Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren endorsed Joe Biden on Wednesday, extending the number of big endorsements for the presumptive Democratic nominee for President. “In this moment of crisis, it’s more important than ever that the next MORE
Protection measures against the coronavirus continued to tear through the employment ranks, with 5.245 million more Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment insurance last week, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The new filings bring the 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
Remember this? Art imitating life. At the time I drafted this, 28,399 have perished from COVID-19. Feel free to post your memories:
“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
Ronald Reagan pulled up to the curb in a sleek black town car, rolled down his tinted window, and beckoned for Lance Weller, author of the novel Wilderness, to join him. The long-dead president escorted Weller 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
Join News Views for a Live Discussion on ‘Defund the WHO!’ Trump, Pastor Pence, Scarf Lady, and the real Coronavirus Warrior, Dr. Fauci’s press briefing. More than likely, the Warriors will begin their briefing late, as usual, but allegedly, they scheduled MORE
‘This is COVID-19, not COVID-1 folks,’ she said on ‘Fox & Friends’ “We have every right to know because of what’s happened here in this global pandemic, but there’s another reason, some of the scientists MORE
Demonstrators drove thousands of vehicles to Lansing, Michigan, in protest of Governor Whitmer’s stay-at-home order to flatten the rising curve of COVID-19 cases. Several thousand cars were there to create a traffic jam in the MORE
Olive Veronesi has been staying at home trying to flatten the curve in her hometown of Seminole, Pennsylvania, when she caught the attention of Molson Coors. “When we saw Olive’s message, we knew we had MORE
The subpoena cases are among 10 the justices are hearing by telephone in a special May session that will include the first live broadcasts of Supreme Court arguments. The court announced the session this week MORE
On a Saturday in early March, President Donald Trump, clad in a baseball cap, strode into the Situation Room for a meeting with the coronavirus task force. He didn’t stop by the group’s daily meetings 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
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to take a severe economic toll and millions of Americans file for unemployment, the oil industry is not immune, with estimates suggesting that hundreds of thousands of jobs related to MORE
Seattle area ER doctor Ryan Padgett found out quickly how deadly COVID-19 could be, as the first dozen or so patients he saw with the disease didn’t make it. Padgett, a 44-year-old 250-pound former football MORE
While Dr. Deborah Birx and Dr. Anthony Fauci have stressed the importance of an antibody test to indicate who may be immune to the coronavirus, scientists are finding issues with the availability and reliability of MORE
While the Trump administration won’t tell you about it, there is a stable Affordable Care Act market available to those who are newly uninsured and need it. The average monthly premium for ACA coverage was MORE
Computer scientists working for a high-tech division of Google are testing how machine learning algorithms can be created from scratch, then evolve naturally, based on simple math. Experts behind Google’s AutoML suite of artificial intelligence MORE
Because you guys did so great and we had so much fun, we now bring you Week #2 of Haiku Wednesday. Here are the rules: I request that any stand alone comment you post be MORE