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Aug 23 2020
Analysis
Learning Our Lessons From Asymptomatic Covid-19
As a family physician on the bucolic shores of the Big Island of Hawaii, I have largely been watching the Covid-19 pandemic evolve from the sidelines. With 145 cases total here in mid-August since the pandemic began, we probably have one of the lowest per capita rates of disease of any county in the U.S. That said, like most physicians, I have been watching closely. What most caught my
RealClearPolitics
Mar 19 2021
News
Is there a crisis at the border?: a look at both sides of the immigration argument
Along the winding road which follows the Rio Grande west from Mission, Texas, dozens of armed border patrol agents, state troopers, soldiers, and state and local police are dotted about to catch undocumented migrants entering the country from Mexico.
This is a so-called hotspot for irregular migration – folks crossing the border river without permission to enter the US – in what the
The Guardian
Jun 20 2018
News
Trump signs executive order on immigration, but says 'zero tolerance' will continue
President Donald Trump, bowing to a deepening humanitarian crisis along the southwest border, signed an executive order Wednesday that promises to halt family separation while insisting that the administration's "zero tolerance" policy to prosecute all illegal immigrants would continue.
USA TODAY
Oct 23 2020
News
U.S. reports more than 71,600 new Covid cases as new infections near record highs and hospitalizations rise
The United States reported more than 71,600 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, approaching a record number of daily infections set in late July as the outbreak takes root across the Midwest and hospitalizations rise.
Covid-19 cases are now growing “really in all parts of the country,” with particularly high transmission rates in the Midwest, Jay Butler, the CDC’s deputy director for
CNBC
Jul 11 2018
News
Some migrant children are reunited with parents as Trump administration misses court deadline
The federal government on Tuesday began its first major wave of reuniting migrant children with their parents amid continued chaos, confusion and legal wrangling over when and how the rest of the thousands of families separated on the border would be brought back together.
Los Angeles Times
Mar 23 2020
Analysis
How the Covid-19 recession could become a depression
Coronavirus is a global economic catastrophe.
As the Covid-19 pandemic worsens, it’s hard to decide which are scarier: the conversations I’m having with epidemiologists or the conversations I’m having with economists.
“This is an economic tsunami,” Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, told me. Social distancing is economic distancing. We are telling people to cease
Ezra Klein
Aug 21 2020
News
Erased From the Trump Administration’s Draft of a Key Foreign Aid Policy: Any Mention of LGBT People
The lead U.S. foreign aid agency has proposed a new policy on gender and women’s empowerment that eliminates any mention of transgender people or contraceptives, running counter to its own long-standing practices in deciding what programs to support.
The draft policy released by the U.S. Agency for International Development on Wednesday was billed as an update and replacement to the
ProPublica
Jan 04 2021
News
Pared-down Biden inauguration to include short 'presidential escort' to White House
President-elect Joe Biden is opting for a historically scaled-down inauguration on Jan. 20 amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Presidential Inaugural Committee.
Forgoing some of the traditional festivities, Biden will participate in a "Pass in Review," a military tradition symbolizing the peaceful transition of power, after which he will be accompanied by a "presidential
Washington Examiner
Jul 14 2020
News
Ukraine: Independent Journalist Threatened
(Kyiv) – A Ukrainian journalist who wrote about the alleged influence of far-right groups on a fact-checking organization is receiving death threats, and her personal information has been published online, Human Rights Watch said today.
The journalist, Katerina Sergatskova, co-founder of the online media outlet Zaborona, was targeted in Facebook posts in which people posted information
Human Rights Watch