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A woman pushes a baby in a stroller under a canopy of cherry blossoms in the Kenwood neighborhood of Bethesda, Md., Tuesday, March 24, 2020. Kenwood may be a stand-in for some for Washington, DC's National Cherry Blossom Festival that has been canceled because of the coronavirus outbreak. In the early 1930s and 1940s, cherry trees were planted to promote the neighborhood to potential home buyers. Now, over 1,200 cherry trees grace the neighborhood and bloom during the spring season. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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US eyes new outbreaks as infections worldwide top 590,000
March 27, 2020 10:53 p.m.

US eyes new outbreaks as infections worldwide top 590,000

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans rushed to build a makeshift hospital in its convention center Friday as troubling new outbreaks bubbled in the United States, deaths surged in Italy and Spain and the world warily trudged through the pandemic that has sickened more than a half-million people.