Today's Top Stories: April 8, 2020
Channel: My Daily Grind News
Date: 2020-04-08

Today's Top Stories: April 8, 2020. COVID-19 infections will surpass 1.5 million today. Stock market in limbo, awaiting news. Trump fires another IG, this one to oversee federal stimulus spending.


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Coronavirus update:

1,447,466 infections, up from 1,363,35 yesterday.
83,471 deaths, up from 76,420 yesterday.
April 8, 2020 COVID-19 pandemic map
Relevant COVID-19 stories:

    Coronavirus Update: Already Struggling Small Businesses In South Bay Being Targeted By Robbers
    Beaver Co. Nursing Home Presuming All 800 Residents And Staff Have Coronavirus

Economy Update:

Dow Jones is up 260, to 22,913. It feels like investors are waiting for news…good or bad, time will tell.
April 8, 2020 DJIA stock chart
https://www.thestreet.com/quote/djia/dow-jones-industrial-average-today.html
Upcoming economic reports this week:

    Wednesday – FOMC meeting minutes
    Thursday – weekly jobs claims (this is a big one) & PPI
    Friday – CPI

Relevant Economy stories:

    Coronavirus fallout: One-third of Americans missed rent payments in April
    Analysis | The Finance 202: Janet Yellen tells Congress banks with legal immunity will lend to small businesses faster

Politics:

President Trump is up to his usual shenanigans, firing two Inspector Generals in the past week who were providing oversight to critical federal government operations.

The latest was to oversee the $2 trillion federal stimulus package. Now, you can expect BILLIONS to vanish right before your taxpayer eyes.
Relevant Politics stories:

    Hospitals say feds are seizing masks and other coronavirus supplies without a word
    Trump removes inspector general who was to oversee $2 trillion stimulus spending

Feel Good Song of the Day:

Live to Love Another Day by Keith Urban
May YOU live to love another day!
Offbeat Story of the Day:

Cops: Woman Assaulted Man With SpaghettiOs | The Smoking Gun

    APRIL 7–A Florida Woman is facing a felony domestic battery charge after allegedly clobbering a man with a can of SpaghettiOs, a blow that left the victim with a large laceration on his head, cops say.

    According to an arrest affidavit, the victim told police that after arriving “home from the hospital” Saturday afternoon he got into a verbal argument with Shadae Miranda. The victim and Miranda, 30, were sharing a room at a Travel Inn motel in Fort Pierce.

    Miranda, cops allege, began striking the victim while he was still inside the room.

    As the man lounged outside, Miranda allegedly struck him in the head with a “15.6 ounce metal can of Spaghettio’s that was in a plastic bag.” While speaking with the victim, an officer “observed a large laceration on the top of his head consistent with being struck with the can.”

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