Dear Moneyist, For 10 years, my wife and I saved up and, in 2018, purchased our first home before we hit the age of 30. Over the last two years, events have not gone in our favor, especially with COVID-19. In March, I had to have gallstone surgery, and that’s …
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The reactions keep coming after excerpts from famed journalist Bob Woodward’s new book said that President Donald Trump knew early on that the coronavirus was “deadly stuff” but wanted to “play it down.” Woodward himself has drawn considerable criticism for not reporting Trump’s comments sooner — and the president has …
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The wife of pro-democracy activist Alexei Navalny, who lies in a coma in a Siberian hospital after drinking tea his aides allege was poisoned, has asked Russian president Vladimir Putin to allow her husband to be treated in Germany. The same day, one of the Russian doctors in care of …
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As New York City grapples with the magnitude of the coronavirus death toll, stories are emerging of full hospital morgues and backup refrigeration trucks as funeral directors and cemetery workers cope with at least double their normal workload. The number of fatalities in the city reached 5,065 on Friday morning, …
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