California City Official Ousted Over His Pandemic Remarks
ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California city official has been ousted after he suggested on social media that sick, old and homeless people should be left to meet their “natur...
Health Official Says US Missed Some Chances To Slow Virus
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. government was slow to understand how much coronavirus was spreading from Europe, which helped drive the acceleration of outbreaks across the nation, a top...
Cleaners Risk Health To Work During Pandemic, Then Lose Jobs
NEW YORK (AP) - Lissette Serrano asked for a mask while she did her job cleaning toilets and picking up trash at a busy rest stop on a Connecticut parkway. She was told there were ...
Alligator Attack Kills Woman At Kiawah Island, South Carolina Police Say
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Deputies in South Carolina shot and killed an alligator that fatally attacked a woman on Friday, authorities said.
The officers were called to a pond ...
US Allows Use Of 1st Drug Shown To Help Virus Recovery
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators on Friday allowed emergency use of the first drug that appears to help some COVID-19 patients recover faster, a milestone in the global search for...
Trump Says Whitmer Should ‘Give A Little’ To Restart Economy
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — President Donald Trump tweeted Friday that Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer should “give a little” and “put out the fire” a day after hundreds of conservative d...
White House To Israel: Support Trump Peace Plan, Annexation To Be Approved
WASHINGTON (JNS) — The White House has told Israel that it will support the annexation of parts of the West Bank if the Jewish state agrees to the Trump administration’s Mideast pe...
New White House Press Secretary McEnany Holds 1St Briefing
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's new spokeswoman, Kayleigh McEnany, vowed on Friday not to lie to reporters as she made her debut at the first White House briefing by a p...
House Panel Wants Bezos To Testify In Antitrust Probe
WASHINGTON (AP) — House lawmakers investigating the market dominance of Big Tech are asking Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to testify to address possible misleading statements by the compan...
Biden On Assault Allegation: ‘Never, Never Happened’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday categorically denied allegations from a former Senate staffer that he sexually assaulted her in the early 19...
Dem Lawmakers Say Trump’s Freeze For WHO To Hurt Venezuelans
MIAMI (AP) — As much as $110 million in U.S. funding for disease prevention in Latin America as well as U.S. support for Venezuelan migrants has been thrown into doubt as part of P...
Pandemic Brings Fortunes To Amazon – And Headaches Too
SEATTLE (AP) — Amazon has spent years honing the business of packing, shipping and delivering millions of products to doorsteps around the world.
Now it has a captive audience.
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Economic Figures Show Grim Toll In Europe And US From Virus
NEW YORK (AP) — Bleak new figures Thursday underscored the worldwide economic pain inflicted by the coronavirus: The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits has climbe...
Pelosi: States, Cities Seek $1T To Avoid Layoffs From Virus
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that state and local governments are seeking up to $1 trillion for coronavirus costs, a stunning benchmark for the next a...
Watch: Doctors Gave 5% Chance Of Recovery, Rabbi Aryeh Zev Ginzberg Miraculously Came Home
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Rabbi Aryeh Zev Ginzberg, rabbi of the Chofetz Chaim Torah Center of Cedarhurst and the founding rabbi of Ohr Moshe Torah Institute in Hillcrest, Queens, retur...
‘Everyone’s Watching’: Biden’s VP Audition Process Begins
WASHINGTON (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wore a T-shirt on television emblazoned with the words “that woman from Michigan,” a cheeky reference to President Donald Trump's dismissal ...
Watchdog Group Says US Not Releasing Data On Taliban Attacks
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S. mission in Afghanistan has for the first time refused to publicly release its data on insurgent attacks amid the implementation of a peace agreem...
Poll: Many Americans Feel Lonely And Anxious During Pandemic
OAK PARK, Ill. (AP) — Americans are feeling isolated and anxious. They fear they or their loved ones will get sick. They worry about their jobs.
As the coronavirus pandemic upen...
Major US Airlines To Require Passengers To Wear Face Masks
DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines said Thursday they will soon require passengers to cover their faces during flights, following the lead of JetB...
Trump Harshly Blames China For Pandemic; A Lab ‘Mistake’?
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday speculated that China could have unleashed the coronavirus on the world due to some kind of horrible “mistake,” and his intelli...