Новости за 19.05.2020

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday had some sharp words for corporations who are planning to lay off workers even after accepting federal assistance to keep their businesses afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic. During his daily press briefing, Cuomo warned that many businesses were planning to take advantage of federal subsidies without fully hiring […]

North Carolina Republicans fear the stock-dumping scandal that has landed Sen. Richard Burr under investigation will endanger the state’s other GOP senator. Burr stepped aside as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee last week after federal agents seized his cell phone as part of the investigation, but that cloud over his future could also complicate […]

While US President Donald Trump admits he’s not actually a doctor, he’s long been convinced of his scientific talents — and the coronavirus pandemic has given him the ultimate stage to test his theories. The Republican leader’s announcement Monday that he has been taking hydroxychloroquine for almost two weeks as a preventative measure against COVID-19 […]

The Canada-US border will remain closed to all non-essential travel for another month, until June 21, to fight the spread of the coronavirus, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Tuesday. The world’s longest international frontier at 8,900 kilometers (5,500 miles) was closed to travelers on March 21, but trade in goods has continued. Trudeau at […]

President Donald Trump bizarrely suggested that guns are required to guard the U.S. potato supply. Trump made the remarks during a White House meeting with farmers who are trying to bolster the supply chain in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. After introducing one Virginia farmer, Trump seemed curious about the details of the potato […]

Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) was caught in a leaked audio comparing COVID-19 to car crashes. Perdue is not the first to make the false equivalency between auto accidents and the novel coronavirus. Television psychologist Dr. Phil made a similar comment on Fox News several weeks ago. “A certain number of us will die on our […]

Appearing after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was grilled in a Senate hearing, MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle ripped into the Trump administration official for saying it would be too much work to go after businesses committing COVID-19 aid fraud if they received $2 million or less. Speaking with host Craig Melvin, Ruhle — who was once a […]

What Rick Bright publicly revealed more than anyone else is that, if we continue to push a president’s wishful narrative over medical expertise and fail to coordinate a national response, “2020 could be the darkest winter in modern history.” Mental health experts have been trying to inform the public that not even a nuclear winter could be […]

A man was caught on video berating a Costco employee after he was asked to leave the store because he refused to put on a mask. The confrontation was said to occur at a Costco warehouse in Las Vegas. In video shared on social media, the man can be heard telling the Costco employee that […]

The Tuesday morning discussion between the women on “The View” surrounded the bizarre revelation that President Donald Trump has been taking the drug hydroxychloroquine “for weeks.” “No, I can’t believe it,” said Behar, speculating that the president wasn’t being honest about taking the drug. “I just stocked up on Clorox and now he comes up […]

According to Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, Donald Trump is being aided by the “right-wing crazies” who support him as he attempts to rush workers back to work even though public health experts say it could result in hundreds of thousands of more deaths from the coronavirus pandemic. As Krugman notes in his New York […]

President Donald Trump is heading to Capitol Hill for a luncheon with Republican Senators. While it’s not listed on his official calendar, reporters found one element of the unscheduled get together even more surprising: lunch will feature a buffet. The notice that went out to Senate Republican offices about the lunch with Trump notes that […]

A medical journal on Tuesday contradicted President Donald Trump’s claim that it had published a report stating that the World Health Organization (WHO) ignored the coronavirus epidemic in China. The Lancet issued the statement a day after Trump wrote a letter to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom to complain about its response to COVID-19. According to […]

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) unleashed on Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin during the Tuesday morning meeting with the Senate Banking Committee over the coronavirus relief package. Brown began by attacking Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for forcing the Senate to hold meetings at such a dangerous time. “McConnell has forced workers to go against public […]

According to a report published in Newsweek this Tuesday, a federal judge ruled that a lawsuit alleging President Trump engaged in fraud by promoting a pyramid scheme will be allowed to move forward. “District Judge Lorna G. Schofield ruled that the class action lawsuit can move forward despite Trump’s legal counsel requesting a stay,” Newsweek […]

Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) is polling far behind Democratic challenger Mark Kelly, and one pollster says that the incumbent Republican’s numbers are even worse than they first appear. In a column for The Arizona Republic, Laurie Roberts cites a new poll from OH Predictive Insights that shows McSally losing to Kelly by a stunning 13 […]

The Wisconsin primary election was generally regarded as a disaster as voters braved the coronavirus to stand in long lines for hours just to vote. While the state has seen another COVID-19 outbreak connected to the election, now it’s being discovered that thousands of ballots weren’t even counted because of “technical glitches.” According to The […]

A leaked Department of Defense memo undercuts some of the Trump administration’s rosy projections about the coronavirus pandemic, including President Donald Trump’s declaration that there will be a vaccine for the disease by the end of the year. The memo, which was obtained by Task and Purpose, warns that America’s armed forces face “a long […]

In the United States, churches in at least four states have filed lawsuits about the banning of religious gatherings due to the coronavirus pandemic. A prominent Virginia pastor died in April of COVID-19, after preaching that “I firmly believe that God is larger than this dreaded virus.” One church elder, struggling to make sense of […]

Vice President Mike Pence reportedly walked away from a question about whether or not he’s taking hydroxychloroquine. Pence on Tuesday was asked the question as he appeared at the U.S. Capitol for a coronavirus meeting. According to Politico reporter Burgess Everett, Pence ignored the question and kept walking. The White House has also refused to […]

The debate over masks has devolved into a binary and partisan choice, but a conservative editor explains why it doesn’t have to be that way. Jonathan Last, executive editor of The Bulwark, laid out the evidence for wearing protective masks in some situations, and shows why they’re unnecessary in others. “There is some debate over […]

Conservative Charlie Sykes has found himself aghast at President Donald Trump and his allies’ latest wild proclamations about the coronavirus. Writing in The Bulwark, Sykes marveled at Trump’s declaration that he’s been taking unproven medical treatment for COVID-19, even as he refuses to take precautionary steps such as wearing a face mask around the White […]

After President Donald Trump claimed Monday that he has been taking hydroxychloroquine on a daily basis for more than a week in an effort to prevent Covid-19—even though the anti-malaria medicine has not been proven effective for that purpose—medical professionals condemned Trump for continuing to recklessly tout the drug and warned the public against following […]

According to Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson, Donald Trump’s attempt to drag former President Barack Obama into the 2020 election fray is ill-fated and will likely blow up in his face on election day. As of late, the president has been holding his fire on Obama Vice President Joe Biden who is the presumptive 2020 […]

Indonesia on Tuesday called for Saudi Arabia to decide if it will allow the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, after the coronavirus pandemic plunged the ritual into doubt. Last year around 2.5 million faithful travelled to Saudi Arabia from across the world to take part in the “hajj”, which all Muslims must perform at least […]