Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Rome Saturday to protest an extended national “state of emergency” for the coronavirus, which allows the government to issue decrees outside of the legislative process.
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — After nearly two months of being sedated and connected to IV lines in a hospital’s intensive care unit, Francisco Espana took a moment to fill his ailing lungs with fresh air at a Barcelona beachfront.
The memo from NCAA President Mark Emmert went out to the association’s more than 1,200 member schools Wednesday. The furloughs will not affect senior executives.
“If it’s okay for Nancy Pelosi to go and get her hair done … then you need to open up America right now,” salon owner Lindsey Graham said.
PARIS (AP) — France has closed 22 of its 62,000 schools since in-person classes resumed this week because of virus infections.
“For Speaker Pelosi to frame herself as a victim under a total false narrative while small businesses and workers all over California, the state she represents in Congress, suffer and struggle just to survive is beyond shameful.”
Pope Francis denounced a blind trust in science Friday, insisting that the coronavirus pandemic has revealed both the greatness and the limits of science.
ROME (AP) — Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi, who has a history of heart and other medical problems, was admitted to a Milan hospital early Friday as a precaution to monitor his coronavirus infection, a top aide said.
Former Vice President Joe Biden broke with coronavirus guidelines on Thursday and shook hands with an aide who greeted him on the tarmac in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The confirmed death toll from the coronavirus went over 50,000 in the Middle East on Thursday as the pandemic continues.
PARIS (AP) — Facing resurgent virus infections, France’s government is unveiling details Thursday of a 100 billion-euro ($118 billion) recovery plan aimed at creating jobs, saving struggling businesses and pulling the country out of its worst economic slump since World War II.
Just like most bold and fearless in the world today, Kirk Cousins assertion that he did not fear death from the coronavirus and doesn’t believe that masks are effective, has been walked back a bit.
Joe Biden said Trump only cares about the stock market. Trump said the stock market is “not important compared to life and death.”
Former Vice President Joe Biden backed away Wednesday from a recent pledge to shut down the entire U.S. economy again if advised to do so by experts, saying that he did not actually believe that would be necessary.
Many professional athletes have decided not to play this year for fear of contracting the potentially deadly coronavirus. Though, when it comes to Minnesota Vikings quarterback and preacher’s son Kirk Cousins, if death comes he’s ready for that.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) admitted Tuesday evening that she had gone to a hair salon in San Francisco that was closed under coronavirus restrictions, but claimed she did not know it was wrong, blaming the business for the violation.
The office of the district attorney for Bronx County, New York, recommended Tuesday that charges be dropped against more than 300 Black Lives Matter protesters who were recently arrested.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday spoke with the commissioner of the Big Ten college football conference on Tuesday about getting college football started despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Ordinary people are coming to see that coronavirus has been massively oversold by our frightened, mendacious, control freak political class.
Joe Biden suffered another brain freeze during a speech in Pittsburgh on Monday when he appeared to have trouble reading the teleprompter.
The New York Times said college football is “non-essential” and shutting it down is a “necessary sacrifice for the nation’s well-being.”
The World Council of Churches (WCC) noted Monday that for children, the damage done by quarantines far outweighs any health risks from the coronavirus itself.
The mayor of the Italian town of Sutri north of Rome has decreed fines for wearing masks except when required by law, insisting that “only thieves and terrorists wear masks.”
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents disrupted 12 human smuggling stash house operations during a ten-day period ending August 27. The raids on the stash houses led to the arrest of 229 migrants.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) told NBC on Friday that the national mask mandate she and Joe Biden want to impose on the country is actually a “standard,” not a rule enforceable by punishment.
Dana White, the president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), took part in the fourth and final night of the Republican National Convention where he reiterated his support for President Donald Trump.
A few months before mass joblessness hit the United States, spurred by the Chinese coronavirus crisis, a number of House and Senate Republicans lobbied the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to import more foreign workers to take blue-collar jobs.
Mike Pence was probably correct to say that Trump imposed the China travel ban before the coronavirus spread within th U.S., though not before the first case arrived.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) castigated President Donald Trump’s handling of the novel coronavirus pandemic on Thursday, arguing that a pandemic cannot be stopped via a “tweet.”
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday sent letters to four Democrat governors, seeking data on whether they violated federal law by requiring public nursing homes to accept recovering coronavirus patients from hospitals, potentially resulting in the deaths of “thousands.”
The Vatican released a joint document with the World Council of Churches (WCC) Thursday calling for greater attention to the environment in “a post-COVID-19 world.”
Donald Trump led a “phenomenal” response to help New York address the coronavirus outbreak, said Rep. Lee Zeldin during his RNC speech.
The U.S. Department of Justice has asked four Democrat-run states — Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania — about their policies on nursing homes and coronavirus, seeking to determine whether elderly patients died as a result.
UFC chief Dana White is set to speak at the 2020 Republican National Convention, and he does not care at all what the critics have to say.
A CNBC poll of swing states reports likely voters are growing less concerned about COVID-19 and slightly more approving of President Donald Trump’s job performance.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asserted that the U.S. would bring Beijing to justice for allowing the “China Virus” to wreak havoc.
Larry Kudlow, one of President Donald Trump’s main economic advisers, told the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Tuesday night that Joe Biden’s plan to raise taxes as the economy emerged from the coronavirus pandemic was “crazy.”
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica’s Minister of Health says legendary sprinter Usain Bolt has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
Only a Biden administration would consider shutting down the American economy again.
“I would shut it down,” Biden said in an interview aired Sunday night on ABC, before adding the weasel words, “I would listen to scientists.”
