NEW YORK (REUTERS) – Democrat Joe Biden opened his widest lead in a month in the United States presidential race after President Donald Trump tested positive for the coronavirus, and a majority of Americans think Trump could have avoided infection if he had taken the virus more seriously, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – As division roils the country ahead of the US presidential election, Ms Justine Lee is out to “Make America Dinner Again” and foster understanding in the process. The creator of the private Facebook group by that name faces the challenge of keeping conversation civil at a social network criticised as a […]
US President Donald Trump is “not yet out of the woods” but those treating him remain “cautiously optimistic”. Mr Trump was diagnosed with the coronavirus on Thursday evening and was taken to hospital a day later. In a Saturday night update, his physician Dr Sean Conley said the president is free of fever and improving, […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will depart for Japan on Sunday (Oct 4) but will not go to Mongolia and South Korea as originally planned, the State Department said on Saturday, after President Donald Trump was diagnosed and hospitalised due to the coronavirus. Initially, Mr Pompeo planned to visit all three […]
Cal Cunningham, the Democratic former state senator and Iraq war veteran who is locked in a closely watched and tight race to unseat Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, a Republican, apologized on Saturday after a report that he had exchanged romantic text messages with a woman who is not his wife. Screenshots of some […]
A pandemic was ravaging America, thousands were dead or dying, and the president was infected. His name was Woodrow Wilson and one century ago he was in a situation similar to the position Donald Trump finds himself in now. Only then, the illness that laid Mr Wilson low had been dubbed the Spanish flu, not […]
Signs of a slower, grinding recovery sure look familiar. By Neil Irwin There is a straightforward narrative of the economy in 2020: The world shut down in the spring because of the coronavirus pandemic, causing an economic collapse without modern precedent. A sharp recovery began in May as businesses reopened. That is accurate as far […]
It was big news in the wee small hours and, for several hours, no one was quite sure how bad it would get. How sick was the president? How long was the chain of infection? How would government continue to function? Without a hint of an answer in the hours of darkness, there was a […]
For months, the White House’s strategy for keeping President Trump and his inner circle safe has been to screen all White House visitors with a rapid test. But one product they use, Abbott’s ID Now, was never intended for that purpose and is known to deliver incorrect results. In issuing an emergency use authorization, the […]
WASHINGTON — A coronavirus outbreak that infected President Trump and spread to the Senate threw a fresh element of uncertainty on Friday into the politically fraught fight over installing Judge Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court before Election Day, as Republicans vowed to press ahead and Democrats insisted on a pause. Pulling off a […]