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In this 1971 file photo, singer John Lennon appears during a press conference. (AP Photo, File)

Left-wing activist Kevin Powell wants to replace ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ with John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’

By Robert Knight

House Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, second from right, speaks with Legislative Budget Office director Tony Greer, right, as Republican Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, center, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Briggs Hopson, R-Vicksburg, second from left, and House Appropriations Committee Chairman John Read, R-Gautier, right, listen prior to a meeting of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Monday, June 15, 2020. Lawmakers were provided an updated report on state revenue at the meeting. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi revises outlook for budget year starting July 1

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

Florida governor OK’s stricter thresholds on ballot measures

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 16, 2019, file photo, attendees take a close look at cars from BYD at the Auto Shanghai 2019 show in Shanghai. China’s auto sales plunged 81.7% in February, 2020, from a year ago after Beijing shut down much of the economy to fight a virus outbreak, adding to problems for an industry that already was struggling with shrinking demand. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

China auto sales plunge in February amid virus shutdown

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

This cover image released by Flatiron shows &quot;Oona Out of Order&quot; by Margarita Montimore. (Flatiron via AP)

Review: Time is of the essence in `Oona Out of Order’

By LINCEE RAY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2018, file photo, a beam of sunlight is cast on vehicles on a city ring-road clogged with heavy traffic during the morning rush hour in Beijing, China. Auto sales in China have plunged, deepening a painful downturn in the industry’s biggest global market and adding to economic pressure as the country fights a virus outbreak. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

China’s auto sales plunge in January, deepening market slump

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2020, file photo people pass by a screen warning about a new coronavirus in a subway station in Seoul, South Korea. Factories across China are still closed to try to limit spread of the coronavirus, leaving U.S. business owners in limbo. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Coronavirus has many U.S. firms waiting for products to ship

By JOYCE M. ROSENBERG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2020, file photo, travelers pass through a health screening checkpoint at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport in Wuhan in southern China's Hubei province. For weeks after the first reports of a mysterious new virus in Wuhan, people poured out of the central Chinese city, cramming onto buses, trains and airplanes as the first wave of China's great Lunar New Year migration broke across the nation. Some carried with them a new virus that has claimed over 560 lives and sickened more than 28,000 people. (AP Photo/Emily Wang, File)

Millions left Wuhan, China before coronavirus quarantine

By Erika Kinetz - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2020, file photo, a worker monitors display screens for infrared thermometers as they check travelers at Hankou Railway Station in Wuhan in southern China's Hubei province before authorities seals the city. For weeks after the first reports of a mysterious new virus in Wuhan, people poured out of the central Chinese city, cramming onto buses, trains and airplanes as the first wave of China's great Lunar New Year migration broke across the nation. Some carried with them a new virus that has claimed over 560 lives and sickened more than 28,000 people. (Chinatopix via AP, File)

Where did they go? Millions left city before quarantine

By ERIKA KINETZ - Associated Press

A man wearing a face mask walks past an Apple store in Hong Kong, Sunday, Feb, 2, 2020. Apple is temporarily closing its 42 stores in mainland China, one of its largest markets, as a new virus spreads rapidly. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Chinese market dives 8% but other world stocks stable

By ELAINE KURTENBACH - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2020, file photo, an investor monitors stock prices at a brokerage in Beijing. Several factors are pointing to a possible rebound in emerging market stocks this year. Stocks in China and other developing economies notched solid gains in 2019, but lagged the blockbuster market returns delivered by publicly traded companies in the U.S. and other developed economies. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

China readies cushion for virus shock when markets re-open

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Dutch government plans to ban some forms of fireworks

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FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020 file photo, medical workers in protective gear help a patient near an ambulance in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province.As Beijing instates one of the largest quarantines in modern history, locking down over 50 million people in Hubei province, questions are swirling around the provincial government's sluggish initial response. (Chinatopix via AP, File)

Wuhan officials face questions, anger over virus response

By DAKE KANG - Associated Press

In this March 27, 2017, file photo, tourists from China take pictures at the New England Aquarium in Boston. With tens of millions of Chinese ordered to stay put and many others opting to avoid travel as the new coronavirus spreads, tourism around the global is taking a heavy hit during one of the biggest travel seasons, the Lunar New Year. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

China virus outbreak rams global tourism, costing billions

By ELAINE KURTENBACH and ALEXANDRA OLSON - Associated Press

People burn joss sticks as they pray at the Wong Tai Sin Temple, in Hong Kong, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020 to celebrate the Lunar New Year which marks the Year of the Rat in the Chinese zodiac. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

New virus mutes Lunar New Year celebrations worldwide

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In this Friday, Jan. 24, 2020, photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a medical worker attends to a patient in the intensive care unit at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province. China expanded its lockdown against the deadly new virus to an unprecedented 36 million people and rushed to build a prefabricated, 1,000-bed hospital for victims Friday as the outbreak cast a pall over Lunar New Year, the country's biggest, most festive holiday. (Xiong Qi/Xinhua via AP)

Xi calls situation grave as China scrambles to contain virus

By KEN MORITSUGU - Associated Press

A man burn joss sticks as he prays at the Wong Tai Sin Temple, Friday, Jan. 24, 2020, in Hong Kong, to celebrate the Lunar New Year which marks the Year of the Rat in the Chinese zodiac. China is expanding its lockdown against the deadly new virus to an unprecedented 36 million people and rushing to build a prefabricated, 1,000-bed hospital for victims as the outbreak cast a pall over Lunar New Year, the country’s biggest and most festive holiday. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

For businesses, virus in China fans fear and uncertainty

By PAUL WISEMAN and MARTHA MENDOZA - Associated Press

A man rides his bicycle past the closed Hankou Railway Station in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020. Overnight, Wuhan authorities announced that the airport and train stations would be closed, and all public transportation suspended by 10 a.m. Friday. Unless they had a special reason, the government said, residents should not leave Wuhan, the sprawling central Chinese city of 11 million that's the epicenter of an epidemic that has infected nearly 600 people. (Chinatopix via AP)

Those trapped in China virus lockdown expect lonely holiday

By YANAN WANG - Associated Press

People wear protective face masks on a street in Hong Kong, Friday, Jan 24, 2020. China closed off a city of more than 11 million people Thursday, halting transportation and warning against public gatherings, to try to stop the spread of a deadly new virus that has sickened hundreds and spread to other cities and countries in the Lunar New Year travel rush. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

China expands lockdown against virus, fast-tracks hospital

By YANAN WANG - Associated Press

A militia member uses a digital thermometer to take a driver's temperature at a checkpoint at a highway toll gate in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020. China closed off a city of more than 11 million people Thursday in an unprecedented effort to try to contain a deadly new viral illness that has sickened hundreds and spread to other cities and countries amid the Lunar New Year travel rush. (Chinatopix via AP)

The Latest: WHO says China virus not global health emergency

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