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Positive COVID-19 cases detected ahead of World Womens Championship 04/26/21 During the extensive pre-competition testing procedures two positive COVID-19 cases have been identified ahead of the World Women’s Curling Championship 2021. The World Curling Federation, Curling Canada and Alberta Health are now following the COVID-19 response plan. The initial positive result was discovered in day-zero testing taken during the pre-competition quarantine period on Friday (23 April) and the second...

Twitter Facebook A year ago this week, Boston University made the unprecedented announcement that it was shutting down dorms and sending students home as the COVID-19 pandemic surged in Boston. As the one-year anniversary of that historic move approached, we invited members of the BU community to tell us their unsung heroes of the pandemic—a teacher, student, staff person, or alum who made a difference in their life, and the life of the University.  We heard from dozens of you, giving ...

japans monetary policy. chinaa industrial production also rebounding from last months seven-month low. >> our road map begins with markets with an unexpected rise in retail sales and a three-week winning streak behind it. >> breach of trust. bloomberg news editor in chief saying the financial news services holding itself responsible after the terminal usage data. jamie dimon signaling if the roles are split he might do the same and leave the bank. michael kores, morgan stanley to t...

>> whoops. americans are being told they have no cultural sensitivity to other countries. but this is really something. nato comes to chicago and calls it the capital of illinois. i guess they never heard of springfield. that same tape also says that obama grew up in chicago. this is the city he grew up in. i wonder what happened in indonesia and hawaii? best of all, their comments about mccormack place, which is named after the great chicago tribune baron, colonel robert mccormack, the tape say...

the states attorneys office said it was a targeted raid and had informants working with them. >> the individuals we have charged in this investigation are not peaceful protestors. they are domestic terrorists who came to chicago with an bent to harm our police officers, intimidate citizens and to go through with their politically motivated causes. >> reporter: recovered in the raid were molotov bomb making materials and number of different weapons, both actual and improvised. the folks...

>> and now, from the 20 -- 2011 roosevelt reading festival philip terzian discusses his book "architects of power" roosevelt, eisenhower and the american century. it is about 50 minutes. [applause]honod >> thank you, and good morning and i am honored and delighted to be here.i at the roosevelt reading festival. i dont live around here so iusm dont get to visit the roosevelt library very often. of henry morgan thaw who was fdrs neighbor here in duchess county and probably knew him as mu...

>> cnn, msnbc, "new york times," and even when that isnt true, outlets like yahoo! which is now by some measures the largest news site on the web or outlets like "huffington post," most of what theyre doing is aggregating and reposting content that was originally created for print. so yahoo!, for example, who prints an awful lot of wire service news. so in terms of, the total number of people who actually visited at least one of those, the online news category looks pretty healthy. hun...

influence on his distant cousin, franklin, was a reality in his life up until his death even though we tend to ignore it. remember, too, that theodore roosevelt became prominent at strategic moments in fdrs life. franklin roosevelt was a schoolboy when theodore roosevelt became mckinleys assistant secretary of the navy. he was at school when theodore roosevelt charged up san juan hill. he had just become, just entered his sophomore year at harvard when theodore roosevelt became preside...

here on the grounds of his old family estate in 1940. and who i am a great fan of presidential libraries around the country and have made it my lifelong task to visit each one so i patiently await the george w. bush one in dallas which is supposed to open in the next year or two and a friend of mine is an official soy keep hinting theresi must be a panel discussion. [laughter] . . is that i think that they reflect in some ways what i call the civic protestantism of america. and by that...

>> the librarys research room is consistently one of the busiest of all the presidential libraries, and this years group of authors reflects the wide variety of research done here. were delighted to highlight these authors works at book talks throughout the year, and especially at this, our annual reading festival. let me quickly go over the format for the festivities in these sessions today. um, at the top of each hour a session begins with a 30-minute author talk followed by a ten-mi...