Новости за 16.04.2020

President Trump and the pandemic response task force scheduled a briefing at the White House on Thursday afternoon.

A court in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein had a home, is considering how to set up a compensation fund for his accusers.

M C Hamster, a filly, was injured this week in a training run at the southern California racetrack. She was later put down. It's the latest in a series of horse deaths at the track since 2018.

School closures aren't just hard on kids; they're also hard on the economy. And many of the states that haven't closed schools for the rest of the academic year may yet do so.

Idaho, Ohio and North Dakota at least have told nonessential businesses they may be OK to reopen May 1. Their optimism echoes the line coming from the White House — but others fear it's too soon.

The coronavirus pandemic — and the resulting shutdown — have now eliminated at least 22 million American jobs. NPR correspondents relay the latest on the United States response.

It's hard to do nothing — and it's harder to be funny doing nothing. Comic and Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me panelist Maeve Higgins weighs in.

In the past four weeks, a total of 22 million Americans have filed jobless claims. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Elise Gould, senior economist with the Economic Policy Institute.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Dr. Margaret Hamburg, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, about contact tracing and what the U.S. needs to have in place to reopen safely.

Dr. Sachita Shah of Seattle's Harborview Medical Center updates NPR's Ari Shapiro about how her hospital is dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak.

The U.S. government is spending over $2 trillion to help the nation overcome the coronavirus economic shutdown. NPR correspondents in India, Mexico and Germany relay what other governments are doing.

Last week Dr. Anthony Fauci suggested Americans should never shake hands again. History tells us that the handshake started as a suspicious gesture. Some think it was always a bad greeting.

Health care workers at a small hospital in Brooklyn are taking to the streets in protest. They say they don't have the protective care they need, and that their co-workers are dying.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Gov. Jay Inslee, whose state of Washington was one of the first to experience a surge of COVID-19 cases.

The Trump administration wants U.N. members to plug loopholes allowing North Korea to evade sanctions. Many others say it is time to ease the restrictions in the face of a global pandemic.

The Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls were the great NBA team of the 1990s. A new 10-part ESPN documentary series looks at the last season of one of the greatest basketball teams in history.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Alex Davies, transportation editor at Wired, about how cities are adapting to more pedestrians — and fewer cars.

What happens when millions of Americans don't pay the rent? Landlords don't get paid, and they pass on the debt to someone else. NPR's Planet Money follows the chain of non-payment all the way.

The people of Appalachia have traditionally relied on music in times of hardship. A new bluegrass supergroup is putting a 21st-century spin on old-time music in an album perfect for our dire times.

House lawmakers have been wrangling over an alternative to in-person voting during the pandemic. One House Democratic leader is says the answer is allowing some to be able to vote by proxy.

Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates warned the wealth gap represented a "national emergency." The outbreak, he says, is only exacerbating the challenges.

The tech giant says most employees can keep working from home through at least the end of the summer, as the company braces for a slow return to normal life.

The carmaker will be able to manufacture 50,000 ventilators by July 4, a Ford official tells Morning Edition. It is retooling a plant in Michigan, which is scheduled to begin operations Monday.

The recent stock sales by North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr were a market-beating anomaly that didn't match his typically middling trading history, according to a new Dartmouth College analysis.

A growing number of advocacy groups, politicians and officials are calling to ban wet markets worldwide, given concerns about the spread of disease. But enforcing such a ban would be a challenge.