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Tuesday, May 26, 2020

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks with reporters after meeting with Senate Republicans at their weekly luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington. Congress is at a crossroads in the Covid-19 crisis. Lawmakers are wrestling over whether to “go big” as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants for the next relief bill or hit “pause” as McConnell insists.

Congress weighs choice: 'Go big' on virus aid or hit 'pause'

Congress is at a crossroads in the coronavirus crisis, wrestling over whether to "go big," as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants for the next relief bill, or hit "pause," as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell insists.
French President Emmanuel Macron is set to unveil sweeping new measures to rescue France’s car industry, hammered by virus lockdown and the resulting recession. The issue is politically sensitive, since France is proud of its auto industry, which employs 400,000 people and is an important part of the country’s remaining manufacturing sector.

France to unveil rescue plan for struggling car industry

French President Emmanuel Macron is set to unveil on Tuesday new measures to rescue the country's car industry, which has been hammered by the virus lockdown and the resulting recession.
Rabbi Jacqueline Mates-Muchin holds a Torah scroll aloft during Shabbat morning service at Temple Sinai in Oakland, Calif. The California Department of Public Health released Monday a framework under which county health departments can approve the reopening of churches, mosques, synagogues and other houses of worship that have mostly shuttered their doors since Gov. Gavin Newsom’s March stay-at-home order designed to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

California lays out pandemic rules for church reopenings

Rabbi Shalom Rubanowitz looks forward to reopening his synagogue doors -- if his congregation can balance the laws of God and California during the coronavirus pandemic.
SOS Funeral workers transport by boat a coffin carrying the body of an 86-year-old woman who lived by the Negro River and is a suspected to have died of COVID-19, near Manaus, Brazil, Thursday, May 14, 2020. The virus has spread upriver from Manaus, creeping into remote riverside towns and indigenous territories to infect indigenous tribes. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Death and denial in Brazil's Amazon capital

Manaus is one the cities in Brazil hardest hit by the new coronavirus
In this Saturday, May 23, 2020 photo, an Ethiopian domestic worker cleans her employer's balcony, in Beirut, Lebanon. Some 250,000 registered migrant laborers in Lebanon - maids, garbage collectors, farm hands and construction workers - are growing more desperate as a crippling economic and financial crisis sets in, coupled with coronavirus restrictions. With no functioning airports and exorbitant costs of repatriation flights, many are trapped, unable to go home. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Lebanon's migrant workers' plight worsens as crises multiply
The lives of tens of thousands of migrant workers in Lebanon have only gotten worse as an unprecedented economic crisis and global health scare took hold of this Mediterranean country
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam listens to reporters' questions during a press conference in Hong Kong, Tuesday, May 26, 2020. Lam tried again Tuesday to defend a new national security law that China's parliament is going to impose on Hong Kong. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
Hong Kong leader says security law not a threat to freedoms
Hong Kong's leader says national security legislation proposed by China's legislature will not threaten the semi-autonomous territory's civil rights, despite widespread criticism of the move as an encroachment on freedom of speech and assembly
Military helicopter crash-lands in Russia, kills 4 on board
The Russian military says one of its helicopters has crash-landed on an airfield in the far eastern Chukotka region, killing four people
German man indicted over leak of lawmakers' private data
German prosecutors have indicted a 22-year-old man on suspicion of stealing the personal information of dozens of lawmakers and journalists, trying to blackmail some of them and leaking the data online
This illustration made available by SpaceX depicts the company's Crew Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket during the uncrewed In-Flight Abort Test for NASA's Commercial Crew Program. (SpaceX via AP)
NASA astronauts go back to the future with capsule launch
It's back to the future as NASA astronauts launch again from the U.S. - aboard a retro-style "Right Stuff' capsule
Motorcycles wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus wait at a stoplight in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, May 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Asia Today: Philippines trying to ease quarantine congestion
About 24,000 Filipinos who lost their jobs abroad are being transported by land, sea or air to their provincial homes
FILE : In this file photo taken on July 26, 2009, Macao tycoon Stanley Ho, talks to reporters after the Macau chief executive election in Macao. On Tuesday, May 26, 2020, the family of Stanley Ho, the Macao casino tycoon considered the father of modern gambling in China, has died at 98. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)
Stanley Ho, who built Macao's gambling industry, dies at 98
Casino tycoon Stanley Ho, whose business empire dominated the Portuguese gambling enclave of Macao for decades, has died at age 98
President Donald Trump listens to the music before speaking during a "Rolling to Remember Ceremony," to honor the nation's veterans and POW/MIA, from the Blue Room Balcony of the White House, Friday, May 22, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
AP FACT CHECK: Faulty Trump claims on virus drug, vote fraud
President Donald Trump has been relentlessly promoting a malaria drug for coronavirus patients and assuring people it won't hurt them
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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