APRIL 9, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, participates in the daily coronavirus task force briefing in the Brady Briefing room at the White House on March 31, 2020 in Washington, DC. - Win McNamee, Getty Images
Senior White House adviser Anthony Fauci said Thursday the death toll from the coronavirus could be...
APRIL 9, 2020
A Boy Scout from Maple Ridge, British Columbia is getting world-wide attention for using his 3D printer to create "ear gears" for surgical masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Heather Roney says her 12-year-old son, Quinn Callander, has created several hundred of them from home so far and donated them to health-care workers around the world.
The device, which goes behind the head and is...
APRIL 9, 2020
Since the first genome of the coronavirus was sequenced in January, researchers around the world have sequenced over 3,000 more, some of which are genetically identical while others carry distinctive mutations. - National Institutes of Health/EPA, via Shutterstock
New research indicates that the coronavirus began to circulate in the New York area by mid-February, weeks before the...
APRIL 9, 2020
The U.S. economy continues to shed jobs at a jaw-dropping pace and there’s little sign the payroll losses will ease significantly anytime soon amid the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
About 6.6 million Americans filed unemployment benefit claims for the first time last week, the Labor Department said Thursday, reflecting another surge in layoffs and an economy that...
APRIL 8, 2020
At near-daily coronavirus press briefings, President Trump shares information about his administration’s pandemic response and criticizes reporters for their questions about it. - Jabin Botsford/WashPost
President Trump has lambasted governors who he views as insufficiently appreciative. He has denigrated — and even dismissed — inspectors general who dared to criticize him or his administration. And he has excoriated...
APRIL 8, 2020
DALLAS, TEXAS - MARCH 20: A detail view as American Airlines fleet services employees prepare to load cargo pallets on a 777-300 at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) bound for Frankfurt Airport in Germany during the cornoavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on March 20, 2020 in Dallas, Texas. The first cargo-only flight departs from Dallas Fort Worth International Airport...
APRIL 8, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders announced Wednesday that he is dropping out of the Democratic presidential race, after weeks of clinging to an all-but-impossible path to victory over his moderate rival Joe Biden in a race now frozen by the coronavirus crisis.
Sanders thanked his supporters for helping the country take a “major step forward” in...
APRIL 7, 2020
Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner during a daily White House coronavirus briefing. - Win McNamee/Getty Images
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner’s task force has reached out to a range of health technology companies about creating a national coronavirus surveillance system to give the government a near real-time view of where patients are seeking treatment and...
APRIL 7, 2020
FILE PHOTO: Acting Pentagon watchdog Glenn Fine. - Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP
President Donald Trump has upended the panel of federal watchdogs overseeing implementation of the $2 trillion coronavirus law, tapping a replacement for the Pentagon official who was supposed to lead the effort.
A panel of inspectors general had named Glenn Fine — the acting Pentagon watchdog —...
APRIL 6, 2020
As the coronavirus pandemic penetrates more deeply into global supply chains, prices for key staples are starting to soar in some parts of the world.
Rice and wheat -- crops that account for about a third of the world’s calories -- have been making rapid climbs in spot and futures markets. For countries that rely on imports,...
