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The taking of trophies and the building of memorials to mark military victories has been common throughout the history of warfare. The English word “trophy” is derived from the ancient Greek tropaion, which was a display of captured weapons, armor and standards commemorating the defeat of an enemy.

The US is monitoring intelligence that North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, is in grave danger after a surgery, according to a US official with direct knowledge.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-data/in-spain-coronavirus-death-counts-prompt-anger-confusion-idUSKBN2222AQ World News April 20, 2020 / 12:28 PM / Updated 5 hours ago In Spain, coronavirus death counts prompt anger, confusion Joan Faus 5 Min Read BARCELONA (Reuters) - Spain already has one of the world’s highest death tolls from the coronavirus pandemic. But data indicating the true number of fatalities could be much higher is fueling public anger and could cause problems for Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s fragile government. FILE PHOTO: Concepcion Espinar, 85, and medical workers look out from the window of the Ramon Berenguer nursing home in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)...

Every year during the NFL draft, commissioner Roger Goodell seems to be fueled by the thousands of boos from the audience ... He welcomes it. He feeds off it. And even though the draft is going virtual amid the COVID-19 pandemic, he can still experience your lovable hate. Think itÂ’s just a tad bit cruel? Well, it was Roger Goodell himself who said that the boos have always happened to be a pivotal part of the drafting experience. The 61-year-old commissioner told NBC SportsÂ’ Peter King that youÂ’re going to have to tune in to see if the hate follows...

The coronavirus crisis is cutting a savage swath through the U.S. clean energy industry – some 106,000 jobs in the sector vanished in the month of March alone as demand evaporated amid nationwide stay-at-home orders Moreover, that one-month job loss was greater than what the industry gained in jobs in all of 2019. By June of this year, the clean energy sector may lose up to 500,000 jobs – or 15% of the country’s entire clean energy workforce -- according to a study by clean energy advocacy group E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs), in cooperation with the American Council on Renewable Energy,...

We all look forward to the day we can put this pandemic behind us, but given Georgia’s performance so far, Gov. Brian Kemp is moving too soon and confusing citizens. He is risking a resurgence of the coronavirus in our state. Yes, the statistical models have started to bend in our favor. While just models, these different analyses of COVID-19 cases and deaths, suggest that the state may be past its peak and a dire situation is getting better. *** The state ranks among the nation’s worst for its number of COVID-19 cases and the deaths. The state ranks in...

Double Indemnity is a 1944 American film noir directed by Billy Wilder. The screenplay was based on James M. Cain's 1943 novella of the same name. The film stars Fred MacMurray as an insurance salesman, Barbara Stanwyck as a provocative housewife who wishes her husband were dead, and Edward G. Robinson as a claims adjuster whose job is to find phony claims. The term "double indemnity" refers to a clause in certain life insurance policies that doubles the payout in rare cases when the death is accidental, such as falling off a train. Praised by many critics when first...

Touted as society’s way out of widespread lockdowns, scientists say the true potential of these rapidly developed tests is still unknown.

3 Bay Area counties share data in report published by CDC Americans’ addiction to greasy junk food and heaping meal portions, disparities in access to healthy food and sitting for hours on end have made us especially vulnerable to COVID-19. The United States has more obese people — about 40 percent of the overall population — than any other major nation, and obesity has been linked to chronic, preventable illnesses such as heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes. Any of those conditions can lead to a more severe outcome of COVID-19. A recent analysis of hospital network data found...

Tom Lester, a devoted evangelist who starred as friendly farmhand Eb Dawson on the ’60s series “Green Acres,” has died. He was 81. He died of complications from Parkinson’s disease in the Nashville home of his fiancée and long-term caregiver Jackie Peters on Monday, Mississippi’s Laurel Leader-Call reported. His brother Michael Lester did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment. “Tom Lester was a great friend of mine,” the star’s pal, fellow actor Gary Moore, told Fox News. “We met over 20 years ago and stayed friends all these years. I started taking Tom to autograph shows because...

Don Rickles in two great interviews with Tom Snyder from The Late Late Show With Tom Snyder (1997,1998).Don Rickles: Two appearances on The Late Late Show With Tom Snyder (1997, 1998; 48 mins)

Classic rock song from 1992. Remember when MTV used to play music?

The New York state nurses union filed lawsuits against the state and two hospitals Monday over what it says are unsafe working conditions and a lack of protective equipment. The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) sued the New York Department of Health and two hospitals, Montefiore Medical Center and Westchester Medical Center, claiming they put nurses’s health and safety at risk. NYSNA alleges in the suits that some nurses were not given impermeable gowns and personal protective equipment and nurses redeployed to hospitals other than those they normally worked at were not given sufficient training. The lawsuits say high-risk...

Japan is trying to give sex workers a leg up during the coronavirus pandemic. The nation is offering financial aid to members of the oldest profession whose job prospects have gone limp amid social distancing — but regulations make it difficult for those in the stigmatized industry to apply without outing themselves, according to a new report.

[Catholic Caucus] The Pope Against Masses on TV: "This Is Not the Church" On March 12, Pope Francis had all the churches of his diocese of Rome closed, on account of the coronavirus pandemic. But he immediately regretted it, and the day after he had them reopened.But the ban has stayed in place, in Rome and Italy, on celebrating Masses with the faithful present. And the pope is the first to obey it. For several weeks now, his Masses at Santa Marta on weekdays and at Saint Peter’s on Sundays and feast days have been celebrated in solitude, as also...

A New Mexico judge on Friday ruled that Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's stay-at-home order does not violate an Albuquerque church's First Amendment rights. The church, First Legacy, sued after Lujan Grisham added churches to the state's list of nonessential activities in an emergency health order on the day before Easter, meaning that no more than five people can gather at a service. In the church's filing, it alleged that the order violated the First Amendment because the church needs more than five people to put on a service. First Legacy asked for a temporary restraining order on Lujan Grisham's executive...

A letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo to shut down the city’s subways and buses as a measure against the spread of COVID-19 was not met with agreement by the parties involved on Sunday morning. City Councilman Robert Holden’s office penned the letter that Holden and three other City Council members signed — Eric Ulrich and Peter Koo of Queens, and Mark Gjonaj of the Bronx. The lawmakers said that the striking number of transit workers deaths, as well as the prolific spread of the disease being something unique to New York City, should be considered. They also called on the...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s name has been in the news a lot lately because of his efforts to save lives in one of the areas hardest hit by the coronavirus crisis. But a little more than a year ago, the Catholic politician got a lot of press for a very different reason. He signed radical pro-abortion law allowing unborn babies to be aborted for almost any reason up to birth in New York. Then, he celebrated. CNS News reports Catholic Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas said Cuomo is not in communion with the church because of his abortion...

The churchgoers presented zero public safety risk.I’ve often wondered about formerly civil nations that descend into vicious totalitarianism. The only way this happens is if the despotic government can wrest control of the military and law enforcement from the non-authoritarian government. The most obvious being a country of culture, manufacturing, science, and civil society that succumbed to the National Socialist German Worker’s (NAZI) Party. Having some German ancestry, I’ve wondered if a federal, state, or local government in the United States could ever get Americans to violate other American’s rights just “because a political leader says so” regardless of what...