The oldest brother of Senator Elizabeth Warren died on Tuesday of coronavirus. Donald Reed Herring, 86, died in Norman, Oklahoma, approximately three weeks after testing positive for the virus. “What made him extra special was MORE
Happy birthday, William Shakespeare. You don’t look a day over 455. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, in April 1564. The exact date of his birth is not recorded, but it is most often celebrated MORE
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday he would rather let state governments declare bankruptcy during the coronavirus pandemic than receive more federal funding, prompting Long Island GOP Rep. Peter King to call him the MORE
More than a quarter of 18- to 29-year-olds are motivated to vote this year because of Trump, and how he has made their lives worse, according to a new Harvard Youth Poll. The poll finds MORE
Weekly jobless claims totaled 4.4 million last week, slightly more than expected. The five-week total is now 26.4 million, more than all of the jobs added since the Great recession. The totals remain elevated as MORE
Doubling the number of tests conducted from the current 1 million per week, as the White House recommends, is far more complicated than that. In addition to solving the complex global supply chain problems with MORE
The coronavirus didn’t break America. It revealed what was already broken. When the virus came here, it found a country with serious underlying conditions, and it exploited them ruthlessly. Chronic ills—a corrupt political class, a sclerotic MORE
The Journal of American Medicine (JAMA) just released a released a paper detailing new findings on COVID-19 and what we now know about New York State’s largest health system. According to The Washington Post: Researchers MORE
German Health Minister Jens Spahn has announced the first clinical trials of a coronavirus vaccine. The Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI), the regulatory authority which helps develop and authorizes vaccines in Germany, has given the go-ahead MORE
Two cats in New York have been infected with the novel coronavirus, federal officials announced Wednesday. Both had mild respiratory symptoms and are expected to make a full recovery. “These are the first pets in MORE
By the end of the week, residents in Georgia will be able to get their hair permed and nails done. By Monday, they will be cleared for action flicks at the cineplex and burgers at their favorite MORE
“I wish I could prescribe a specific date to say that we can turn on that light switch and go back to normalcy. We have tried to make it crystal clear that there is no MORE
In a scathing letter, the former director of the federal agency overseeing the development of a coronavirus vaccine claims he was removed from his post following clashes with Trump administration officials over their pushing of unproven and MORE
Join News Views for a Live Discussion on Trump, Pastor Pence, Scarf Lady, and the real Coronavirus Warrior, Dr. Fauci’s press briefing. More than likely, the Warriors will begin their briefing late, as usual, but allegedly, they scheduled for 5 MORE
During an interview on Wednesday with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, the mayor of Las Vegas, Carolyn Goodman, says the shutdowns are “total insanity” and it’s time to open up her city. Goodman said she is willing MORE
Craig Coopersmith was up early that morning as usual and typed his daily inquiry into his phone. “Good morning, Team Covid,” he wrote, asking for updates from the ICU team leaders working across 10 hospitals MORE
The individuals who tested posthumously for COVID-19 died at home on February 6 and February 17, according to autopsy results released by the county late Tuesday. The deaths appear to be the first confirmed coronavirus MORE
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer said on Tuesday in an Associated Press interview that messaging from Trump amid the coronavirus crisis has been inconsistent and not what the country needs from its leadership right now. Whitmer’s MORE
DATELINE: PUNTA GORDA, Fla. – After a tough day of drinking, bonding and talking about the coronavirus with his son, Larry Clyatt Sr. decides it’s a good time to clean his pistol. Clyatt Sr. was MORE
An heir to the Walt Disney fortune has criticised the company for protecting executive bonuses and dividends of more than $1.5bn (£1.2bn) while cutting the pay of more than 100,000 workers to help weather the MORE
Officials have identified seven people who appear to have contracted the coronavirus through activities related to the April 7 election in Wisconsin, Milwaukee’s health commissioner said. Commissioner Jeanette Kowalik said six of the cases involve MORE
“I have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea.” -DJT Trump tweeted Wednesday that he has instructed the US Navy MORE
The skies are clearing of pollution, wildlife is returning to newly clear waters, a host of flights have been scrapped and crude oil is so worthless that the industry would have to pay you to MORE
Republican street theater, maybe even (or perhaps especially) when it threatens public safety or human decency, works like catnip to the mainstream media, who invariably trot out their prefabricated clichés about “economic anxiety.” Honorable exceptions MORE
Example: A limerick is a humorous poem consisting of five lines. The first, second, and fifth lines must have seven to ten syllables while rhyming and having the same verbal rhythm. The third and fourth lines should MORE