The Senate passed a historic $2 trillion coronavirus relief package Wednesday night, as it tries to stem the destruction the pandemic has brought to American lives and wallets. The bill now heads to the House, MORE
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said Wednesday that he is rejecting “dictator models like China” to strictly control people’s movements to curb the spread of the new coronavirus. His comments came a day after he issued an MORE
Donald Trump is a creature of television. It informs how he thinks about the world, and it helped create his public persona. He ran for president as America’s first reality show candidate, and he has MORE
A handful of Republican senators on Wednesday threatened to delay the $2 trillion coronavirus spending bill over a proposed increase to unemployment insurance. n a statement, Sens. Tim Scott, R-S.C., Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Ben Sasse, R-Neb., said MORE
Julie Kang, 30, said she was first verbally assaulted in December, when coronavirus cases were just beginning to surface in China. A man walked up to her in the middle of downtown San Diego, got in her MORE
After a Department of Defense contractor died from the coronavirus, the Pentagon raised its health-related lockdown to the second-highest level. The Pentagon is now under health protection measure Charlie, indicating a high morbidity epidemic or MORE
Hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug dubbed a “gift from God” by US President Donald Trump for its potential ability to fight the new coronavirus, was found to be no more effective than standard treatment in a MORE
The Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday new emergency protocols allowing allowing the plasma of those who’ve recovered from the novel coronavirus to treat patients who are critically ill with COVID-19. According to the FDA, it is MORE
As President Donald Trump has started suggesting that people should return to work soon instead of remaining quarantined amid the coronavirus pandemic, Americans overwhelmingly appear to disagree, with nearly three-quarters expressing support for a national MORE
Waffle House, an iconic American breakfast food chain known to remain open in the bleakest of times, will be closing 365 locations amid the coronavirus pandemic. Around 1,627 locations will remain open, the company said MORE
“Governments across the world are galvanizing every surveillance tool at their disposal to help stem the spread of the novel coronavirus. Countries have been quick to use the one tool almost all of us carry MORE
The Los Angeles County sheriff said Tuesday gun shops are not essential businesses and ordered them to stop selling to the public, a move that enraged Second Amendment advocates who said they planned to challenge it in court. MORE
The US has been appealing to its allies for help in obtaining medical supplies to overcome critical shortages in its fight against coronavirus. In his public rhetoric Donald Trump has been talking up the domestic private sector response to the crisis. MORE
The Trump administration is set to use a Korean War-era defense mobilization law for the first time in the coronavirus pandemic to expedite the production of about 60,000 coronavirus test kits, as health care workers around the country face severe shortages in kits, masks, ventilators and other crucial equipment. MORE
Governor Cuomo speaks on coronavirus from emergency hospital at Javits Center.
The Fletcher and Van der Valk hotel chains have begun converting some of their hotels into emergency hospitals for patients who are too ill to remain at home but who do not need emergency care. MORE
Lawmakers speak as Senate nears deal on coronavirus stimulus bill after partisan clashes. Join News Views for a Live Discussion on the failures, greed, and mass incompetence in the GOP controlled Senate.
A supermarket in Denmark has made an unusual offer to customers tempted to hoard hand sanitiser: buy one bottle for 40 kroner (£5), and they’ll sell you the second for 1,000 kroner (£126). MORE
“No one reached out to me and said, as a senior citizen, are you willing to take a chance for your survival in exchange for keeping the America that all America loves for your children MORE
A Phoenix-area man has died and his wife was in critical condition after the couple took chloroquine phosphate, an additive used to clean fish tanks that is also found in an anti-malaria medication that’s been touted by President Donald Trump as a treatment for COVID-19. MORE
Texas became the latest state to ban abortions “to comply with the state’s temporary suspension of surgeries that are not deemed ‘medically necessary’ amid the COVID-19 outbreak.” “Any type of abortion that is not medically necessary MORE
Join News Views for a Live Discussion on incompetent Trump, Pastor Pence, and the Coronavirus Warriors’ press briefing. More than likely, the Warriors will begin their briefing late as usual but allegedly, they scheduled it for 5:30 PM EDST/2:30 MORE
“Numerous calls from patients prompted [our team] to develop a simple self-triage tool to help individuals decide when to treat their symptoms safely at home and when to seek medical help. One of the most important things each of us can do during the ongoing pandemic is to free up medical providers to concentrate on the seriously ill.” MORE
Hong Kong (CNN) Only a week ago, Hong Kong seemed like a model for how to contain the novel coronavirus, with a relatively small number of cases despite months of being on the front lines MORE
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