Category: News
WHO Director General on Coronavirus: ‘World Should Have Listened to WHO … Carefully’
While Donald Trump has sharply criticized the World Health Organization's response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, the organization was actually ringing the early alarm on the global emergency, according to the chief of the WHO.
Schiff: Every American Must Have ‘Easy Access to Voting by Mail with a Postage Paid Ballot’
In the debate raging over what exactly Election Day 2020 might look like, a senior Democratic lawmaker wants to ensure that every American voter has access to ballot-by-mail so as to avoid crowds and the potential for infection by the novel coronavirus, should that continue to be a concern by November.
Although Trump Says the U.S. Is Performing More Than 200,000 Tests a Day, Fmr. US Ebola Official Says It’s ‘Not Near Enough’ To Consider Reopening
Despite the progress Trump claimed, it's still not enough to start loosening the extreme lockdown conditions in place to slow the spread of the virus, but have also shuttered much of the US economy for weeks, according to the former federal official who oversaw the US response to the Ebola in late 2014 into early 2015.
Fmr. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack: ‘The Food Supply Chain Is Threatened in Some Parts of the Country’
One of the lesser-seen, but potentially disastrous, effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic is a potential breakdown of the US food supply.
Trump’s Re-Election Strategy Is ‘Jekyll and Hyde,’ Pundit Zakaria Says
Donald Trump's attitude toward reopening the nation's economy from its coronavirus-induced deep freeze has been surprisingly inconsistent because he's basing his coming re-election bid on "Jekyll and Hyde" populist campaign, according to journalist and CNN host Fareed Zakaria.
While Disinfectant Comments Cause Trump To Retreat from View, They Cast Unwanted Spotlight on Dr Birx
While the fierce blowback from remarks he made last week about taking household disinfectants internally has caused Donald Trump to put an end to the daily briefings he led at the White House, it's causing some new and unwanted scrutiny for one of the nation's top officials leading the federal response to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Schiff Suggests ‘50,000 Americans Now Are Dead’ Because Trump Wasn’t Removed
The deaths of those Americans who have passed away due to COVID-19 is the result of an incompetent Donald Trump not being removed from office as a result of his Senate impeachment trial earlier this year. That's according to the top House Democrat who led the prosecution of Trump during that trial.
Fallout From Trump’s Disinfectant Comments Continues
Worry and criticism continues to reverberate over Donald Trump's comments from late last week in which he seemed to suggest that Americans could inject themselves with--or otherwise consume--household disinfectant products as an intervention against COVID-19.
OK City Mayor: My Gut Says May 1 Is Too Early to Reopen
Not everyone in Red State America is matching in step with a quick reopening of their economies in the face of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Rep. Tim Ryan Calls for $2,000 a Month for Americans for at Least 6 Months: ‘Shot in the Arm The Average Person Needs’
The US government should be providing most Americans with $2,000 per month, for at least six months, to help them through the deepening economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Democratic congressman and one-time presidential candidate.