overnight News of 04/09/20

Census Sends Paper Forms To 65.6 Million Households Whose Residents Haven’T Yet Responded

(ORLANDO, Fla.) — If you’re a census slacker and haven’t yet filled out the form for the 2020 head count, the federal government is trying another way to get in touch with you. Starting Wednesday, the U.S. Census Bureau is mailing ...

Wuhan Has Reopened After A Brutal Coronavirus Lockdown. But Is China Ready?

To believe Chinese officials , the embattled people of Wuhan, the original epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, are “heroes,” whose stoicism during almost 11 weeks of arduous lockdown helped save countless lives by containing the ...

Critic Of Xi Jinping’S Coronavirus Response Under Investigation, Beijing Says

(BEIJING) — A prominent Communist party member who criticized Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak is being investigated on suspicion of a “severe violation of discipline and law,” a joint ...

Trump Seeks Another $250 Billion For Small Businesses In Virus Aid Showdown

(WASHINGTON) — As Congress races to craft the next coronavirus rescue package, President Donald Trump’s sudden request Tuesday to pump $250 billion more into a just-launched small businesses payroll program sets up a new showdown over ...

Bleaching On The Great Barrier Reef Is More Widespread Than Ever, Scientists Say

(BRISBANE, Australia) — An aerial survey of the Great Barrier Reef shows coral bleaching is sweeping across the area off the east of Australia for the third time in five years. Bleaching has struck all three regions of the world’s ...

More Than Half The Passengers On An Antarctica Cruise Have Tested Positive For Coronavirus

(MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay) — Nearly 60 percent of 217 people — many from Australia, Europe and the United States — on board a cruise ship off the coast of Uruguay have tested positive for the new coronavirus, the ship’s operator ...

Wisconsin Primary Set To Open As Scheduled, Despite Coronavirus Fears

(MADISON, Wis.) — Wisconsin is asking hundreds of thousands of voters to ignore a stay-at-home order in the midst of a pandemic to participate in Tuesday’s presidential primary election, becoming a test case for dozens of states struggling ...

n95 Maker Strikes Deal To Send Masks To Canada And Latin America Despite Trump Export Band

(TORONTO) — Manufacturing giant 3M said Monday it has an agreement with the Trump administration that will allow the company to continue to export N95 protective masks to Canada and Latin America amid the coronavirus pandemic. The company said ...

A Federal Report Found Coronavirus Test Shortages At U.S. Hospitals. Trump Attacked The Author

(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Monday disputed the veracity of a federal survey that found hospitals faced severe shortages of coronavirus test supplies, questioning whether its conclusions were skewed by politics. With coronavirus ...

Australian High Court Dismisses Catholic Cardinal’S Conviction For Child Sex Abuse

(CANBERRA, Australia) — Australia’s highest court has dismissed the convictions of the most senior Catholic found guilty of child sex abuse. High Court Chief Justice Susan Kiefel announced the decision of the seven judges on Tuesday in ...

India Has Cut Off Half The Supply Of A Potential Coronavirus Treatment Touted By Trump

Nearly half the supply of hydroxychloroquine to the U.S. comes from makers in India, a flow that has now been abruptly stanched after the Asian nation banned exports of all forms of the malaria drug touted by President Donald Trump as a “game ...

Japan’S Prime Minister Abe Proposing Coronavirus State Of Emergency In 7 Prefectures As Infections Rise

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he will propose to declare a state of emergency in seven prefectures including Tokyo and Osaka for about a month, after a renewed surge of coronavirus cases in some of the nation’s biggest metropolitan ...

China Urges Its Citizens Not To Hoard Rice Amid Mounting Concern Over Global Food Supply

Government officials in China, the world’s biggest consumer and producer of rice, called on citizens not to hoard the grain after a recent ban on new export sales by Vietnam sparked concerns over global supplies. The country holds sufficient ...

After Trump Bans All n95 Mask Exports, Canadians Remind U.S. That They Helped Americans After 9/11

(TORONTO) — The premier of a Canadian province that sheltered thousands of stranded American airline passengers after the 9/11 attacks questioned the humanity of U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday after Trump banned the export of N95 ...

Taliban Warns Afghanistan Peace Deal With U.S. Is Near A Breaking Point

(ISLAMABAD, Pakistan) — The Taliban said their peace deal with the United States was nearing a breaking point, accusing Washington of violations that included drone attacks on civilians, while also chastising the Afghan government for delaying ...

Ukraine Battles Forest Fires Near Chernobyl Nuclear Plant

(MINSK, Belarus) — Ukrainian firefighters labored into Sunday night trying to put out two forest blazes in the area around the Chernobyl nuclear power station, which was evacuated because of radioactive contamination after the 1986 explosion at ...

China’S ‘Mask Diplomacy’ Is Faltering. But The U.S. Isn’T Doing Any Better

After seven years of living in Bologna, first as a student and now as a business consultant, Zhang Yimeng has come to consider northern Italy as his second home. And so, when COVID-19 began rampaging through Europe , the 27-year-old from ...

Carbon Emissions From Airlines Could Drop By 38% This Year Because Of Coronavirus

(Bloomberg)—Airlines’ carbon emissions could drop by more than one-third this year as travel demand sinks, a trend that could continue as businesses reassess their need to fly, according to the Australia Institute . The industry’s ...

Rohingya Refugees Brace For A New Deadly Threat—Coronavirus

In the largest refugee settlement on earth, we are holding our breath. On March 24, Cox’s Bazar , Bangladesh confirmed a COVID-19 case. It’s now just a matter of time before the outbreak reaches the nearby camps, where hundreds of ...

Zoom Is Struggling With Security Flaws As Demand For Videoconferencing Spikes

During the coronavirus pandemic, it seems as if everyone is connecting with Zoom’s videoconferencing app—including, on occasion, unwanted visitors. Online trolls have been sneaking into web meetings and disrupting them with profanities ...