Democrats are trying in vain to delay the fast-track confirmation by raising fresh concerns about the safety of meeting during the pandemic. Mark Sherman, Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick and Michael Balsamo WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats branded Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett a threat to Americans’ health care during the coronavirus pandemic Monday at the […]
By Simon Johnson STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – U.S. academics Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson won the 2020 Nobel Economics on Monday for work on auctions hailed as benefiting buyers and sellers around the world of everything from fishing quotas to aircraft landing slots. prize in economic sciences Among the insights of the two Stanford University economists is […]
Native women are disappearing and being killed. Savanna’s Act and the Not Invisible Act will finally help bring them some justice. By Jennifer Bendery, HuffPost US President Donald Trump signed two bills into law Saturday night that will finally do something about a terrifying and largely invisible crisis in America: Hundreds of Indigenous women are […]
US Election 2020 US President Donald Trump has refused to take part in a virtual TV debate with his Democratic rival Joe Biden. Earlier the commission organising the 15 October debate in Miami said it would have to take place remotely. It made the decision after Mr Trump was treated for Covid-19. He has no […]
By Reuters Staff (Reuters) – U.S. commercial bankruptcy filings are up 33% so far this year with new cases in September surging by 78% from a year earlier as the recession triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic hits small businesses, data released on Monday showed. Filings by individuals, however, are lower so far this year courtesy of […]
US election 2020 Will the Kremlin be trying to “Keep America Great”? Is Beijing rooting for Biden? These questions are on the minds of the US intelligence community in the run-up to November’s vote. An assessment from a top official warns foreign powers will use “covert and overt influence measures” to try to sway US voters, singling […]
By Alexandra Alper, Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Doctors treating President Donald Trump for COVID-19 sent conflicting signals about the severity of his condition on Sunday, hours before the president surprised supporters gathered outside the hospital with an impromptu motorcade. Doctors giving Trump steroid to fight COVID-19 Trump, 74, wore a mask as he waved from […]
By Alexandra Alper, Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said from his hospital room that the next few days will be the “real test” of his treatment for COVID-19, after a series of contradictory messages from the White House caused widespread confusion about his condition. In a four-minute video posted on Twitter on Saturday from […]
Coronavirus pandemic US President Donald Trump has been flown to hospital after testing positive for coronavirus. His doctor said Mr Trump was “fatigued but in good spirits” and, in a later update, that he was doing well. Mr Trump has so far been treated with an experimental drug cocktail injection and the antiviral medication remdesivir […]
Who takes over if the US president becomes too ill to work? Who else has tested positive in the White House? And what will happen to the election? By Sarah Turnnidge With the US election just 32 days away, Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for Covid-19. The president has repeatedly downplayed […]
