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	news As-it-happens update ⋅ March 20, 2020
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	Business Today Global Oil, Gas Producers Cut Spending After Crude Price Crash The New York Times (Reuters) - Oil and gas companies are cutting spending plans in response to the new coronavirus and a push by Saudi Arabia and Russia to ramp up output. International benchmark prices <LCOc1> have more than halved since the start of the year, falling to ... Flag as irrelevant
	USA TODAY Coronavirus updates: California, Pennsylvania take strict actions; US death toll hits 205 USA TODAY Governors in California and Pennsylvania took the boldest action yet to slow the spread of coronavirus, and the U.S. hit two grim landmarks — more than 200 deaths and over 10,000 confirmed cases — as the pandemic continued Thursday to dramatically ... Flag as irrelevant
	Salon When will they ever learn? Corporate media is still letting Trump set the agenda Salon Over the last week, I've written about how Trump's spell on the corporate media finally seemed to be breaking: His weeks of downplaying the crisis and talking about it inaccurately and incoherently had finally led many leading journalists to declare him ... Flag as irrelevant
	ABC News Coronavirus a 'public health disaster' for struggling rideshare drivers and gig economy, organizer says ABC News As the coronavirus pandemic destabilizes an already fragile gig economy in the U.S., rideshare drivers say the "misclassification" of workers as contractors instead of employees is helping to contribute to a "public health disaster." "When there is a pandemic ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR Mask Shortage Straps Pharmacists Who Need Them To Keep Medicines Pure NPR Pharmacy staff who prepare IV drugs inside hospitals are the latest health care workers decrying a shortage of masks as they scramble to prepare medicines for patients with diagnoses ranging from cancer to COVID-19. The staff wear surgical masks while ... Flag as irrelevant
	Variety YouTube Joins Netflix in Move to Reduce Video Quality in Europe During Coronavirus Crisis Variety YouTube will limit streaming in European countries to standard-definition video by default, following a similar move by Netflix to curtail bandwidth usage across the continent amid the coronavirus pandemic. "[W]e are making a commitment to temporarily switch ... Flag as irrelevant
	kfor.com Walmart to give cash bonuses to hourly associates, hire 150000 additional workers kfor.com MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Walmart announced Thursday that it will be giving cash bonuses to hourly workers and will hire an additional 150,000 people. In a press release, the retail giant said the bonus will be $300 for full-time hourly workers and $150 for ... Flag as irrelevant
	TechCrunch Slack adds 7K customers in 7 weeks amid remote-work boom, besting its preceding 2 results TechCrunch Today, Slack, a popular internal chat application, announced that it added 7,000 new customers between February 1 and March 18. That is 47 days. For context, Slack added 5,000 customers total in its preceding quarter, making its recent customer adds ... Flag as irrelevant
	Bloomberg US, Canada Border Poised to Remain Open to All Work Visas Bloomberg The U.S. and Canada are poised to allow all those with work visas to continue to cross the border, people familiar with the matter say, as the two countries hammer out details on new travel restrictions. Both countries said Wednesday they would begin ... Flag as irrelevant
	KTLA LA County coronavirus case count jumps to 230 and 2nd death is reported KTLA A man with an underlying condition has become the second person to die due to the coronavirus in Los Angeles County, as the number of cases jumped to 230, officials announced Thursday. The person who died was described as a man in his 30s ... Flag as irrelevant
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