While not yet as loaded as a “Make America Great Again” hat, the mask is increasingly a visual shorthand for a debate pitting those willing to follow health officials’ guidance and cover their faces against MORE
The friend said Cynthia Covert saw an alligator in the pond and was fascinated by it, so she went outside of the porch and took pictures of the animal. According to deputies, as the friend MORE
Dr. Rick Bright’s complaint says Health and Human Services leadership was slow to react and pushed contracts “based on political connections.” Source: A top Health and Human Services official who says he was shoved out of MORE
Venezuela claims to have captured two Americans involved in failed invasion Source: (CNN)Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says two American “mercenaries” have been apprehended after a failed coup attempt launched over the weekend. President Donald Trump on MORE
Scientists have identified a new strain of the coronavirus that has become dominant worldwide and appears to be more contagious than the versions that spread in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to MORE
Alois Schmitt sweeps the pollen from a bench in his deserted beer garden. Coronavirus has driven away all his customers. Pollen swirls up in a yellow cloud as Schmitt sits down and gazes thoughtfully across MORE
Ahmaud Arbery was chased down and then killed by a father and son who said he looked suspicious Source: SAVANNAH, Ga. — A Georgia prosecutor says he wants a grand jury to consider criminal charges MORE
Amazon VP Quits, Destroys Company for ‘Chickensh*t’ Firing of Whistleblowers in Scorched Earth Letter Amazon VP Quits, Destroys Company for ‘Chickensh*t’ Firing of Whistleblowers in Scorched Earth Letter Source: An Amazon engineer and vice president MORE
WY has produced more coal than any other state in the country since 1986,… But it’s no secret that the coal industry was already sinking, showing symptoms of structural decline. Utilities have shied away from MORE
BAD AXE, Michigan About 6:10 p.m. on Friday, May 1, Huron County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the shooting scene within Duggan’s Family Campground at 2941 Port Austin Road in Hume Township. They arrived to see MORE
“I can tell you that there is a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory in Wuhan,” Pompeo said, when asked about Trump’s claim this week to have seen intelligence confirming the MORE
FBI Docs Hint Israel Colluded With Roger Stone In 2016 Source: Israeli Official Told Roger Stone in 2016 That Trump Would ‘Be Defeated Unless We Intervene’: Report FBI documents reveal President Donald Trump’s former adviser Roger Stone was MORE
White House blocks Fauci from testifying to Congress on coronavirus response Source: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Top U.S. health official Anthony Fauci will not testify next week to a congressional committee examining the Trump administration’s response MORE
DeVos not enforcing pause on wage garnishments, lawsuit says Source: The U.S. Education Department has continued to garnish wages from workers who are behind on their student loan payments even after Congress ordered the agency MORE
New Yorker writer Jane Mayer is the latest to take a deep dive into the life and mind of McConnell. In a lengthy profile for the April 20, 2020 issue, Mayer documents McConnell’s capitulations to President MORE
‘And then, boom’: Outbreak shows shaky ground as Texas opens Associated Press: Barely a week ago, rural Lamar County could make a pretty good argument for Texas’ reopening on Friday. Then an outbreak at a MORE
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court Wednesday declared unconstitutional a Kansas law that required proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, with a rebuke for the Republican former secretary of state who had championed MORE
A row between Donald Trump and his election campaign manager, Brad Parscale, over a recent drop in the president’s poll numbers resulted in Trump threatening Parscale with a lawsuit. The argument reportedly happened last Friday, as MORE
As states begin to lift quarantines, President Trump is trying to recast the story of the pandemic from that of an administration slow to see and address the threat to one that responded with decisive action that saved lives. MORE
Senior Trump administration officials have pushed American spy agencies to hunt for evidence to support an unsubstantiated theory that a government laboratory in Wuhan, China, was the origin of the coronavirus outbreak, according to current and former American officials. The effort comes as President Trump escalates a public campaign to blame China for the pandemic. MORE
2018 data released Army & Marine Corps infantry and gun crews, Air Force service and supply handlers and Navy electricians or mechanics are among the military jobs that had the highest numbers of suicides in MORE
Business groups are pushing Congress to limit liability from potential lawsuits filed by workers and customers infected by the coronavirus. President Donald Trump has also floated shielding businesses from lawsuits. His top economic adviser Larry MORE
April 28 (Reuters) – U.S. cases of the novel coronavirus topped 1 million on Tuesday, having doubled in 18 days, and making up one-third of all infections in the world, according to a Reuters tally. MORE
“Planning protest to #ReOpenAmerica? EVERYONE wear scrubs & masks – the media doesn’t care if you are really in healthcare or not – it’s the ‘message’ that matters.” Wing Nut Dr. Kelli Ward The chairwoman MORE
“The president of the republic … is also subject to the laws, just like any other of the country’s citizens,” the supreme court judge Celso de Mello noted in his decision on Monday night. “No MORE