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Conservatives prepare to grill government in return to Parliament amid COVID-19

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer laid out Monday the numerous lines of inquiry his party intends to follow this week as a modified version of a House of Commons sitting gets underway.

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Season finale: Is this the end of the Trump show?

Throughout these weeks of lockdown I'm sure most of us have been binge-watching Netflix, box sets and various mini-series.

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Harris says progress in suppressing virus a 'tribute to solidarity'

Minister for Health Simon Harris has told the Dáil that the reproductive rate for the Covid-19 virus in Ireland has fallen again and that the average person who gets infected now will pass the virus on to no more than one other person at most.

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Paschal Donohoe: Return to work key in economic recovery

Minister for Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform Paschal Donohoe has told the Dáil that getting people back to work is a central focus of the recovery.

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Americans Trust Governors Most Among Economic Players

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- More than two in three Americans (68%) say they have "a great deal" or a "fair amount" of confidence in their state's governor to make the right economic recommendations -- a higher level of confidence than they have for federal leaders, including President Donald Trump (47%) as well as Republican (47%) and Democratic leaders (46%) in Congress.

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Americans' Attitudes About Reopening for Business

The U.S. is grappling with the complex tension between efforts to contain COVID-19 on the one hand and efforts to rejuvenate the nation's economy on the other. There is not much argument about the ultimate importance of either of these goals. The tension arises from competing perspectives on the relative priority each should receive.

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Paid leave for some healthcare workers' partners over childcare

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said paid leave will be provided for partners of healthcare workers who work in the public sector to allow them to provide childcare at home.

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U.S. Adults Now Divided on Status of COVID-19 Situation

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans are now as likely to say the coronavirus situation in the U.S. is getting better (41%) as to say it's getting worse (39%). Just 10 days prior, they were far more likely to say it was getting worse.

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U.S. Public Concern About Hospital Capacity Eases Slightly

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As the number of COVID-19 patients hospitalized in New York has eased while the crisis escalates in other parts of the country, 58% of Americans in Gallup interviews collected April 13-19 express concern about the availability of hospital care in their area. The rate has dropped slightly from the 64% recorded April 6-12.

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Children’s services minister says Alberta working to use more hotels as COVID-19 isolation centres

Children’s Services Minister Rebecca Schulz said Tuesday that although the province has to date not had any confirmed COVID-19 cases in shelters for Albertans who are homeless or fleeing domestic violence, her government is committed to protecting vulnerable people during the pandemic and may increasingly look at how to use hotels to do so.

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Covid-19: 'If we're not at peak, we're certainly near it' - Varadkar

The Taoiseach has said it is difficult to know for sure how we are doing in the fight against Covid-19, but if we are not at the peak we are certainly near the peak.

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Dual Risks Hamper Latin America's Fight Against COVID-19

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Although most of the recent discussions about the spread of COVID-19 have been focused on its neighbor to the North, Latin America is emerging as the next front in the battle against the disease, and it is doing so at a disadvantage.

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COVID-19 Quickly Becomes Most Important U.S. Problem

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The novel coronavirus has quickly surged to the top of the list of most important problems facing the U.S., surpassing government, which has consistently held the top spot with few exceptions since early 2017. The 45% of Americans naming COVID-19 dwarfs all other problems cited, including government or poor leadership (20%), the economy or jobs (9%) and healthcare (6%). All other problems are cited by 3% or fewer Americans.

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St. Albert city council approves COVID-19 recovery concept plan

St. Albert city council says it has taken its formal first step towards creating a comprehensive COVID-19 recovery plan.

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FF and FG leaders keen to avoid post Covid-19 austerity

The leaders of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have told the Social Democrats that nobody knows with any accuracy how long the health emergency will last.

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Brexit: The transition, the extension and the pandemic

On Wednesday Michel Barnier and David Frost held a video call for 45 minutes. With both men back from coronavirus convalescence it was an opportunity to inject political momentum into the stuttering negotiations on Britain's future relationship with the EU.

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Trump's Job Rating Slides; U.S. Satisfaction Tumbles

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As President Donald Trump works to contain the damage from the novel coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., the rally in support he enjoyed as the nation entered a virtual lockdown has faded. His job approval rating, now 43%, has slipped six percentage points since mid-March when he earned 49% approval, which tied his personal best.

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Americans Less Pessimistic About COVID-19 Situation

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans remain more pessimistic than optimistic about the trajectory of the coronavirus situation in the U.S., but their assessments improved considerably over the course of the past week.

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In U.S., More Fear COVID-19 Illness Than Financial Harm

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As the country endures an unprecedented shutdown of public life to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, more Americans are worried about contracting the illness (57%) than about experiencing severe financial problems from the disruption caused by it (48%).

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Roundup of Gallup U.S. COVID-19 Coverage

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The Situation Room Didn’t Prepare Me for a Life Confined to My Living Room

I know what it’s like to make big decisions in small rooms, separated from the rest of the world, alone with the weight of your choices.It seems, in fact, that such acts defined my career. For six years, I was an official in the , advising secretaries of state and ambassadors, spending my days in secure rooms at the State Department, the White House, and the U.S.

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Watch Cardi B interview Bernie Sanders about the economic and health crises caused by coronavirus

They even talked quarantine nails and Joe Biden's candidacy.

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Red Deer city council votes to extend property tax deadline; some city facilities closed until July

Red Deer city council voted Tuesday to approve, in principle, pushing back the deadline for homeowners to pay property taxes for 90 days.

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Watch Cardi B Interview Bernie Sanders About Coronavirus, Joe Biden, More

Senator Bernie Sanders and Cardi B are sitting down for yet another one-on-one conversation. This time, they’re talking about the economic and health impacts of the coronavirus. They also discussed the youth vote and the candidacy of Joe Biden. Watch a replay of their conversation below.

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Sinn Féin's Mary Lou McDonald tests positive for Covid-19

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has confirmed that she has received a positive diagnosis for Covid-19.

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Americans Remain Risk Averse About Getting Back to Normal

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans remain hesitant about resuming their normal daily activities amid the COVID-19 outbreak according to a Gallup question first asked in late March and repeated in early April.

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Bernie Sanders Endorses Joe Biden for President: ‘We Need You in the White House’

Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) has endorsed former vice president Joe Biden as the . The announcement was made, of course, via livestream in a conversation broadcast on April 13.Like soon-to-be in-laws meeting up over FaceTime to graciously divvy up speaking rights at the rehearsal dinner, Sanders and Biden got together online and streamed a (remote) conversation in which the Vermont senator—himself once a frontrunner for the nomination—endorsed his longtime rival for the 2020 presidential election.Just days after dropping out of the 2020 race, Bernie Sanders surprised many by endorsing Biden, who is the presumptive Democratic nominee.

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Covid-19 to hit parties' votes on government formation

Government formation is often a marathon. But now the pace had quickened with pressure mounting on parties to come together in the national interest as the country grapples with the Covid-19 emergency.

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Sinn Féin hit out at call for British Army assistance to deal with coronavirus

A political row has erupted in Northern Ireland after the Stormont Health Minister formally requested assistance from the British Army to help deal with the coronavirus crisis.

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The EU's Covid-19 crisis - How science got political

On Wednesday, EU finance ministers had been up all night, yet failed to reach agreement on a financial rescue package for Europe.

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Gallup COVID-19 Data Brief No. 4

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Few situations have affected the American people in such tangible and profound ways as the national response to COVID-19. The 9/11 terrorist attacks had an immediate emotional impact on most Americans, as well as affected their willingness to be in crowds or travel for a period time. World War II bound the country in shared national sacrifice and fear for loved ones but may not have altered daily routines as much as the current pandemic.

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Americans Slow to Adopt Low-Contact Services Amid Crisis

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- With an estimated 95% of Americans currently under stay-at-home orders of some kind, restaurants, stores and healthcare companies across the country are offering customers opportunities for low- or no-contact services. However, Gallup finds that most Americans have not been using these services, which typically allow the public to comply with social distancing guidelines while obtaining essential goods and services, more often than they did a month ago.

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Norah O’Donnell Is Used to Reporting on the News, But Now It’s Getting Personal

In the last week of March, the sitcom Young Sheldon roped in a decent 6.3 million viewers on CBS, making it the second most-watched broadcast on the network on the night it aired. Ahead with several hundred thousand viewers was a medical drama (kind of) almost too unbelievable to be true (but it is), and with a woman at the helm to boot: , with Norah O’Donnell.As the ravages the United States and homebound Americans look for concise, reliable sources of information, cable news viewership has ticked upward across the board, sometimes to staggering effect.

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Amid Pandemic, News Attention Spikes; Media Favorability Flat

As news about the novel coronavirus has gripped the country in recent weeks, a series of Knight Foundation/Gallup surveys finds that Americans are paying "a great deal" of attention to the news at levels not seen over the past three years. Attention to local and international news has doubled since December 2019, and attention to national news has increased 13 percentage points.

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COMMENTARY: Approval ratings soar for Trudeau and premiers, but can that last?

Political leaders in Canada are hitting career highs in public approval.

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President Trump Says He Will 'Take a Look' When Asked If He'd Pardon Joe Exotic

Apparently, there's still at least one person who isn't familiar with the bizarre story of Joe Exotic.

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More in U.S. See Economy in Recession or Depression

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Seven in 10 Americans now believe the U.S. economy is in either a recession (40%) or a depression (30%). The combined percentage has increased by 12 percentage points in the past week, and by 15 points since Gallup's first measurement in late March.

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Virtual Dáil sittings to be considered as Covid-19 emergency continues

The Houses of the Oireachtas has said it is looking at technical solutions that would allow virtual sittings of the Dáil, the Seanad and Ccmmittees as the Covid-19 emergency continues.

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Virtual sittings of Dáil and Seanad to be considered

The Houses of the Oireachtas has said it is looking at technical solutions which would allow virtual sittings of the Dáil, the Seanad and committees as the Covid-19 emergency continues.

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Donohoe: Extra health spend will be up to €2 billion

The Finance Minister has told his Cabinet colleagues that extra spending on health to deal with Covid-19 crisis will amount to up to €2 billion.

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Eight in 10 in U.S. Experiencing Significant Disruption

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Eighty-one percent of U.S. adults say their lives have been disrupted either a great deal (33%) or a fair amount (48%) by the coronavirus situation. The percentage experiencing at least a fair amount of disruption has increased from 56% in March 13-15 interviewing. Most of the change occurred between the first and second week of polling, with little movement since then.

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Gallup COVID-19 Data Brief No. 3

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Gallup has been polling Americans daily since March 13 on the COVID-19 crisis via the Gallup Panel. The data is yielding unparalleled insights into how Americans are experiencing the crisis at work, at home, through social distancing and much more.

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Majority expect economy to be in worse shape next year, survey shows

The vast majority of Irish adults expect the economy to be in worse shape next year as a result of the coronavirus, with almost a third of people worried about their job security.

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City of Leduc announces measures to help residents, businesses hurting financially over COVID-19 pandemic

Three weeks after Leduc declared a local state of emergency over the coronavirus pandemic, the city announced new measures it says are aimed at helping those in the community facing financial troubles because of COVID-19.

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Childcare for health workers awaiting public health clearance - Taoiseach

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said the Government is ready to push the button on providing childcare to essential healthcare workers.

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Hungarian leader Viktor Orban has 'no time' for foreign fears over his new powers

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said he has "no time" for scathing criticism from fellow EU member of the sweeping powers he took on this week to tackle the coronavirus threat. Thirteen European centre-right parties urged their European People's Party political group to expel Orban's Fidesz party after he assumed emergency powers on Monday.

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Satisfaction With Healthcare Access Lacking in Spain, Italy

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Before the COVID-19 pandemic stretched even some of the best healthcare systems in Europe to their breaking point, majorities of adults living in the European countries hardest hit by the virus were largely satisfied with the access to quality healthcare in their communities. But the sizable segments in each country who were dissatisfied with access to quality care over the past few years suggest weaknesses or gaps existed in their systems before the pandemic -- at least from the public's perspective.

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Gallup COVID-19 Data Brief No. 2

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Gallup has covered a lot of ground this past week in our daily measurement of Americans' experience of the COVID-19 crisis. Here is what we know as of April 2.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0