MAY 10, 2020
Kevin Hassett, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, says the government "has bought some time with all the money that we've thrown at the economy" to alleviate the effects of the coronavirus. - JIM LO SCALZO, EPA-EFE
WASHINGTON, D.C. – White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett predicted Sunday the unemployment rate could rise above 20% and the worst...
MAY 10, 2020
This May 3, 2020, photo released by Shelly Solomon shows, from left, Steve Turner and his sisters, Carla Paull and Lisa Fishman, holding up a Mother’s Day banner emblazoned with images of their mom, Beverly Turner, in front of her assisted living facility in Ladue, Missouri. They were “practicing” how their Mother’s Day surprise will look on...
MAY 10, 2020
As many as 43 million Americans could lose their health insurance in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute.
Prior to the pandemic, 160 million Americans, or roughly half the population, received their medical insurance through their job. The tidal wave of layoffs...
MAY 9, 2020
Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the 11th Democratic debate of the 2020 race in Washington. WASHINGTON — While President Donald Trump traveled to the battleground state of Arizona this week, his Democratic opponent for the White House, Joe Biden, campaigned from his basement as he has done throughout the coronavirus pandemic. - Reuters/Kevin...
MAY 9, 2020
The pandemic has given front-line physicians like Dr. Maxine Dexter a rare view of the life-or-death stakes of government decision-making. - Amanda Lucier / NY Times
Maxine Dexter, an intensive care physician, remembers exactly where she was sitting the Thursday morning her political ambitions were born. She was looking out her bedroom window toward northwest Portland — the...
MAY 8, 2020
A Secret Service agent stands guard as President Trump and retired Army Gen. Jack Keane arrive at the White House. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Multiple members of the U.S. Secret Service have tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, according to Department of Homeland Security documents reviewed by Yahoo News.
In March, the...
MAY 8, 2020
FILE - In this April 22, 2020, file photo President Donald Trump passes Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, during a briefing about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA — The decision to shelve detailed advice...
MAY 8, 2020
Russia's President Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping walk down the stairs as they arrive for the BRICS summit in Brasilia, Brazil November 14, 2019. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
The United States on Friday accused China and Russia of stepping up cooperation to spread false narratives over the coronavirus pandemic, saying Beijing was increasingly adopting techniques honed by Moscow.
"Even...
MAY 8, 2020
The case against Michael T. Flynn had become a political cause for President Trump and his supporters. - Tom Brenner /NY Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Justice Department’s decision to drop the criminal case against Michael T. Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser, even though he had twice pleaded guilty to lying to investigators, was extraordinary...
MAY 8, 2020
The U.S. unemployment rate jumped to 14.7 percent in April, the highest level since the Great Depression, as most businesses shut down or severely curtailed operations to fight the deadly coronavirus.
Over 20 million people lost their jobs in April, the Labor Department said Friday, wiping out a decade of job gains in a single month. The staggering...
