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 | | | Have you seen these 👖? | | People are forgetting to wear pants. Alcohol may heighten coronavirus risk. Stimulus checks are being sent to dead Americans. It's Thursday's news. | | |
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| Some of us are getting a little too comfy in quarantine. NASA may have discovered a new "Earth." And you might want to set your beer down before reading this. |
| It's Ashley. Let's talk news. |
| But first, where are your pants, ma'am? Apparently some people in Maryland aren't wearing pants to check the mail, and police aren't having it. "This is your final warning," police said in a Facebook post. "Please remember to put pants on." |
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Please, not the wine |
| If there's one thing that's been helping many of us get through the coronavirus dystopia we're living in, it's booze. Alcohol sales have risen drastically across the country since this pandemic upended our lives. (See, it's not just me). But I've got some bad news, fellow drinkers: The World Health Organization says alcohol may put people at increased risk for the coronavirus, weakening the body's immune system. |
| Where art thou, stimulus checks? Wrong bank accounts and dead people. |
| Confused about where your coronavirus stimulus check is? The IRS seems to be having some technical difficulties. About 80 million people expected to receive a stimulus deposit this week, but many who tracked their payment say their cash was sent to the wrong bank account. 🤦 Some are having quite the opposite of that problem: Many have been surprised to discover that dead loved ones got a check. |
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| What's the plan, President Trump? |
| President Donald Trump, eager to revive the nation's finances, will speak to the U.S. governors Thursday on guidelines for rolling back business closures and stay-at-home orders across the country. |
| Where's the beef? |
| America's food supply chain is getting out of whack during the coronavirus pandemic. While several meat processing plants around the USA are closed amid the COVID-19 crisis, experts worry about shortages of beef, poultry and pork. |
| Give it to me straight |
| U.S. deaths spiked to a daily high of more than 2,400 yesterday. More than 654,000 people have tested positive for the coronavirus in the USA, and more than 31,000 have died. See a map of confirmed cases here. |
What's everyone talking about? Bet you can guess. |
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Millions are without jobs |
| A record 22 million Americans have filed for unemployment benefits over the past month, erasing a decade of job gains since the Great Recession. More than 5.2 million people filed claims last week, the Labor Department said Thursday, a stunningly high number but below record-breaking reports the past two weeks. That brings the total claims over the past four weeks to a staggering 22 million. By comparison, the labor market added 21.5 million jobs since the Great Recession. Some economists estimate the unemployment rate will surge to nearly 16% by July, higher than at any point since the Great Depression . |
 | | The coronavirus crisis has driven up jobless claims. | | usat | |
A 'megadrought' might be worse than any in 1,200 years |
| Megadroughts – intense droughts that last for decades or longer – once plagued the desert Southwest. Because of global warming, an especially fierce one appears to be emerging in the western USA, a new study suggests. This is "a drought bigger than what modern society has seen," said study lead author A. Park Williams. Since temperatures are projected to keep rising, it is likely the drought will continue for the near future – or fade briefly only to return, researchers said. |
 | | Texas State Park police officer Thomas Bigham walks across the cracked lake bed of O.C. Fisher Lake in San Angelo, Texas, in August 2011. A new study suggests that the double-whammy of heat and drought is growing more frequent due to climate change. | | Tony Gutierrez, AP | |
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Just in time: Have we discovered a new Earth? |
| Exciting science news: Astronomers discovered a planet nearly the same size as Earth where water could exist – meaning the planet could support life . This newly found world, Kepler-1649c, is 300 light-years away from Earth and orbits a star that is about one-fourth the size of our sun. What's exciting is that out of all the 2,000-plus exoplanets that have been discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope, this world is the most similar to Earth both in size and estimated temperature, NASA said. |
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 | | A comparison of Earth and Kepler-1649c, an exoplanet that's only 1.06 times Earth's radius. | | NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter | |
A break from the news |
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Employee of the day 🐾 |
| Now that many of us are WFH, you may have found yourself with a purr-fect new colleague: YOUR PETS! Send me their picture at TheShortList@usatoday.com. |
| Meet Ajax the donkey and Rémy the Great Pyrenees. They enjoy long walks around the Leaping Donkey Farm in Leicester, Vermont. |
 | | Ajax and Rémy supporting each other through the coronavirus quarantine. | | Lynn Hayward-Bisbee, Leaping Donkey Farm | |
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