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“Lost” star Daniel Dae Kim believes the anti-malarial drug touted by President Trump was the “secret weapon” in his recovery from the coronavirus. The 51-year-old actor praised hydroxychloroquine as being “critical” in the treatment that has left him now “practically back to normal” just days after confirming he had been infected. “Yes, this is the …
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America’s coronavirus expert had a choice to make: Stand beside President Trump at a White House briefing or take questions from billionaire techie Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook. Dr. Anthony Fauci picked the Facebook gig. Fauci and Zuckerberg had a 37-minute Facebook Live conversation Thursday about the fast-spreading infection, which is forcing tens of millions of …
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President Trump last week rejected an aggressive response to attacks by Iran-backed militias on U.S. forces in Iraq, because he thought an attack on Iranian forces would look bad while the country and the world are fighting the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, NBC reported on Thursday. On March 11, Iran-backed militia Kataib Hezbollah killed two American …
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A federal judge in Manhattan dismissed a lawsuit claiming that the Trump administration was purposefully withholding funding from the U.S. Census Bureau to cause racial and ethnic minorities to be undercounted in the 2020 census. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said in his ruling that the case was too speculative, and that the U.S. Constitution …
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called on President Trump to mobilize the U.S. military to combat the spread of COVID-19 in the United States. “The order has not been given by the commander in chief because he’s not acting like a commander in chief,” De Blasio said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Friday. “He …
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Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar offered rare praise for President Trump Wednesday evening, calling his response to the coronavirus pandemic “incredible.”
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National leaders from Mayor Bill de Blasio to President Donald Trump have weighed in on the Nets getting mass testing for COVID-19 while there is a glaring shortage of test kits nationwide. Both the Nets’ parent company and the NBA pushed back, saying it was done for the greater good, and without using a single …
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The Dow closed below the 20,000 mark for the first time in more than three years amid widening alarm on Wall Street over the Chinese virus. The Dow Jones industrial average finished Wednesday at 19,898.92, off 1,338.46 points, or 6.3 percent, as investors looking to raise cash liquidated nearly everything they could, including safe-haven assets …
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Hedge-fund tycoon Bill Ackman fired off a tweetstorm to President Trump on Wednesday, proposing that the US impose a nationwide “extended spring break” to combat the Chinese virus. In a series of early morning tweets addressed to Trump, the activist hedge fund manager proposed that he “shut down the country for the next 30 days …
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President Trump on Wednesday defended himself from the allegations of racism and xenophobia that were leveled in response to his calling the Wuhan coronavirus the “Chinese virus,” telling reporters that “it comes from China” and that “it’s not racist at all” to use the label. Trump used the term “Chinese virus” in a tweet Wednesday …