Tampa Bay Rays' Blake Snell claimed champion status after defeating Lucas Giolito of the Chicago White Sox in the inaugural MLB The Show player league on Sunday.

Smithsonian folklorist James Deutsch says the fast spread of stories and memes are cultural expressions that build cohesion and support

Get up close to the DC sites on a Segway! Segs in the City offers daily guided 1 hour and 2 hour Segway tours and rentals. Join the fun!

The Best Museum Experience of All Things Washington, D.C. Experience the stories behind the people and events of the Nation's Capital.

Making Tierra Mía, says the director of the Smithsonian Latino Center, proved transformative in giving voice to the people

Hope you didn't pack away those winter boots yet: southwestern Manitoba, from Riding Mountain south to the Canada-U.S. border, is expected to get heavy rain and snow Friday night.

Manitoba health officials says visits can be done via the internet, through window panes, or outside at a distance if everyone is healthy. People whose moms are in a hospital or a care home can still drop off gifts of food or clothing.

The union that represents thousands of Manitoba workers is asking what safety protocols were in place when a construction worker was killed after a trench wall collapsed on him earlier this week.

"Recovery is not for the faint-hearted," says recovering addict Jeremy Raven. And sometimes, something as simple as a kind word may be the hand up that someone who is struggling needs, he says.

With Mother's Day only a few days away, businesses are coming up with creative ways to help your family celebrate. Everything from brunch in a box to colourful bouquets and home delivered chocolate.

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Retailers around the world are adjusting their business models in the face of COVID-19 social distancing requirements. Two consumer reports on shopping pattern changes during the pandemic offer two main findings: a) It is crucial for merchants to create ways to connect with new and long-term customers; and b) Consumers can not fully solve the empty shelf problem through buying online.

The U.S. Postal Service recently has been battered by a decline in the number of packages it delivers, partly caused by the coronavirus situation. It reportedly is losing $2 billion each month and will be "illiquid" by Sept. 30. The USPS is chartered to do the hard and often unprofitable work no one else wants to do, but the White House has rejected talk of a bailout for the service.

A petition is being circulated to get a $600,000 bridge replacement project near Millvale scrapped.

All of P.E.I.'s 27 confirmed cases of COVID-19 are now considered recovered, said Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Heather Morrison.

With time on their hands, many Islanders have tapped into their creative sides. Some people who are artistic had more time to create and try new things, while others discovered untapped potential as makers. 

Let’s pick someone who doesn’t keep us awake nights.

Commentary on Red Book statistics: Shaping the future of payments, November 2019

Long-term interest rates have remained low despite a surge in the issuance of sovereign debt to mitigate the economic impact of the pandemic.

Equities have rallied since 2017 and yet the expected growth in dividends has declined since then. Is the fall in long-term interest rates to be blamed?

If he fouls this up, we’re doomed.

The virus is a test. We have the freedom to respond.

The struggle between fear and comfort.

Readers open up about their mental states.

Learning what hardship has to teach us.

As the nation unifies, divisiveness falls flat.

Publication by Mr Dimitar Radev, Governor of the Bulgarian National Bank, in the Quarterly Bulletin of the Association of Banks in Bulgaria, issue 61, March 2020.

Speech by Mr Fehmi Mehmeti, Governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of Kosovo, at the press conference where the details of the measures taken by the CBK for maintaining health in the economy were given, Pristina, 3 April 2020.

Speech (via webcast)by Mr Jerome H Powell, Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, The Brookings Institution, Washington DC, 9 April 2020.

Hearing of Mr François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Bank of France, before the Section for the Economy and Finance of the French Economic, Social and Environmental Council, Paris, 8 April 2020.

Remarks by Ms Isabel Schnabel, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at a 24-Hour Global Webinar co-organised by the SAFE Policy Center on "The COVID-19 Crisis and Its Aftermath: Corporate Governance Implications and Policy Challenges", Frankfurt am Main, 16 April 2020.

Opening statement by Mr Stephen S Poloz, Governor of the Bank of Canada, at the press conference following the release of the Monetary Policy Report, Ottawa, Ontario, 15 April 2020.

Remarks by Benoît Cœuré, Head of the Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub, at the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee - Chamber of Digital Commerce webinar on "The world economy transformed", 17 April 2020.

Statement by Mr Ignazio Visco, Governor of the Bank of Italy and Governor of the Constituency of Albania, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, San Marino and Timor-Leste, at the 101st Meeting (virtual) of the Development Committee (Joint Ministerial Committee of the Boards of Governors of the Bank and the Fund on the Transfer of Real Resources to Developing Countries), Washington DC, 17 April 2020.

Speech by Mr Benjamin E Diokno, Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the central bank of the Philippines), at an investor call with Standard Chartered Bank, Manila, 22 April 2020.

The upcoming debate about whether to expand the urban boundary is one of the city's big issues this term. But instead of delaying it, the city's testing out a never-before-attempted democratic process. Should they?

With this year's worlds cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Rob Pizzo looks at the last time the event didn't happen.

The World pairs champion and Olympic gold medallist played the piano during a special hosted by fellow Canadian figure skater Kaitlyn Weaver, to raise funds for the United Nation's COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund.

Figure skater Michael Marinaro gets emotional as he talks about his grandmother who passed away from COVID-19. Marinaro and his partner Kirsten Moore-Towers joined fellow Canadian Kaitlyn Weaver who was hosting a livestream with figure skating legends to raise money for the UN Foundation's COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund.

This blog post celebrates composer David Diamond's contributions to the enrichment of Jewish synagogue music. The Music Division of the Library of Congress is home to the David Diamond Collection.

Vincent Novara, Head of the Music Division's Acquisitions & Processing Section, describes his section's new teleworking practices during a global pandemic.

The following is a guest post from Music Reference Specialist James Wintle. Let me begin with a personal anecdote. My parents are or were both musicians – my father was a composer – and so my appreciation for classical music was probably equal parts nature and nurture. So, when I entered graduate school as a […]

The following is a guest post from Processing Technician Pam Murrell. In addition to being an adroit cellist, bassist, and pianist, Charles Mingus was also an accomplished composer. During his lifetime he wrote over three hundred scores, creating his first concert piece, “Half-Mast Inhibition,” at the age of seventeen. Ultimately, he aspired to be a […]

While traveling in Israel in 1948, Leonard Bernstein wrote a letter to his mother with beautiful illustrations by artist Jossi Stern. In anticipation of Mother's Day weekend, "In the Muse" highlights that digitized letter from the Leonard Bernstein Collection and encourages readers to send illustrated letters of their own.

There are better sports documentaries than The Last Dance, but the entertaining series on the Michael Jordan-led Bulls dynasty might be a better fit for this particular time.

The NBA has pushed back plans that would allow teams to reopen their practice facilities for at least one week, and cautioned that the new target is far from set in stone.

The 19-year-old has declared for the 2020 NBA Draft. If selected he would become the first player out of CEGEP program in Quebec to make the leap directly to the world's top basketball league.

Canadian basketball players Dylan Ennis and Kevin Pangos, who both play in Liga ACB, opted to stay and weather the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain.

The Chicago Bulls announced Marc Eversley as their new general manager on Friday, making him the first Canadian GM in NBA history.

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