Новости за 29.04.2020

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump took executive action to order meat processing plants to stay open amid concerns over growing coronavirus cases and the impact on the nation’s food supply. The order signed Tuesday uses the Defense Production Act to classify meat processing as critical infrastructure to try to prevent a shortage of chicken, pork

WASHINGTON — At greater risk from COVID-19, some seniors now face added anxiety due to delays obtaining Medicare coverage. Advocates for older people say the main problem involves certain applications for Medicare’s “Part B” coverage for outpatient care. It stems from the closure of local Social Security offices in the coronavirus pandemic. Part B is

NEW DELHI — India’s news publishers face a delicate balancing act as they look to offset financial losses from sinking ad sales with support from a government seeking to control the narrative on the coronavirus, sometimes by prosecuting journalists for reporting on the detrimental consequences of official pandemic policy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose combative

WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy began 2020 riding the crest of a record-long expansion with every expectation that its 11th year of growth would not be its last. Then the economy screeched to a sudden halt. And now it’s in free-fall. On Wednesday, the government will offer a glimpse of how dark the picture has

WASHINGTON — With the U.S. economy gripped by its worst crisis since the 1930s, Federal Reserve policymakers are expected to offer sweeping assurances Wednesday that they will act as needed to help prevent the damage from growing even worse. Yet the Fed is unlikely to unveil any new emergency programs. Fed officials have already taken

The Boston Pride selected Boston University forward Sammy Davis with the first pick in the NWHL Draft on Tuesday night. The women’s professional hockey league is heading into its sixth season. The Pride acquired the top pick from expansion Toronto in a trade hours earlier to get Davis. The 23-year-old hometown star had 17 goals

When Joe Staley announced his retirement following a stellar 13-year career in San Francisco, he was taken aback by the tributes that poured in from former 49ers teammates, coaches and competitors. The limelight in the NFL is usually reserved for the players who catch, run or throw the ball, not the behind-the-scene workers who help

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Harland Svare, a starting linebacker on the New York Giants’ 1956 NFL championship team and later the team’s defensive coach while still a player, has died. He was 89. The Yampa Valley Funeral Home in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, reported on its website that Svare died on April 4. The San Diego

WESTVILLE, Ind. — Dozens of motor vehicles circled the Westville Correctional Facility on Tuesday in a protest over the treatment of inmates during a coronavirus outbreak that has reached inside the prison’s walls. “I’m here trying to get justice for all the inmates up here,” Misty Weikel said from her car after driving from her

You can thank “The Wretched” if you suddenly want to add another item to stock up with during this pandemic: salt. That’s one of the only things that apparently keeps witches at bay. Pro tip: buy it in big bags. Brothers Drew and Brett Pierce — co-directors and co-writers — have put together dark little

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The smallest state has some big news, if you’re a biologist: its first lizard. A five-lined skink discovered on Earth Day in Rhode Island is not native to the state, meaning there might be a population here, excited scientists said. “This is a huge deal. It’s very rare that a state would