1 / 6 Mexico rejects El Salvador accusation it let coronavirus patients board plane A family of travelers react after El Salvador’s President Bukele ordered the closing of the airport in San Luis Talpa SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – Mexico rejected an accusation by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on Monday that it had allowed a dozen […]
Martial law (noun): the law administered by military forces that is invoked by a government in an emergency when the civilian law-enforcement agencies are unable to maintain public order and safety Merriam-Webster The public health emergency hasn’t required martial law as the federal government mobilizes, not without criticism, the fight against COVID-19. Rumors about such […]
Because “outbreak” and “pandemic” and any of a dozen high-stakes words accompany dispatches about the deadly novel coronavirus, it’s not surprising, nor ill-advised, that the news media and financial markets respond with alarm to COVID-19. Still, the critical response leaves scientists, environmental advocates and long-view money managers imploring: Where’s the impetus for moving on policy […]
Take care of yourselves MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories: A rare win for Gen X? Boomers gave us latchkey childhoods that prepped us for coronavirus quarantine Is Generation X — the legion of latchkey kids for whom the waning Cold War forced futile school drills — better able to self-soothe under the confines of […]
The Republican-led Senate appeared on track to pass a bipartisan coronavirus bill around the middle of this week, after the Democratic-controlled House voted overwhelmingly for the legislation on Saturday and President Donald Trump threw his support behind it. At the same time, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, […]
President Trump is starting to sound worried about the coronavirus. During a White House press briefing on the pandemic, the president — who has faced criticism over what many believe to be his casual response to COVID-19 — said “this is a very bad one” because of its “sort of record-setting type contagion,” and he’s […]
As the global coronavirus outbreak continues to shutter businesses and schools across America and upend the stock market, a number of commentators on the right have been busily floating conspiracy theories about what’s behind the outbreak, or even how real it is. “People should ask themselves whether this coronavirus ‘pandemic’ could be a big hoax, […]
Seven members of a family were fatally shot over the weekend in North Carolina, the Chatham County Sheriff’s Office said Monday. The suspect is among the dead, sheriff’s office spokeswoman Lt. Sara Pack told NBC News. Pack said the incident is a suspected murder-suicide but authorities are still investigating a possible motive. It occurred in […]
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro did not react well when confronted by CNN anchor Poppy Harlow on Monday morning over sinking stock markets in the wake of a full-blown coronavirus pandemic, insisting that now wasn’t the time to talk about whether the president’s response to the crisis was causing markets to plummet. Appearing on […]
AFP via Getty Images Americans should “prepare to hunker down more” at home, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. A national lockdown is not out of the question to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease. Asked on “Meet the […]