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USA Today
With the coronavirus shuttering this year's regularly scheduled film festivals, YouTube will stream programming from filmmakers all over the world.
"We Are One: A Global Film Festival," will feature content curated from more than 20 annual film festivals including Cannes, New York, Toronto and Venice.
Programming for the festival, which runs from May 29 to June 7, is free and includes feature-length films, short films, documentaries, music comedy and conversations.
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USA Today
The president of the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee says the Summer Olympics won't be postponed a second time because of the coronavirus pandemic.
If the Tokyo Games can't be held during the recently-finalized time frame in the summer of 2021, Yoshiro Mori told Nikkan Sports that they will simply be canceled altogether.
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Forbes
As recently as mid-March, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Japanese organizers were still reticent to postpone the 2020 Games for the continued spread of the novel coronavirus, let alone cancel Tokyo altogether. Finally, as national Olympic committees began announcing they would pull their athletes from a Games staged in 2020, on March 24 organizers agreed to postpone the Games until 2021.
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Daily Mail Australia
Music festivals and indoor concerts are likely to be two of the last types of public gatherings to be permitted as Australia gradually loosens the coronavirus lockdown.
Australians are widely anticipating a wind-down in social distancing laws after the May 11 cabinet meeting.
Western Australia and South Australia have already decided to ease indoor restrictions from a two-person to 10 person limit from Friday.
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NPR
On April 29, two storied, sibling American music festivals — the Newport Folk Festival and the Newport Jazz Festival — announced that they are being canceled for 2020, due to coronavirus concerns. Each event is scheduled to return in the summer of 2021.
In a set of nearly twin messages, the executive director of the Newport Festivals Foundation, Jay Sweet, announced the cancellations. In a press release, Sweet said that "together with our local leaders and [Rhode Island] governor Gina Raimondo, we have concluded that at this time we risk too much in having a gathering of our size. "
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The Western Producer
Cancellation of the 2020 Calgary Stampede will deal a blow to the Alberta, Canada, economy and also to the summer plans of professional cowboys, chuckwagon racers, volunteers and tourists.
The annual showcase of western culture was officially cancelled April 23. Last year's event had an economic impact of an estimated $540 million in the Calgary region, according to Stampede figures.
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Syracuse.com
One day after Gov. Andrew Cuomo sharply dampened hopes for a 2020 New York State Fair, the festival's director posted a message on social media reiterating the No. 1 goal is to keep people safe from the coronavirus.
Fair Director Troy Waffner stopped short of saying the fair is canceled. Instead, he said preparations, with health and safety concerns in mind, continue.
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The Know
Only a few months out from its 30th anniversary, CherryArts is canceling the Cherry Creek Arts Festival, slated for July 3-5 in Denver's upscale Cherry Creek neighborhood.
The massive art fair, market and juried competition typically draws more than 330,000 people from Colorado and out of state, organizers said in a press statement announcing the cancellation.
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The Morning Call
Be prepared for a lost summer.
It hurts to say that, but it's time that we face that possibility.
The hot dogs and home runs should already have been savored at Coca-Cola Park. But it's unclear whether the IronPigs will ever take the field this season.
The roller coasters were scheduled to start running at Dorney Park this Friday, but they've been silenced indefinitely, too.
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Billboard
Billboard has compiled an ongoing list of major concerts and events that have been postponed or canceled due to the outbreak.
As the coronavirus disease continues to spread, live event organizers have been canceling or postponing large gatherings from technology conferences to major concerts.
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Rolling Stone
Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund, has purchased a stake in Live Nation worth about $500 million, Variety reports.
The Public Investment Fund acquired a 5.7 percent stake totaling around 12.3 million shares in the music industry giant, according to new filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Spectrum News 13
With plans underway to start reopening Florida, many are wondering what that means for theme parks in the state. Theme parks and other attractions could be wipe down all surfaces regularly and have their employees wear face masks.
These are just some of the ideas members of the Orange County Economic Recovery Task Force discussed Tuesday morning. The working group tasked with developing guidelines for reopening businesses revealed a set of preliminary suggestions.
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The Miami Herald
As Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis leads a Re-Open Florida Task Force and says the state is seeing a flattening of the coronavirus curve, buzz about seeing popular businesses and attractions opening is alive.
One nonessential business that has Floridians itching about its possible reopening is Walt Disney World. But what would a reopened Disney look like post-coronavirus?
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Spectrum News 13
If you've been missing Disney's fireworks spectaculars, Walt Disney World has an extra special "magical moment" planned for Friday night. The resort will stream a replay of the "Happily Ever After" fireworks show at Magic Kingdom.
The stream will begin at 7 p.m. ET and include the full show, which includes projections on Cinderella Castle.
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Study results by MRC Data
The objective of this study is to understand how the entertainment landscape is shifting with the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Fox Business
The coronavirus is more than a short-term health crisis. Outside of the terrible toll on human life, it has devastated large portions of the economy, especially among businesses that rely on public assembly, such as sports facilities.
When stadiums and arenas return to business as normal you are likely to find that "normal" has changed. Not since 9/11, when sports venues evolved into secure fortresses, have stadiums and arenas been challenged to adapt to an unexpected event so dramatically and quickly.
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The New York Times
The coronavirus pandemic has sickened more than 3,156,600 people, according to official counts. As of Thursday morning, at least 227,600 people have died, and the virus has been detected in at least 177 countries, as these maps show.
In the tallies for the United States shown on this page, The Times is now including cases and deaths that have been identified by public health officials as probable coronavirus patients.
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The New York Times
The New York metropolitan area has become the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, but growth in cases and deaths has come to other parts of the United States.
The accompanying charts, which will be updated regularly using data collected by The New York Times, describe the outbreak for metro areas around the country. Metropolitan areas are helpful units because they reflect the places where people socialize, commute and share health care resources.
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The New York Times
After weeks of shutdown because of the coronavirus pandemic, the nation is beginning to slowly open up.
Beaches and state parks are reopening to visitors, spurring concerns about overcrowding. The first barbers have returned to work, masks over their faces. Even some restaurants are getting ready to serve customers again.
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CNN
A second round of the coronavirus is "inevitable," the nation's top infectious disease doctor says, but just how bad it is will depend on the progress the US makes in the coming months.
"If by that time we have put into place all of the countermeasures that you need to address this, we should do reasonably well," Dr. Anthony Fauci said. "If we don't do that successfully, we could be in for a bad fall and a bad winter."
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CNBC
Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Wednesday that millions of doses of a coronavirus vaccine could be available in the fall to be used in human trials.
It could be "enough to use in large-scale studies if you have an outbreak in American city where you might deploy the vaccine in an experimental protocol but deploy it nonetheless," Gottlieb said on "Squawk Box."
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Government of Canada
The Government of Canada is taking immediate, significant and decisive action to support Canadians and businesses facing hardship as a result of the global COVID-19 outbreak.
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Government of Ontario
Ontario is planning for the next phase of responding to the coronavirus (COVID‑19) outbreak – reopening our province.
As a first step, we have developed a framework to guide our approach. This framework outlines the method and principles we will use to reopen businesses, services and public spaces to responsibly lead Ontario's economy back to a strong position.
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Office of the News Brunswick Premier
The first phase of New Brunswick's recovery plan and the loosening of some public health restrictions were announced today by Premier Blaine Higgs, the COVID-19 all-party committee which includes Liberal leader Kevin Vickers, People's Alliance leader Kris Austin and Green Party leader David Coon, and by Dr. Jennifer Russell, chief medical officer of health."In these extraordinary times, I thank the other leaders, and Dr. Russell and her team for their unprecedented collaboration," said Higgs.
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Inc.
The U.S. government clearly underestimated the toll of the Coronavirus on America's small businesses.
That's an easy conclusion to draw now — several weeks into a crisis that's seen an estimated 26 million people file for unemployment and businesses everywhere shuttered. Even as companies reopen, the lasting effects of the coronavirus will likely mean many more months of hardship. For some, it could be years.
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