MARCH 23, 2020
President Donald Trump departs after speaking at a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, Sunday, March 22, 2020, in Washington. Standing behind Trump are Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Vice President Mike Pence and FEMA administrator Peter Gaynor. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Donald Trump is...
MARCH 23, 2020
White House coronavirus response coordinator, and Anthony S. Fauci, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director, listen as President Trump speaks at a news conference Friday. - Jabin Botsford/The WashPost Deborah Birx
Amid the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic, Anthony S. Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has been charged with a herculean...
MARCH 22, 2020
FILE PHOTO: Medical staff in protective gear work at a 'drive-thru' testing center for the novel coronavirus disease of COVID-19 in Yeungnam University Medical Center in Daegu. - Reuters/Kim Kyung Hoon
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began, the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect...
MARCH 22, 2020
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard predicted the U.S. unemployment rate may hit 30% in the second quarter because of shutdowns to combat the coronavirus, with an unprecedented 50% drop in gross domestic product.
Bullard called for a powerful fiscal response to replace the $2.5 trillion in lost income that quarter to ensure a strong...
MARCH 22, 2020
Baffin Island is the largest island in Canada and the fifth-largest in the world
Canadian scientists have discovered a fragment of an ancient continent, suggesting that it was 10% larger than previously thought.
They were studying diamond samples from Baffin Island, a glacier-covered land mass near Greenland, when they noticed a remnant of North Atlantic Craton.
Cratons are ancient, stable...
MARCH 22, 2020
As the coronavirus crisis deepens across the world, countries are using lockdown as one of the prime quarantine strategies to control the spread.
A lockdown happens during different kinds of emergencies and it disrupts normal life.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a nationwide lockdown from 7 am to 9 pm on March 22, 2020. Here...
MARCH 21, 2020
People wear face masks as a precautionary measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus at the arrivals hall of Hong Kong's international airport on March 19, 2020. On March 18, Hong Kong authorities began ordering all arrivals from overseas to wear electronic bracelets, connected to an app to mark your location, and two weeks self-quarantine. - ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty Images/TNS
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MARCH 21, 2020
Right-wing extremists in Berlin in 2017 commemorate the 30th anniversary of the death of Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess. (Maurizio Gambarini/Picture Alliance via Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — White supremacists discussed plans to weaponize coronavirus via “saliva,” a “spray bottle” or “laced items,” according to a weekly intelligence brief distributed by a federal law enforcement division on Feb....
MARCH 21, 2020
Specialists point to several factors why Italy's death toll from COVID-19 is so high, one being the country's average age
Why Italy?
Loads of people have been wondering why the beautiful Mediterranean country has become the new epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic.
Experts list a range of reasons -- from Italy's relatively high age to its strained healthcare system to...
MARCH 21, 2020
“Senate Republicans want to put cash in Americans’ hands,” Senator Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor last week. - Erin Scott /NY Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The idea to funnel cash directly to millions of Americans to help them weather the economic disaster ravaging the globe amid the coronavirus pandemic got its jump-start not from the liberal...
