Новости за 17.04.2020

When Wisconsin voters and officials sought to adapt the state’s spring elections to better observe social distancing guidelines, the U.S. Supreme Court refused. One of the changes state officials had asked for was extra time so voters could cast their ballots by mail. The coronavirus outbreak is set to last for months or even years. […]

In India, during the 1918 influenza pandemic, a staggering 12 to 13 million people died, the vast majority between the months of September and December. According to an eyewitness, “There was none to remove the dead bodies and the jackals made a feast.” At the time of the pandemic, India had been under British colonial […]

New unemployment claims reached 22 million on Thursday while the Trump administration is helping banks and financial institutions fleece out-of-work Americans and those who could lose their jobs because of Trump’s pandemic. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency set up to protect consumers but has been neutered by Trump and other financial agencies, are […]

In a scorching column for the Daily Beast, longtime political observer Michael Tomasky expressed disgust with the wave of supporters of Donald Trump celebrating his plan to re-open businesses in order to stop the collapse of the economy even if it means more people will die due to the coronavirus pandemic. Getting right to the […]

Finance journalist Tim Mullaney has expertly torn apart President Donald Trump’s claims that keeping America on lockdown will kill more people than COVID-19. Writing in The Independent, Mullaney argues that the president simply has no concept of the mass death that’s been inflicted upon America over the last month, and he shows that his arguments […]

In Belfast’s coronavirus lockdown Guinness still flows freely, as vans kitted with kegs visit driveways to pour pints for drinkers parched since pubs shut their doors. “People are delighted to see you,” said pub manager Richard Keenan. “You’re driving around all day with the biggest smile on your face.” His pub, The Hatfield House, has […]

“CFPB is continuing a deregulatory, anti-transparency, anti-accountability, anti-consumer protection rulemaking agenda, even in the face of Covid-19.” Amid an unprecedented economic crisis driven by the novel coronavirus pandemic, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is reportedly pushing ahead with a series of rule changes that watchdog groups say would reward predatory lenders and leave vulnerable people […]

New Yorkers usually clap, bang pots and pans, or simply cry “thank you” out of their windows every evening at 7 pm, honoring the health care workers risking their lives on the frontlines of the battle against the coronavirus. But the evening’s ritual does vary. On Thursday, a volunteer choir called “Peace of the Heart” […]

With the largest one-day death toll in the U.S. yet — 2,400 in just 24 hours — President Trump is trying to deflect attention from his handling of the pandemic by waging a war on public health experts and science, threatening to cut World Health Organization funding and fueling a theory that the coronavirus came […]

A parishioner at the Life Tabernacle Church in Central, Louisiana has reportedly died from the coronavirus weeks after the church’s pastor defied his state’s ban on large gatherings to hold packed church services. Local news station KALB reports that a coroner’s report of a 78-year-old parishioner of the church revealed that he had died after […]

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough launched a full-throated attack on Dr’s Mehmet Oz and Dr. Phil McGraw to kick off Friday’s “Morning Joe” calling them stupid and questioning their motives for downplaying the death toll of coronavirus victims during their appearances on Fox News on Thursday. Using Dr. Oz stating there might be an acceptable number of […]

Hours after several governors announced they are extending their states’ stay-at-home orders President Donald Trump announced what he called a plan to open up America again. Thursday evening Trump revealed his “Opening Up America Again” program (video below). The President does not have the legal or constitutional authority to reopen the country, so he has […]

Mehmet Cengiz Öz, better known to America’s TV viewers as Dr. Oz, is calling for the nation’s schools to be re-opened despite the coronavirus pandemic that has already killed over 34,000 Americans. He argues that the cost will be “only” an additional 2% to 3% in additional lives lost as a result – a “tradeoff” […]

An ambitious “cloud brightening” experiment has been carried out over Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in an early-stage trial that scientists hope could become a futuristic way to protect coral from global warming. In an attempt to cool waters around the reef by making clouds reflect more sunlight, researchers said they used a boat-mounted fan similar […]

Britain’s Prince William on Friday revealed his concern for his father Prince Charles after he contracted coronavirus — and his worries for his grandmother Queen Elizabeth II. Charles, 71, the monarch’s eldest son and heir, tested positive for COVID-19 last month but recovered after a week in isolation at his home in Scotland. “I have […]

“There is no plan for testing. Nothing, nada, zilch.” President Donald Trump late Thursday released a vague plan to reopen the U.S. economy that—in a retreat from his claim of “total” authority—puts the onus on states to decide when to lift coronavirus prevention measures and contains no national strategy for the kind of massive testing […]

The move by USAA, while welcomed, only makes the case for more oversight. Update… Hours after David Dayen reported Thursday at The American Prospect that USAA was seizing coronavirus stimulus money from veterans with accounts at the financial institution, the bank reversed course, telling Dayen in a statement that the money seized would returned. “For members with negative deposit […]

Each coronavirus-infected person in Germany is infecting fewer than one other person, closely watched data showed, as Europe’s biggest economy looks to ease curbs to halt contagion from Monday. According to figures published by disease control agency Robert Koch Institute late Thursday, the person-to-person infection rate has dropped to 0.7. The infection rate is a […]

For many Americans, checking the mailbox is a daily ritual, a constant in a quickly changing world that can yield anything from wedding invitations to tax audits to new clothes. But as with many ordinary things as the coronavirus crisis unfolds, the US Postal Service — already compromised by a mountain of debt — has […]

Nearly two-thirds of Americans say President Donald Trump was too slow in taking major steps to address the threat to the United States from new coronavirus, a poll published on Thursday said. According to the Pew Research Center, 65 percent said Trump was tardy in responding when cases of the COVID-19 illness were first reported […]

Donald Trump is not a supervillain from a comic book. He is a simple man, almost primal in his drives and impulses. For those who choose to see the world as it actually exists, there is no great mystery about what Trump wants: His goal is to be president forever and to use the power […]

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened a martial law-like crackdown to stop people flouting a virus lockdown in the nation’s capital. Duterte spoke a day after authorities reported an upsurge of cars on Manila’s roads, which have been nearly deserted since a sweeping lockdown was imposed a month ago on about half the country’s 110 […]

Belgium now has the highest death rate from COVID-19 in the European Union but officials insist it is because they have been totally transparent with the data. With more than 11.5 million inhabitants, Belgium has more than 4,800 deaths and an average of around 419 per one million inhabitants, now ahead of Spain at 409 […]

California on Thursday ordered that food workers, considered essential during the coronavirus pandemic, receive two weeks’ extra paid sick leave if they are affected by the virus or quarantine orders. Governor Gavin Newsom said the executive order would benefit “the people that grow our food… pick our food… pack our food, deliver our food, cook, […]

One of President Donald Trump’s biggest supporters in Congress took to Fox News on Thursday night to attack China. Trump supporters have been attempting to deflect blame from Trump for why America leads the world in COVID-19 deaths by scapegoating China. During an interview with Laura Ingraham, Nunes complained that, “to this day, none of […]