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The Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has been a deliberate disaster from the beginning. But don’t take my word for it – just look at the facts. Here’s the timeline: In 2018, he let the pandemic-preparedness office in the National Security Council simply dissolve, and followed up with budget cuts to HHS and […]

An Australian who repeatedly snuck out of coronavirus quarantine, reportedly to visit his girlfriend, was jailed for a month Tuesday — the first person imprisoned under the country’s lockdown laws. Jonathan David, 35, was arrested earlier this month after jamming open a fire escape and slipping out of mandatory quarantine at a Perth hotel, Western […]

Swift and strict containment measures in California appear to have succeeded in reducing hospital overcrowding and mass deaths from coronavirus, according to health experts in the country’s most populous state. California, one of the first states struck by the deadly disease, has been under lockdown for nearly four weeks. During that time its confirmed case […]

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi delivered a brutal dose of truth to President Donald Trump Tuesday night, calling the nation’s president “weak,” his leadership “incompetent,” and charging he “took insufficient action and caused unnecessary death and disaster,” by poorly managing the coronavirus pandemic. Pelosi made her remarks as part of a “Dear Colleague” letter […]

Terrified of losing re-election President Donald Trump is plowing forward with a plan to re-open the nation for business regardless of how many lives will be lost to the coronavirus as a result. The Washington Post reports on the plan, calling it “a public health strategy to combat the coronavirus and reopen parts of the […]

Ecuador’s economic capital Guayaquil is reeling from the most aggressive outbreak of COVID-19 in Latin America after the pandemic hit the city “like a bomb,” its mayor said. Cynthia Viteri has emerged from her own bout with the virus to battle the worst crisis the port city of nearly 3 million people has known in […]

Doctors, nurses and healthcare workers have become the unwitting heroes of the coronavirus pandemic, winning applause from balconies and streets around the world. From Yaounde to Rome to New York, the pandemic has infected more than 1.9 million people and claimed 118,000 lives. Hospital workers are dealing with a huge influx of patients, while also […]

Americans are urged to be organize against President Donald Trump in a new protest display projected onto a building in Washington, DC. A video posted on Twitter shows the message “we are obligated to be outraged” projected onto one side of the building. A different side featured multiple messages projected upon the brick. “Trump is […]

The previous round of coronavirus stimulus, the CARES Act, hit a serious snag when one member of Congress, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), demanded a quorum call, meaning the legislation couldn’t pass by simple voice vote and hundreds of members had to drag themselves back to D.C. in the middle of the night to record their […]

Kentucky Republicans celebrated on Tuesday after successfully overriding a veto on a bill to make it more difficult to vote. Kentucky state senate Republicans posted a photo of Sen. Damon Thayer and Sen. Robby Mills posing with Secretary of State Michael Adams. Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear had blasted the bill in his veto message. “I […]

A one-time lockdown won’t halt the novel coronavirus and repeated periods of social distancing may be required into 2022 to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed, Harvard scientists who modeled the pandemic’s trajectory said Tuesday. Their study comes as the US enters the peak of its COVID-19 caseload and states eye an eventual easing of tough […]

On Tuesday, reports showed that President Donald Trump plans to require the Treasury Department to put his name on every paper stimulus check that goes out to U.S. households — with the result that many people’s checks will be delayed unnecessarily for political points. Commenters on social media were outraged by the president’s decision to […]

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) grew a beard while recovering from COVID-19 coronavirus. Paul, a graduate of the Duke University School of Medicine, has been volunteering at a local hospital after recovering from the illness. Photos of his new look have been circulating online. One Twitter user described his look as “professor you were warned to […]

On Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that the Treasury Department will be requiring every physical stimulus check being sent out to bear President Donald Trump’s name. “The unprecedented decision, finalized late Monday, means that when recipients open the $1,200 paper checks the IRS is scheduled to begin sending to 70 million Americans in coming days, […]

On Tuesday, Bloomberg News painted a damning picture of the current state of a key congressionally-created watchdog group to oversee the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus program. “On April 6, Bharat Ramamurti became the first person named to the Congressional Oversight Commission supposed to police the massive coronavirus relief fund. A former top staffer for Senator […]

Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” isn’t the only Never Trump conservative who has been pouring salt on the GOP’s wounds over Wisconsin’s April 7 election: Charlie Sykes, co-founder of The Bulwark, is doing so as well this week — and, like Scarborough, is arguing that Republicans subjected themselves to a public relations fiasco over a right-wing […]

On Tuesday, CNN anchor John King laid into President Donald Trump for his attacks on the World Health Organization — pointing out that he has done everything he is accusing them of doing. “I’m not going to defend the WHO. CNN called the coronavirus a pandemic before the World Health Irganization. It was flat-footed,” King […]

PBS News Hour correspondent Yamiche Alcindor has received widespread praise for her questioning of President Donald Trump during his nearly daily Coronavirus Task Force briefings. During his Tuesday briefing, Trump demanded “accountability” from the World Health Organization, while denying any responsibility for America having more COVID-19 fatalities than any other country in the world. During […]

At Tuesday’s White House coronavirus press briefing, a reporter told President Donald Trump he needed to ask two questions. When Trump said that he could only ask one, the reporter said one of them was on behalf of another reporter in the press pool who wasn’t able to attend the briefing. The president snapped, “Who […]

Following President Donald Trump’s aggressive attacks on the World Health Organization at Tuesday’s coronavirus press briefing, several reporters pointed out that the WHO wasn’t responsible for key failures of the U.S. government, including the ongoing shortage of COVID-19 tests in many regions of the country. The president quickly grew angry in response to the questioning […]

At Tuesday’s White House coronavirus briefing, President Donald Trump drifted off-topic while discussing what he hopes to do to reopen the economy in the near future. “We have to get our sports back,” he said, while listing off the various industries that he is hoping to revitalize and companies that he hopes to be part […]

On Monday, Wisconsin released the results of the election held last week. In addition to the Democratic 2020 primary, the biggest race on the ballot was for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. In the contest, progressive Dane County Judge Jill Karofsky won a decisive victory over conservative state Supreme Court Justice Daniel Kelly, who was appointed […]

President Donald Trump is now scapegoating the World Health Organization (WHO), claiming it must be held accountable for what he claims is their fault that the coronavirus spread into the United States. Trump took no responsibility for his actions allowing the coronavirus to spread throughout the U.S. America is now the number one in the […]

President Donald Trump laid into the World Health Organization yet again at his Tuesday coronavirus press briefing, blaming them for delays in the national response to COVID-19 even though it took his own administration a month of urging by experts to do anything meaningful. Commenters on social media ripped the president for his attempt to […]

Abortion rights advocates on Tuesday withdrew a petition to the US Supreme Court to force Texas to reinstate the right to abortion during the novel coronavirus pandemic, after an appeals court ruled in their favor. A New Orleans federal appeals court ruled Monday evening that authorities of conservative-leaning Texas could not include medical abortion on […]