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The upcoming South by Southwest festival has been canceled because of concerns about the novel coronavirus, Austin, Texas, Mayor Steve Adler announced Friday. There was no acceptable path forward that would mitigate the risk to our community, said Dr. Mark Escott, Austin s interim health chief, noting t
stanley cup hat the number of global visitors due to attend SXSW would have heightened those risks.Race to Respond: Full coverage of the coronavirus outbreakNo cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. have been confirmed in Tra
stanley cup vis county, which includes Austin, Escott said. But there are at least six cases in the Houston area, the Associated Press reports. The move to pull the plug on the popular music and technology conference, which had been scheduled to open on March 13, is the latest in anumber of notable eventsin the U.S. and elsewhere around the world that have been called off due to the coronavirus.According to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, there have been 101,583 confirmed cases of COVID-19 worldwide. A total of 55,863 people have recovered, and 3,460 people have died. There have been 14 deaths in the U.S. ndash; 13 in Washington state and one in California. South by Southwest is one of the biggest public conferences of the year, with more than 400,000 peop
stanley cup le attending the 2019 show. The city cited risks including the planned arrival of visitors from international locations that have faced outbreaks of th Woim $1M cash bond set in deadly shooting of 17-year veteran of Milwaukee Police Department
NEW YORK -- Anti-Islamic ads will begin appearing
adidas samba on a hundred New York City buses and at two subway entrances next week.The six ads include an image of American journalist James Foley, just before he was beheaded, standing next to his masked executioner.The ads are paid for by the American Freedom Defense Initiative run by anti-Islam blogger Pamela Geller. She says the campaign tells truths about Islam and
yeezy jihad that the U.S. government and mainstream media ignore. Our organization has created this campaign in order to educate people about Jihad, Geller told 1010 WINS. I don t think the truth is controversial. I think we re entering a very dangerous period and I don t think the American people should be disarmed in the information battle space. All the ads feature a disclaimer that says the viewpoints are not endorsed by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Under a federal court ruling, the agency is required to run viewpoint ads. But the MTA requires a disclaimer. We review every viewpoint ad under the standards, but a series of court rulings have made clear that our hands are largely tied, MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz said in a statement.The MTA has posted previous ads from the American Freedom Defense Initiative which called enemies of Israel savages, sparking an uproar. At the time, the MTA sold space to competing adverti
adidas campus sements that urged tolerance.The group s ads have also appeared on mass transit property in Chic