as a guide, Alia and Diana set off to end the curse that Alia has become convinced she carries.

she does her best to stand out.
Full of action, sarcastic wit and strong female characters, Wonder Woman: Warbringer is a great teen read for anyone who loves superhero backstories. Bardugo has created a character with real depth that flies off the page, highly recommend this!
Diana is desperate to prove herself. Surrounded by warriors who make every feat of strength and agility look like a cake walk,

This book. This book is grounded inside its main character's mind and body in an almost visceral way, and if you've ever had a "crazy" friend--and who hasn't, but I mean one who is actually diagnosed with anxiety disorder and/or OCD--even though this book is entertaining and wonderful and all the things good fiction should be, it will help you to "get" them in a way they might not have been able to articulate to you.

Aza is the star of the show. Or maybe she's not. She's so stuck inside her head, where twisty thoughts and logic have her spinning about the bacteria in her body and how it might just take over and kill her, that maybe she's the victim. Worse, maybe she is the bad guy. And the victim. And the star.

Life is complicated.

Aza is lucky in that she has a best friend, Daisy. Daisy, who talks all. the. time. but who sticks by Aza even though Aza isn't easy to stick by. So when Daisy suggests that she and Aza make like Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden to solve the mystery of the missing billionaire, Aza goes along with it.

Things happen. So many things. And I don't want to talk about any of them, really, because it would spoil this book, which unspools almost magically. It starts from a very clenched place and almost literally unwinds to a a better stasis.

Read it. Read it to find out what role Aza plays in her own life. To see if she can find her way out of her own head, at least a little. And to find out what the title means: "turtles all the way down."

So yeah - consider this review the equivalent of me standing next to you, shoving this book into your hands, making almost uncomfortable levels of eye contact while imploring you to read it.

But really. Read it.

The contest is a deadly one: enter the area of the world known as Piloria, where the dinosaurs are abundant, and retrieve as many dinosaur eggs as possible. The winner will receive health care and food, two things essential in order to survive their daily nightmare.

She's joined on the Trials by Lincoln and Leif, two boys with a lot on the line. As the competition heats up, they must learn to trust each other if they're going to avoid being eaten alive. But as Stormchaser soon learns, you can't really trust anyone in the Extinction Trials and what she finds hiding under the surface of Piloria will change her life forever.

The Extinction Trials is a super fast action adventure that anyone looking for a strong female hero will love. It's got elements of The Hunger Games without a doubt, and that's a good thing because it means it will make my job as a School Librarian all the easier when I promote this book in the coming weeks. And promote it I shall, because it's got some great scenes, fully realised characters and a ton of action. Highly recommended, can't wait for the sequel!

The final total of books gifted to Ballou Library via the October Book Fair & Cyber Monday  holiday shopping (which continued all week), comes in just over 200 titles! Thank you so much for buying books and helping to spread the word for this DC high school!

The wish list remains open year-round and there are a ton of great books on it, all of them chosen and approved by Ballou students. These are books the teens want and we so enjoy doing everything we can to get these books to them.

In the coming days I will be moving things around a bit on the list, getting series books together so they are easier to find. (I really really REALLY wish that amazon had "search by title" and "search by author" functions. So frustrating!) And we will, of course, be continuing to assist Ballou to fill its shelves next year and hope that you will return to the list and also help us spread the word about the amazing work done by librarian Melissa Jackson.

Have a lovely holiday folks, and thanks again for all you do to support this high school library.

Anyone interested in architecture should read this book by Stewart Brand. Brand won a National Book Award for the Whole Earth Catalog, and is a co-founder of Global Business Network, a futurist research organization fostering "the art of the long view." How Buildings Learn features a lot of illustrations and insights about building and buildings. I especially enjoy the comparison of two structures on the campus of MIT:

The legendary Building 20 (1943) was an artifact of wartime haste. Designed in an afternoon by MIT grad Don Whiston, it was ready for occupancy by radar researchers six months later... In an undertaking similar in scope to the Manhattan Project that created the atomic bomb, the emergency development of radar employed the nation's best physicists in an intense collaboration that changed the nature of science. Unlike Los Alamos, the MIT radar project was not run by the military, and unlike Los Alamos, no secrets got out. The verdict of scientists afterward was, "The atom bomb only ended the war. Radar won it." ... Author Fred Hapgood wrote in 1993 of Building 20, "The edifice is so ugly that it is impossible not to admire it, if that makes sense; it has ten times the righteous nerdly swagger of any other building on campus... Although Building 20 was built with the intention to tear it down after... World War II, it has remained... providing a special function... Not assigned to any one school, department, or center, it seems to always have had space for the beginning project, the graduate student's experiment, the interdisciplinary research center.

In a later chapter, Brand describes famous architect I.M. Pei's third MIT building, known informally as the Media Lab and formally as the Wiesner Building:

It may have been my familiarity with MIT's homely, accommodating Building 20 just across the street that made the $45 million pretentiousness, ill-functionality, and non-adaptability of the Media Lab building so shocking to me... Nowhere in the whole building is there a place for casual meetings, except for a tiny, overused kitchen. Corridors are narrow and barren. Getting new cabling through the interior concrete walls - a necessity in such a laboratory - requires bringing in jackhammers. You can't even move office walls around, thanks to the overhead fluorescent lights being at a Pei-signature 45-degree angle to everything else.

The Media Lab building, I discovered, is not unusually bad. Its badness is the norm in new buildings overdesigned by architects...

Brand finishes How Buildings Learn with a list of good books, writing, "They are the texts I would reach for if I was going to work on a building..."

This is the final post for Guys Lit Wire.

Между острыми скалами и раскаленной пустыней, на самом краю света распустился Черный Цветок. Аббарр – город бистов, здесь находят приют изгои и горит зеленое пламя Бездны. Сила и слабость сплетаются узлом, оживляя древние мифы и пророчества.
Этого места нет на картах. Сюда приходят, чтобы сбежать от прошлого, от врагов и друзей, от себя самого. Тут Ашри начинает новую жизнь. Но, похоже, спокойное время позади. Зловещая тень накрыла белые стены Аббарра, обращая все, что дорого, в пепел…

Mensen bewust besmetten met coronavirus is snelste manier om vaccin te testen, maar kunnen we dat risico wel nemen?  Gazet van AntwerpenHele verhaal bekijken via Google Nieuws

1. DFL-preses na coronagevallen bij Dresden: "Geen reden om te twijfelen"  sporza.be
2. Volledige ploeg Dynamo Dresden moet één week voor herstart Duitse competitie in quarantaine: “Kunnen 14 dagen niet spelen”  Het Laatste Nieuws
3. Al 3 spelers besmet: "Niet twijfelen aan de voortzetting 2. Bundesliga"  VoetbalNieuws.be
4. 2 extra besmettingen bij Dresden: team in quarantaine en duel met Hannover uitgesteld  sporza.be
5. Geen twijfels over hervatting Duits voetbal na nieuwe besmettingen: “Vanaf het begin gezegd dat we hierop voorbereid zijn”  Het Laatste Nieuws
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1. Tubeke krijgt geen licentie en zakt naar tweede amateurklasse  Het Laatste Nieuws
2. Tubeke vangt bot bij BAS en zakt naar tweede amateurklasse  sporza.be
3. Tubeke krijgt geen licentie nationale amateurs en zakt voor het tweede seizoen op rij  Het Nieuwsblad
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1. Club Brugge vraagt stemming om komend seizoen met 18 clubs af te werken  Het Nieuwsblad
2. De Ketelaere, Doku en Verschaeren, maar ook goudhaantjes van Juventus en Inter: wij gingen op zoek naar de 50 grootste talenten van ons land  Het Laatste Nieuws
3. Club Brugge stuurt voorstel rond: 1A met 18 clubs zonder play-offs  sporza.be
4. Het plan van Club Brugge: 18 clubs in 1A, geen play-offs  VoetbalNieuws.be
5. Club Brugge stuurt mail naar alle profclubs en legt plan voor 1A met 18 en zonder play-offs op tafel  Het Laatste Nieuws
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1. KBVB wil het BAS buitenspel zetten - Voetbalnieuws  Voetbalkrant.com
2. Voetbalbond hervormt licentieprocedure na “zoveelste debacle...  Het Nieuwsblad
3. Het laatste woord is nog niet gezegd: "Niet ondenkbaar dat KBVB en clubs zich burgerlijke partij stellen in strafonderzoek naar Moeskroen”  Het Laatste Nieuws
4. Ballast v/h BAS: waarom JPL-stemming een zware klus wordt  VoetbalNieuws.be
5. Westerlo wil verdere stappen ondernemen tegen Moeskroen en beslissing BAS - Voetbalnieuws  Voetbalkrant.com
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Valerie De Booser poseert op zwoele wijze. En haar nieuwe liefde? Die reageert ZO! (foto)  Zita.beHele verhaal bekijken via Google Nieuws

1. IJsland wint virtueel Eurovisiesongfestival, België eindigt ...  De Standaard
2. IJsland wint 'virtueel Songfestival', België eindigt vijfde | Eurovisiesongfestival | Showbizz  Het Laatste Nieuws
3. IJsland wint alternatieve Eurovisiesongfestival online, België wordt vijfde  VRT NWS
4. België vijfde op (virtueel) Eurovisiesongfestival, IJsland w...  Het Nieuwsblad
5. IJsland wint online Songfestival 'Eurostream 2020', België 5e  songfestival.be
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Boer Tristan zorgt voor allereerste 'Boer zkt Man': “Tuurlijk zitten er veel collega's in de kast”  Het Laatste NieuwsHele verhaal bekijken via Google Nieuws

1. Zijn hitlijst was lang, zijn invloed op latere iconen zoals The Beatles en Prince immens: flamboyant rock-'n-rollpionier Little Richard (87) is niet meer  Het Nieuwsblad
2. Rock-n'-rollpionier Little 'Tutti Frutti' Richard (87) overleden  Het Laatste Nieuws
3. Rock 'n' roll-pionier Little Richard is overleden, herontdek zijn grootste hits  VRT NWS
4. Little Richard drukte zware stempel op de rock-'n-roll  De Tijd
5. Muzieklegendes over Little Richard: “Als ik zijn muziek beluisterde, kon ik God horen”  Het Laatste Nieuws
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Elon Musk wil Teslafabriek verhuizen uit protest tegen lockdown  De TijdHele verhaal bekijken via Google Nieuws

KMI waarschuwt met 'code geel' voor onweer in groot deel van het land  Het Laatste Nieuws

1. Fauci en twee andere leden van coronateam Witte Huis in quarantaine  De Standaard
2. Meer dan 4 miljoen coronabesmettingen in de wereld  De Tijd
3. Live: Reproductiegetal Duitsland stijgt tot 1,1 | Al drie leden coronateam Witte Huis in quarantaine  Volkskrant
4. Drie leden coronateam Witte Huis in quarantaine  RTL Nieuws
5. Aantal coronadoden in de VS stijgt met ruim 1500  Telegraaf.nl
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Italiaanse vrijwilligster 1,5 jaar na ontvoering in Kenia bevrijd  De MorgenHele verhaal bekijken via Google Nieuws

1. Voormalige TVL-kok 'Chef Moke' overleden (Wellen) - Het Belang van Limburg Mobile  Het Belang van Limburg
2. Wellense chef Moke Karmaoui overleden: “Je blijft ons grote voorbeeld en onze held”  Het Laatste Nieuws
3. Limburgse chef Moke Karmaoui (50) overleden: “Je blijft ons grote voorbeeld en onze held”  Het Laatste Nieuws
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75 nieuwe coronadoden, 83 nieuwe ziekenhuisopnames  De Standaard

1. OVERZICHT. Aantal patiënten op intensieve zorg duikt onder de 500  Het Laatste Nieuws
2. Minder patiënten in onze ziekenhuizen  De Standaard
3. Coronavirus: 76 overlijdens, 210 patiënten ontslagen uit het ziekenhuis  newsmonkey
4. OVERZICHT. Dalende curve zet zich voort. 76 overlijdens, 210 patiënten naar huis en 76 nieuwe opnames  Het Laatste Nieuws
5. 75 nieuwe sterfgevallen door corona, 83 nieuwe ziekenhuisopnames  Focus en WTV
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Zes vriendinnen schrijven elk hun levensverhaal: “Ik was beschaamd en heb hier met niemand over gepraat. Tot nu”  Het Nieuwsblad

LIVE. Laatste 24 uur 75 overlijdens gerapporteerd en 83 nieuwe ziekenhuisopnames  Het Laatste Nieuws

1. Als de viroloog “nee” zegt en de handelaar “ja”: moet je maandag al meteen gaan winkelen?  Het Nieuwsblad
2. Het dilemma: moet ik maandag gaan winkelen?  De Standaard
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LIVE. Curve daalt verder, aantal nieuwe ziekenhuisopnames opnieuw ruim onder de 100  Het Laatste Nieuws

1. Medium-intensity earthquake strikes Delhi, adjoining areas; 3rd amid Covid-19 lockdown  Hindustan Times
2. Earthquake of magnitude 3.5 hits Delhi-NCR  Times of India
3. Earthquake in Delhi: Tremors felt in national capital region  The Financial Express
4. Magnitude 3.4 Earthquake Strikes Delhi, Epicentre Near UP Border  News18
5. Breaking news live : Eathquake tremors felt in Delhi, adjoining areas  Times of India
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The Kansas City Chiefs will look to repeat as Super Bowl champions in 2020, but their regular season schedule won't offer any concessions.

NASCAR will make its return to the track on May 17 at Darlington Raceway – but that doesn't mean fans have been without racing for the past two months.

WATCH: Dalls wins Game 2 of Stanley Cup Final vs. Buffalo | Stars CLASSICS

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"Shhh, You'll wake Ginny up, James," Teddy Lupin whispered to the three-year-old James, who was looking at Teddy with a sheepish look... R&R!