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What is life like under Italy’s national coronavirus lockdown? We spoke to one Rome resident about what’s changed.

A containment zone has been set up around New Rochelle, a city north of New York City. The 78,000 person city has seen more coronavirus cases than all of NYC, and they’re increasing fast, New York’s governor said. National guard troops will be brought in to help deliver food and clean public spaces.

Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden both canceled planned rallies in Cleveland last night. Earlier in the day Ohio’s governor advised people to avoid events with large crowds; how each candidate campaigns for the remainder of the primary is up in the air.

Uber may temporarily suspend the accounts of drivers and riders who have tested positive for the coronavirus, or have been exposed to it. “We have a team available 24/7 to support public health authorities in their response to the epidemic,” Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said yesterday.

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A self-quarantined resident of New Rochelle on Monday. (Mandel Ngan / Getty Images)

SNAPSHOTS

Robert Durst has admitted for the first time that he was at the crime scene following the murder of his friend Susan Berman. He’s denied it for almost 20 years, but on Tuesday his attorney reversed course, telling jurors at Durst’s murder trial that Durst discovered her body, panicked, and ran away.

Vladimir Putin could rule Russia for another 16 years. On Tuesday the Russian parliament took steps to effectively reset his presidential term limits.

The Trump administration is completing plans to send up to 2,000 asylum seekers to El Salvador. Officials held a secret meeting with El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele on Friday to finalize the deal.

EQUAL PAY

US Soccer has made its case for paying the women’s national team less than the men

Sure, unlike they men’s team they actually frequently win their games, dominate international tournaments and hold a large trophy in the air approximately once every four years, but that doesn’t mean they should be paid the same, US Soccer argued in a court filing this week.

The job of a player on the men’s team “carries more responsibility” than one on the women’s team, US Soccer argued, while “indisputable science” shows that playing for the men’s side “requires a higher level of skill” than is needed for the women’s team.

Go read the whole story from Molly Hensley-Clancy, as long as you’re ready and willing to throw your laptop into the ocean at some point.

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LURKING, IT’S GOOD

Did evolution prepare the human brain for TikTok?

“One night, deep into a TikTok scrolling session, it occurred to me: What is it doing to my brain? Specifically, what does it do when I sit in my bedroom and see into the bedrooms of thousands of people I’d never meet in real life? Is this bad for me?”

Thus begins an inquiry by Katie Notopoulos into a question we’ve all wondered at some point: are our brains equipped for this stuff? Specifically, are they equipped to follow hundreds, or thousands, of people through social media, knowing all these weird details of their lives, without actually knowing them?

You should read the whole thing, but the TL;DR is: yes, industrial-scale lurking is probably fine, or at least as “fine” as anything involving spending 18 hours a day on the internet can be.

Lurk to your heart’s content today

Tom