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CLOSE Memorial Day destinations around Washington DC are promoting new ways to honor fallen soldiers during the holiday while restricting in-person visits to keep staff and the public safe during the coronavirus pandemic. (May 22) AP DomesticAs President Donald Trump honored veterans Memorial Day in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Arlington National Cemetery and later at…

The New York Post Published: May 26, 2020 at 2:40 a.m. ET Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli is seen inside the P4 laboratory in Wuhan, capital of China's Hubei province, on February 23, 2017. AFP via Getty Images China’s “bat woman” researcher warns that the deadly coronavirus surfacing now is “just the tip of the iceberg”…

Image copyright Getty Images The illicit trade in cigarettes in South Africa is now in full swing after the sale of tobacco was banned at the end of March as part of strict measures imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus, as the BBC's Pumza Fihlani reports.Whereas once Michelle could go to her local shop…

The latest:There have been more than 1.6 million coronavirus cases in the United States, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally.The U.S. death toll has surpassed 98,000 people, according to Hopkins.President Donald Trump booked back-to-back Memorial Day appearances despite the coronavirus pandemic, at Arlington National Cemetery and at a historic fort in Baltimore. Nearly two…

Image caption Kelly Morellon (right) and her mother Sylvie have designed a face mask with a transparent window It's now part of daily life now for many of us - struggling to work out what someone in a supermarket or at work is saying when they're wearing a face mask. But for people who are…