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 | | | Disaster at Daytona | | Ryan Newman's Daytona 500 crash. A 'ghost ship' washes ashore. Boy Scouts file for bankruptcy. It's Tuesday's news. | | |
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| Happy Tuesday to everyone except for the monsters who vandalized Plymouth Rock. |
| It's Ashley with the news to know. |
| But first, all the feels: A father was moved to tears when he heard his son's heartbeat in a teddy bear gifted by his heart transplant recipient. |
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Ryan Newman 'awake and speaking' after frightening NASCAR crash |
| Denny Hamlin won the Daytona 500, but the race will mostly be remembered for a grisly car wreck involving NASCAR driver Ryan Newman on the final lap. The frightening crash occurred when fellow Ford driver Ryan Blaney nudged Newman's car ahead of Hamlin on the backstretch. Extra contact forced Newman to spin out, flinging his car violently into a wall, where it flipped into the air before being hit again by Corey LaJoie as he crossed the finish line. Though still in the hospital after the horrific crash, Newman is "awake and speaking" with family members and his doctors, his race team announced. |
 | | NASCAR Cup Series driver Ryan Newman (6) goes airborne after being hit by Corey LaJoie (32) on the last lap of the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway. | | Mark J. Rebilas, USA TODAY Sports | |
Bankruptcy filing further clouds Boy Scouts future |
| The Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday amid declining membership and a slew of child sexual abuse allegations. In court filings, the Boy Scouts said it faces 275 abuse lawsuits and potentially an additional 1,400 cases to come. Bankruptcy was "the only viable option" for the Boy Scouts to consolidate numerous cases in one proceeding, pay its victims and emerge as a sustainable entity, the organization said. The exact effects on Boy Scouts' future operations are unknown, leading to speculation about the organization's odds for survival, the impact on troops and how bankruptcy could change the dynamic for abuse survivors who have yet to come forward. |
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Coronavirus may be 20 times deadlier than the flu |
| The overall death rate for the rapidly spreading coronavirus is 2.3%, according to data released by Chinese officials. This season's flu death rate in the USA is about 0.1%, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That data indicates that the coronavirus could be 20 times more deadly than the flu. Still, the coronavirus death rate is far below SARS – a coronavirus that swept across China almost two decades ago with an almost 10% death rate. Health officials note that the COVID-19 death rate could be lower since only severe cases were recognized in the first weeks of the outbreak. |
| Coronavirus death toll approaches 2,000: The director of a Chinese hospital at the epicenter of the outbreak died Tuesday despite "all-out" efforts to save his life, Chinese health officials said. His death pushed the global death toll to 1,875. |
Trump gives out get out of jail free cards |
| President Donald Trump exercised a few executive powers Tuesday, commuting the prison sentence of a former Illinois governor and pardoning others. Trump commuted the prison sentence of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was convicted of trying to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat. Blagojevich entered federal prison in 2012 to serve a 14-year sentence after being convicted on federal charges of using his powers as governor to extract campaign money and other political favors. Trump said he felt Blagojevich, who appeared on "The Apprentice," was treated "very, very unfairly." |
| You get a pardon! You get a pardon! |
| • | The commutation came hours after the White House announced Trump would pardon Edward DeBartolo Jr., the former owner of the San Francisco 49ers, for his involvement in a gambling fraud case. | | • | Trump also pardoned former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik and rogue financier Michael Milken, both of whom are out of prison. | | • | The president said he has not decided what to do with convicted allies Roger Stone, Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn. | |
 | | Rod Blagojevich had to leave Chicago in 2012 to report to federal prison in Denver. | | M. Spencer Green, AP | |
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An abandoned 'ghost ship' washed ashore |
| An abandoned "ghost ship" drifting in the Atlantic finally washed ashore in Ireland with no crew on board amid Storm Dennis' choppy water, the country's coast guard says. The roughly 250-foot vessel – MV Alta – was abandoned in 2018 after the U.S. Coast Guard rescued its crew, which was stranded without power, Lt. Amanda Faulkner, a public affairs officer for the Coast Guard's 5th District, told USA TODAY. |
 | | The abandoned cargo ship MV Alta washed up on the coast of County Cork, near Ballycotton, southern Ireland. | | Irish Coast Guard, AP | |
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