Executors managing the late Michael Jackson’s estate are donating $300,000 (£252,000) to coronavirus response efforts. The donation will be split between the Recording Academy’s MusicCares charity, the Three Square Food Bank in Las Vegas, Nevada, and New York’s Broadway Cares initiative, with each receiving $100,000 (£84,000).

John Branca and John McClain, the co-executors of the estate, said the death of Cameroonian musician Manu Dibango, whose work helped inspire Jackson’s hit Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’, had shocked them. “This virus strikes at the heart of the communities we are close to,” the officials told Variety. “We learned today that the legendary Manu Dibango passed away from the virus. “Other performers and support staff in

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Purported veterans and supporters of the so-called “Freedom convoy” removed fencing protecting the National War Memorial in Ottawa on Saturday. A police officer can be seen telling the demonstrators they would be responsible for taking care of the memorial, according to Global News’ Abigail Bimman, who was on the ground at the time.

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Convoy vehicles break through RCMP barricades as B.C. border crossing effectively closed

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CDC proposes change to opioid prescription guidelines

CDC officials said."We began to hear how the guidelines were being misused and misapplied" said the CDC's Christopher Jones, a co-author of the draft guidance.The proposed changes, contained in a 229-page draft update in the Federal Register, would roll back some suggested limits on the drugs. Their publication opens a 60-day public comment period.

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Protesters from the so-called “freedom convoy” in Ottawa have torn down a fence that had been put around the National War Memorial to protect it from further desecration.

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Paris Jackson adds another tattoo with an inscription on her neck

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