Tag: #Health
Supreme Court rules against GOP bid to restore R.I. ballot rules waived because of virus
The Supreme Court has rebuffed an effort by Republicans to block Rhode Island officials’ agreement to waive mail-in ballot security measures due to the coronavirus…
Oil demand to fall further than expected this year after spike in Covid cases, says report
Number of flights down 80 per cent in June and remained 67 per cent lower in July, says International Energy Agency Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/oil-demand-international-energy-agency-report-coronavirus-a9669556.html Droolin’ Dog…
Common seafood meals contain surprising amounts of microplastics
When it comes to seafood, the biggest concern on most people’s minds is the mercury risk, something that’s relatively easy to avoid by making certain…
Homeless Florida man lived in sports stadium luxury suite for two weeks
Police in St. Petersburg, Florida arrested a homeless fellow who had been living in a luxury suite in Al Lang Stadium. He was apparently wearing…
Fox News poll spells bad news for Republicans as McConnell goes on vacation without a stimulus deal
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) adjourned the Senate on Thursday for an August recess. Despite the lack of a coronavirus stimulus deal, the Senate…
Trump calls for ‘a certain freedom’ to wear masks or not – and lies that Joe Biden’s coronavirus policies are ‘anti-scientific’
President Donald Trump tried to contrast his response to the coronavirus pandemic, which has led to the deaths of nearly 170,000 Americans, against former Vice…
‘Be a patriot’: Joe Biden backs nationwide mask mandate to fight virus
White House hopeful Joe Biden on Thursday called for a nationwide mask-wearing mandate for the next three months, drawing a contrast with President Donald Trump…
Trump begs Biden to stop ‘scoring political points’ on the White House coronavirus failures
President Donald Trump begged Joe Biden to stop trying to score political points by talking about Trump’s failures on the coronavirus. Instead, he blamed Biden…
Trump pushes conspiracy theory Democrats want schools closed so there won’t be polling places
At Thursday’s White House coronavirus briefing, someone sitting in the press pool lobbed a leading softball question at President Donald Trump, asking what children will…
Trump lies that it is Biden — not him — who has ignored science about COVID-19
President Donald Trump tried to attack former Vice President for “ignoring scientific evidence” about the coronavirus during the pandemic. It’s an ironic lie given the…
Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas is investigating its high proportion of coronavirus tests coming back positive
The governor also said that testing is down statewide possibly because of the closure of some temporary testing sites created in July that targeted various…
Criminally charged gym owner rallies against ‘COVID-19 police’ in California
SAN DIEGO — In the days after he became the first San Diego County business owner criminally charged for defying coronavirus-related health orders, Ramona gym…
Republicans embrace a new type of insanity as rabid right-wing Christians fade away
Remember the “Left Behind” series, about how the Rapture would whisk away all devout right-wing Christians before Jesus Christ unleashed the apocalypse on the unbelievers? Purity rings?…
Ron DeSantis compares the reopening of Florida schools to the Navy SEAL operation that killed Osama bin Laden
Despite the worries of health officials, some school districts in Florida — a state where more than 8500 people have died from coronavirus — have started reopening….
As GOP blocks COVID-19 relief, experts warn of ‘wave of despair’ and devastating anecdotes show crisis already here
“I feel truly abandoned by this country,” one person posted on Reddit’s unemployment page this week. As millions of Americans grapple with the consequences of the…
Hospitals ‘scrambling’ to cope with Trump administration’s abrupt change
In a memo sent by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on July 10, hospitals in the United States were ordered to start…
Biden, Harris focus White House campaign on virus crisis
Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris will put the coronavirus pandemic front and center in their campaign Thursday, targeting Donald…
Republicans defeated at the Supreme Court as justices refuse to block Rhode Island from easing voting-by-mail rules
The United States Supreme Court has shot down a GOP request for an emergency stay to stop the suspension of witness and notary requirements for Rhode…
Countries tighten rules as world coronavirus deaths pass 750,000
The total number of people killed by the novel coronavirus around the world passed 750,000 on Thursday, with some countries toughening control measures as caseloads…
‘It’s all madness’: Trump administration showered tiny charter school with 37,500 masks as Americans struggled to obtain one
The Trump administration’s rollout of emergency medical equipment was so chaotic that one Florida charter school was deluged with tens of thousands of masks while…
New unemployment claims fall below 1 million for the first time in five months
New unemployment claims fell last week to 963,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday, the first time in months the figure has been less than 1…
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