Donna Shalala has a new dog named Fauci. He’s a rescue dog, maybe part Yorkie, she figures. The name seemed right: He was found running into an Italian restaurant in Miami, where she lives, so the animal-shelter staff suggested that she give him an Italian name. And like everyone else, she’s been thinking a lot about Anthony Fauci for the past few months.
The president had to cancel his nominating party in Florida, he trails badly behind Joe Biden, and Republican lawmakers are ignoring his demands on Capitol Hill.
Lee Buchheit and Mitu Gulati return to discuss sovereign debt and emerging markets.
The GOP tried and failed to do its homework the night before it was due.
Too few materials, too many coronavirus outbreaks, and a never-ending canister shortage.
The former New Jersey governor has earned $240,000 lobbying the Trump administration on the pandemic
This news comes after the U.S. announced earlier in the day that it had secured up to 600 million doses of a vaccine created by BioNTech and Pfizer.
The announcements come a day after President Donald Trump threw his support behind facial coverings to help stop the spread of coronavirus.
The nation’s top infectious disease expert said he had last spoken with the president late last week.
The study is based on antibody tests of about 16,000 people conducted between late March and early May.
The economic toll of the collapse of the child system will be felt for 20-30 years, says Betsey Stevenson.
Congress appears poised to dramatically reduce a federal program that has been providing an extra $600 per week for jobless workers since the spring.
Some areas of housing are actually doing better than they were before the coronavirus began sweeping the U.S.
In the first such briefing in three months, the president acknowledged the real scope of the pandemic’s impact in the U.S.
The regular cops are still wilding out, and adding the Republicans’ secret police to the mix right as pandemic relief expires is a recipe for (even more) disaster.
Claudia, a mother who has been detained with her 8-year-old son for nearly 11 months at a migrant family jail in Texas, told CBS News over the phone that she knows that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has the ability to release her family together right now. Officials “have the option of letting us leave with our children,” she said.
GOP senators pushed to have this once-classified document released, but maybe they shouldn’t have.
The top prosecutors of two major American cities issued a preemptive warning to both Donald Trump and federal agents Friday, pledging in an op-ed to prosecute Trump’s troops if they violate the law in their cities.
As Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr prepare to unleash more federal forces in Seattle, Chicago, and other large cities in the U.S., protest crowds are still swelling in Portland—and there are some new faces in the crowd. At least one of them was willing to talk to MSNBC, declaring: “As of last night, I am no longer a Trump supporter.”
Watch as the unnamed woman explains why she can no longer support Trump.
Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley argued that the hard cap on religious gatherings was an unconstitutional violation of its parishioners’ First Amendment rights.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is postponing its furlough of more than half of its workforce for nearly another month, Senate Appropriations Vice Chair Patrick Leahy said on Friday. The agency had been set to furlough 13,000 of its 20,000 employees on Aug. 3 until revised estimates showed the agency actually had enough funds to continue work for several more weeks, his office said.
One Twitter user noted “we’re now at a point where Paw Patrol has to fact check the White House.
“It hands the appearance of victory to the wrong people,” a former board member said.
Oregon’s attorney general had sued the Trump administration, alleging federal agents arrested anti-racism protesters without probable cause.
Anyone rushing the reopening of schools needs to consider the emotional cost to kids of infecting family and friends.
Unless Congress or the administration intervenes, monthly loan payments paused due to the pandemic will come due for tens of millions of borrowers.
Instead of wearing all-day smiles, I tell people to fix their masks.
It helped the wrong businesses, saved too few jobs, and failed to stem an economic nightmare with no end in sight.
