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Woman missing for 2 days finally found.

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Severe weather — including a tornado in the Atlanta area — continued to roar across the storm-battered South late Monday, a day after multiple twisters were reported in Mississippi.
https://apple.news/AQqcm7i4nRueJNjeEYWbUDw

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A couple were arrested in Germany  for suspect of trading newborn babies.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/03/europe/germany-newborn-trading-arrests-intl-grm/index.html

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Houston smuggling operation: Five of 97 people found trapped in a home test positive for COVID

https://www.foxnews.com/us/houston-smuggling-operation-people-found-trapped-tested-positive-covid

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Due to the increase in covid cases in India, The Biden Administration plans to restrict travel coming in from there in order to try and maintain control over the virus. https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/2021/04/30/india-travel-us-restrict-flights-india-due-covid-19-surge/4892115001/

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A bystander resues a baby thrown into Maryland bay after crash

https://www.today.com/video/bystander-rescues-baby-thrown-into-maryland-bay-after-crash-111242309537

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Destruction was reported across Mississippi after a round of tornadoes swept through the state late Sunday night, damaging buildings and littering roads with downed power lines.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/02/us/tupelo-mississippi-tornado/index.html

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America is running low on chicken because of covid

Link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/04/29/chicken-shortage-us/

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Randy Estrada holds up his Popeyes chicken sandwich, shortly after the fast food chain introduced the menu item in 2019, which The Washington Post dubbed the Year of the Chicken Sandwich. (Eric Gay/AP)

It's not like we weren't warned. The doomsayers predicted this months ago: "A MASSIVE CHICKEN WING SHORTAGE IS BREWING," blared the headline of one trade publication in early February.

But it turned out to be so much worse.

Bloomberg News, on Thursday: "Fried-Chicken Craze Is Causing U.S. to Run Low on Poultry."

In other words, not just wings, but chicken in general. Or, as Bojangles put it in a recent tweet about their tenders: "we're experiencing a system-wide shortage :( But they will be back soon!"

It seems the poultry paucity has arrived, heralded by a series of fast-food executives describing in earnings calls their stores' struggles to stock enough chicken - nuggets, tenders, wings, patties, all shapes and sizes - to keep pace with legions of peckish Americans.

"Demand for the new sandwich has been so strong that, coupled with general tightening in domestic chicken supply, our main challenge has been keeping up with that demand," said David Gibbs, CEO of Yum Brands, whose KFC restaurants recently rolled out a new fried-chicken sandwich.

Charles R. Morrison, chairman and CEO of Wingstop, said this week that "Suppliers are struggling, just as many in our industry are, to hire people to process chicken, thus placing unexpected pressure on the amount of birds that can be processed and negatively affecting supply of all parts of the chicken in the U.S., not just wings."

Chicken has for years been the most popular meat in the United States and experts and analysts have cited several reasons for the current deficit. Some are related to the coronavirus - pandemic-spurred disruptions in the market and supply chain and an increased demand for a comfort food that is takeout- or delivery-friendly. Others, industry watchers say, include increased competition, volatile feed prices and even the deadly winter storms that swept over the South in February, halting the work of chicken processors.

And then there's the proliferation of the fried chicken sandwich. The Washington Post dubbed 2019 the Year of the Chicken Sandwich - and for good reason. Popeyes kicked things off that August, releasing a new chicken sandwich that quickly took over the Internet. Then the virality hit the streets, with eager customers queuing up for blocks to buy a sandwich. Just over two weeks after the new menu item dropped, Popeyes announced it had sold out.

Even now, the craze persists, with Popeyes continuing to duke it out with Chick-fil-A for sandwich supremacy and KFC and McDonald's entering the fray with new offerings.

On an earnings call this week, McDonald's USA President Joe Erlinger didn't mention shortages but said sandwich sales are "exceeding our projections" and announced the chain was at "the beginning of our multiyear chicken journey."

But the poultry industry's problems run much deeper than a shortage of the finished product. If 2019 was YOTCS, 2020 was the year that Big Meat's labor issues became the subject of national headlines.

Investigative reporting and lawsuits have revealed life-threatening conditions that workers in meat and poultry plants have endured during the pandemic, and they've prompted criticism that the industry is more concerned with profit than with safety. The industry, meanwhile, has argued that it has invested in protections and that facility operations were essential.

Many plants became virus hotspots. Nearly 60,000 meatpacking workers have tested positive for the coronavirus and at least 291 have died, according to data compiled by the Food and Environment Reporting Network, and the vast majority of those infected have been racial or ethnic minorities.

During the pandemic, the meat industry wielded its political power at both the state and federal levels. Reporting by the nonprofit journalism outlet ProPublica found that companies lobbied local officials to keep their plants open while failing to implement social distancing and masking policies.

The Trump administration also allowed 15 poultry plants to increase slaughter line speeds, which both boosts production and makes it more difficult for workers to maintain space between one another. It also appears to have accelerated coronavirus spread, according to a Post analysis.

And at a Tyson Foods plant in Iowa, supervisors placed "winner-take-all" bets on how many of their workers would catch the virus, according to a wrongful-death suit.

Yet, chicken remains as popular as ever. A study from TOP, a network of marketing agencies, says fried chicken chains have fared far better than other fast-food outlets during the pandemic. Both demand and price remain high, and restaurants across the country have had to adapt, some by cutting chicken wings from their menus.

One industry official in North Carolina predicted the crunch would get more acute as the weather warms and more Americans begin grilling regularly.

"What we need," the official told WSOC-TV, "is a four-winged chicken."

Yeganeh Torbati contributed to this report.

Today's Headlines The most important news stories of the day, curated by Post editors and delivered every morning.

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America is running low on chicken. Blame covid-19, a sandwich craze and huge appetite for wings.

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It's not like we weren't warned. The doomsayers predicted this months ago: "A MASSIVE CHICKEN WING SHORTAGE IS BREWING," blared the headline of one trade publication in early February. But it turned out to be so much worse. Bloomberg News, on Thursday: "Fried-Chicken Craze Is Causing U.S. to Run Low on Poultry."

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At least four people were killed and 25 others injured when a "severely overcrowded" boat they were on overturned Sunday morning off the coast of San Diego during a suspected smuggling incident, officials said.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boat-accident-point-loma-san-diego/

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Landlords cut small retailers a break on rent during the pandemic, but stores are still struggling because too few office workers and tourists have returned.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/02/business/economy/remote-work-manhattan-storefronts.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

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On Sunday night, a couple of tornadoes torn through 3 towns in Mississippi. A lot of damage was caused to people's homes, power lines, cars, etc. The three towns were Tupelo, Calhoun City, and Yazoo City.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/02/us/tupelo-mississippi-tornado/index.html

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What Students Are Saying About ‘Learning Loss’ During the Pandemic
We invited teenagers to weigh in on a current debate in education. They supplied some important nuance.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/learning/what-students-are-saying-about-learning-loss-during-the-pandemic.html

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A tornado ripped through Mississippi and destroyed at least 3 cities. There can be more damage as they go through the affected area.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/02/us/tupelo-mississippi-tornado/index.html

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Due to the increase in COVID cases being registered in India, the administration of President Joe Biden plans to restrict travel from the United States to India starting Tuesday due to an increase in COVID cases.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/2021/04/30/india-travel-us-restrict-flights-india-due-covid-19-surge/4892115001/

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Covid cases are rising in India with its second wave of Coivd showing no signs of slowing down
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/03/india-covid-crisis-charts-show-the-severity-of-the-second-wave.html

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President Biden announced that if you are fully vaccinated you are able to walk around outside  or meet with a small group of fully vaccinated people  everyone can be without a mask but if you are with a big crowd you have to wear a mask. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/27/masks-outdoors-cdc-guidance-latest-update-crowds-rules

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In India, COVID cases have been progressively getting worse. Cases have been rising.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/03/india-covid-crisis-charts-show-the-severity-of-the-second-wave.html

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According to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the Biden administration will reunite four migrant families separated during the Trump administration this week, while the reunification task force reports that over 1,000 families remain separated.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/biden-administration-reunite-four-migrant-families-separated-under-trump-n1266104

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India's devastating COVID outbreak broke new records last weekend, with authorities reporting more than 400,000 cases for the first time on Saturday and a record-high number of deaths on

Sunday.https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-updates-05-03-21/index.html

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Uruguay feeds the hungry during the pandemic, with their version of soup kitchens called "people pots"
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/03/americas/uruguay-pandemic-hunger-intl/index.html

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San diego captain of suspected smuggling vessel in custody after boat overturned , killing 4 people. There were 29 people aboard the 40-foot cabin cruiser,when the boat hit the reef and broke apart. Twenty-four people survived and 4 died.

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san diego boat accident: captain of suspected smuggling vessel in custody after boat overturned

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San Diego captain of suspected smuggling vessel in custody after boat overturned, killing 4. Here's what we know

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The person believed to have been operating a suspected smuggling vessel that overturned off the coast of San Diego Sunday, killing four people and sending more than 20 to the hospital, is in custody.