In a Thursday appearance on the Fox News show “The Ingraham Angle,” Phil McGraw suggested it was dangerous to shut down the economy in order to stop the COVID-19 pandemic. “The fact of the matter MORE
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices plunged below zero on Monday as demand for energy collapses amid the coronavirus pandemic and traders don’t want to get stuck owning crude with nowhere to store it. Stocks MORE
FILMMAKER’S VIEW By Michael Niermann When I first came across photojournalist Romi Perbawa’s photos, I was enthralled by the powerful images of young boys…. I wanted to discover more about the child jockeys of Sumbawa. MORE
President Donald Trump has recently been waging war against inspectors general whose job is to investigate alleged wrongdoing in various departments of his administration. Source: However, the president will have far less luck in thwarting MORE
Lack of Modernization in Many States is Causing Big Problems Source: Colorado — like most states and territories across the country — is experiencing record unemployment numbers. But the state’s unemployment system is built on MORE
Restrictions have sent financial markets into free fall. But they have also given residents in some of the world’s most polluted cities something they have not experienced in years: clean air. Reuters visualisations, based on MORE
Summary: Chomsky states that this is the most important election in history. It’s imperative that we remove the malignancy from office, as a simple matter of voting arithmetic. We cannot sustain 4 more years of MORE
Texas Woman Who Claimed COVID-19 Was ‘Media Driven’ Hoax Dies From Virus https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2020/04/texas-woman-who-claimed-covid-19-was-media-driven-hoax-dies-from-virus/#disqus_thread Source: “MAGA”: Karen Kolb Sehlke, a Trump-loving woman from Texas is dead from COVID-19 after claiming the virus was a “media driven” MORE
Trump Campaign Secretly Paying $180,000 A Year To His Sons’ Significant Others Source: WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump’s campaign is secretly paying one Trump son’s wife and another one’s girlfriend $180,000 a year each through MORE
While protesters in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and other states claim to speak for ordinary citizens, many are also supported by street-fighting rightwing groups like the Proud Boys, conservative armed militia groups, religious fundamentalists, anti-vaccination groups MORE
A small-town police department in Maryland has reminded residents to wear pants while checking the mail, yet another sign that many people working during stay-at-home orders are dressing casually, if they’re getting dressed at all. “Please MORE
While supermarkets selling chilled or frozen meats are increasingly popular in Asia, older shoppers generally prefer buying freshly slaughtered meat for daily consumption, believing it produces flavour in dishes and soup that is superior to MORE
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday announced the next phase of the country’s plan to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus and its resulting disease, COVID-19. […] Retailers smaller than 800 square meters (8,610 MORE
“Based on our study, if you have smell and taste loss, you are more than 10 times more likely to have COVID-19 infection than other causes of infection,” Dr. Carol Yan, an otolaryngologist and head MORE
Texas AG threatens to criminally sanction any group that tells voters to apply for a mail-in ballot to avoid COVID-19 On Wednesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office issued a letter saying that the state’s official position MORE
A surprise company outing to an airbase caused a 64-year-old French man so much stress that he flung himself from a fighter jet in midair, grabbing the ejector button in a panic and tumbling through the skies above France before landing in a field. MORE
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Tuesday defended the decision to label World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and other professional sports as “essential services” amid the coronavirus pandemic, saying that people were “starved for content.” “People MORE
President Trump’s decision to suspend funding to the World Health Organization is meeting with furious blowback from business groups, Democrats, foreign leaders and health groups, who say he is jeopardizing the global response to the MORE
(Bloomberg) — Hydroxychloroquine, the 65-year-old malaria drug that President Donald Trump has praised, appeared not to help patients get rid of the pathogen in a small study. The pill didn’t help patients clear the virus MORE
After three years in the White House, this much about Trump is clear: Those who want to deny him the presidency are much more determined to vote now than they were four years ago. Democrats’ MORE
The Treasury Department has ordered President Trump’s name be printed on stimulus checks the Internal Revenue Service is rushing to send to tens of millions of Americans, a process that could slow their delivery by MORE
More than 9,000 health care workers across the U.S. contracted COVID-19 as of last week and at least 27 died, according to a report released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of the MORE
Student files class-action lawsuit against Liberty University over Coronavirus response Source: CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) – Lynchburg’s Liberty University is facing a multi-million dollar class action lawsuit from a Charlottesville-based law firm. MichieHamlett Attorneys at Law MORE
More than 80 percent of the benefits of a tax change tucked into the coronavirus relief package Congress passed last month will go to those who earn more than $1 million annually, according to a MORE
Reps. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.), Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) and Justin Amash (I-Mich.) introduced a one-sentence resolution on Tuesday pushing back on President Trump’s claims that he has total authority over when states can begin to ease MORE