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Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro, who like U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly refused to wear a mask and dismissed the threat posed by the pandemic as infections and deaths soared, tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Bolsonaro said he is taking hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria medicine repeatedly touted by Trump but doubted by most health experts, who warn of its dangerous side effects.David E. Rovella

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Trump’s first weeks in office were marked by his effort to impose travel bans on Muslim-majority countries. Now, as the coronavirus claims more lives across the U.S., Americans are being banned from many nations. His campaign slogan was “America First.” Now America is coming in last.

Florida’s percentage of positive coronavirus tests jumped in the latest report Tuesday, undermining Republican Governor Ron DeSantis’s claim that the crisis isn’t getting worse. The rate of people testing positive for the first time climbed to 16.3% for Monday, from 15% the day before. It’s now at the highest on record.

Where did that $521 billion in U.S. small-business aid go? The Trump administration has disclosed detailed information about where it all went.

The White House’s latest initiative to restrict non-citizens in America has hundreds of thousands of Chinese students worried. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency says foreign students must attend in-person classes, thus placing themselves at more risk of coronavirus infection, or leave the country. Also worried are financially crushed U.S. universities, to which such students often pay full tuition. 

Google and Deutsche Bank have agreed to form a long-term partnership that will see the U.S. technology company provide cloud computing capabilities to Germany’s largest lender.

Temasek Holdings Chief Executive Officer Ho Ching suggested Singapore’s state-owned investor could still have a portfolio value of more than S$300 billion ($215 billion).

After making a fortune in clothing, Amancio Ortega, the founder and owner of fashion label Zara, turned his attention to real estate. The Spanish billionaire’s property holdings have now soared to 15.2 billion euros ($17.2 billion), giving him the largest real estate portfolio among Europe’s super-rich.

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Can Salad Bars Be Saved During a Pandemic?

Grocery stores are doing whatever it takes—including deploying robots—to save their lucrative salad bars from becoming a relic of pre-pandemic shopping. In a frantic push to ease skittish consumers and shore up sales, some chains are tossing prepackaged salads into the bar’s now-empty bins, a stopgap measure that’s easy to do, but eliminates the customization—extra onions, less croutons—that shoppers crave

Photographer: Brandon Celi

Photographer: Brandon Celi

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