[ad_1] (Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) plans a nationwide study of up to 325,000 people to track how the new coronavirus is spreading across the country into next year and beyond, a CDC spokeswoman and researchers conducting the effort told Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A healthcare professional takes blood to
[ad_1] Florida and New York are states with similar population sizes, but dramatically different approaches to the COVID-19 pandemic. New York has almost 30 times as many coronavirus-related deaths as Florida, with a heavy concentration among senior citizens, according to numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a
[ad_1] During his press conference with restaurant owners on Monday President Trump announced he was taking the life-saving drug hydroxychloroquine as a prophylaxis against the Wuhan coronavirus. President Trump admitted he has been taking Hydroxychloroquine for “a couple weeks” The president added that he spoke with the White House doctor before he started taking the
[ad_1] Testifying before the Senate as a member of the White House’s coronavirus task force, Dr. Anthony Fauci gave his assessment of the current state of the Country’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He was both hopeful and overly cautious. Fauci first highlighted advances made in testing for the new coronavirus, as well as the
[ad_1] Federico Brisson, member of the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences unearth fossils of a megaraptor, at El Calafate, Santa Cruz, Argentina March 15, 2020. Picture taken March 15, 2020. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales/Handout via Reuters BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Paleontologists from the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences said on Monday they found the
[ad_1] President Trump on Monday went after Barack Obama and Joe Biden for their involvement in the Russian hoax. Advertisement – story continues below Trump did not hold back when questioned today if he thought Barack Obama was involved in the spying on his campaign. Trump told reporters, “I have no doubt that they were
[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] In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress has already approved more than $2.4 trillion in new deficit-increasing measures, from new spending to tax relief. Now, Congress is considering a new slush fund to exempt certain spending from budgetary restraints in the name of combating future health crises. Instead, lawmakers should review agency missions
[ad_1] A petition launched in late April by Heritage Action for America asking governors to “open American society” has surpassed 100,000 signatures. “Millions of Americans are losing their jobs for good as businesses shut down around the country, even while the risk of COVID-19 is decreasing in many areas,” Jessica Anderson, executive director of Heritage
[ad_1] Susan Faludi explains in the New York Times that when feminists said we should “believe women,” they never meant that we should believe all women. Her op-ed goes wrong from its opening sentences: Joe Biden has been accused of sexual assault, and conservatives are having a field day, exultant that they’ve caught feminists in
[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] Atilis Gym co-owner Ian Smith Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, New Jersey reopened on Monday morning in defiance of Governor Phil Murphy’s Coronavirus lockdown order. “We think so far, this has been just a gross violation of constitutional rights,” said Atilis Gym co-owner Ian Smith in an interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson. “The
[ad_1] The Saudi national who shot three Americans at a military base in Pensacola, Fl., in December had been in contact with Al Qaeda before the attack, according to law enforcement officials. Cell phone evidence links Second Lt. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, a Saudi Air Force cadet who trained at the Naval Air Station Pensacola alongside American
[ad_1] Republican lawmakers are pushing for sanctions on Chinese communist party officials over China’s “duplicitous, ineffective, and cruel” response to the coronavirus outbreak. Republican representatives Jim Banks of Indiana, Dan Crenshaw of Texas, and Lance Gooden of Texas sent a letter Monday to Secretaries Mike Pompeo and Steven Mnuchin asking that Global Magnitsky Sanctions be
[ad_1] I have tried mightily to not write anything more about the COVID-19 pandemic. I have, no pun intended, avoided it like the plague. But as our nation contemplates restarting itself in the midst of all this, and alarmist voices grow more shrill, I can’t help but wonder what we’ve become. Americans are an optimistic
[ad_1] Illegal aliens can apply for direct cash assistance from the California state government as of Monday, marking the implementation of the first relief program of its kind. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, announced in April the launch of The Disaster Relief Fund, a $125 million coronavirus relief program for illegal aliens living in the
[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] Liberal billionaire Michael Bloomberg has gone from “scrapping” his plan for an independent expenditure campaign to reportedly planning to spend a heap of cash to support presumptive Democratic nominee for president Joe Biden’s candidacy. Talk about a complete 180-degree turnaround. The failed 2020 billionaire candidate and “his closest political advisors are discussing whether Bloomberg’s expenditures will include
[ad_1] Monday’s CBS This Morning highlighted the “devastating toll” the coronavirus is having on nursing homes in this country, noting that 28,000 deaths are connected to nursing homes. What wasn’t mentioned at all in the four minute-plus segment? New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s disastrous decision to send COVID patients to nursing homes. Somehow, that never came up
[ad_1] Phony Baloney Is it about the virus? Or is it about the election. Eric Trump said it best: “They (Democrats) think they are taking away Donald Trump’s greatest tool, which is being able to go into an arena and fill it with 50,000 people every single time. You watch, they’ll milk it every single
[ad_1] Former State Department Inspector General Steve Linick departs after briefing House and Senate Intelligence committees at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., October 2, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Andy McCarthy writes: Senator Mitt Romney (R., Utah), the Trump nemesis and (voila!) current media darling, leads the pack railing about how Trump’s serial dismissal of IGs
[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] Ronna McDaniels, the chairwoman for the Republican National Committee, has announced that they will not be holding a virtual convention due to the coronavirus pandemic. McDaniels told the Associated Press that “it’s quite a ways away, and there’s ample time for us to adjust, if necessary.” However, later in the interview she asserted that
[ad_1] The U.S. Justice Department and state attorneys general may file antitrust lawsuits against search giant Google, The Wall Street Journal reported. Attorney General William Barr, according to The Journal May 15, sees this probe against Alphabet Inc.-owned Google as a top priority. He reportedly told the outlet in March that he hopes the Justice
[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] Attorney General William Barr poured cold water Monday on the idea that former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden will face criminal charges in connection with the surveillance activities against associates of President Donald Trump. “As to President Obama and Vice President Biden, whatever their level of involvement, based on the
[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] On Sunday and Monday, all three broadcast networks cheered former President Obama’s decision to use a virtual commencement address as an opportunity to launch a nasty partisan attack against President Trump. Instead of criticizing such unseemly political rhetoric being used during a speech to students across the country in the midst of the coronavirus
[ad_1] Attorney General William Barr poured cold water Monday on the idea that Barack Obama and Joe Biden will face criminal charges in connection with the surveillance activities against associates of President Donald Trump. “As to President Obama and Vice President Biden, whatever their level of involvement, based on the information I have today, I