Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the National WWII Museum in New Orleans was planning on a 20th anniversary crowd of thousands.
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Tottenham borrows $220M; Premier League clubs agree to 5 substitutes
Tottenham is using an emergency loan to deal with the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic and the cancellation of two NFL games.
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Lawmakers furious after Maine’s top labor official fails to attend briefing
Labor and Housing Committee members said it was inexcusable for Labor Commissioner Laura Fortman not to appear and answer questions Thursday, but Gov. Janet Mills said legislative leaders were told last week that Fortman was unlikely to attend.
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Mills accelerates reopening for bars, tasting rooms and gyms in 13 counties
Similar businesses in Cumberland, York and Androscoggin counties will not be able to reopen on June 12, however, because of continued spread of the coronavirus.
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Bingham area high school to hold modified graduation ceremony Sunday
“Because we’re a small school, we’ve been able to make our graduation as close to a traditional ceremony as we could,” said Lee Harper, principal of Upper Kennebec Valley Memorial High School in Bingham.
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IOC seeks insurance compensation for delayed Tokyo Olympics
The IOC has insurance against the cancellation of an Olympics, but it’s unclear if it covers the one-year postponement forced by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Lewiston has had the most virus cases of any Maine ZIP code; part of Portland has the highest prevalence
The newly released data, covering only 55 of Maine’s 400 ZIP codes, show the northern Maine town of Medway with the second highest-caseload per capita.
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Another 24,500 Maine jobless claims filed as anti-fraud measures delay some payments
The number of new claims remains high as the state probes thousands of fraudulent claims made with stolen personal information.
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Nearly 1.9 million seek jobless aid even as reopenings slow layoffs
The total number of people receiving unemployment benefits rises slightly to 21.5 million, down from a peak of nearly 25 million two weeks ago.
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The Latest: U.K. summit calls for freely available ‘people’s vaccine’
This is a roundup of the latest on the coronavirus pandemic from around the U.S. and the world. LONDON — A vaccine summit hosted by Britain on Thursday raised billions of dollars to immunize children in developing countries as experts wrestled with the difficult question of how any potential vaccine against the new coronavirus might […]