The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that the state of Michigan has been so negligent toward the educational needs of Detroit students that children have been “deprived of access to literacy” — the foundational MORE
North Carolina sees number of coronavirus -related deaths surpass 300 Source: RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – A leader of the ReOpen NC group revealed in a Facebook post that she tested positive for COVID-19. Audrey Whitlock MORE
Some of the richest people in the US have been at the front of the queue as the government has handed out trillions of dollars to prop up an economy it shuttered amid the coronavirus MORE
In the 1950s, when a reporter asked medical researcher Jonas Salk who owned the patent on the new polio vaccine, he replied, “Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent MORE
Tens of millions of pounds of American-grown produce is rotting in fields as food banks across the country scramble to meet a massive surge in demand, a two-pronged disaster that has deprived farmers of billions MORE
“Buddy and Barley are superstars in the town of Huntington….They have been requested on many cases, and we are making it well known that they can deliver beer to your house.” Karen Heuwetter and her MORE
The slaughter, also known as: “Depopulation has been done in the past on Delmarva and in the U.S. in response to cases of infectious avian disease,” said James Fisher, a spokesman for Delmarva Poultry. The MORE
The president’s financial dealings with the state-owned bank complicate his attacks on Biden Donald Trump is warning “China will own the United States” if Joe Biden is elected president. But Trump himself is tens MORE
What do an American comedian and an 18th-century French philosopher have to do with the coronavirus? These past days, when I’ve read the latest coronavirus news, I can’t help but think of Stephen Colbert and 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
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
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
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
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
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
The National Rifle Association’s legal troubles have cost the powerful gun rights group $100 million, according to a recording of the group’s board meeting obtained by NPR. In the January 2020 recording, NRA CEO Wayne MORE
Update to a prior NV Discussion Twenty-three people are now confirmed dead after the shooting rampage that began Saturday in Portapique, N.S., and ended Sunday almost 100 kilometres away in Enfield As police investigators compile MORE
With the federal Paycheck Protection Program out of money, some small business owners are expressing anger that bigger businesses — like pricey Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse chain — received tens of millions of dollars in assistance. Take Ruhel MORE
A bipartisan report from the Senate Intelligence committee released on Tuesday has backed the US intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 Presidential election to help then-candidate Donald Trump. MORE
CAPE GIRARDEAU — Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt sued the Chinese government Tuesday in federal court here, alleging that an “appalling campaign of deceit, concealment, misfeasance, and inaction by Chinese authorities unleashed this (coronavirus) pandemic.” The MORE
More deaths, no benefit from malaria drug in VA virus study Source: A malaria drug widely touted by President Donald Trump for treating the new coronavirus showed no benefit in a large analysis of its MORE
Over the last few weeks, it has started to appear as though, in addition to abandoning the states to their own devices in a time of national emergency, the federal government has effectively erected a blockade — like MORE
The Covid-19 racial disparity in infections and deaths is viewed as the latest chapter of historical injustices, generational poverty and a flawed health care system. The epidemic has hit African-Americans and Hispanics especially hard, including in MORE
When President Trump told governors that they needed to step up their efforts to secure medical supplies, Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland took the entreaty seriously and negotiated with suppliers in South Korea to obtain MORE