US warns Americans against traveling overseas
The State Department told Americans currently out of the country to either return home or plan to shelter in place where they are.
By Associated Press - March 20, 2020The State Department told Americans currently out of the country to either return home or plan to shelter in place where they are.
By Associated Press - March 20, 2020Republican Sen. Richard Burr may have dumped as much as $1.7 million in stock ahead of the coronavirus-driven downturn.
By Emily Singer - March 20, 2020Most renters will not be eligible for eviction protections, despite what Donald Trump said this week.
By Associated Press - March 20, 2020Sens. Richard Burr of North Carolina and Kelly Loeffler both received information about coronavirus from the White House that wasn’t available to the public.
By Associated Press - March 20, 2020Medicaid expansion is a ‘shovel-ready program for investing in the health care of the rural community,’ Brock Slabach of the National Rural Hospital Association said.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 19, 2020Greg Abbott spent the past week refusing to order the closure of businesses and schools.
By Josh Israel - March 19, 2020Trump crossed out the word ‘coronavirus’ and replaced it with ‘Chinese’ virus in his prepared remarks from a press briefing on Thursday.
By Emily Singer - March 19, 2020Gov. Eric Holcomb wants communities to figure it out for themselves even as they struggle with the growing coronavirus outbreak.
By Josh Israel - March 19, 2020Despite a raging pandemic, Ron DeSantis says he’s leaving the decision up to local communities.
By Emily Singer - March 19, 2020Donald Trump’s wall was a big enough emergency to warrant their attention.
By Josh Israel - March 19, 2020North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr compared the current coronavirus outbreak to the Spanish Flu in 1918, which killed as many as 50 million people.
By Emily Singer - March 19, 2020The Wisconsin Republican said potential death from the coronavirus should be ‘a risk we accept.’
By Emily Singer - March 18, 2020Sen. Marsha Blackburn used a racist term this week to describe the coronavirus, even after repeated warnings from experts.
By Josh Israel - March 18, 2020Trump has frequently touted market gains as a reason for voters to reelect him in November.
By Emily Singer - March 18, 2020It wasn’t until this week that Trump soberly warned about the need for social distancing.
By Emily Singer - March 18, 2020Trump continually lied about his early response to the virus.
By Emily Singer - March 18, 2020In the span of five days, Trump declared a national emergency, told Americans ‘not to panic,’ and then announced the ‘world is at war’ with coronavirus.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 17, 2020Experts have warned against naming viruses based on geographic locations as Trump did recently, saying that doing so can stigmatize certain communities or groups.
By Josh Israel - March 17, 2020Trump lashed out at Gretchen Whitmer after she went on MSNBC and said the administration didn’t ‘take this seriously early enough.’
By Emily Singer - March 17, 2020Pubs do not typically have drive-thrus.
By Josh Israel - March 17, 2020Public health experts, including the CDC, have called for an end to the use of stigmatizing terms amid the coronavirus outbreak.
By Emily Singer - March 17, 2020The state declared a health emergency that canceled in-person voting, even though a judge ruled the primary had to be held.
By Associated Press - March 17, 2020Free yoga classes, free shark story hours, and charitable giving are just some of the ways people are making the best of a tough situation.
By Josh Israel - March 16, 2020A day earlier, he said the virus was under ‘tremendous control.’
By Josh Israel - March 16, 2020Gov. Mike DeWine said he does not have the power to order the change, so affected voters will file a lawsuit asking a judge to do it instead.
By Associated Press - March 16, 2020Trump told governors they can’t rely on him to provide necessary hospital equipment to handle an influx of coronavirus cases.
By Emily Singer - March 16, 2020Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell admitted the bill included ‘urgent Senate priorities,’ but he sent senators home instead of working on passing it.
By Josh Israel - March 16, 2020The former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers also predicted unprecedented job losses.
By Emily Singer - March 16, 2020Trump reportedly offered a German company a ‘large sum’ of money to make a vaccine that would be available exclusively in the United States.
By Emily Singer - March 16, 2020Donald Trump is ‘undermining the doctors and the scientists who are trying to help the American people,’ Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said at Sunday’s debate.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 15, 2020