Almost a fifth of S&P 500 companies are scheduled to report earnings this week, giving investors a look into how the Covid-19 pandemic has ravaged different sectors of the economy, from airlines to tech companies. Many of the companies reporting—including Delta Air Lines Inc., Coca-Cola Co. and International Business Machines Corp.—are logging results for the…
Damian Gregory worries about the things that have quickly become normal to worry about in the coronavirus era: Is there Clorox at the grocery store this week? When will social distancing end? Will he and his family stay healthy until a vaccine is found? But the 46-year-old consultant and advocate, who has cerebral palsy, says…
Amazon’s warehouses in France will remain closed through Wednesday after a court last week temporarily prohibited the company from shipping nonessential goods because of the risk to workers from the new coronavirus. The e-commerce giant, which is contesting the court’s decision, said Sunday that its appeal would be heard Tuesday. Amazon said last week that…
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said a 51-year-old man went on a shooting rampage Sunday, killing 16 people—including one police officer—in Nova Scotia.RCMP Chief Superintendent Chris Leather said the suspect, Gabriel Wortman, has died.”In excess of 10 people have been killed,” Leather said, according to The Associated Press. “We believe it to be one…
New York’s new coronavirus figures suggest an ongoing downturn in the outbreak’s severity, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Sunday. According to his office’s most recent impact report—shared during its latest COVID-19 briefing at Northwell Health’s Long Island facility—single-day hospitalization, intubation and fatality counts have decreased statewide since Saturday’s update.”If the data holds and if this…
President Trump’s plan to run for reelection on a strong economy evaporated in just a month as 22 million Americans lost their jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic, and now his prospects rest on economic comebacks in some battleground states with Democratic governor…
Two Republican senators knew of some explosive details lurking inside an inspector general’s report when on April 2 they reached out to Richard Grenell, the newly installed acting director of national intelligence who was already making his mark in just two m…
President Donald Trump on Sunday agreed that he still holds a grudge against Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah.) after he was asked about the senator’s exclusion from the congressional coronavirus task force for reopening the U.S. economy. Romney, a longtime businessman and onetime Republican nominee for president, was the only GOP senator not invited to join…
Rick DuFour has worked the most dangerous oil cleanup jobs in the Gulf of Mexico. He was there when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded 40 miles off southeastern Louisiana 10 years ago, killing 11 men and spewing more than 200 million gallons of Louisiana crude out of its well a mile below the sea.…
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) on Sunday said it was “delusional” for President Donald Trump to claim the U.S. currently has the testing capacity needed for states to relax social distancing measures amid the coronavirus pandemic. Multiple governors of both parties have criticized the country’s testing capacity in recent days, as Trump and some in…
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump used Sunday’s White House briefing to repeat some of his favorite false claims about the coronavirus crisis and to make some new ones.Trump falsely claimed, again, that he “inherited” a defective coronavirus test; the faulty test was developed this year. He falsely claimed, again, that “nobody ever thought” there would be…
Ottawa (CNN)A gunman killed at least 16 people, including one Mountie, during a weekend shooting rampage in small-town Nova Scotia, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.The updated death toll does not include the suspected gunman.”Our important investigational work is continuing. Out of respect for the families who have yet to be notified, we cannot provide…
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro joined a rally in the country’s capital on Sunday, where protesters called for an end to quarantine measures and some urged military intervention to shut down Congress and the Supreme Court. Congress and the Supreme Court h…
The Black Death that struck Europe in the 14th century forced a total reordering of society, permanently rewriting rules between landowners and workers, and between the church and the faithful. The influenza pandemic that swept the globe after World War I, b…
President Trump’s plan to run for reelection on a strong economy evaporated in just a month as 22 million Americans lost their jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic, and now his prospects rest on economic comebacks in some battleground states with Democratic governor…
White House Coronavirus Task Force response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx said during an appearance on IzodNews’ Face the Nation Sunday that she doesn’t dispute that coronavirus originated in China-but so far evidence is lacking that its spread was the result of a Wuhan laboratory accident.The physician and immunology researcher joined President Donald Trump Saturday…
Maryland’s Governor Larry Hogan questioned the logic of President Donald Trump encouraging demonstrations against stringent “stay-at-home” and “shelter-in-place” orders in several states, noting that the demonstrators were essentially protesting guidelines put forward by the White House’s Coronavirus Task Force.Hogan, a Republican, faced a protest within his own state, as demonstrators drove cars, waved flags and…
The Tennessee Supreme Court has ordered a death row inmate’s execution to be stayed until 2021 due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.Oscar Franklin Smith, 70, was scheduled to be executed on June 4 for the 1989 slayings of his estranged wife Judy Lynn Smith and her two sons, Chad and Jason Burnett.Last month, Smith’s attorneys…
A former Justice Department official accused President Donald Trump of flouting federal laws by inciting insurrection with a series of tweets calling for states to be liberated from stringent “stay-at-home” orders amid the coronavirus outbreak.In a series of tweets on Friday, Trump appeared to call on his supporters to “liberate” themselves from strict state policies…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the key to reopening the U.S. economy amid the coronavirus pandemic is “testing, treatment, contact tracing and quarantine.”In a letter to House Democrats on Saturday, Pelosi said progress was being made on a deal for a fourth coronavirus relief package.Pelosi said Democrats continue to work on CARES 2, an additional…
OTTAWA—At least 10 people were dead after a shooting rampage in a rural part of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and a suspect was killed in a confrontation with police, Canadian law-enforcement officials said Sunday. A police officer who responded to emergency calls to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police was among those killed. Police…