MAY 20, 2020
An empty pool is viewed at an apartment complex awaiting reopening as Memorial Day approaches amid the coronavirus pandemic, May 14, 2020, in Arlington, Virginia. - Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images
If you're heading to the pool this summer, you'll have to bring your swim cap, goggles, towel -- and face covering.
The Centers for Disease Control and...
MAY 20, 2020
US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. - Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Mitch McConnell promised House Republicans Wednesday that the beefed up unemployment benefits enacted earlier this spring "will not be in the next bill."
The Senate majority leader told the House GOP minority in an afternoon phone call that he is comfortable waiting to see how the nearly $3 trillion...
MAY 20, 2020
Signage reminds people to "Do Your Part Stay 6 Feet Apart" on Lincoln Mall on May 20 in Miami Beach, Florida.
A new analysis being reviewed by the White House shows southern states that moved too quickly to relax social distancing guidelines face significant risk for a resurgence of the coronavirus over the next several weeks. In several...
MAY 20, 2020
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) is imploring President Trump to adhere to health guidelines and wear a facial covering when he visits a Ford ventilator assembly plant in her state later this week.
In an open letter sent to the president on Wednesday, Nessel noted that under Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's (D) stay-at-home order, manufacturers are required...
MAY 20, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday defended his recommendation the State Department's inspector general be fired, saying he should have done it earlier, and rejected claims his decision was motivated by political retaliation.
However, Pompeo in a news conference declined to explain the rationale for the firing of Steve Linick, who congressional aides...
MAY 20, 2020
Prince Charles visits Swiss Cottage Farmers' Market, in London, on November 6, 2019, to celebrate its 20th anniversary. - Eddie Mulholland/Getty
Prince Charles has been accused of "playing the lord of the manor" after urging furloughed workers in the U.K. to pick fruit for minimum wage.
Britain does not have enough people to collect this year's harvest after...
MAY 19, 2020
Berkshire's Warren Buffett and SoftBank's Masayoshi Son Johannes Eisele/Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images
SoftBank is often described as the Berkshire Hathaway of tech. That was once a flattering comparison. But the investing track records for the Japanese firm run by Masayoshi Son and have soured lately.
SoftBank has been hit hard by the huge drop in the share prices of public...
MAY 19, 2020
US President Donald Trump. - MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to walk out of the World Health Organisation, accusing the Tedros Adhanom-led global health body chief of acting at China's behest and mismanaging the Covid-19 pandemic in the early stages.
"It is clear the repeated missteps by you and your organization in...
MAY 19, 2020
Chinese troops have bolstered their border control measures in the Galwan Valley in the Aksai Chin region of the Sino-India border, official media reported on Monday. The Chinese action followed “India’s recent, illegal construction of defence facilities across the border into Chinese territory in the Galwan Valley region”, a write-up in the state-run Global Times tabloid said,...
MAY 19, 2020
PHILADELPHIA, PA - SEPTEMBER 21: Former President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally for Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) and Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf on September 21, 2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Midterm election day is November 6th. (Photo by Mark Makela/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump is a master manipulator of language -- and the media. Using...
