coronavirus pandemic - Page 6

White House press secretary Jen Psaki pushed back on the idea that President Joe Biden would deliver an address to Congress in February. Typically an American president delivers his first address to Congress in February after the presidential election.

In a piece published at education site The 74 on the day of Biden’s inauguration, Mike Antonucci observed while teachers’ unions were continuing the narrative that “no one wants to reopen schools more than educators,” they “keep moving the goalposts.”

Members of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) voted Sunday to defy the order of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to return to in-person instruction as the school district continues with its reopening plans amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The European Union will discuss Greece’s recommendation to issue certificates to EU citizens who have been vaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus in order to reestablish freedom of movement.

The CEO of Chicago Public Schools said union pressure led half of all teachers who were ordered to return to work Monday not to show up.

An anonymous donor has payed a hat store’s rent through April to help it survive the coronavirus pandemic during the winter months.

Sweden’s new law would allow the state to forcibly close businesses and shopping centres to stop the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.  

The British government has awarded contracts to two firms to develop coronavirus “freedom passports” to enter into workplaces, pubs, and schools despite previously proclaiming that there are no plans to implement such a system. The two contracts were awarded to

Joe Biden plans to nominate Connecticut’s commissioner of education Miguel Cardona to head the U.S. Department of Education.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday handed a victory to clerics battling New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s (D) executive orders restricting houses of worship to 25 percent capacity, while secular businesses operate with no capacity limits.

Education secretary Betsy DeVos said teachers’ unions’ bid to keep schools closed during the pandemic amounts to “playing politics with children’s lives.”

Doctors in the Italian city of Milan have claimed that the Wuhan virus may have been circulating in the city as early as November of 2019 after re-examining a case of a child who reported breathing difficulties. The case involved

Chinese coronavirus vaccine passport cards will be issued by the government in Wales, the country’s left-wing health minister confirmed on Wednesday. Following the announcement that the United Kingdom would be the first Western nation to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine,

The United Kingdom’s economic emergency is “just beginning”, according to Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, who predicted that unemployment will rise by over one million in the coming months.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer warned on Wednesday that it could take “a few days” to determine who the winner is of the battleground state’s electoral votes for president.

Joe Biden heaped praise on Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Friday, saying, “There’s not a better governor” in the country.

Trump on Saturday criticized Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer during a campaign rally in the state. “Now you got to get your governor to open up your state okay? Trump said as the crowd cheered wildly.

Banks said emails exposing some of Hunter Biden’s business dealings in China raise questions about what Joe Biden knew.

In an audio clip of a reported conference call between Los Angeles County Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer and school officials, Ferrer is heard saying K-12 schools within the county would not be opening until after the election in November.

First lady Melania Trump refusied to use what she described as her “precious time” to unleash attacks against bitter Democrats who have constantly battered her husband’s administration, as well as their family, because “as we saw last week, that kind of talk only serves to divide the country further.”

“You know I hate politics. But you also know that I care about this nation,” Obama said during her speech endorsing former Vice President Joe Biden for president.