Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and President Trump have struck a deal on a multi-billion stimulus package aimed at assisting millions of Americans directly hurt by the coronavirus outbreak. Pelosi announced the deal on Friday evening after days of roller-coaster negotiations MORE
The House prepared to vote Friday on a bipartisan economic relief package to help people impacted by the coronavirus. With both sides under enormous pressure to act to address the spiraling crisis, House Democrats were ready MORE
This week, we have talked about every aspect of a new strain of the Corona Virus, COVID-19. In typical NV fashion, as we’ve approached, researched, discussed, disagreed, processed, defined every aspect of the Virus, we’ve MORE
The main uncertainty in the coronavirus outbreak in the United States now is how big it will get, and how fast. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Nancy Messonnier told reporters on March 9, “many people MORE
The activist and whistleblower Chelsea Manning attempted suicide on Wednesday, her legal team said in a news release. The statement came only a few days before Manning was scheduled to appear at a court hearing MORE
Matt Gertz, a Media Matters senior fellow and the foremost chronicler of the insidious Trump-Fox News feedback loop, connected the dots: “Roughly an hour before his comments, a Fox News medical correspondent argued on-air that coronavirus MORE
ROME — Italy got the message. On the first day of Europe’s first nationwide restriction on movement and public gatherings to stem the rampant spread of the coronavirus, Italians steered clear of their streets, shops, MORE
Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Tuesday he was unaware of any indication from his agency that physical barriers along America’s borders would help halt the spread of the MORE
Mike Bloomberg’s shuttered presidential campaign is dismissing staffers across the country and inviting them to reapply for jobs on his new independent committee — despite extending guarantees of being paid through the November election when MORE
Watch The Grand Princess dock at the Port of Oakland. There are more than 3,500 passengers and crew aboard the ship, which has been lingering off the California coast since late last week. The ship MORE
Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein, 67, injured himself in Rikers Island jail when he fell while trying to walk on his own, according to a Page Six report. Weinstein fell on his head Saturday and may MORE
March 8, 2020, International Women’s Day, I’m thinking about the 2020 election. a female-free field now; I’m thinking of the “peace deal” with the Taliban because of what the Taliban does to women and girls; MORE
Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump was contradicted by a health expert on his coronavirus task force over the timing for a potential vaccine during a briefing Monday. Trump was asked about a timeline for a vaccine during the Cabinet Room meeting with MORE
I keep saying we’ve got to find another word for ‘beauty,’” Dame Helen Mirren said as she waited for her cue backstage at a catwalk show in Paris. “I think we should start calling it MORE
Only a handful of states into the 2020 primary, Democratic presidential candidates have already started arguing about what to do if no one wins a majority of delegates to this summer’s Democratic convention. But what MORE
President Trump is playing a shell game with the American people and rejecting the founding principle of this nation: We have a president, not a king. In a case to be argued before the Supreme MORE
The Taliban are to resume attacks against government forces, just days after signing a deal with the US aimed at bringing peace to Afghanistan. The hard-line Islamist group had observed a “reduction in violence” in MORE
If President Trump and his propagandists get their way, no one will ever raise a peep of criticism over his handling of coronavirus — thus placing our government’s response to a looming public health emergency beyond MORE
It’s no secret Sci-Fi is my favorite genre when it comes to movies, books, TV, comics, games. So why it took me so long to see “Ad Astra” is anyone’s guess– it’s fantastic; it passes MORE
Jared Kushner vowed on Friday that a second term from his father-in-law, President Donald Trump, would be both efficient and drama-free. The senior White House adviser claimed that Trump’s re-election campaign was running smoothly, much as the MORE
On September 26, 1996, the Taliban captured Kabul. I was a junior staffer at the Afghan Ministry of Defense. My job was mainly liaising with foreign and local media, international aid organizations and the small diplomatic MORE
Locations with Confirmed COVID-19 Cases China Hong Kong Macau Taiwan Afghanistan Algeria Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahrain Belarus Belgium Brazil Cambodia Canada Croatia Denmark Estonia Egypt Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Iceland India Iran Iraq Israel MORE
President Donald Trump’s theory of executive power starts and ends with his “absolute rights.” Trump invoked that catchphrase earlier this month, when, in apparent response to his angry tweets, the Justice Department undercut its own MORE
My favorite cartoon this week is Morona-Virus. .. .why? Great wordsmithing, for one, but also a reminder of the dumbest of dumb press conferences–the press briefing delivered by the Donald this week that managed once MORE
Jimmy Kimmel trolled Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and exposed some Republican voters’ lack of geographical knowledge at the same time on Wednesday’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Cruz last week retweeted footage of what he MORE