Responding to an urgent March 14 appeal from the National Security Council, Taiwan sent the United States hundreds of thousands of masks — 3,600 of which were specially earmarked for White House staff and officials. At the same time they were privately scrambling to procure these masks, the Trump administration …
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As American parents scramble to educate their kids at home amid the coronavirus pandemic, it’s worth asking: How effective are school shutdowns at halting the spread of the disease? Dr. Isaac Chun-Hai Fung is an infectious-disease epidemiologist Georgia Southern University, and he’s published science demonstrating how lengthy school shutdowns can …
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President Trump is the master of saying the quiet part out loud, and on Friday he showed no signs of relinquishing that title. While speaking at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Trump said he would prefer not to allow the more than 3,500 people aboard …
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Efforts to block the global spread of coronavirus appear to have failed, but that does not mean you should panic, says Angela Rasmussen, a virologist who serves on the faculty at the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University’s school of public health. Related: The CDC’s ‘Disease Detectives’ Are …
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President Trump threatened to sue Robert Mueller and the prosecutors who were involved with the Roger Stone case. Per usual, the president’s rant came via Twitter. In a rambling burst of Tuesday morning tweets, Trump threatened to sue “everyone all over the place.” The president’s latest outburst came after Judge …
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said President Donald Trump’s actions have left the House with “no choice” but “to proceed with articles of impeachment,” signaling House Democrats will vote to impeach the president and send his case to the Senate for a trail. “Today I am asking our chairman …
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Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman is a decorated combat veteran whose career in the armed services spanned more than two decades. Republicans are now trying to paint Vindman as having dual loyalty to Ukraine, the country he emigrated to the United States from as a small child. During Vindman’s testimony before …
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Last Sunday President Donald Trump was loudly booed and greeted with “lock him up” chants while attending Game 5 of the World Series in DC between the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros. On Saturday night, it happened again at a UFC fight at New York’s Madison Square Garden. But according …
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Renas Zuber lights another cigarette as the carnage plays out on TV. Two days after a temporary cease-fire was called on the Turkish invasion into northern Syria, civilians are under siege in the border town of Serekaniye. Cellphone footage looping onscreen shows a man writhing on the ground in a …
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Air quality in the United States is getting worse, and research suggests the dirty air is taking years off Americans’ lives. According to a study published this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research, fine particulate pollutionincreased 5.5 percent between 2016 and 2018, and evidence suggests the spike is …
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