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New York moms just want time to breathe this Mother’s Day

Many mothers are pulling double and triple duty caring for kids, juggling jobs, homeschooling, navigating financial hardship and acting as unofficial family doctor at time with unprecedented health concerns.




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Summer 2020: quarantine move will trigger 'bank holiday traffic every day' as prices soar above £2k for a week at Center Parcs

Exclusive: 'As well as staggered working hours we need to stagger holidays,' says AA president Edmund King




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We counted more than 2,000 customers in the St. George area. Here's how many were wearing masks

With regulations urging residents statewide to wear masks when in public, here is how Southern Utahsn have fared following the recommended guidelines

       




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Community members step up to pay Washington County school lunch debt

Two residents of Washington County organize donations from community members to pay Washington County School District 15k+ lunch debt

       




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ML 2.8 CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN SEA

Magnitude  ML 2.8
Region  CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN SEA
Date time  2020-05-09 22:34:22.5 UTC
Location  35.76 N ; 22.67 E
Depth  26 km




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M 4.1 OAXACA, MEXICO

Magnitude   M 4.1
Region  OAXACA, MEXICO
Date time  2020-05-09 18:14:48.0 UTC
Location  16.93 N ; 94.91 W
Depth  122 km




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Updated: Unilever recalls Wall’s Mini Calippo multi-packs because they may contain small pieces of metal

Unilever is recalling Wall’s Mini Calippo (Orange and Lemon-Lime) multi-packs because they may contain small pieces of metal. The presence of metal makes this product unsafe to eat.




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Sask. author finds success with quarantine-themed cookbook

Nearly a month after the Facebook page for The Official Quarantine Cookbook gained thousands of followers, the book is available to buy.




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M 4.4 OFFSHORE OAXACA, MEXICO

Magnitude   M 4.4
Region  OFFSHORE OAXACA, MEXICO
Date time  2020-05-10 02:29:48.0 UTC
Location  15.55 N ; 94.79 W
Depth  16 km




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ML 2.0 EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA

Magnitude  ML 2.0
Region  EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA
Date time  2020-05-10 04:25:31.8 UTC
Location  35.92 N ; 29.31 E
Depth  44 km




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M 2.9 SIMEULUE, INDONESIA

Magnitude   M 2.9
Region  SIMEULUE, INDONESIA
Date time  2020-05-10 08:19:05.0 UTC
Location  2.48 N ; 96.34 E
Depth  10 km




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mb 4.4 EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA

Magnitude  mb 4.4
Region  EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA
Date time  2020-05-10 08:40:10.8 UTC
Location  33.96 N ; 25.55 E
Depth  5 km




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Coronavírus avança mais rápido em cidades pequenas, mostra levantamento

Estudo da Fiocruz aponta aumento em torno 50% de novos casos nos municípios com até 20 mil habitantes nas duas últimas semanas.




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Com epidemia e recessão, Trump tem menos de 6 meses para arranjar novo discurso de campanha

Republicano perdeu seu principal discurso, os bons números econômicos, seis meses antes da eleição. Agora, luta para ser visto como bom gestor da crise.




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Photo Gallery: Purdue falls to Minnesota 38-31 as comeback attempt falls short

A first half deficit proved too much to handle for the Boilermakers. Purdue also lost Elijah Sindelar and Rondale Moore to injury in the first half.

      




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Photos: Purdue takes on Michigan St. in Big Ten women's tournament

Photos: Purdue takes on Michigan St. in Big Ten women's tournament

      




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Photos: Maryland defeats Purdue women in Big Ten tournament

Photos: Maryland defeats Purdue women in Big Ten tournament

      




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Former Purdue forward Vincent Edwards officially signs with Houston Rockets

Vincent Edwards signed with the Houston Rockets on Thursday, per the team.

      




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Purdue basketball recruiting target Brandon Newman going extra mile for improvement

Brandon Newman's stock rose considerably in the past six months. The 2019 guard from Valparaiso will play at Montverde (Florida) Academy as a senior.

      




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Purdue's Carsen Edwards named top returning player in college basketball

Carsen Edwards led Purdue in scoring last season and was named an All-American.

      




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Newcomers hold the key for Purdue defense

Last year's success will be hard to duplicate for Purdue's defense, but the standard has been set.

      




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Former Purdue quarterback Robert Marve accused of sexual assault and battery

Robert Marve, who quarterbacked Purdue to the 2012 Heart of Dallas Bowl, has been accused of battery and sexual assault in Florida.

       




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Purdue men's basketball career scoring leaders

Top 10 scorers in Purdue men's basketball history

       




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From Notre Dame to the Monon Bell: Ranking Indiana's top 50 college football games in 2018

From Notre Dame to the Monon Bell. We rank Indiana's top 50 college football games in 2018.

       




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Purdue basketball alum Caleb Swanigan leads Portland back to NBA Summer League finals

Caleb Swanigan's 21 points and 16 rebounds led Portland to a semifinal victory over Memphis.

       




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'What life was all about for him was family': Remembering Dennis Barrett, who had COVID-19

Dennis Barrett, an east Indianapolis native, died of the coronavirus in March. His wife remembers him as a devoted father and ambitious entrepreneur.

       




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Veteran law enforcement officer Robbie Amos, lost to COVID-19, loved serving the public

Robbie Amos, 66, "ate, lived and breathed law enforcement," says his wife. He died on April 3 after contracting the novel coronavirus.

       




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Demonstrators describe arrest and pepper ball deployment during protest

Demonstrators describe an arrest and pepper ball use by IMPD during a protest over the death of Dreasjon Reed near 62nd Street and Michigan Road.

       




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The day the pirates came

A life on the high seas promised adventure, until a kidnapping turned a young man's life upside down.




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Hisham Selim, famed Egyptian actor, praised over transgender son

When a famed Egyptian actor revealed his daughter had transitioned, the reaction was unconventional.




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War and the virus: Cameroon's deadly mix

Fighting continues to rage in English-speaking parts of Cameroon after most armed groups reject a truce.




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For IMS, Brickyard weekend means several contingencies, but focus is 'May in August' for Indy 500

Decision makers at Penske Entertainment are beginning to chart the course for a historic summer of racing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

       




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US Space Force Releases First Recruitment Video, Acknowledges Netflix Comedy 'Space Force'

The newly-created U.S. Space Force has released its first recruitment video, CNET reports: In a video posted Wednesday to Twitter showing rockets, mission control-types rooms and U.S. Space Force members in spacesuits, a voice-over says, "maybe your purpose on this planet isn't on this planet." Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett said during a livestream Wednesday that so far recruitment hasn't been a problem for the Space Force. "There's been an avalanche of applicants." This sixth branch of the US military was established in December 2019 and will be operational by mid-2021. CNET notes the video appeared "a day after Netflix dropped a trailer for its upcoming comedy Space Force. And the leader of the U.S. Space Force says he's looking forward to the Netflix comedy co-created by Steve Carell. "The one piece of advice I'd give to Steve Carell is to get a haircut," Gen. Jay Raymond, the U.S. Space Force Chief of Space Operations, said Wednesday during a webinar hosted by the nonprofit Space Foundation. Raymond is bald, and joked that Steve Carell is "looking a little too shaggy if he wants to play the Space Force chief."

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Should Colleges Preserve the Idea of Meritocracy?

"Is Meritocracy an Idea Worth Saving?" asks The Chronicle of Higher Education, reporting on a special forum held recently at the University of North Carolina's Program for Public Discourse. "This discussion took place before Covid-19 changed everything. But the topics — the definition of meritocracy, the role of universities in a just society, the composition of socioeconomic class, and the real purpose of education — are as relevant as ever." Moral philosopher Anastasia Berg, a junior research fellow at the University of Cambridge: Obviously certain roles in society and certain honors should be going to someone who is most competent for them: the Nobel Prize, or a teaching award, or who should perform eye surgery on us. The question is whether this is the right measure for determining who should be entering universities. There are objections from the left and from the right. I find the left ones persuasive, which is to say, in effect, that the pretensions to meritocracy are not borne out, if we actually look at who gets into colleges. We find out that there's huge correlation between the kind of material support that people have, and their ability to perform on the kind of exams that allow people to get into colleges. But what I also find problematic has to do with what has formerly been thought of as a conservative critique, although I think that leftists and liberals and progressives should be as concerned about it as anyone else: The current way of running college admissions concentrates talent, ambition, and competence in very few areas — on the coasts, in a very few universities — and draws potential leaders from communities elsewhere. Moreover, the current system leaves people blind to all the ways in which they owe gratitude to a community, for all the help that allowed them to achieve. New York Times opinion columnist Ross Douthat: It's useful to remember that the term "meritocracy" was coined as a description of a dystopia, in a book by a British civil servant written in the late '50s called The Rise of the Meritocracy. It was a tongue-in-cheek evocation of some pompous civil servant from somewhere around our own era, looking back on what he saw as the self-selection of the cognitive elite to rule over a society that was drained of talent, drained of ambition, and had all power centers outside the elite deprived of leadership and talent from within. It's reasonable to look at class divisions in the United States and much of the West and say that at least a partial version of that dystopia has come to pass. College-educated and more-than-college-educated Americans cluster together in geographic hubs in ways that they did not 50 or 60 years ago. It's a fascinating discussion, in which writer Thomas Chatterton Williams argues "it takes a kind of privilege to sneer at meritocratic measures that allow people to advance." But Berg also makes the observation that at least half of Americans won't ever have a college degree. "If that's the way to make citizens, what do we do with the rest? We have to make room for the dignity of other paths."

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Reggie Brooks bullish on Notre Dame RB Chris Tyree and the Holtz's Heroes Foundation

Reggie Brooks bullish on Notre Dame RB Chris Tyree and the Holtz's Heroes Foundation

       




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Man tased four times during Friday arrest: RPS

Police used a taser several times during the arrest of a man on Friday.




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Channel24.co.za | Prince Harry shares heartfelt video message to commemorate Invictus Games

The Duke of Sussex sent a special video message to mark what would have been the opening ceremony of the 2020 Invictus Games.





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Just under three dozen new COVID-19 deaths confirmed in Montreal

As tests increase on the Island of Montreal, the city announced Saturday that 33 more people have died and 420 new cases have been confirmed in the past 24 hours.




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Montreal fighter Felicia Spencer confirmed for UFC 260

Canadian Felicia (Feenom) Spencer's on-again off-again title challenge against UFC featherweight champion Amanda (Lioness) Nunes has been confirmed for UFC 250.




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New data shows Quebec's women hit harder by COVID-19 than men

COVID-19 has been more prevalant in Quebec's women than men, unlike many other of the world's regions according to data published by the Quebec Institute of Public Health on Saturday.




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150 deaths, 10,000 hospitalizations per day in Montreal if social distancing measures lifted: study

Deaths and hospitalizations related to COVID-19 could increase dramatically in Montreal if social distancing measures are lifted, according to a new study.




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Coronavirus: Claim pregnant women put on sick pay

A Welsh MP claims cases include workers with the NHS and in care homes.




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Messi or Ronaldo? Your best Ballon d'Or winner of Premier League era revealed

In the latest MOTD podcast the experts discussed the top 10 Ballon d'Or winners of the Premier League era - and here's how you ranked them.




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Match of Their Day: Phil Neville picks his classic games

In this week's Match of Their Day, former Manchester United and Everton player Phil Neville selects his three favourite Premier League games.




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Saying goodbye through a screen: Family remembers COVID-19 victim at LTC home

Laurie Few knew their time with her father Allan was short when he tested positive for COVID-19 last Sunday.