• Director Tedros Says ‘World Should Have Listened’ to WHO’s Coronavirus Warnings

    Director Tedros Says ‘World Should Have Listened’ to WHO’s Coronavirus Warnings

    The World Health Organization director on Monday chided countries that did not heed his organization’s recommendations on how to handle the coronavirus, saying the world “should have listened” to the WHO regarding the outbreak. “We can only give advice to countries. We don’t have any mandate to force countries to implement what we advise them,” …
  • Schumer Introduces Bill to Stop Trump from Putting His Name on Relief Checks

    Schumer Introduces Bill to Stop Trump from Putting His Name on Relief Checks

    Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) is proposing a bill to ban President Trump from signing coronavirus checks, calling the current practice “a waste of time and money” and the “exploitation of taxpayer money for promotional material.” Schumer’s legislation, titled the “No PR Act,” blocks the use of federal dollars to promote Trump or …
  • Pelosi: Trump Is Dangerous now

    Pelosi: Trump Is Dangerous now

    Sunday on MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called President Donald Trump’s comments on disinfectants “dangerous.” Pelosi said, “I just want to say how sad it all is, the numbers are staggering in terms of the infections, but also, of course, the deaths so serious, every family a tragedy. And yet we have these …
  • Ex-‘Hardball’ host Chris Matthews admits to ‘inappropriate’ behavior at MSNBC

    Ex-‘Hardball’ host Chris Matthews admits to ‘inappropriate’ behavior at MSNBC

    Former MSNBC “Hardball” host Chris Matthews has spoken out publicly for the first time since retiring amid sexual-harassment allegations nearly two months ago — and admits he was “inappropriate” and even found his accuser’s story “very credible.” “I didn’t argue about it, I didn’t deny it,” Matthews told Vanity Fair magazine of journalist Laura Bassett’s claim …
  • Trump Claims His Comments about Disinfectant and Coronavirus Were ‘Sarcastic’

    Trump Claims His Comments about Disinfectant and Coronavirus Were ‘Sarcastic’

    President Trump on Friday said he was being “sarcastic” during the previous day’s press conference when he expressed interest in exploring whether light, heat and disinfectants could be potential treatments for coronavirus patients. “I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen,” Trump told reporters in the Oval …
  • Trump Owes Millions to Bank of China for Building Loan, Records Show

    Trump Owes Millions to Bank of China for Building Loan, Records Show

    Financial records show that President Trump still owes the state-owned Bank of China millions from a $211 million loan that he used to refinance his 30-percent stake in a New York City skyscraper. Politico reported Friday that Trump’s investment in 1290 Avenue of the Americas, a 43-story building adjacent to the Trump Tower in Manhattan, …
  • Small business owners brace for pain when $310B loan program opens Monday

    Small business owners brace for pain when $310B loan program opens Monday

    The Small Business Administration will begin OK’ing a second round of loans to struggling businesses on Monday — a process that will be closely watched by hoards of mom-and-pop owners who say they were excluded from the stimulus program the first time around. The second round of Paycheck Protection Program loans kicks off April 27 …
  • Christopher Steele Admits Records of Dossier Claims, Interviews with Primary Source Were ‘Wiped in Early January 2017’

    Christopher Steele Admits Records of Dossier Claims, Interviews with Primary Source Were ‘Wiped in Early January 2017’

    Christopher Steele admitted under oath in March that he had no records of his conversations with the primary sub-source for his infamous dossier, contradicting public claims made by his lawyers in December and sowing further doubts amid allegations that Steele relied on Russian disinformation. According to a transcript of a British court deposition obtained by …
  • Trump Signs $484 Billion Relief Package for Small Businesses, Hospitals

    Trump Signs $484 Billion Relief Package for Small Businesses, Hospitals

    President Trump on Friday signed into law a $484 billion relief package that replenishes funds for small business loans to offset the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The bill allocates $310 billion to the Paycheck Protection Program, which was established as part of the massive $2.2 trillion relief package approved by lawmakers earlier this month. …
  • Detroit Dems to Censure State Lawmaker Who Thanked Trump for Touting Chloroquine

    Detroit Dems to Censure State Lawmaker Who Thanked Trump for Touting Chloroquine

    A Detroit, Mich., branch of the Democratic Party plans to censure state representative Karen Whitsett (D., Detroit) after she met with President Trump earlier this month and praised him for recommending the anti-viral drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for coronavirus. Whitsett contracted coronavirus in March and has since recovered. The freshman lawmaker credited hydroxychloroquine, a …