House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said on Monday that he disagreed with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) decision to turn down the Abbott COVID-19 tests that President Donald Trump had offered to Congress.
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The Trump reelection campaign unveiled a new ad titled “American Comeback” on Sunday that trumpeted President Donald Trump’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic even as the number of fatalities from the virus in the U.S. continues to grow.
Since the beginning of the COVID19 epidemic in the United States it’s been clear that there’s no single epidemic in the United States. There is more a series of urban and regional epidemics unfolding at different times and with different intensities. To a degree this is true for every country. But it is especially so for the US since the country is so large, both in terms of geography and population. More specifically or at least for now there is a New York epidemic and the rest of the country.
In the Trump administration, officials are more likely to dig their heels into errors than admit any level of wrongdoing.
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The Trump administration anticipates that more than 3,000 Americans will be dying each day of COVID-19 by June 1, according to a newly revealed internal government document obtained by the New York Times.
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A proclamation went into effect in Stillwater, Oklahoma on Friday requiring that patrons of newly reopened stores and restaurants don masks while inside. Just hours later, Mayor Will Joyce was forced to revise the order amid a ferocious backlash.
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There’s a global pandemic going on, so what better time to have a picnic in Yosemite?
President Donald Trump hiked up his original projected death toll of 50,000 to 100,000 on Sunday.
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The Justice Department on Sunday dipped its toe in another dispute between a church and government officials seeking to enforce public health orders for the pandemic.
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This piece is part of our weekly Prime series on voting rights, but it has been moved outside of the paywall while we cover COVID-19.
After rejecting a bipartisan plan from state officials to expand absentee voting for the pandemic, the Louisiana legislature approved a scaled-back version of the measure that will allow absentee voting for only a limited set of people. The new version was approved by the chambers of the legislature last week. They passed it by voting by mail, and several Republicans still voted (remotely) against it because they thought it went too far in expanding absentee voting. The original plan, hammered out by Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards and Republican Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin, would have let anyone who was concerned about spreading the coronavirus — as well as those caring for children due to the virus and those who were 60 or older — to seek a mail-in ballot. The final version was far narrower, letting only those with high risk conditions, with medical orders to quarantine, who are caring for someone subject to a quarantine order or who are seeking a diagnosis for coronavirus-like symptoms to vote absentee.
Continue reading “The Irony: LA Legislature Votes By Mail To Approve Plan Limiting Vote-By-Mail”
