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My father, a farmer, took pride in his work, and, little sponge that I was, I took pride in him—for staying on top of things the way he did, for seizing,…

A man stands at a Uritrottoir public urinal on the Île Saint-Louis in Paris.

Nope, Those Aren't Mailboxes: Paris Rolls Out Sidewalk Urinals

The urinals are not at all subtle. They're bright red and placed in heavily trafficked areas — for example, directly next to the Seine near the Notre Dame Cathedral.

A pink Cadillac outside the viewing of Aretha Franklin at the Detroit's Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History on Tuesday.

Pink Cadillacs Will Line Up For Aretha Franklin's Funeral

Dozens of pink Cadillacs will be part of the tribute to Franklin, whose funeral is Friday in Detroit. The Queen of Soul's hit "Freeway of Love" motivated the motorcade.

President Trump walks outside the White House in January. The president received intelligence briefings on the coronavirus twice that month, according to a White House official.

Trump Received Intelligence Briefings On Coronavirus Twice In January

The president was warned in early briefings that the virus was going to "spread globally," according to a White House official who said Trump was told deaths were happening "only in China."

Cathay Pacific Airways jetliners lined up on the tarmac at Hong Kong International Airport last month. The global airline's flying schedules have declined since the outbreak of COVID-19.

Cathay Pacific To Cut U.S. Cabin Crew As COVID-19 Grounds Most Of Its Flights

The Hong Kong-based airline, which is flying just 3% of its schedule in the wake of the pandemic, will lay off nearly 300 employees in New York, San Francisco and LA.

Ron Rose, left, of Topeka, and Judy Johnson of Olathe at the Kansas Democratic Party convention in Topeka on March 7, 2020.

Kansas Democratic Party’s First All-Mail Vote Triples Primary Turnout

Kansas Democrats’ first use of all-mail ballots, a decision made to encourage voter safety during the coronavirus pandemic, is three times higher than the 2016 presidential primary.

Women wearing face masks stand at a safe distance to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus, as they wait for food assigned to their children outside a school in Xesuj, Guatemala, where many residents depend on remittances, largely from the U.S. The fallout from the pandemic is cutting into the financial lifelines for people across Latin America, Africa and Asia.

COVID-19 Is Cutting Into Vital Money U.S. Migrant Workers Send Back Home

A remittances expert estimates the money sent back to Latin America and the Caribbean could decline by 7%.

Uber Agrees To Acquire Postmates For $2.65 Billion

Uber has agreed to buy Postmates, bolstering its food-delivery business at a time when it is booming and many fewer people are hailing rides.

Voting rights groups want Texas to open up vote-by-mail rules to allow residents worried about the coronavirus to avoid voting in person.

Federal Appeals Court Temporarily Halts Expansion Of Mail-In Voting In Texas

An expansion of Texas’ vote-by-mail program during the pandemic is on hold, again. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday temporarily blocked a...

The oil tanker Pegasus Voyager sits off the coast as a man sits and watches in a park in Long Beach, Calif., on April 22. Many vessels are parked between Long Beach and the San Francisco Bay Area with nowhere to go due to lack of demand and nowhere to store the oil.

Dozens Of Oil Tankers Wait Off California's Coast As The Pandemic Dents Demand

About three dozen tankers are anchored from Los Angeles and Long Beach up to San Francisco Bay, turning into floating storage for crude oil that is in short demand because of the coronavirus.

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