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Mar 15 2020
News
Gatherings of 50 or more people should be canceled for 8 weeks: CDC
Gatherings of 50 or more people should be canceled or postponed for the next eight weeks in order to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, according to new guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The federal agency issued the new recommendation Sunday night, acknowledging that the large gatherings could “contribute to the spread”of the illness.
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New York Post (News)Jan 01 2022
Opinion
The 2022 Reckoning
This is the last Morning Jolt of 2021. I’ll see you January 3. Let’s close out the year by looking at what 2021 brought us and what 2022 is likely to bring. I think the one word that will most succinctly summarize 2022 is “reckoning.”
I can’t predict specifically what’s going to happen in 2022. But I think I can predict the general theme of the coming year: a reckoning, in the sense of
National Review (News)Apr 23 2020
News
Democrats sue to ease absentee voting in Pennsylvania and S.C.
Democrats continued their aggressive legal strategy to make voting easier on Wednesday, filing lawsuits seeking to expand mail-in balloting this year in both reliably red South Carolina and premier battleground Pennsylvania.
The suits are the latest in the party's multimillion-dollar campaign against a wide range of laws and regulations it alleges are illegally and unconstitutionally
The FulcrumDec 11 2020
Fact Check
Ingraham wrongly claims ‘no science’ suggests restaurants spread COVID-19
Fox News host Laura Ingraham downplayed the risk of contracting the coronavirus while dining at a restaurant, wrongly claiming restrictions on eating out are not supported by science.
"You know what the biggest lie is, is that restaurants are spreaders of COVID," Ingraham told host Sean Hannity during the handoff between their TV shows. "There's no science for that."
The Dec. 8
PolitiFactMar 09 2021
Headline Roundup
$1.9T Stimulus Bill Nears Passage
House Democrats plan to approve the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus package on Wednesday, after which it would be sent to President Joe Biden's desk where he'll sign it into law. Progressives in the House have voiced frustration with recent changes and the exclusion of a $15 federal minimum wage proposition, but reportedly plan to vote for the relief package anyway.
Many Republicans
New York Times (News) The Hill Fox News DigitalMar 18 2020
News
Biden notches 3 more victories; Sanders reassessing campaign
Joe Biden swept to victory in Florida, Illinois and Arizona, increasingly pulling away with a Democratic presidential primary upended by the coronavirus and building pressure on Bernie Sanders to abandon his campaign.
On Wednesday, Sanders’ campaign manager said Sanders “is going to be having conversations with supporters to assess his campaign.” But he suggested Sanders is in no hurry
Associated PressJan 20 2021
News
Inauguration Day 2021: Live updates as Joe Biden is sworn in as president
Follow along with The Post’s Inauguration Day 2021 coverage on Wednesday as President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are sworn in.
The usual massive crowds and most in-person performances will be absent amid the coronavirus pandemic and concerns of violence, but the day still promises a packed schedule — including a virtual parade and televised concert.
New York Post (News)Nov 10 2020
Perspectives Blog
When Mitch McConnell Becomes the Most Important Man on the Planet
As it now stands, Joe Biden will be the first incoming president since George H.W. Bush in 1989 to take office without his party holding full control of Congress. Biden would be the first Democratic president since Grover Cleveland to be sworn in without both the House and Senate on his side. Although the smart money projected that last week’s elections would bring in a Democratic Senate
Dan SchnurApr 21 2020
News
Conspiracy theorists burn 5G towers claiming link to virus
LONDON (AP) — The CCTV footage from a Dutch business park shows a man in a black cap pouring the contents of a white container at the base of a cellular radio tower. Flames burst out as the man jogs back to his Toyota to flee into the evening.
It’s a scene that’s been repeated dozens of times in recent weeks in Europe, where conspiracy theories linking new 5G mobile networks and the
Associated PressAug 06 2020
News
Work on hydroxychloroquine delayed promising studies of convalescent plasma
Robust scientific studies on convalescent plasma, a potentially promising COVID-19 treatment, have gotten off to a slow start in the U.S., in part because some researchers were more focused on enrolling their sickest patients in other trials, including some for hydroxychloroquine.
"You always have that hindsight and say, oh man, we should have put our efforts into something else," said
NBC News Digital