West Texas Ector County Sheriff Mike Griffis said during a news conference Tuesday that his officers were alerted that the owner of Big Daddy Zane’s in West Odessa, Texas, opened her bar even though Gov. Greg MORE
Despite growing evidence that the pandemic is still raging, President Trump and other administration officials said on Tuesday that they had made so much progress in bringing it under control that they planned to wind MORE
On Sunday, Pompeo said: “There is enormous evidence that that’s where this began,” later adding: “I can tell you that there is a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory in Wuhan.” 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
A 68-year-old man is in police custody, pending charges, after allegedly wiping his nose and face on the shirt of a Dollar Tree clerk who asked him to wear a mask inside the store. The incident MORE
As governments around the world consider how to monitor new coronavirus outbreaks while reopening their societies, many are starting to bet on smartphone apps to help stanch the pandemic. But their decisions on which technologies to use 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
NU††ER WA†CH DATELINE: COLUMBUS, Ohio Republican Ohio State Rep. Nino Vitale, has been a critic of Governor DeWitt’s stay-at-home orders and the recommendations of Ohio Health Director Amy Acton. He has referred to Dr. Acton MORE
As states are trying to reopen their economies, the Trump administration is privately projecting steady rises in cases, according to a new document obtained by the New York Times, showing deaths nearly doubling to 3,000 MORE
In the most intense protest yet against California’s stay-at-home order, demonstrators crowded the Capitol on Friday and scuffled with California Highway Patrol officers who had ordered them to disperse. Authorities said late Friday 32 people MORE
Trump on Sunday took aim at George W. Bush after he issued a call to push partisanship aside amid the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. Bush urged Americans to remember “how small our differences are 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
News of the first Covid-19 death at the Tyson Foods poultry plant in Camilla, south-west Georgia, spread slowly. “It was like they were keeping a secret,” said Tara Williams, a 47-year-old worker at the plant, MORE
Trump on Friday urged Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (or Half-Whitmer as he previously referred to her) to make a deal with “very good” people protesting in her Capitol building with assault style rifles. While Whitmer 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
Earlier, Mother went on Fox ‘News’ and made up some crap that Pastor Pence did not find out about Mayo Clinic mask policy until after visit. But, that’s not what really occurred. Steve Herman, who covers MORE
UPDATE BUSTED Pence staff threatens action against reporter who tweeted about visit to clinic without surgical mask. Steve Herman, who covers the White House for Voice of America, suggested that there was more to the story MORE
Conservative commentator and abortion opponent Ben Shapiro once said he wouldn’t even consider aborting Baby Hitler if he had the chance. But based on an interview Shapiro had on Tuesday with political commentator Dave Rubin, maybe your grandma’s life 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
Gilead Sciences on Wednesday announced that the company “is aware of positive data” from a federal trial of its experimental coronavirus drug, remdesivir, even as a new study reported that the drug offered no benefit MORE
After President Donald Trump floated ingesting highly toxic disinfectant as a treatment for the coronavirus, Kansas health authorities say a man drank cleaning product over the weekend. Lee Norman, the state health officer, said the 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
Attorney General William Barr on Monday directed federal prosecutors to “be on the lookout” for public health measures put in place amid the coronavirus pandemic that might be running afoul of constitutional rights. In a two-page memorandum MORE