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Robert De Niro says he’d play Gov. Cuomo in a coronavirus movie: ‘He’s doing what a president should do’

De Niro, 76, also voiced his support for Joe Biden as a presidential candidate on "The Late Show," and was critical of President Trump’s handling of the response to the COVID-19 outbreak.




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Woman goes mad after being told McDonald’s is closed, shoots and injures 3 employees, OKC cops say

Things were not OK.




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Fired aircraft carrier captain Brett Crozier takes Navy job in San Diego

The former captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt was relieved from his duties in response to his concerns about coronavirus spreading on his ship.




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SEE IT: Gov. Cuomo approves of Robert De Niro playing him, gives his best ‘Taxi Driver’ impression

Gov. Cuomo is down with Robert De Niro portraying him in a movie about the coronavirus pandemic, should there be one, and he also took a moment to play the role of the Manhattan-born actor.




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Trump calls video of Ahmaud Arbery killing ‘disturbing’ but trusts Georgia’s ‘very good’ law enforcement

President Trump on Friday called the viral video of Ahmaud Arbery’s killing “very, very disturbing,” but he said he’s confident that Georgia’s law enforcement authorities will handle the case properly despite a slow-moving investigation and conflict-of-interest questions surrounding the incident. “So I saw the tape, and it’s very, very disturbing," he said in a Fox New phone interview. “I looked at a picture of that young man. He was in a tuxedo... And I will say that that looks like a really good, young guy.”




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Donohoe says Covid funding can't go on indefinitely

The Minister for Finance has said the State can afford to continue to fund the measures put in place by the Government to deal with the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic.




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Gov. Cuomo, don’t cry over spilled milk: Edie Falco says N.Y. shouldn’t prop up dairy farmers

Like many New Yorkers — indeed, many Americans — I’ve looked to Gov. Cuomo’s decisive leadership during the coronavirus crisis. But his Nourish New York initiative, while well-intentioned, is a step in the wrong direction. With federal funds stretched to the limit, why would the governor squander $25 million to bail out the dairy industry, which is rife with disease and cruelty?




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Taking government money? Disclose your political spending: Companies should opt for transparency now more than ever

With increasing reports of large public companies and politically connected ones receiving COVID-19 rescue aid and the Trump administration blocking proper oversight, business leaders can act on their own to protect the integrity of the government aid effort and of companies themselves. They can do that by disclosing their companies’ political spending to show that political influence is not a factor in who gets help.




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We could use a few more Good Samaritans

“The Parable of the Good Samaritan is about a Jewish man unexpectedly receiving help from a despised enemy with whom he had serious religious differences.”




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Justice extended, not denied: Gov. Cuomo rightly extends the deadline under which Child Victims Act survivors can face their

Last Feb. 14, Gov. Cuomo signed the Child Victims Act into law. He did it in the newsroom of the Daily News, because it was this paper that, over many years, spotlighted the wrenching cases of people abused as children, perversely prevented from seeking justice as adults.




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Office Visits Preventing Emergency Room Visits: Evidence From the Flint Water Switch -- by Shooshan Danagoulian, Daniel S. Grossman, David Slusky

Emergency department visits are costly to providers and to patients. We use the Flint water crisis to test if an increase in office visits reduced avoidable emergency room visits. In September 2015, the city of Flint issued a lead advisory to its residents, alerting them of increased lead levels in their drinking water, resulting from the switch in water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Using Medicaid claims for 2013-2016, we find that this information shock increased the share of enrollees who had lead tests performed by 1.7 percentage points. Additionally, it increased office visits immediately following the information shock and led to a reduction of 4.9 preventable, non-emergent, and primary-care-treatable emergency room visits per 1000 eligible children (8.2%). This decrease is present in shifts from emergency room visits to office visits across several common conditions. Our analysis suggest that children were more likely to receive care from the same clinic following lead tests and that establishing care reduced the likelihood parents would take their children to emergency rooms for conditions treatable in an office setting. Our results are potentially applicable to any situation in which individuals are induced to seek more care in an office visit setting.




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Olympic figure skater Evan Lysacek sells Chicago condo for $827,000

Lysacek, originally from Naperville, took a loss on the two-bedroom condo.




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In UN building, Trump sees a real estate deal that got away

Trump vividly recalls the overtures he made to rebuild the 39-story tower in the early 2000s and posits that he could have done a better job with the $2.3 billion project, which took about three years longer than anticipated and came in more than $400 million over budget.




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Georgia mall featured in ‘Stranger Things’ to go up for sale

Most of the Georgia mall heavily featured in the latest season of Netflix's "Stranger Things" is going up for sale.




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The world’s largest Starbucks opens tomorrow in Chicago. Here’s what to expect if you go, from rare beans to coffee cocktails.

The Reserve Roastery Chicago opens Friday, transforming the former Crate & Barrel space into five floors of coffee wonderland.




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As Chicago’s building boom continues, new nonprofit aims to train women and minorities for construction trades

Major players in commercial real estate, construction and organized labor are teaming up with the United Way to try to place thousands of and minorities into trade careers in Chicago, where there is both a shortage of skilled labor and a dearth of jobs in swaths of the city.




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‘They slap lipstick on a pig’: What Chicago real estate experts think of the HGTV effect and ‘Windy City Rehab’ woes

Chicago real estate experts bust myths portrayed by home improvement shows, from actors subbing in as buyers to unrealistically low renovation costs.




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Cheltenham should not have gone ahead, admits HRI chief

The Cheltenham horse racing festival should probably not have been allowed to go ahead last month shortly before Britain went into lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Horse Racing Ireland CEO Brian Kavanagh has said.




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Government sets 29 June return date for racing

Horse and greyhound racing is not due to resume until 29 June according to the Department of Agriculture, though Horse Racing Ireland remains hopeful restrictions will be lifted earlier.




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’Flatten the curve, go home!’ New Yorkers bellow coronavirus warnings from their windows in Brooklyn

As New Yorkers take to staying indoors to combat the spread of the coronavirus, these residents are taking a different approach.




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State pulls liquor license of Queens restaurant that flouts governor’s no dining in order

The operators of the New Oriental Guyana Restaurant on Liberty Ave. in Jamaica shut its front gates — but in a Prohibition-era move, they let dozens of customers in through an alley door so they could wine and dine the night away, the State Liquor Authority said.




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Brooklyn’s McCarren Park bustles even as state goes ‘on pause’ over coronavirus

Friends played touch football and shared sweaty exercise equipment while others kept their distance from others




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Gone too fast, too young: Brooklyn dad of 2-year-old boy dies at home from likely coronavirus despite family’s desperate efforts to save him

The last thing Jorge Cruz ever did was ask for a cup of hot tea. By the time it was cool enough for a sip, he was dead -- apparently from coronavirus.




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Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez says coronavirus crisis has shifted his focus to releasing inmates, rather than locking them up

The fourth-year DA told the Daily News in an interview that his focus has shifted dramatically during the crisis, as trials and grand juries have been put on hold across the state.




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Agencies urge Gov. Cuomo to boost funding for special education preschool amid shortage

Advocates predict up to 2,000 city youngsters with disabilities may be unable to find an appropriate preschool this spring because of financial constraints that make it harder to hire and maintain teachers for special needs programs.




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NYC council members urge de Blasio to avoid classroom cuts in budget negotiations

The lawmakers say the city should turn its attention to pricey contracts, testing payments and administrative costs before axing $181 million from school budgets that cover the salaries of teachers, social workers, and other staff.




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4 Easy Tips to Rank for Your Name on Google

It doesn’t seem like it would be all that difficult, to rank for your name in Google or any of the other search engines, but it can be a lot harder than you think. You and your business could pop up—but it might not.
Ranking highly in Google is difficult, even when it’s your own name. You might think your name is pretty special, but with over 7 billion people in the world — it’s very likely a few ...

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Ferguson takes aim at Khabib and McGregor

Tony Ferguson hit out at lightweight rivals Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov ahead of headlining UFC 249 against Justin Gaethje at Jacksonville, Florida, this weekend.




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Recreational golf set to return on 18 May

Plans have been announced by the Golf Union of Ireland and the Irish Ladies Golf Union for the return of recreational golf in Ireland, albeit on a restricted basis.




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Connacht GAA chief: Time to say goodbye to 2020 games

Connacht GAA president Gerry McGovern believes the risks of a return to playing action this year are too high and has instead urged the Association to focus completely on the 2021 All-Ireland Championships.




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Maughan in favour of club over county if games go ahead

The Offaly football manager John Maughan says he has cannot see the inter-county Championship being played this year.




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Trump calls video of Ahmaud Arbery killing ‘disturbing’ but trusts Georgia’s ‘very good’ law enforcement

President Trump on Friday called the viral video of Ahmaud Arbery’s killing “very, very disturbing,” but he said he’s confident that Georgia’s law enforcement authorities will handle the case properly despite a slow-moving investigation and conflict-of-interest questions surrounding the incident. “So I saw the tape, and it’s very, very disturbing," he said in a Fox New phone interview. “I looked at a picture of that young man. He was in a tuxedo... And I will say that that looks like a really good, young guy.”




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SEE IT: Gov. Cuomo approves of Robert De Niro playing him, gives his best ‘Taxi Driver’ impression

Gov. Cuomo is down with Robert De Niro portraying him in a movie about the coronavirus pandemic, should there be one, and he also took a moment to play the role of the Manhattan-born actor.




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WATCH LIVE VIDEO: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s May 9 press conference with coronavirus updates

Watch New York Gov. Cuomo’s daily press conference with updates on the state’s fight against coronavirus.




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SA Rugby adamant 2021 Lions Tour will go ahead

South African Rugby has no immediate plans to change the dates of the British & Irish Lions tour in 2021 but says it is conducting scenario planning around a possible switch due to the coronavirus pandemic.




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This algorithm is predicting where a deadly pig virus will pop up next

A swine virus that appeared in the U.S. in 2013 has proven hard to track. But an algorithm might help researchers predict the next outbreak.




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A year ago, toxic red tide took over Florida’s Gulf Coast. What would it take to stop it next time?

Killing red tide cells en masse can unleash their potent toxin. That means researchers need to get creative.




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First Americans arrived at least 16,000 years ago, and probably by boat

Artifacts unearthed in Idaho challenge the idea that the first people to populate the Americas made the journey on foot around the end of the Ice Age.




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Google says it just achieved “quantum supremacy.” Is it true?

If validated, Google’s new technology may bring us closer to a future of ultra-efficient computing.




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Racially-biased medical algorithm prioritizes white patients over black patients

The algorithm was based on the faulty assumption that health care spending is a good proxy for wellbeing. But there seems to be a quick fix.




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Google parent company scraps ‘Smart City’ project amid coronavirus crisis

Google parent Alphabet has scrapped its plans to develop a futuristic “Smart City” on the Toronto waterfront over privacy concerns and economic uncertainty brought on by the coronavirus pandemic




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Editorial: If the government says to close up shop and stay home to fight the coronavirus, do it. That means you too, Elon Musk

Ideally, business owners and individuals will make the right decisions in the face of coronavirus. But then, there will always be companies like Tesla.




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Editorial: Climate change is just as real as COVID-19. Now's the last, best chance for our government to treat it that way

President Trump and Congress should keep climate change in mind as they prepare economic aid packages for businesses and industries.




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Editorial: It's no government takeover of PG&E, but it's still a possibility for the state's most dangerous utility

It's not the government takeover that many Californians wanted for the fire-starting utility, but the deal Gavin Newsom struck with PG&E should help.




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Editorial: The most important thing is to contain COVID-19. Then we can think about going back to work

It's legitimate to worry that the steps we're taking to contain the coronavirus are causing unnecessary damage to the U.S. economy. But the damage that the disease would cause if it isn't contained would be far worse.




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Editorial: California's wildfires aren't going to stay quarantined for coronavirus

What's worse than power shutoffs during the coronavirus quarantine? An unplanned outage that sparks a wildfire.




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Editorial: Hey, Gov. Newsom, give California renters a real eviction moratorium

The governor's announcement made it sound like renters had true protections, meaning many tenants could unwittingly end up setting themselves up for eviction.




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Editorial: States are on their own to fend off this pandemic. That may be a good thing

Who needs the federal government when you have the world's fifth-largest economy taking charge?




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Editorial: When will it actually be safe to go to the beach again?

The crazy quilt of closures and the ad hoc reopenings we're seeing are not going to work for California.




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Editorial: Letting state governments go bankrupt is a terrible idea

Egged on by Mitch McConnell, Trump has floated the idea of letting states go bankrupt in response to the COVID-19 cash crunch. It's a really bad idea.