The second largest teachers union in the U.S. announced Tuesday it would support strikes if schools reopened without proper safety measures in place to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. The announcement comes as the Trump administration has called for schools to reopen in the fall for in-person instruction amid a nationwide surge in […]
California is reversing its reopening plans amidst a surge in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday that businesses like restaurants, wineries, movie theaters, cardrooms, zoos and museums must no longer welcome people inside and bars must close altogether, NPR reported. In addition, gyms, places of worship, hair and nail salons, malls and […]
On Monday and Tuesday of the week that President Donald Trump held his first rally since March in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the county reported 76 and 96 new coronavirus cases respectively, according to POLITICO. This week, the county broke its new case record Monday with 261 cases and reported a further 206 cases on Tuesday. Now, […]
The official number of people in the U.S. who have lost their lives to the new coronavirus has now passed 130,000, according to tallies from The New York Times, Reuters and Johns Hopkins University. The grim news comes amidst a surge in U.S. cases. More than 50,000 new cases a day were reported several times […]
The U.S. has bought up almost all of the world’s supply of remdesivir, one of only two drugs shown to work against the new coronavirus. The move is in keeping with the Trump administration‘s “America first” buzzword towards the global pandemic and raises concerns about what the administration will do if and when a vaccine […]
Fire experts have already criticized President Trump‘s planned fireworks event for this Friday at Mt. Rushmore National Memorial as a dangerous idea. Now, it turns out the event may be socially irresponsible too as distancing guidelines and mask wearing will not be enforced at the event, according to CNN. The fireworks event at the iconic […]
The world passed two troubling milestones Sunday, as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases topped 10 million and the number of deaths surpassed 500,000. This means the death toll has doubled in less than two months, The New York Times pointed out, from 250,000 in early May. In April, it topped 100,000. The number of […]
In a move that seems particularly cruel in the midst of the growing coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to invalidate the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, on Thursday, as CNN reported. If the move is successful, it would wipe out the landmark legislation that provided health insurance for 23 million Americans […]
For the last decade, fireworks have been banned at Mt. Rushmore due to environmental concerns and public health concerns. President Trump, however, is not somebody who seems to care about either, so he’s planning on going ahead with his fireworks show on July 3 at the iconic site. As The Washington Post reported, the National […]
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