March 2020

Nurses, doctors are the heroes of this moment

Published on Tue, 03/31/2020 - 5:05pm
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WASHINGTON — Every crisis has its heroes, every disaster its displays of selflessness and sacrifice. Firefighters race into burning buildings. Police officers place themselves in the line of fire. Soldiers march into war.

LOCAL CANCELLATIONS, POSTPONEMENTS

Published on Tue, 03/31/2020 - 5:00pm

EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is a list of cancellations, postponements and other changes due to coronavirus concerns that The Enterprise knows of. Be aware that Gov. Steve Bullock on March 20 ordered all dine-in food services, bars, casinos and other business that pose enhanced risks to close. Not all those businesses are on this list. The list is roughly in alphabetical order. 

 

Previously published:

• ASPEN’s 10th annual “End the Silence Benefit” that was scheduled for April 3 is postponed.

US death toll eclipses China’s official count

Published on Tue, 03/31/2020 - 4:15pm
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NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus climbed past 3,500 Tuesday, eclipsing China’s official count, as the deepening crisis in New York hit close to home for the governor when he disclosed, teary-eyed, that his brother, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, has become infected. 

“But there’s a lesson in this,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said of his 49-year-old brother, now quarantined in his basement. “He’s an essential worker, a member of the press so he’s been out there. If you go out there, the chance that you get infected is very high.”

Rollback of mileage standards guts climate change push

Published on Tue, 03/31/2020 - 4:10pm
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is poised to roll back ambitious Obama-era vehicle mileage standards and raise the ceiling on damaging fossil fuel emissions for years to come, gutting one of the United States’ biggest efforts against climate change.

Judges slow abortion bans amid virus

Published on Tue, 03/31/2020 - 4:09pm
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Federal judges on Monday temporarily blocked efforts in Texas and Alabama to ban abortions during the coronavirus pandemic, handing Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers a victory as clinics across the U.S. filed lawsuits to stop states from trying to shutter them during the outbreak. 

Royal no more: Harry and Meghan start new chapter

Published on Tue, 03/31/2020 - 4:08pm
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LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry and his wife Meghan officially make the transition Tuesday from senior members of Britain’s royal family to — well, it’s unclear. International celebrities, charity patrons, global influencers?

The royal schism that the couple triggered in January by announcing that they would step down from official duties, give up public funding, seek financial independence and swap the U.K. for North America becomes official on March 31.

Europe’s hospitals among the best but ill-equipped to handle pandemic

Published on Tue, 03/31/2020 - 4:08pm
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LONDON (AP) — As increasing numbers of European hospitals buckle under the strain of tens of thousands of coronavirus patients, the crisis has exposed a surprising paradox: Some of the world’s best health systems are remarkably ill-equipped to handle a pandemic. 

Outbreak experts say Europe’s hospital-centric systems, lack of epidemic experience and early complacency are partly to blame for the pandemic’s catastrophic tear across the continent. 

Wuhan’s favorite noodles are back

Published on Tue, 03/31/2020 - 4:05pm
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WUHAN, China (AP) — The reappearance of Wuhan’s favorite breakfast noodles is a tasty sign that life is slowly getting back to normal in the Chinese city at the epicenter of the global coronavirus outbreak. 

Zhou Guoqiong still isn’t allowed to serve customers inside her shop as part of social distancing rules that are some of the strictest in the world. 

13-year-old shot dead; Kenyan police enforcing curfew blamed

Published on Tue, 03/31/2020 - 4:04pm

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The bullet struck the 13-year-old as he stood on the balcony of his family’s home with his siblings. Below, police officers moved through the crowded neighborhood, enforcing Kenya’s new coronavirus curfew.

Go upstairs, the children’s mother had shouted minutes earlier, as gunfire echoed in the streets. “We thought it was safer,” the boy’s 19-year-old sister, Aisha Hussein, told The Associated Press.

Taliban arrives, monitors prisoner release

Published on Tue, 03/31/2020 - 4:02pm

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A three-member Taliban technical team arrived Tuesday in the Afghan capital to monitor the release of their prisoners as part of a peace deal signed by the Taliban and the U.S., a spokesman for the insurgent group said. 

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid confirmed the team’s arrival in a tweet. It marked the first time a Taliban delegation has been in Kabul since the group was driven out by the U.S. -led coalition in November 2001. 

There was no immediate comment from the Afghan government on the team’s arrival.