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It’s 5:00 Somewhere
TGIF, News Viewers! Come on in, sit down, and get yourself a cocktail. It’s Friday, and while we mourn our bars and restaurants shuttering, it doesn’t mean you can’t have a drink with friends! MORE
Year: 2020
Economy
DOW tanks 900+ points; ends worst week since 2008
Stocks attempted to rally on Friday, but failed, concluding one of the most volatile weeks on Wall Street ever as investors grapple with mounting fears over the coronavirus’ economic blow. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 913 MORE
Sports
It’s Official: Tom Brady Signs with Tampa Bay
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have a new quarterback on the roster after 42-year-old Tom Brady signed on Friday. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Brady signed a two-year deal for a guaranteed $50 million with another $9 MORE
News
Trump Melts Down at NBC’s Peter Alexander
Trump exhibited a meltdown with NBC correspondent Peter Alexander at the Coronavirus press conference, claiming he was a “terrible reporter.” Trump’s tantrum came after Alexander asked him to calm Americans’ fears after 200 deaths and MORE
Breaking News
Tax Day moved from April 15 to July 15
The deadline for Americans to file their taxes will shift from April 15 to July 15, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Twitter Friday. The move is the latest in a series of highly unusual, MORE
Coronavirus
Majority of Americans approve of Trump’s management of the Coronavirus crisis
In the new poll, 55% of Americans approve of the president’s management of the crisis, compared to 43% who disapprove. Trump’s approval on this issue is up from last week, when the numbers were nearly MORE
Coronavirus
Live, Friday, March 20; 11:45 a.m. Coronavirus Task Force Press Briefing
Join us for our Live Discussion during the daily press briefing of the COVID-19 Task Force. Maybe the question of the age will finally be answered, “If not now, when?”
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 12
Yes, Coronavirus has been news, but the real news this week hasn’t been the Coronavirus, it’s been the “press briefings” given daily by the “Coronavirus Task Force.” To truly understand the level of incompetence, condescension, MORE
News
Fake News, OAN plant fuels and propagates Trump’s racism, talking points, and hate for the press
Chinese food, seriously?!?! “O-A-N. Very good. Thank you very much. You treat me very nicely.” Trump fielded an extraordinary question from one of his favorite news outlets at the White House’s daily coronavirus press briefing Thursday, MORE
Economy
Trump doesn’t want states to report their bigly unemployment numbers
The Trump administration is asking state labor officials to delay releasing the precise number of unemployment claims they are fielding, an indication of how uneasy policymakers are about further roiling a stock market already plunging MORE
Coronavirus
CA Gov. Newsom projects more than half of state will get infected with the Coronavirus within 2 months
“We project that roughly 56 percent of our population – 25.5 million people – will be infected with the virus over an eight-week period.” Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office projects that more than half of all MORE
Coronavirus
Pennsylvania Governor Wolf orders all non-life-sustaining businesses to close
Gov. Tom Wolf has ordered all non-life-sustaining businesses in Pennsylvania to close their physical locations as of 8 p.m. today to slow the spread of COVID-19. The order, effective immediately and to remain in effect MORE
Editorials
Why haven’t we panicked about climate change like we have over coronavirus?
Because “outbreak” and “pandemic” and any of a dozen high-stakes words accompany dispatches about the deadly novel coronavirus, it’s not surprising, nor ill-advised, that the news media and financial markets respond with alarm to COVID-19. MORE
Coronavirus
COVID-19: Ways To Help
As we stay home and roam the virtual world during the coronavirus pandemic it’s easy to find worrying and scary information, and right now it looks like it could be a while until things start MORE
Civil Rights
Green Bay Packer Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila tasered; arrested after refusing to sign document
Last episode KGB had issues with a school his children were attending… Judge Donald Zuidmulder sentenced Gbaja-Biamila to six months in county jail for refusing to sign the documents [which he previously agreed to sign], MORE
News
Republican dumped up to $1.6 million of stock — after reassuring America about coronavirus preparedness
Soon after he offered public assurances that the government was ready to battle the coronavirus, the powerful chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr, sold off a significant percentage of his stocks, unloading between $582,029 MORE
Coronavirus
State Department set to announce Level 4 travel advisory
The State Department is set to announce a Level 4 travel advisory applying to all international travel, its most severe warning, three individuals with knowledge of the pending announcement said. The advisory would instruct all MORE
Asia
China Is Avoiding Blame by Trolling the World
The evidence of China’s deliberate cover-up of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan is a matter of public record. In suppressing information about the virus, doing little to contain it, and allowing it to spread unchecked MORE
2020 Elections
Tulsi Gabbard ends her presidential campaign; endorses VP Joe Biden
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii dropped out of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary race on Thursday and endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden. “Today, I’m suspending my presidential campaign, and offering my full support to MORE
News
Live: Corona Virus Task Force Breathes on Each Other, Next Up, Thursday
Join News Views for a Live Discussion on Trump, Pastor Pence, and the Coronavirus Warriors press conference.
Immigration
Trump’s crackdown on migrant workers has left the US farm industry with labor shortages
Farm group warns of ‘bare shelves’ without expedited work visas Agricultural employers warned of “bare shelves in grocery stores” in a letter to the State Department if it does not find a way to expedite MORE
Coronavirus
Italy: Solidarity in the time of disease
Two Corona Virus Volunteers in Italy There are the long-term residents of the council homes built decades ago, who hang out in the local bars or read newspapers on benches in the pedestrian areas. Then MORE
News
Meet the Americans still going out and gathering in large groups
As early as 10 days ago, the top U.S. infectious diseases expert, Anthony Fauci, began warning about the need to social distance and avoid crowds, then on Sunday the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and MORE
Coronavirus
The Youngsters Comprise Big Portion of Coronavirus Hospitalizations in U.S.
American adults of all ages — not just those in their 70s, 80s and 90s — are being seriously sickened by the coronavirus, according to a report on nearly 2,500 of the first recorded cases MORE
Coronavirus
Without this critical assessment, the government doesn’t know what to buy. Trump still hasn’t done it.
Will Trump be able to get emergency medical supplies fast enough? Source: President Donald Trump on Wednesday invoked the Defense Production Act to get medical equipment to hospitals in the fight against the coronavirus. But don’t expect MORE