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Tuesday, 12 May 2020

Twenty-year-old Leo Canty says he was worried less about himself and more about the people around him when he tested positive for COVID-19 in late March. In early May, he donated his plasma for potential therapy for both prevention and treatment in the fight against the coronavirus.  

On This Day in American History
On May 12, 1932, aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh’s kidnapped baby is found dead. The baby was snatched from Lindbergh’s mansion two months prior, capturing the attention of the entire country. Just five years prior to the kidnapping, Lindbergh was vaulted to national fame after completing the first solo transatlantic flight aboard The Spirit of St. Louis. In 1934, Bruno Hauptmann was arrested and later found guilty of the crime. He was executed in 1936. In response to the case, kidnapping was made a federal crime.

For months, U.S. officials have been warning about a spike in cyberattacks during the coronavirus pandemic. Now, as the all-out global race for a vaccine accelerates and hackers target related scientific research, U.S. officials are preparing to single out a long-standing cyber adversary: China. 

Officials in Afghanistan say a suicide bombing of a funeral in an eastern province and a militant raid on a hospital in the capital, Kabul, have killed around 40 people and injured scores of others.

VIDEO: In San Francisco’s Chinatown, takeout has been a lifeline for most restaurants struggling through the COVID-19 crisis. A full-time tech marketing analyst is doing his part to help keep these struggling restaurants alive.

The Australian state of Victoria is easing some of its COVID-19 restrictions on Tuesday as other jurisdictions wind back disease control measures. Australia has had 6,900 confirmed coronavirus cases. More than 6,000 patients have recovered, but 97 people have died from the virus.

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