“ ‘To be effective, the lockdown has to be as comprehensive and strict as possible. If we aren’t willing to take this action, millions more cases with many more deaths are likely before a vaccine might be available. In addition, the economic recovery will be much slower, with far more business failures and high unemployment […]
Last week, pictures of maskless students crowding the hall of Georgia’s freshly reopened North Paulding High School went viral and raised questions all over the internet as to whether getting kids back to school while coronavirus cases are still on the rise is a good idea. These are the kinds of tweets that were being […]
MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE President Donald Trump’s executive order and memorandum to stimulate the economy “is unconstitutional slop,” said Se. Benn Sasse of Nebraska. See full story. The stock market is in a bubble — but the bubble is likely to get bigger The target for the S&P 500 is about 3,800 points. See full story. […]
Sure, it’s a nation of islands, but still. While countries like the U.S. continue to grapple with a rising number of coronavirus cases, New Zealand’s Ministry of Health announced a remarkable milestone on Sunday: There hasn’t been a single new locally transmitted case of COVID-19 in 100 days. “Achieving 100 days without community transmission is […]
Simon Property Group Inc., the biggest mall owner in the U.S., has been in talks with Amazon.com Inc. to turn some of its anchor department-store spaces into Amazon fulfillment centers, according to people familiar with the matter. For Amazon AMZN, -1.78% , more fulfillment centers near residential areas would speed up the crucial last mile […]
In over two centuries of American presidential politics, just three women and only one person of color have ever been on a major party presidential ticket. This year’s Democratic nominee for vice president will join this small club and has a very real shot at becoming the first woman to hold one of the top two most powerful […]
President Donald Trump’s executive order and memorandums to provide relief during the coronavirus pandemic don’t seem feasible or legal, experts said Saturday. Trump made an end run around Congressional Democrats with an executive order and three memoranda aimed at boosting the economy. But experts said the wording of the orders raised more questions than answers. […]
In Washington D.C., lawmakers are debating a second batch of stimulus checks in another coronavirus rescue bill. In Blairstown, N.J. Frank Natoli is scratching his head on news of the negotiations. “ ‘My first reaction was ‘second what?’ What about the first?’ ” — Frank Natoli, a software engineer still waiting for his first stimulus […]
President Trump sits next to Terrence Williams and Angela Stanton-King during a meeting with African-American leaders at the White House in February. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images) On Thursday evening, amid a fairly typical burst of presidential Twitter activity, President Trump retweeted two recent posts from the account of Angela Stanton-King, a Republican congressional candidate […]