The White House is developing plans to get the U.S. economy back in action that depend on testing far more Americans for the coronavirus than has been possible to date, according to people familiar with the matter. The effort would likely begin in smaller cities and towns in states that havenât yet been heavily hit […]
The Republican Party is willing to get people killed to immunize itself from the threat of democratic accountability. Whatever happens in Wisconsinâs primary and State Supreme Court elections Tuesday, that should be the headline. Eleven U.S. states had primaries scheduled to take place this month. Ten either postponed their elections or transitioned to all-mail-in voting, […]
On Jan. 31, 2020, President Trump barred foreign nationals who had been in China in the past 14 days from entering the United States. This move bought the United States time to prepare for what most experts saw as an inevitable onslaught from COVID-19. The key to using that time was to develop tests for the virus and […]
(CNN)President Donald Trump made yet another series of false and misleading claims at his Monday coronavirus briefing, during which he repeatedly criticized reporters and frequently departed from his prepared text. Trump repeated false claims about coronavirus testing and about the Obama administration’s response to the H1N1 pandemic, baselessly dismissed a new report about hospital shortages […]
A top White House adviser starkly warned Trump administration officials in late January that the coronavirus crisis could cost the United States trillions of dollars and put millions of Americans at risk of illness or death. The warning, written in a memo by Peter Navarro, President Trumpâs trade adviser, is the highest-level alert known to […]
WASHINGTON â Hospitals across the country face dire shortages of vital medical equipment amid the coronavirus outbreak â including testing kits and thermometers â and fear they can’t ensure the safety of health care workers needed to treat patients with COVID-19, according to an internal government watchdog report released Monday. The alarming findings, based on interviews conducted […]
Ohio state Rep. Tavia Galonski (D) said that she will make a âreferral for crimes against humanityâ over President Trumpâs promotion of the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for novel coronavirus, despite its unproven benefits and lack of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval. âI canât take it anymore. Iâve been to The Hague. Iâm making a referral […]
hen a Florida pastor, who had been arrested for holding a church service despite local coronavirus restrictions, complained he was the victim of âa tyrannical governmentâ, Ron DeSantis, the stateâs Republican governor, was listening. In executive orders issued in quick succession this week, DeSantis designated religious services as âessential activitiesâ. Then he swept away the right of cities […]
