[ad_1] A pharmacy worker shows pills of hydroxychloroquine used to treat the coronavirus at the CHR Centre Hospitalier Regional de la Citadelle Hospital in Liege, Belgium, April 22, 2020. (Yves Herman/Reuters) The president claims he’s taking it as a prophylactic. The media met that with hysteria instead of conscientious coverage. President Donald Trump claims that

[ad_1] Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) questions Gordon Sondland, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, during a House Intelligence Committee impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill, November 20, 2019. (Samuel Corum/Pool via Reuters) The Senate Intelligence Committee approved President Trump’s appointment of Representative John Ratcliffe (R., Texas) as national intelligence director in a

[ad_1] President Donald Trump leads a press briefing on the administration response to the coronavirus at the White House in Washington, D.C, March 9, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) President Trump has awarded a major contract to a Virginia company to manufacture Covid treatments in the U.S. The $354 million four-year contract was awarded to Virginia-based Phlow

[ad_1] President Donald Trump holds a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., May 18, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) President Trump on Monday threatened to pull the U.S. out of the World Health Organization and end funding permanently if the group does not immediately address concerns about its deference to China.

[ad_1] (Bill Chizek/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Lyle Denniston, a legal journalist who began covering the Supreme Court in 1958 for the Wall Street Journal, is not happy about how the Supreme Court is conducting its business during quarantine, insisting that the current turn-taking arrangement “harms equal status of each justice, gives the [chief justice] arbitrary power,

[ad_1] New York Governor Andrew Cuomo holds his daily briefing at New York Medical College in Valhalla, N.Y., May 7, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) The media’s golden boy made three breathtakingly bad moves in March that in retrospect amounted to catastrophe. Bill de Blasio made terrible decisions as mayor of New York City. But as more

[ad_1] President Donald Trump listens with Vice President Mike Pence as Attorney General William Barr addresses the coronavirus task force daily briefing at the White House, March 23, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Attorney General Barr is right in his commitment to purge the Justice Department and the FBI of their recent political proclivities. Attorney General Barr’s

[ad_1] Tracey Pucci helps her son Foxton Harding, 12, with a school assignment for Northshore Middle School, which moved to online-only schooling for two weeks due to coronavirus concerns, at their home in Bothell, Wash., March 11, 2020. (Lindsey Wasson/Reuters) Parents are asked to take on almost all the personal costs of homeschooling while getting

[ad_1] Oregon governor Kate Brown in 2015 (Steve Dipaola/Reuters) A county judge on Monday ruled against restrictions put in place by Oregon governor Kate Brown to stem the spread of the coronavirus, declaring them “null and void” because her emergency order has expired. Baker County circuit judge Matthew Shirtcliff granted a preliminary injunction to ten

[ad_1] Police officers wearing face masks guard the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., May 14, 2020. (Erin Scott/Reuters) As COVID-19 increases the appetite for a reevaluation of American policy toward Beijing, lawmakers are starting to act. During his first tour in Iraq’s Al Anbar Province, Representative Mike Gallagher (R., Wis.) recalls, he was struck

[ad_1] President Donald Trump, joined by members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, listens to a reporter’s question at a coronavirus briefing at the White House, March 22, 2020. (Tia Dufour/White House) The administration has used deft improvisation to secure huge supplies of PPE. There is a new cardinal rule in journalism — never

[ad_1] World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference on the coronavirus in Geneva, Switzerland, February 24, 2020. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters) The World Health Organization on Monday acquiesced to pressure from its member nations to submit to an investigation into its response to the coronavirus pandemic. The WHO will launch an independent

[ad_1] Attorney General William Barr in the East Room of the White House in Washington, April 1, 2019 (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Attorney General William Barr on Monday said he does not expect U.S. attorney John Durham’s probe into the origins of the Russia investigation to lead to a criminal investigation of either Joe Biden or Barack

[ad_1] A computer image created by Nexu Science Communication together with Trinity College in Dublin shows a model structurally representative of a betacoronavirus, which is the type of virus linked to COVID-19, better known as the coronavirus, February 18, 2020. (NEXU Science Communication/via Reuters) The world may have a fifth piece of consequential good news,

[ad_1] Today brings the PBS debut of the must-see documentary, Created Equal: Clarence Thomas In His Own Words. Thomas walks us through his extraordinary life, which began in Georgia in crushing poverty, explains the rage he felt at Catholic school when Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered and his resultant turn to radical black nationalism in

[ad_1] Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) speaks about the coronavirus in Burlington, Vt., March 12, 2020. (Caleb Kenna/Reuters) Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) promised that the “vast majority” of his primary supporters “will be voting for Joe Biden” in the general election, contradicting a former top aide, who warned last week that Biden was facing

[ad_1] Healthcare workers wheel the bodies of deceased people from the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in the Brooklyn, N.Y., April 2, 2020. (Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters) Depends on whether a person dies of the virus or with it. States should count and publish both numbers. Deborah Birx, the physician advising the White House’s coronavirus task force, gave

[ad_1] New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (left) and Florida Senator Rick Scott (Brendan McDermid, Rahel Patrasso/Reuters) The Cuomo–Scott cage match replicates the American debate in miniature. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W ith the debate over additional epidemic aid to the states simmering, Florida senator Rick Scott and New York governor Andrew Cuomo are taking a special

[ad_1] Michael Flynn at the White House in 2017. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Was his call with Kislyak recorded by a different agency than the FBI? Despite Wednesday’s blockbuster news about the dozens of Obama-administration officials who “unmasked” then-incoming Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn, there remains a gaping hole in the story: Where is the record

[ad_1] An attendee uses a Nintendo Switch game console at the Paris Games Week trade fair in Paris, France, October 29, 2019. (Benoit Tessier/Reuters) Who’s up for chucking Molotov cocktails at capitalist pigs? NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I can never resist a video game with a political angle to it, even if its politics are repulsive.

[ad_1] (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) House Democrats passed a $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill on Friday despite trepidation from some moderate and progressive Democratic lawmakers about the effectiveness of the package. The massive relief package, dubbed the HEROES Act, passed the lower chamber in a 208 to 199 vote Friday evening. Fourteen Democrats bucked party leadership to vote against

[ad_1] Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte arrives for the European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium, June 20, 2019. (Yves Herman/Reuters) Although most of the euro zone’s attention in the last week has been fixed on the clash between the German constitutional court (the BVG) on one side and the European Central Bank (ECB) and

[ad_1] Visitors pass by the logo of Google at Viva Tech in Paris, France, May 16, 2019. (Charles Platiau/Reuters) The Justice Department is expected to launch an antitrust lawsuit against Google as soon as this summer, with a group of state attorneys general planning for a case in the fall, sources told the Wall Street Journal.

[ad_1] Students exit a bus at Venice High School in Los Angeles, Calif., December 2015. (Jonathan Alcorn/Reuters) Rather than for patching a one-year hole in the budget. When Congress passed the CARES Act to respond to COVID-19, it tucked into the legislation $3 billion for governors to use on education as they see fit. This

[ad_1] Scientists work in a lab testing coronavirus samples at New York City’s health department during the coronavirus outbreak in New York City, April 23, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) A Colorado county coroner says that state officials overruled him in classifying a man who had died from alcohol poisoning as a death due to coronavirus. The

[ad_1] A sign announcing the closure of the Koret Playground at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, Calif., as California continues its “stay at home order,” March 23, 2020. (Stephen Lam/Reuters) For better or worse, the people will ultimately decide how to strike the balance of public safety and convenience. Shocked by the large numbers

[ad_1] Nurse Teresa Malijon waits for patients at a drive-through testing site for coronavirus in a parking lot at the University of Washington’s Northwest Outpatient Medical Center in Seattle, Wash., March 17, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) The COVID-19 crisis has fast-tracked long-contemplated, patient-centric changes in medicine. The coronavirus pandemic has challenged health care as much as

[ad_1] (Jason Reed/Reuters) The Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC, on whether an employee declaring transgender status was fired unlawfully on the basis of “sex,” is expected to be released soon. Sadly the plaintiff died, age 59, from kidney failure on Tuesday. In October, the court heard oral arguments from the ACLU

[ad_1] Jerry Nadler heads into the Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill, February 5, 2020 (Tom Brenner/Reuters) House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler (D., N.Y.) said Friday that the panel will hold hearings to probe the Justice Department’s decision to drop its case against former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn. “We’re looking into all of

[ad_1] A security camera in front of the full moon outside the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, January 31, 2018. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters) After witnessing how easily the surveillance state can be weaponized for political purposes, one could have expected conservatives to rethink their perfunctory support for the state’s largely unchecked spying powers. If FBI agents