WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – One week after Republican President Donald Trump announced he had Covid-19, Democrats in Congress on Friday (Oct 9) proposed creating a commission to help decide whether to transfer a future US president’s powers when incapacitated. The Democrats, in the US House of Representatives, said their legislation would activate a long-ignored provision of […]
In the past few weeks, a number of counties have moved forward with reopening and a few have reversed course. By Marie Tae McDermott Good morning. It’s been over a month since California moved from a county monitoring system to a new framework based on tiers. The new system assesses county metrics weekly and assigns […]
Sarah Vaill-Ciano is used to hosting Thanksgiving on a large scale. With a family of nearly 20 people, sizable soirees are hard to avoid at her place. In a normal year, dinner would be served on extended tables, conversations would stretch well into the evening, and her youngest niece would spend most of the day […]
Thousands of Americans move to New York each year, many of them seeking a fresh start. Even a pandemic couldn’t totally stop that. By Jazmine Hughes Victoria Gruenert went through a sudden, ugly breakup this past spring, so she did what many 20-somethings have done before her: She picked up her things and moved to […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Americans are steadily losing confidence in US President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, with his net approval on the issue that has dominated the US election hitting a record low in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. The poll taken Tuesday (Oct 6) through Thursday, after Mr Trump’s Covid-19 infection and weekend […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Eli Lilly and Co said on Thursday (Oct 8) it had entered into an agreement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for potential supply of its experimental antibody treatments for Covid-19 to low and middle-income countries. As part of the deal, Lilly said it will make antibody therapies available to lower-income […]
President Trump’s doctor said on Thursday that he’s completed his treatments to alleviate the symptoms of the coronavirus and that he anticipates he will be able to resume “public engagements” on Saturday. The forecast about Mr. Trump’s condition came from the White House physician, Dr. Sean Conley, in a note updating people on his health. […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – Even as he scrambles to shore up support from his base, US President Donald Trump on Thursday (Oct 8) again suggested that veterans and their families had spread the coronavirus at the White House, floating the idea that a meeting with the loved ones of fallen military members might have been the […]
IQALUIT, Nunavut‘s chief public health officer says an outbreak of COVID-19 at a gold mine has been contained. Dr. Michael Patterson says there are 10 positive cases and six presumptive cases at the Hope Bay mine, about 125 kilometres southwest of Cambridge Bay. But he says the cases will not be counted as the territory’s, […]
Almost four months before the FBI arrested six men for plotting to kidnap Michigan’s governor, the bureau warned local and state law enforcement about a surge in militia extremists seeking to target government officials, particularly those they blamed for pandemic restrictions, according to an intelligence bulletin obtained by Yahoo News. “Militia extremists likely pose an […]