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The anti-science leadership of Trump, Bolsonaro, and Putin led to the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the world

The anti-science leadership of Trump, Bolsonaro, and Putin led to the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the world

  US President Donald Trump, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, and Russian President Vladimir Putin are overseeing the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the world. Public-health experts… Read More ›

Pandemic brings smaller, subdued US Memorial Day observances

Pandemic brings smaller, subdued US Memorial Day observances

Coronavirus forces Americans to honor war dead, and virus fatalities, with online tributes and small processions instead of parades as outbreak’s US death toll nears… Read More ›

US Company Trials Coronavirus Vaccine In Australia

US Company Trials Coronavirus Vaccine In Australia

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A U.S. biotechnology company announced on Tuesday the start of human trials in Australia of a vaccine for the coronarvirus with… Read More ›

Brazil faces dark week as Covid-19 toll rises

Brazil faces dark week as Covid-19 toll rises

  Brazil appears to be entering another dark week, as coronavirus cases grow by the thousands and controversy swells around President Jair Bolsonaro. On Monday,… Read More ›

Police In 3 States Seek Suspect In 2 Connecticut Slayings

Police In 3 States Seek Suspect In 2 Connecticut Slayings

WILLINGTON, Conn. (AP) — The search for a 23-year-old University of Connecticut senior suspected in two slayings and believed to be armed with several stolen… Read More ›

Global stocks dive after China sets up a fresh showdown with Trump and shocks investors by announcing a new Hong Kong security law

Global stocks dive after China sets up a fresh showdown with Trump and shocks investors by announcing a new Hong Kong security law

  Global stocks dropped Friday after China imposed new rules that seek to extend its powers over Hong Kong and allow it to crack down… Read More ›

First fuel tanker from Iranian flotilla reaches Venezuela’s economic zone

First fuel tanker from Iranian flotilla reaches Venezuela’s economic zone

Washington is considering measures in response, a senior US official said without elaborating.   The first of five Iranian tankers carrying fuel for gasoline-starved Venezuela… Read More ›

Trump Plays Golf For 1st Time Since The Coronavirus Pandemic

Trump Plays Golf For 1st Time Since The Coronavirus Pandemic

  STERLING, Va. (AP) — President Donald Trump played golf Saturday for the first time since he declared the coronavirus pandemic a national emergency more… Read More ›

Bong Joon Ho had a big year. And not just because of ‘Parasite’

Bong Joon Ho had a big year. And not just because of ‘Parasite’

  London – Something big happened to Bong Joon Ho last year. Something that had nothing to do with the director’s Palme d’Or win for… Read More ›

Pandemic Politics: Maskless Trump Tours Michigan Ford Plant

Pandemic Politics: Maskless Trump Tours Michigan Ford Plant

  YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Pandemic politics shadowed President Donald Trump’s trip to Michigan on Thursday as he highlighted lifesaving medical devices, with the… Read More ›

‘This is insane’: Democrats and national security experts sound the alarm after Trump administration declares it’s abandoning a critical treaty

‘This is insane’: Democrats and national security experts sound the alarm after Trump administration declares it’s abandoning a critical treaty

  The White House’s abandonment of the Open Skies Treaty was widely condemned by Democratic lawmakers and national security experts. Michael Hayden, a retired US… Read More ›

Michigan Dam Had Repeated Safety Violations Before Flooding

Michigan Dam Had Repeated Safety Violations Before Flooding

  TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A hydroelectric dam that failed to hold back floodwaters this week in Michigan was the target of lengthy investigations… Read More ›

Trump will lose in a landslide because of the economy, new election model predicts

Trump will lose in a landslide because of the economy, new election model predicts

New York – The economy has gone from President Donald Trump’s greatest political asset to perhaps his biggest weakness. Unemployment is spiking at an unprecedented… Read More ›

Bronx ‘City Within A City’ Shaken By Sickness, Fear

Bronx ‘City Within A City’ Shaken By Sickness, Fear

  NEW YORK (AP) — Tarhia Morton and her family were planning to party this year. She is retired after 40 years with the U.S.… Read More ›

France recorded 70 new coronavirus cases in schools, a week after it let more than 1 million kids go back to class

France recorded 70 new coronavirus cases in schools, a week after it let more than 1 million kids go back to class

  France has recorded 70 new cases of the novel coronavirus in schools that were allowed to reopen last week, the country’s education minister said… Read More ›

SARS antibodies can block COVID-19 infection, new study finds

SARS antibodies can block COVID-19 infection, new study finds

Research published in Nature identifies 8 antibodies that can bind to coronavirus, blocking its spread, with one candidate showing ‘particularly strong neutralizing activity’   PARIS,… Read More ›

Trump says he is taking hydroxychloroquine though health experts question its effectiveness

Trump says he is taking hydroxychloroquine though health experts question its effectiveness

President Donald Trump claimed Monday he is taking daily doses of hydroxychloroquine, a drug he’s long touted as a potential coronavirus cure even as medical… Read More ›

Canadian Acrobatic Jet Crashes Amid Pandemic Show; 1 Dead

Canadian Acrobatic Jet Crashes Amid Pandemic Show; 1 Dead

  KAMLOOPS, British Columbia (AP) — A Canadian acrobatic jet crashed into a British Columbia neighborhood Sunday during a flyover intended to boost morale during… Read More ›

Texas reported its highest single-day increase in new COVID-19 cases as restaurants, salons, and cinemas open to the public

Texas reported its highest single-day increase in new COVID-19 cases as restaurants, salons, and cinemas open to the public

  Texas reported 1,801 new COVID-19 infections on Saturday — the highest single-day increase in COVID-19 cases in the state so far. More than 700… Read More ›

Italy to reopen borders on June 3, scrap quarantine in bid to restart tourism

Italy to reopen borders on June 3, scrap quarantine in bid to restart tourism

Restaurants, bars and hairdressers to reopen on Monday, 2 weeks earlier than planned; entry shutdown caused heavy economic damage to country dependent on the tourism… Read More ›