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Dallas County reports 156 coronavirus cases, 3 deaths


September 14, 2020

Dallas County reported 156 new coronavirus cases Sunday along with three new deaths. Twenty-eight of the cases reported Sunday came from the state’s reporting system, including two from April, four from May, nine from July, two from August and 11 from September. The rest, 139, were reported directly to the county health department. The latest victims are a Dallas man …

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What you need to know about coronavirus, plus a map of every case in Texas


September 14, 2020

Health authorities are closely watching an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a new strain of coronavirus known as COVID-19. Here are the answers to key questions about the outbreak: What is the new virus? Scientists have identified the virus as a novel, or new, coronavirus. The name comes from the Latin word for crowns or halos, which coronaviruses resemble …

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NBC5 Forecast: Low Rain Chance Monday Afternoon


September 14, 2020

From meteorologist Brian James – After a seasonably-warm weekend, we’re looking forward to more of the same through the upcoming week. Highs will stay mostly in the middle to upper 80s … which is what you would expect to have this time of year. In terms of rain chances, there will be a few opportunities through the week. However, the …

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Low Rain Chances Today


September 14, 2020

After a seasonably-warm weekend, look for more of the same in the coming days. Highs will stay mostly in the middle to upper 80s. A few stray showers and storms may pop up Monday afternoon as a weak tropical waves moves west across North and Central Texas. There will be additional chances for showers through the week, but, not everyone …

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Don’t let the term ‘defunding police’ divert attention from needed policing reforms


September 14, 2020

The protests following the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer renewed an important conversation about how to curb police brutality and bring needed reforms to public safety departments across the country. Then the politicians took over the public discussion. What could be a healthy dialogue about improving public safety and stopping the needless killing of Black people …

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Microsoft says its TikTok buyout offer rejected


September 14, 2020

US tech giant Microsoft said Sunday its offer to buy TikTok was rejected, as a deadline looms for the Chinese-owned video app to sell or shut down its US operations. TikTok has been at the center of a diplomatic storm between Washington and Beijing, and President Donald Trump gave Americans a deadline to stop doing business with TikTok’s Chinese parent …

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World’s biggest online retailer to hire 100,000 more workers


September 14, 2020

Amazon.com on Monday said it is recruiting 100,000 more workers – the fourth hiring spree it has announced for the United States this year – to keep pace with e-commerce demand that jumped during the pandemic. The world’s biggest online retailer said the positions are for full and part-time work in its home country and Canada, and these will include …

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539 more people test positive for coronavirus, four die


September 14, 2020

ISLAMABAD: The coronavirus claimed four more lives across the country during the last 24 hours, lifting the death toll from the highly contagious disease to 6,383. According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), 539 more people tested positive for the infection during this period, bringing the number of confirmed cases in the country to 302,020. As many as …

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