President Donald Trump sparked outrage on Wednesday for repeating his claim that the coronavirus will “just disappear,” even as new COVID-19 cases in the U.S. continued to surge to record daily highs and health experts issued dire warnings about the alarming new figures. As a number of states reversed course on their reopening plans amid spiking […]
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Country’s Chase Rice Insists Safety Is ‘Huge Priority’ After Concert Backlash
Chase Rice urged fans to “stay in your own space” after being hit with a barrage of criticism for staging a concert that appeared to have no social distancing measures in place. Over the weekend, the country singer-songwriter posted a photo to his Instagram Story showing a packed, mask-free crowd. The snapshot was taken from the […]
Kansas City Mayor Called Racist Slur After Declaring Face Masks Mandatory
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City’s Black mayor said Monday that he was called a racist slur and told he should “swing from a tree” after he announced mandatory face masks in the Missouri city. Mayor Quinton Lucas on Twitter shared a screenshot of the texts, which came after he announced Friday that masks […]
Nurse hugs two-year-old son after 11 weeks apart
A self-isolating nurse has finally hugged her two-year-old son after 11 “heartbreaking” lockdown weeks apart. Charlotte Cole, 30, of Kirkham, Lancashire, said her “heart feels full again” as she was reunited with George. The toddler was seen sprinting to his mother, who admitted she broke down in tears, and his father Daniel, also 30. George […]
Hebei: China locks down 400,000 people after virus spike near Beijing
China has reinstated a strict lockdown near Beijing, affecting around 400,000 people, after a small surge in cases. The restrictions have come into force in Anxin county in Hebei province near the capital. After the pandemic emerged in China at the end of last year, the country has managed to get new infections to a […]
NYPD Announced Internal Review After Black Man’s Violent Arrest. 3 Months Later, Silence.
On a mild Wednesday evening in March, about two weeks before the pandemic all but shut down New York City, 20-year-old Fitzroy Gayle stopped in a park in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Canarsie to unwind on his way home from work. While responding to a report of shots fired in the area, New York Police […]
Miley Cyrus Says She’s Been Sober For 6 Months After Vocal Cord Surgery
Miley Cyrus has spent the first half of 2020 embracing an alcohol-free lifestyle. The 27-year-old actor and singer tells Variety that she quit drinking to undergo vocal cord surgery last fall. She decided to stay sober after recovering from the procedure, too. “I’ve been sober sober for the past six months,” she said. “At the beginning, it was […]
Leicester ramps up Covid-19 testing after cases rise
A mobile coronavirus testing site has been set up in Leicester city centre following a surge in cases. Leicester mayor Sir Peter Soulsby said the facility, in Spinney Hill Park, would be open for at least five days. It emerged on Thursday that about 25% of the city’s 2,494 confirmed Covid-19 cases had been reported […]
Self-Care After Protesting: How You Can Relax and Recharge
If you plan on attending another protest, the preventive game is also important on the nutrition front. If you’re able to, prep a slow-cooker before you go to the protest so that something hearty is waiting for you when you get back. And if you can, bring a water bottle and portable snacks—nut butter or […]
Fox News Presses Larry Kudlow On COVID-19 Spikes After He Declared No Second Wave
Fox News hosts on Monday grilled White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow on spikes in COVID-19 cases in the nation just three days after he declared: “There is no second wave.” Kudlow — the man who declared in February that COVID-19 was “contained … pretty close to airtight” before more than 115,000 Americans died of […]
Pence Says Oklahoma COVID-19 Cases Have ‘Flattened’ — 2 Days After Record Jump
Vice President Mike Pence insisted Monday that Oklahoma’s COVID-19 cases have “dropped precipitously” and “in a very real sense they’ve flattened the curve” — just two days after the state posted a record high in daily new cases. Pence blatantly misrepresented the facts as he addressed concerns about President Donald Trump’s plan to lure thousands […]
North Carolina Dog Didn’t Have Coronavirus After All, Officials Say
New findings show that a North Carolina family’s dog thought to be the nation’s first such pet to test positive for COVID-19 was likely never infected. Veterinary laboratories for the U.S. Department of Agriculture said a series of tests on Winston, a pug belonging to the McLean family of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, were completed last week. Though Winston […]
U.S. Asians Pushing Back Against Harassment After Surge Of Attacks
NEW YORK, May 29 (Reuters) – A spike in harassment of Asian-Americans since the coronavirus pandemic began has led community activists in the United States to fight back – forming street patrols, rallying on social media, and supporting each other online. Asians of varying national backgrounds have suffered a surge of attacks this year, which […]
Tyson Pork Plant In Iowa Shuts After Hundreds Of Workers Test Positive for COVID-19
A Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Iowa is shutting down after officials revealed an astonishing 22% of workers tested positive for COVID-19. The 550 workers infected with the coronavirus at the Storm Lake plant in Iowa, which employs 2,500 people, triggered a surge of cases in Buena Vista County, home of just 20,000. With a […]
Trump Doesn’t Wear Mask To Ford Plant After Hinting He Might
President Donald Trump attempted to create some suspense this week over whether he might actually wear a face mask when he toured a Ford Motor Co. plant on Thursday. But to no one’s surprise, the president toured the Rawsonville Components Plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan, completely maskless, even though Ford’s policy requires everyone to wear PPE at […]