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Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY Published 12:52 a.m. ET March 8, 2020 | Updated 3:11 a.m. ET March 8, 2020CLOSE This weekend: Ben Affleck in "The Way Back," Mandy Moore's first album in almost 11 years and Bond star Daniel Craig to host "Saturday Night Live." USA TODAYThe real "James Bond" movie may be delayed, but "Saturday Night Live" host Daniel Craig won't let that stop fans from catching an early glimpse.Craig, returning to host for the first time in eight years, introduced a parody sneak peek clip of "No Time to Die" during his opening monologue. "You also may have heard…

Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY Published 12:10 a.m. ET March 8, 2020 | Updated 1:38 a.m. ET March 8, 2020CLOSE This weekend: Ben Affleck in "The Way Back," Mandy Moore's first album in almost 11 years and Bond star Daniel Craig to host "Saturday Night Live." USA TODAYThe real-life Elizabeth Warren crashed the "Saturday Night Live" cold open after suspending her 2020 presidential campaign this week.The show's cold open featured Kate McKinnon as Fox News host Laura Ingraham, assuring viewers they had nothing to worry about when it came to coronavirus, dubbing concern over the virus "liberal fanfiction." McKinnon's Ingraham was joined by…

Curtis Tate and Antonio Fins and Morgan Hines Published 9:07 p.m. ET March 7, 2020 | Updated 10:31 p.m. ET March 7, 2020CLOSE Airline ticket prices are taking a dive amid the coronavirus outbreak. Veuer’s TC Newman has more. Buzz60Cruise companies will change how they board passengers after Princess Cruises said Saturday that a California man who died on Wednesday was likely infected with the coronavirus before he boarded the Grand Princess last month.The discovery that a Grand Princess passenger apparently boarded the ship with an infection suggests that community spread began weeks before officials first diagnosed the nation's first coronavirus case of unknown…

CLOSEAutoplayShow ThumbnailsShow CaptionsLast SlideNext SlideNASHVILLE, Tenn. – As catastrophe turns to recovery, thousands of volunteers deployed into all corners of Nashville to aid in cleanup efforts Saturday after a tornado tore through the city earlier this week.Volunteers and tools crammed cars headed straight into the neighborhoods of North Nashville.The sound of chainsaws buzzed throughout the area as volunteers hauled tornado debris out for collection along the curbs, sorting the mixed debris into three different piles for pickup.On one corner lot, volunteers helped a man sift through his belongings in a bedroom that the storm had left exposed for the outside…

Maria Puente, USA TODAY Published 2:50 p.m. ET March 7, 2020 | Updated 2:51 p.m. ET March 7, 2020CLOSE Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan returned to the U.K. and are staying at their former home at Frogmore House on the Windsor Castle estate. USA TODAYRoyal fans got another glimpse of Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan of Sussex as their "farewell tour" of sorts continued Saturday in London at the Royal Albert Hall at a music festival showcasing Britain's military bands.The Canada-bound couple, whose status as working senior royals will change on April 1, arrived at the venue named for one…

Eskom says it managed to bring back the generating units that tripped on Friday night and threatened the return of load shedding on Saturday. The power utility said load shedding has since been averted for the weekend. Seven of its generation units broke down on Friday night."Through hard work and dedication, with a clear focus to understand what went wrong last night, Eskom teams have managed to recover some generation units and avert the possibility of loadshedding for this weekend," said Eskom.The power utility also said that it’s replenishing its emergency reserves for the coming week, meaning less probability of…

Rand Water has threatened to reduce its water supply to three defaulting municipalities by 20%.According to Rand Water, the Ngwathe municipality in the Free State, Govan Mbeki municipality in Mpumalanga, and Madibeng in the North West owes the institution millions of rands due to non-payment.Rand Water spokesperson Justice Mohale said it has formally notified three of its municipal customers of its intention to reduce water pressure."The water pressure to the Ngwathe local municipality in the Free State will be reduced by 20% on Monday should the municipality fail to settle the arrears amount due to Rand Water." The arrears amount…

Restructuring Eskom's debt won't happen overnight, and as a starting point all relevant role players – government, business, labour and Eskom itself will have to find each other through a social compact to develop a solution. This message has become louder in recent weeks, following the release of labour federation Cosatu's proposals to turnaround the power utility, which is overburdened with mounting debt of over R454 billion.Among its proposals which address operational challenges and financial challenges, Cosatu has put forward that government establish a special purpose finance vehicle to reduce Eskom's debt to a more manageable R200 billion. What this…

Former finance minister Barend du Plessis will be taking legal steps against the publisher of The Lost Boys of Bird Island, in which he is implicated as having participated in a "paedophilia ring" with other senior apartheid ministers. According to Rapport, Du Plessis' lawyer, Johan Victor, confirmed that his client intended to sue and said an apology issued by NB Uitgewers last week left "more questions than answers". Tafelberg, which published the book, is a subsidiary of NB Uitgewers, which is part of Media24. On Tuesday, the book was withdrawn by its publishers, News24 reported. According to the book - which was co-written…

ANC MP Boy Mamabolo is facing more trouble after his former partner and mother of his child accused him of attempting to silence her over allegations of physical, verbal and emotional abuse.Magdeline Makgatho claimed Mamabolo threatened to sue her for R1m if she did not retract the comments she made to the Sunday World newspaper accusing him of abuse.She is also calling on him to resign as an MP."Boy must take accountability and resign as an MP as opposed to pretending to be crusader against women abuse."Makgatho, through her lawyers, told News24 Mamabolo claimed allegations she had levelled against him…