WASHINGTON — Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, says that Trump administration officials declined an offer of early congressional funding assistance that he and other senators made on Feb. 5 during a meeting to discuss the coronavirus. The officials, including Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, said they “didn’t need emergency funding, that they […]
The notion that coronavirus is “just a cold” or “no worse than the flu” for young people is proving to be untrue. “The COVID-19 virus is capable of causing infection and severe disease in all people of all ages,” said Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of World Health Organization’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, on […]
Many employees in the U.S. are holding their breath, waiting to see if their jobs will be the next to disappear as authorities order businesses to close and residents to stay home in a bid to stop the spread of the coronavirus. At the same time, hiring is ramping up in some sectors. Some 3.28 […]
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing to suspend collection of import tariffs for three months to give U.S. companies financial relief amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to administration officials. “Customs duties will be suspended for three months,” a senior administration official said Friday. Companies would still be liable for the tariffs at a later […]
Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed new temporary hospital sites Friday as significant donations flooded in from major corporations to help equip New York in its fight against COVID-19, which to date has infected 44,635 people and killed 519 across the state. Four new locations in New York City — the epicenter of the crisis — were […]
At 37, Steven Dick was in the early days of the latest chapter in his diplomatic career. Claire McGowan, a friend of Dick’s based in London, remembers his extreme talent with languages and how he’d just learned Hungarian in preparation for his new role as deputy head of mission at the British Embassy in Hungary, […]
Hours after a Fox News interview in which he downplayed a national shortage of hospital ventilators to treat patients infected with the coronavirus, President Trump fired off a number of tweets Friday blaming General Motors and its CEO, Mary Barra, for not manufacturing more of them. As usual with “this” General Motors, things just never […]
A California couple who has been waiting two and a half years to adopt a child from an Indian orphanage was days away from completion when the country introduced a strict coronavirus lockdown, bringing the process to a halt. Firefighter and paramedic Michael Cannon and nurse Rose Barnes told Yahoo News they traveled to New […]
FILE PHOTO: Iran’s Foreign Minister Zarif speaks with the media on the sidelines of a security conference in New Delhi DUBAI (Reuters) – The Tehran government urged the United States on Friday to release Iranians held in U.S. jails on sanctions-related issues due to fears about the coronavirus epidemic. The death toll in Iran, one […]
As the House of Representatives prepares to pass a historic $2 trillion coronavirus relief package, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi faces a bigger challenge: figuring out a way for 435 members to cast votes in the time of social distancing. The pandemic has left multiple members of Congress in quarantine and led to restrictions on movement […]