JULY 25, 2020
President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the White House, Wednesday, July 22, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump in recent days suddenly acknowledged the gravity of the coronavirus pandemic and edged away from some of his most audacious falsehoods about it. That's not to say he gave the...
JULY 25, 2020
Selling Vaxart stock made more than $197 million in profit for Armistice Capital, a hedge fund that owned two-thirds of the company’s shares. -Rafael Henrique/Getty Images
On June 26, a small South San Francisco company called Vaxart made a surprise announcement: A coronavirus vaccine it was working on had been selected by the U.S. government to be...
JULY 24, 2020
Vice President Mike Pence helped deliver a shipment of personal protective equipment provided by FEMA to the Woodbine Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in Alexandria, Va., in May.
Expired surgical masks. Isolation gowns that resemble oversize trash bags. Extra-small gloves that are all but useless for the typical health worker’s hands.
Nursing home employees across the country have been dismayed...
JULY 24, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for more than three decades, has grappled with several public health crises, including the AIDS epidemic and now, COVID-19. In an interview with CNN's David Axelrod, Fauci said the magnitude of criticism he is receiving now is different than in the past, and...
JULY 23, 2020
Joe Biden, wearing a mask, arrives to speak at a campaign event Tuesday in New Castle, Del. - (Andrew Harnik/ASSOCIATED PRESS)
The team behind the Economist’s 2020 election forecast designed their model to consider lots of factors: polls, economic conditions, presidential approval ratings, political polarization, the presence of an incumbent.
What didn’t get factored in?
“We don’t try to...
JULY 23, 2020
General Financial Rules 2017 amendment news
No more Chinese bidding for government tenders! Modi govt imposes restriction on public procurement
Amid border row with China, the government on Thursday imposed restrictions on public procurement from China and other countries with common border. The Government of India amended the General Financial Rules 2017 to enable imposition of restrictions on...
JULY 23, 2020
Days after Indian and Chinese military leaders agreed on a mutual phased de-escalation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh, China has refused to pull back from the strategically significant Pangong Tso lake area and the Gogra Post.
Sources privy to the development have told India Today TV that China is not budging from two...
JULY 23, 2020
Senate Republicans are scrapping the payroll tax cut from their initial coronavirus relief bill in favor of stimulus checks, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Thursday.
"We think the payroll tax cut is a very good, pro-growth policy. But the president's focus is he wants to get money into people's pockets now because we need to...
JULY 22, 2020
President Donald Trump takes questions from journalists during a news conference about his administration's response to the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, July 22, 2020, in Washington, DC. - Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Billionaire NFL owner and U.S. Ambassador to the U.K. Robert Wood "Woody" Johnson told colleagues he was...
JULY 21, 2020
STR Hospital employees in Wuhan, China seal an airvent to prevent possible airborne transmission of the new coronavirus
Scientists have known for several months the new coronavirus can become suspended in microdroplets expelled by patients when they speak and breathe, but until now there was no proof that these tiny particles are infectious.
A new study by scientists...
