House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) sent a letter to President Donald Trump on Thursday calling for flags to be flown at half staff once the number of deaths from the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. reaches 100,000.
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Cape Town has become the center of the COVID-19 outbreak in South Africa and one of Africa’s hot spots.
The popular tourist destination at the southern tip of Africa had more than 12,000 confirmed cases as of Thursday, representing 63% of South Africa’s 19,000 cases and about 10% of Africa’s 95,000 cases.
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Six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, there is still much we don’t know about the disease.
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MADRID — Spaniards are going about their restricted lives wearing masks in compliance with a government order that comes into force Thursday.
Masks are now mandatory for people over 6 years old in all public spaces, including outdoors when they can’t keep a distance of 2 meters (6.5 feet) between them.
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MOSCOW (AP) — There are no daily public displays of gratitude for Russian doctors and nurses during the coronavirus crisis like there are in the West. Instead of applause, they face mistrust, low pay and even open hostility.
Residents near the National Medical Research Center for Endocrinology, a Moscow hospital now treating virus patients, complained when they saw medical workers walking out of the building in full protective gear, fearing the workers would spread contagion.
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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Wednesday night rejected President Donald Trump’s bogus claims in his fit of fury via Twitter over her decision to send out applications to vote by mail to registered voters in her state amid COVID-19.
2,438,000 jobless claims were filed in the U.S. in the week ending on May 16 amid the COVID-19 outbreak, the Labor Department reported on Thursday morning.
Senior State Department, Pentagon, and intelligence officials reportedly warned Secretary of State Mike Pompeo against skirting Congress and selling $8 billion worth in weaponry to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates by declaring a state of emergency.
He and the Trump administration did it anyway.
President Trump appeared to back away from his threat to withhold federal funding from Michigan during a meeting with Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) and Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) Wednesday afternoon. Continue reading “Trump Seems To Retreat From His Threat To Withhold Funding From Michigan”
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany dodged Wednesday when asked what, exactly, was illegal about Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson sending out absentee voting applications to all registered voters in the state, after President Trump went after the state official on Twitter earlier in the day. Continue reading “WH Doesn’t Have A Good Explanation For Trump’s Michigan Tweets”
