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                 As the Coronavirus pandemic spreads, households across the United States are hunkering down and emptying out store shelves that normally stocked with toilet paper and paper towels sit empty at all the big supermarket stores, toilet paper has become the ultimate symbol of the panic buying, it is seemingly scooped up as soon as new rolls hit the shelves, companies that help supply these everyday paper products are stunned and trying to adjust to this rapidly evolving new normal in consumer behavior. This run on toilet paper has struck many people as peculiar, given that the need for the product is not expected to grow as millions of Americans adjust to working from home, closed schools, canceled events and other abrupt interruptions to daily life caused by the pandemic, but stockpiling is not an uncommon reaction provoked by fear, social scientists say, fear of running out, fear of the unknown and what is coming in the fut...

                                    China and United States standoff escalates as Beijing expels major US media staff, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post journalists among staff ordered to stop reporting and leave. China will expel US reporters of three major US news outlets, in a hugely damaging attack on foreign media coverage of the country and an escalation of the showdown over the press between Washington and Beijing. The decision announced just after midnight Beijing time, requires US citizens working for the three major media to halt reporting and hand in their press cards within 10 days, if their credential expire before the end of 2020. China usually gives journalists only 12 month visas and press cards, so the measure is likely to impact most correspondents, it will decimate some of the biggest newsrooms in China and force reporters with decades of experience cove...