The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, on April 19, 1995.

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Oklahoma City Bombing April 19, 1995

Oklahoma City firefighter CHRIS FIELDS, 30, holds baby ANGEL BAYLEE ALMON (April 18, 1994 – April 19, 1995) . Baylee was thrown from the the Stars and Stripes Daycare Center on the first floor of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building when the explosion occurred. A massive fertilizer bomb was detonated in a Ryder Rent-a-Truck. The convicted bomber Timothy McVeigh was executed June 11, 2001 for the act of terrorism. Co-conspirator Terry Nichols is serving multiple life sentences. Baylee, whom later died as one of the 168 victims, had just celebrated her first birthday, one day before the bombing.

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Scott Mc Kiernan Presents the ZUMA PRESS zReportage Magazine story #732: ‘COVID-19 EPICENTER’ by Marcus Santos via ZUMA Wire

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COVID-19 EPICENTER: Battle Ground New York

The United States passed the grim milestone of 20,000 coronavirus deaths as huge swathes of the globe celebrated the Easter holiday weekend under lockdown at home. About half the deaths in the US are in the New York metropolitan area, where hospitalizations are nevertheless slowing and other indicators suggest lockdowns and social distancing are ‘flattening the curve’ of infections and staving off the doomsday scenarios of just a week or two ago. The death toll from the new coronavirus in New York state, the US epicenter of the deadly pandemic, has passed 10,000, Governor Andrew Cuomo said. 671 people had died in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of fatalities in the state to 10,056. The coronavirus has again made New York ground zero in a national tragedy and the center of a crisis that is reshaping Americans’ daily lives. At New York City-area hospitals on the front lines of the biggest coronavirus outbreak in the nation, workers are increasingly concerned about the ravages of the illness in their own ranks, and a lack of testing and protective gear. The outbreak has now claimed the lives of at least 20,389 people in the US, which leads the world in deaths and in the number of declared infections, at least 524,903, according to a tally maintained by Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University.

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William Luther/San Antonio Express News via ZUMA Press featured on Mother Jones.com April 14th, 2020

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April 9, 2020, Texas, USA: Vehicles start lining up before dawn as locals are hit hard by economic effects of coronavirus. People wait in their cars at Traders Village for the San Antonio Food Bank to begin food distribution. 10,000 people seek San Antonio Food Bank help. The need for emergency food aid has exploded in recent weeks due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Labor Department said Thursday that 6.6 million people applied for first time unemployment benefits.

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ZUMA’s Jack Kurtz featured on Mother Jones.com April 14, 2020

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April 11, 2020, Des Moines, Iowa, U.S: JORDON ELWELL, owner and CEO of Midwest Foods, uses a plastic table to pass a ready to cook pasta meal to a motorist during a food distribution in Des Moines. Most non-essential businesses in Iowa are closed until 30 April. Because of business closings causes by the Novel Coronavirus  pandemic, well over 100,000 Iowans filed first time claims for unemployment in the last three weeks, more than applied during the peak of the Great Recession of 2008. Local food banks have seen an unprecedented spike in people seeking nutritional assistance. Midwest Foods, a Des Moines based company and owner of Ginos Fine Italian Foods, gave away 1,000 complete dinners with sauce, noodles, salad, and dressing Saturday morning. People started lining up 3 hours before the food distribution began. The food distribution was done following ”social distancing” guidelines and all of the workers wore masks and gloves.

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April 6, 2020, Des Moines, Iowa, U.S: MARIA CUNNINGHAM, a volunteer, sorts bags of food before a drive through emergency food distribution at First DSM Church in Des Moines. On Monday, 06 April, Iowa reported 946 confirmed cases of the Novel Coronavirus COVID-19. There have been 25 deaths attributed to COVID-19 in Iowa. Most non-essential businesses are closed until 30 April. Well over 100,000 Iowans filed first time claims for unemployment in the last three weeks, more than applied during the peak of the Great Recession of 2008. Local food banks have seen an equal spike in people seeking nutritional assistance. First DSM Church has increased their food pantry from one day weekly to three days per week. Hundreds of people lined up Monday to get a box of food and one roll of toilet paper at the church’s drive through pantry.

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