MAY 23, 2020
NORFOLK, VA - JANUARY 12: Tugboats assist the USS Portland as it maneuvers out of port from Little Creek Amphibious Base toward open ocean January 12, 2003 in Norfolk, Virginia. The USS Portland is a dock landing ship (LSD) which is being deployed in preparation for any possible attack on Iraq. The USS Portland is just one...
MAY 23, 2020
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. - REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Hillary Clinton has made it crystal clear what she thinks of President Donald Trump’s hyping of unproven treatments for the coronavirus.
Trump in recent weeks has repeatedly promoted the use of the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a potential cure or treatment for COVID-19, contrary to the advice of the Food and...
MAY 23, 2020
Rana Daggubati recently opened up about his relationship with fiancée Miheeka Bajaj during an Instagram live with actor Lakshmi Manchu. He revealed what made him take the plunge and much more.
Excerpts from the interaction:
What made you think that she’s the one?
For the first time, I thought we should do it quickly. So, she must have done something....
MAY 22, 2020
Cemetery workers in New Orleans at the end of April. How deaths are tallied often varies from one state or county to the next.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump, eager to reopen the economy, has begun questioning the official coronavirus death toll, suggesting the numbers, which have hobbled his approval ratings and harmed his re-election prospects, are inflated.
In coronavirus...
MAY 22, 2020
Members of the Trump administration have explored conducting the first U.S. nuclear test since 1992 in a move that would mark a reversal from a decades-long freeze on such tests.
A senior administration official and two former officials familiar with the deliberations told The Washington Post that discussions were held at a meeting of senior officials from...
MAY 22, 2020
People sit last week at outdoor restaurant tables in Lake Geneva, Wis. A study shows that the coronavirus may be continuing to spread in 24 states, including Wisconsin. - Tannen Maury/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
The coronavirus may still be spreading at epidemic rates in 24 states, particularly in the South and Midwest, according to new research that highlights the risk...
MAY 22, 2020
Talk of a second round of $1,200 stimulus checks made headlines last week when Democrats in the House of Representatives passed a new bill including those payments.
But another round of federal relief checks is far from a done deal. Americans should brace themselves for a potentially long wait for that money, if it comes at all.
The Democrats'...
MAY 22, 2020
A study of 96,000 hospitalized coronavirus patients on six continents found that those who received an antimalarial drug promoted by President Trump as a “game changer” in the fight against the virus had a significantly higher risk of death compared with those who did not.
People treated with hydroxychloroquine, or the closely related drug chloroquine, were also more...
MAY 22, 2020
President Trump lashed out at Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) in a pair of late-night tweets Thursday after she called him “a petulant child” following his refusal to wear a face mask at all times during his visit to a Ford manufacturing plant in the state earlier that day.
“The president is like a petulant child who...
MAY 21, 2020
Two BJP MPs — Meenakshi Lekhi and Rahul Kaswan — virtually attended the swearing-in ceremony of Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and even sent her congratulatory messages, in a departure from the Modi government’s position on the country that China claims is its territory.
Tsai was sworn in for her second term on Wednesday and Lekhi and Kaswan were...
