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Dan LaMoore works on a Seth Thomas Post Clock at Electric Time Company on Oct. 23, in Medfield, Mass. Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. local time Sunday. Elise Amendola/AP As the U.S. adds nearly 100,000 new positive coronavirus cases in one day, and the never-ending election season strains…

Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered England back into a national lockdown after the United Kingdom passed the milestone of one million COVID-19 cases and a second wave of infections threatened to overwhelm the health service. Read more: France lockdown: What went wrong and what can Canada learn? The United Kingdom,…

By Kate Rimmington & Sarah DickinsBBC News image captionThe Star Inn in Treos saw its capacity drop from 120 to 30 once social-distancing measures were put in place For pub manager Kim Marsh, only being paid 80% of her normal salary meant taking a “big hit”. The Coronavirus Job Retention…

media captionPowerful earthquake destroys buildings and causes flooding on Turkey’s Aegean coast Rescue teams in the Turkish port city of Izmir are hunting through the rubble of collapsed buildings for survivors of Friday’s powerful earthquake. The death toll from the quake, which also struck the Greek island of Samos, has…

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Facebooks ability to create filter bubbles, promote divisive content, and accelerate political polarization is no surprise to users whove kept up with the platform’s many scandals. But two new studies point to pitfalls with commonly proposed solutions and point to a troubling double bind for the 190 million Americans who…

WorkSafeBC has accepted 430 compensation claims related to COVID-19 exposure so far this year, and disallowed 698 others, data from the provincial workplace insurance agency show. Claim statistics show by far the largest number of coronavirus-related injury claims in B.C. have come from health care and social services workers, with…

Heres a look at where Reuters journalists and journalism were in the news this week: Voters fill out their ballots during early voting at ONEOK Field in Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S., October 30, 2020. REUTERS/Nick Oxford – RC23TJ9AC3MX For a piece in Neiman Reports, Reuters Editor-in-Chief Stephen J. Adler wrote about…