NY now has more virus cases than any country

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TOP STORIES ‌ Friday, April 10 ‌ NEW YORK STATE TOPS ALL COUNTRIES IN CASES The state of New York now has more confirmed cases of coronavirus than any country. New York had nearly 162,000 confirmed cases as of Friday morning. After the United States, the country with the highest number of confirmed cases, is Spain with 153,222 cases. The increase in the number of virus patients hospitalized in New York has grown at a slower rate over the past two weeks, but the number of New Yorkers dying keeps growing. Drone footage shows gravediggers loading coffins into a mass grave on New York City's Hart Island. [HuffPost] ‌ U.S. ECONOMY UNLIKELY TO RECOVER AS FAST AS IT COLLAPSED President Donald Trump has been telling voters that the U.S. economy will leap back to life “like a rocket." But emerging signs suggest any recovery will fail to match the speed and severity of the economic collapse that occurred in just a few weeks. The 2020 presidential and Senate elections likely will take place as the world’s largest economy is still attempting to climb back from the deadly outbreak. [AP] ‌ GOLF DISTRACTED TRUMP FROM COVID-19, SAYS NEW GOP AD The latest scorcher of an attack ad by the Republican Lincoln Project concedes Trump had other priorities before launching his lackluster battle against COVID-19. But he wasn’t distracted by impeachment, as he claims. Instead, he was busy golfing and packing people into campaign rallies. [HuffPost]

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LIBERTY UNIVERSITY KEPT STUDENTS IN THE DARK  The CDC first released guidance advising colleges and universities on how to handle the coronavirus outbreak on March 3. You wouldn’t know that if you were a student or faculty member at Liberty University, the evangelical school led by Trump-supporting, virus-denying Jerry Falwell Jr. One student told HuffPost that Liberty’s lack of communication affected his understanding of the disease and its risks. [HuffPost] ‌ HUNGARY'S FAR-RIGHT LEADER CONTINUES PANDEMIC POWER GRAB Hungary’s far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orban gained sweeping powers when the country’s parliament passed emergency coronavirus measures that allow him to effectively rule by decree, suspend by-elections and grant authorities the ability to jail people for spreading disinformation. There is no time limit on when these new powers end. And now, Orban has begun using these new powers to assert control. [HuffPost] ‌ PHYLLIS LYON, LGBTQ RIGHTS CAMPAIGNER, DIES AT 95 Gay rights pioneer Phyllis Lyon, who with her longtime partner was among the first same-sex couples to marry in California when it became legal to do so in 2008, has died at her San Francisco home. She was 95. Lyon lived her life with “joy and wonder,” said Kate Kendall, a longtime friend and former executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. She said Lyon and her wife Del Martin were activists and mentors long before there was a movement or community. [AP]

WHAT'S BREWING ‌ SOME CHURCHES PLAN EASTER SERVICES DESPITE VIRUS At the holiest time of year for Christians, churches are wrestling with how to hold services amid the coronavirus outbreak, and in some cases, that has set up showdowns with local governments over restrictions that forbid large gatherings. Governors in several states have deemed church an “essential service,” allowing Easter worship to proceed even as public health officials warn that large gatherings could be a major setback amid a pandemic that has killed more than 14,000 people in the U.S. [HuffPost] ‌ SAUDI ARABIA BAILS OUT CRUISE COMPANY WITH TRUMP TIES Trump has spent weeks promising to protect cruise lines from the economic pain of the coronavirus pandemic. Now a fund that Trump ally Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman controls has revealed a big new stake in Carnival Corp., the world’s largest cruise operator. The sudden change of fortunes for a company run by Micky Arison, a longtime Trump associate, could be as much about personal relationships and geopolitics as about business. [HuffPost] ‌ HERE'S BIDEN'S OPENING BID TO THE LEFT Joe Biden is pivoting to the left as he begins his general election campaign against Trump, promising to eliminate student debt for a huge portion of people making under $125,000 a year and lowering the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 60. Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, announced both policy proposals in a Medium blog post. [HuffPost] ‌ MEGHAN MCCAIN TEARS INTO TRUMP'S POW TRIBUTE Meghan McCain shredded Trump’s online tribute to former prisoners of war by reminding him of his past criticisms of her father, the late Sen. John McCain, who was captured and tortured during his service in the Vietnam War. "You don’t like people who were captured ... publicly attacking the most famous modern POW while he fought cancer," she tweeted. [HuffPost] ‌ OBAMA NAMES 'BIGGEST MISTAKE' OF LEADERS IN A CRISIS “The biggest mistake any [of] us can make in these situations is to misinform, particularly when we’re requiring people to make sacrifices and take actions that might not be their natural inclination,” former President Barack Obama told a group of mayors at a virtual meeting. And though he never mentioned his successor by name, it sounded like a message for Trump, whose daily coronavirus briefings are filled with falsehoods. [HuffPost] ‌ MODLY'S TRIP TO CALL CAPTAIN STUPID COST $243,000 The trip to an aircraft carrier last weekend by the now-outgoing Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly to call ousted Capt. Brett Crozier “stupid” cost taxpayers more than $243,000, according to a Navy official. The astounding cost covered the 35-hour round trip on a Gulfstream 550 business jet modified for military use, which costs $6,946.19 per hour. [HuffPost]

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