Новости за 14.04.2020

“It’s a scandal for Republicans to loot American taxpayers in the midst of an economic and human tragedy,” declared Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. Democratic lawmakers and progressive critics expressed outrage Tuesday after a nonpartisan congressional body found that nearly 82% of benefits from a Republican tax provision in the most recent coronavirus relief package will go […]

A 30-year-old New Jersey man with Down syndrome has succumbed to coronavirus on his birthday, just nine days after his mother passed away from the virus. Thomas Martins passed away on April 6, after losing his mother, 55-year-old Carolyn Martins-Reitz, on March 28 nj.com reported. “The speed that the disease developed was mind-blowing,” Rudy Reitz, Martins-Reitz’s […]

On Tuesday, The Daily Beast reported that a student at Liberty University is bringing a class-action lawsuit against the school over its “glacially slow” response to the coronavirus pandemic. “The unidentified student accuses the school and its president, Jerry Falwell Jr., a vocal Trump supporter, of downplaying the coronavirus threat and refusing to refund students […]

A Florida judge got frustrated with attorneys appearing on Zoom for hearings because they essentially rolled over and opened their computer for the court appearance. According to the Associated Press, Broward Circuit Judge Dennis Bailey published an official letter to the Western Bar Association with the plea. “It is remarkable how many ATTORNEYS appear inappropriately […]

“Why should Congress enrich insurance companies with our public money when their duty is to protect the public, not to protect corporate profits?” A lobbyist told The Hill in an interview Tuesday that unless the insurance industry receives a federal bailout, companies intend to raise premiums on Americans due to the effects of the coronavirus outbreak […]

Speaking on Joe Piscopo’s radio program this Monday, longtime Donald Trump associate Roger Stone regurgitated a fringe conspiracy about Bill Gates’ reported involvement in the development of a vaccine for coronavirus, according to the New York Post. “Whether Bill Gates played some role in the creation and spread of this virus is open for vigorous […]

On Monday, President Donald Trump attempted to cover-up his public policy failures in responding to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic during a White House briefing. At the briefing, the president showed a propaganda-style video that attempted to show him aggressively responding to the crisis. As many people noted, Trump largely ignored his lost month of February […]

Conspiracy theorists have tried to spin the idea that China intentionally created COVID-19 in a lab, the only purpose of which would be for a biological attack or war. Defense One editor Kevin Baron reported that Defense Secretary Gen. Mark Milley revealed in a Q&A Tuesday that the DOD has looked into it. “We’ve had […]

African countries are seething over accounts that Africans are battling stigma and discrimination in China over the coronavirus pandemic, apparently linked to a cluster of cases in the Nigerian community in the southern city of Guangzhou. The African residents say they have suffered forced evictions, arbitrary quarantines and mass coronavirus tests and face discrimination in […]

On CNN Tuesday, senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen warned that many of the antibody tests on the market for COVID-19 — the tests that show whether you are immune to the virus — are barely tested under the Food and Drug Administration’s new standards, and possibly ineffective. “So this test tells you, hey, look, you […]

Rural America had already been facing a slogging economy during President Donald Trump’s trade war and just as the war was ending, the coronavirus pandemic came to American shores. Kenneth Johnson, a senior demographer at the Carsey School, looked into the demographics of the age and death rate within each U.S. county. What he found […]

Seven medical crew members of a giant hospital ship sent to Los Angeles to help the city tackle its coronavirus outbreak have contracted the disease, the US Navy said Tuesday. The USNS Mercy has 1,000 beds on board and is treating only non-coronavirus patients, in a bid to ease the strain on onshore emergency rooms. […]

“The Treasury Department is pointing out opportunities for banks and debt collectors to steal Americans’ relief checks out from under them.” President Donald Trump’s Treasury Department has given U.S. banks a green light to seize a portion or all of the one-time $1,200 coronavirus relief payments meant to help Americans cope with financial hardship and […]

The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr, has come under fire in recent weeks for unloading stock holdings right before the market crashed on fears of coronavirus and for a timely sale of shares in an obscure Dutch fertilizer company. Now the North Carolina Republican’s 2017 sale of his Washington, D.C., home to […]

On April 9, the New York Times reported more than 6 million new unemployment claims for the previous week, and nearly 17 million over the previous three weeks. As this massive unemployment has followed the coronavirus crisis, a comparison between Presidents Donald Trump and Herbert Hoover becomes more apt than ever. For both presidents failed to project […]

As the world faces a new way of life thanks to a global pandemic, many people are asking two simple questions:How many people have recovered from the novel coronavirus? How can someone tell if they have fully recovered from the coronavirus. In New Jersey, the answers are not easy to find. “The NJ Department of […]

Donald Trump is melting down. Well, more than usual, anyway. Berating America in a tone that evokes Eric Cartman of “South Park,” Trump lashed out on Monday at anyone who would dare question his A-THOR-ATE-I. Monday’s propaganda session disguised as a “coronavirus briefing” was wilder than usual, with Trump going well beyond his already megalomaniacal daily  rants, […]

The Justice Department is taking the side of a Mississippi church in a lawsuit against police who fined churchgoers $500 for refusing to stop congregating in a parking lot of Temple Baptist Church in Greenville after a drive-in church service, according to Fox News. According to the DOJ, the fines strongly suggest “that the city’s actions target religious […]

Former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal penned the perfect New York Times editorial explaining to President Donald Trump, and his allies, that under the Constitution he’s got the least amount of power. “I teach my law students that every so often in the law, the best way to understand the veracity of a claim is […]

In our last episode, mail had finally arrived at my building in downtown Manhattan after many days without, all because of the devastating impact of COVID-19 at my local post office. The delivery included a bombastic fundraising letter from the National Republican Congressional Committee under the name of Mike Pence excoriating Nancy Pelosi and the evils of […]

New York Yankees co-owner Hank Steinbrenner died Tuesday “from a longstanding health issue”, the Major League Baseball team said. He was 63. Hank Steinbrenner, eldest son of former Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, assumed co-ownership of the storied franchise with his brother Hal in 2010, following the death of their father. They had essentially run the […]

According to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. is not where it needs to be in its fight against coronavirus to be anywhere near reopening the economy. “We have to have something in place that is efficient and that we can rely on, and we’re not there yet,” Fauci told The Associated Press. Fauci’s comments come […]

President Donald Trump told a recovered COVID-19 patient on Tuesday to “stay away” from him. Trump made the remark during a White House event for recovered coronavirus patients. “The first few days I just had a really bad headache, fever,” one woman said. “It was the second week the respiratory problems [began].” “I am negative […]

President Donald Trump’s Tuesday tweet comparing himself to the captain in the movie “Mutiny on the Bounty” was so strange that even professional comedy writers found themselves at a loss to write better parody. Appearing on CNN, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman argued that there was little rhyme or reason to Trump’s tweet, as […]

New York state recorded 778 coronavirus deaths in the last 24 hours, up from 671 the day before, but new hospital admissions and infections were down, Governor Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday. The rise in the single-day toll brought the total number of deaths in the state — America’s coronavirus epicenter — to 10,834, Cuomo told […]