Day: April 3, 2020

In an 11th-hour move, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers is calling for a special session of his state’s legislature to overhaul Tuesday’s scheduled primary — by allowing for an all-mail election, sending absentee ballots to every registered voter and pushing back until May 26 the deadline for ballots to be received.

Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, 40, and her 8-year-old son, Gideon, had gone missing Thursday. McKean is the daughter of former Md. lieutenant governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy.

Now that experts suggest that wearing a mask or face covering is helpful against the coronavirus, folks are scrambling to make their own rather than tap into the supply of surgical face masks neede…

Republicans are hitting back at what they say is a “partisan” move by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to form a new House committee on the administration’s response to the coronavirus crisis — arguing that there are already numerous additional oversight measures in the $2 trillion stimulus bill passed by Congress last week.

Two members of the Kennedy family, Maeve Kennedy McKean and her 8-year-old son, Gideon, have been reported missing in the Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, Maryland, since Thursday.

Late-night hosts discuss Kushner’s bad advice on ventilators and extra security for Dr Anthony Fauci

A bus driver in Detroit shared a video expressing his frustration with a passenger who was not taking proper precautions to prevent the spread of any illness…

The potential tragedy happened in Shady Side, Maryland, south of Annapolis.

Jason Hargrove died less than two weeks after expressing concern about passenger coughing without covering her mouth

Officers showed support for the dismissed commanding officer.

At his daily press briefing, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the state has now recorded 2,935 deaths from COVID-19. And he again called for companies to …

Sailors aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier cheered for Capt. Brett Crozier as he disembarked the ship for the last time, in an overwhelming show of support for their leader who was relieved of his command after issuing a stark warning about a coronavirus outbreak onboard.

Bus drivers in Detroit shut down public transportation last month, fearful of the coronavirus. News of the driver’s death has reignited those fears.

The governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, provides the latest on coronavirus

The Supreme Court’s decision to postpone indefinitely cases related to President Donald Trump’s financial records represents the latest setback to efforts by the US House to compel information from the President and White House officials.

It’s almost certainly at its highest level since the Great Depression. Here’s how we estimated it.

Leading disease forecasters, whose research the White House used to conclude 100,000 to 240,000 people will die nationwide from the coronavirus, were mystified when they saw the administration’s projection this week.

A US Navy hospital ship currently docked in New York City harbor is treating only 20 patients, despite having a 1,000 bed capacity to treat non-coronavirus patients, according to a Navy spokesperson.

“Everybody’s overworked. There’re people who are working five doubles, five 16-hour tours,” in a week, said one emergency medical technician.

Sailors on the USS Theodore Roosevelt cheered for their departing captain Thursday night as he was removed from duty.

The bodies of Dr. Beth Potter, 52 and her husband, Robin Carre, 57, were found by a jogger Tuesday morning in an area of 1,200 acres of forests and prairies in Wisconsin.

Thomas Modly, the acting secretary of the Navy, said he had “lost confidence” in Crozier’s ability to lead after plea letter leaked to press.

With more than $800 million in federally backed properties, Kushner Companies could reduce its payments to zero under provisions of the recovery bill.

US president Donald Trump has deployed his son-in-law Jared Kushner to the coronavirus taskforce. Kushner said he will ‘break down every barrier needed to ma…

At least eight of the 16 named tropical storms that are forecast will reach hurricane status with winds greater than 74 mph, according to Colorado State University.