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What you need to know about COVID-19: August 4, 2020
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![Lawyers on both sides of a constitutional challenge to the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador's COVID-19-related travel ban — Mark Sheppard, Justin Mellor and Don Anthony for the province, John Drover for complainant Kim Taylor and Rosellen Sullivan, for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association — are shown during a break in the hearing in Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court Tuesday.]()
'Give me liberty or give me death:' province opens COVID-19 travel ban challenge with a dramatic quote
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![Liberal leadership candidates John Abbott (left) and Andrew Furey (right)]()
Liberals release vote breakdown in leadership race
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![For a short while this summer, cyclists, pedestrians and wheelchair users had more space on some city streets as part of a pilot project that comes to an end Wednesday. -City of St. John’s graphic]()
St. John’s sidewalk extensions will be removed
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![Defence lawyer Bob Buckingham.]()
Class action proposed for victims of Central Health privacy breach
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![An outboard motor like this one was among the items stolen from Atlantic Recreation in Mount Pearl. — Yamaha Canada]()
RNC investigates break-in at a business that resulted in theft of boats, trailers and an outboard
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![Raymond Halleran — RCMP handout]()
RCMP seeks public’s assistance in locating Raymond Halleran, missing two-and-half years
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![Dr. Proton Rahman, a clinical scientist with Eastern Health and professor of medicine at Memorial University, speaks Monday at the daily COVID-19 briefing. SCREEN GRAB]()
Stanford, Oxford, and Memorial University study cautions against lifting Newfoundland's travel restrictions to combat COVID-19
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![Police on the Burin Peninsula are investigating an incident that happened Monday near Fortune, where a 62-year-old man died as a result of a single-vehicle ATV collision.]()
Three dead in collision on Trans-Canada Highway near Appleton
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![Toby Obed (right) was overcome with emotion at the federal government apology in 2017. He's angry Premier Dwight Ball won't be delivering the provincial apology he promised. - FILE PHOTO]()
Premier 'dropped the ball' on residential school apology: lawyer
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![Gill Regular, left, and Gregory Lovell of West Coast Excavating were working on preparing the concrete base for a sign that will spell out Corner Brook on the White House Lawn on West Street earlier this week. The five-foot-high sign will also feature some Corner Brook-centric art on its multi-coloured letters. The space for the sign was chosen because it is wide open and easily accessible. It’s also expected to draw tourism traffic through the downtown and will be up and ready for selfies by the end of August.]()
Selfie sign
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![Police on the Burin Peninsula are investigating an incident that happened Monday near Fortune, where a 62-year-old man died as a result of a single-vehicle ATV collision.]()
Northern Peninsula man charged with impaired operation of a boat
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Irishtown man charged following a disturbance involving firearms
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![It appears everyone’s favourite residents of Sunnyvale Trailer Park have an unlikely fan in the form of right-wing U.S. evangelist Jerry Falwell Jr. The son of the late televangelist Jerry Falwell, he was discovered taking part in a Trailer Park Boys costume party on a yacht, dressed as Julian with his pants unzipped and a glass of “black water” in his left hand.]()
Evangelist Falwell Jr. makes waves with shipboard Trailer Park Boys costume party
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![Several residents at Northwood's Halifax facility have died from COVID-19. Ryan Taplin - The Chronicle Herald]()
NSGEU report into COVID at Northwood points to government cutbacks, other decisions
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![Health Canada said red onions are the likely source of a salmonella outbreak.]()
Onion food recall warnings issued
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Three men stranded on a remote Pacific island wrote a huge SOS in the sand, and it worked
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RCMP investigating stolen tractor accessories in Alberton
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![Dr. Heather Morrison, P.E.I.’s chief public health officer, held a COVID-19 media briefing on Tuesday. There are no new coronavirus cases and all 36 documented cases are considered recovered.]()
P.E.I. public health officials preparing for wave of soccer players, students
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China reports 27 new coronavirus cases in mainland for Aug. 4
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Mexico reports 6,148 coronavirus cases and 857 more deaths
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Fine art and face masks: London's Victoria and Albert Museum reopens
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Chicago public schools to hold all classes online this fall: local media
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Exclusive: U.S. pursues nearly $13 billion of claims in Purdue Pharma opioid probes, sources say
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Cyprus says ready to send medical teams to Lebanon
