APRIL 26, 2020
The Trump administration has announced a freeze on funding to the World Health Organization. - Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images
President Trump and his top aides are working behind the scenes to sideline the World Health Organization on several new fronts as they seek to shift blame for the coronavirus pandemic to the world body, according to U.S. and...
APRIL 26, 2020
President Donald Trump listens as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, April 21, 2020, in Washington.
When the United States Treasury first announced plans on March 27 to grant small businesses $349 billion in forgivable loans, known as the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), it sounded...
APRIL 25, 2020
The White House briefing room is dark and empty after the coronavirus task force did not hold a briefing on April 25 in Washington.
Researchers tracking smartphone data say they recently made a disturbing discovery: For the first time since states began implementing stay-at-home orders in mid-March to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus, Americans are staying...
APRIL 25, 2020
FILE PHOTO: Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un attends a wreath-laying ceremony at Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - North Korea has never publicized who would follow leader Kim Jong Un in the event he is incapacitated, and with no details known about his young children, analysts say his...
APRIL 25, 2020
President Donald Trump reacts as Dr. Anthony Fauci steps away from the podium after speaking and answering questions at the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House on April 22, 2020. Jonathan Ernst
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Until this week, Dr. Anthony Fauci was a near-constant presence at the daily coronavirus task force briefings at the...
APRIL 25, 2020
Old Man Winter will take yet another parting swipe at the northeastern United States, meteorologists say, with more accumulating snow forecast for some of the higher elevations.
The region will be between storms on Saturday, following wet weather into Friday night and ahead of another storm heading in for the latter part of the weekend.
Most of the region...
APRIL 25, 2020
A painting on a road, drawn by the Chennai Scouters & Rovers of Netaji Scout Group/ Southern Railway in front of Chennai Egmore Metro Railway Station, created to honour the heroes of the battle against COVID-19 | Photo Credit: R. Ragu
The Chief Minister however clarified that all essential services would continue to operate
The COVID-19 lockdown will...
APRIL 25, 2020
Inter-Ministerial Central team (IMCT) , wearing protective gear (PPE) visit the M.R. Bangur hospital , which has been designated as COVID-19 hospital during the national lockdown imposed by the government to curb the spread of coronavirus in Kolkata, India on April 23, 2020. - Sonali Pal Chaudhury/NurPhoto via Getty Images
There were 1,429 new cases of the coronavirus...
APRIL 24, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Trump on Friday threatened to block an emergency loan to shore up the U.S. Postal Service unless it dramatically raised shipping prices on online retailers, an unprecedented move to seize control of the agency that analysts said could plunge its finances into a deeper hole.
“The Postal Service is a joke,” Trump told reporters...
APRIL 24, 2020
When the COVID-19 outbreak sent Queen Elizabeth into self-isolation in Windsor and Prince Charles tested positive for the virus and was under quarantine in Scotland, it was Prince William who became the face and voice of the royal family during the crisis. And, as a result, he's earned high marks from his grandmother.
In March, days after it...
