Pandemic

House democrats recently passed a $1.9 trillion emergency COVID-19 relief bill, which includes a ton of funding in areas completely unrelated to the pandemic.  Simply put, the bill is pork-laden.  The 591-page bill, proposed on February 19, includes an additional $300 billion to state and local governments, $130 billion to…

It’s difficult to remember now, but one of the last major items on the table for Congress before the novel coronavirus swept the globe last year was a gun control bill. Early in 2019, House Democrats passed the Bipartisan Background Checks Act, which would have established universal background checks by…

We spoke to the Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds and began by asking her how, if Labour opposed tax rises, she could go along with the planned freeze on tax thresholds which will end up pulling millions more people into paying more tax? Share on FacebookShare Share on TwitterTweet Share on…

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden on Thursday congratulated the NASA team responsible for last months successful landing of an unmanned rover on Mars and for giving the country a dose of confidence at a moment when the nation’s reputation as a scientific leader has been tattered by the coronavirus pandemic. Biden…

Mar. 4, 2021 -- With distribution of COVID-19 vaccines ramping up, and President Joe Biden promising all U.S. adults will be able to get inoculated by the end of May, many Americans are finally anticipating the end of the pandemic. But Arthur Caplan, PhD, a bioethicist at NYU Langone Medical…

(Repeats story published on Wednesday) HONG KONG/SINGAPORE/KUALA LUMPUR, March 3 (Reuters) - M alaysia’s Top Glove Corp Bhd is betting that pandemic-induced sales can provide enough fuel for its $1.9 billion Hong Kong listing to break through the headwind of U.S. sanctions and the prospect of slower growth as vaccinations…

The latest coronavirus update from the team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University that’s been tracking the COVID-19 pandemic shows that, through Wednesday, more than 28.7 million coronavirus cases have been reported in the US. That number also does not include the more than 517,000 deaths in the US that…

This year’s Global Food Security Index​, compiled by The Economist, includes 14 European countries in the top 20, with Finland, Ireland and Netherlands at the top of the podium. But internal discrepancies mean that Europe, despite the high rankings of individual countries, misses out on being the region with the…

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to confirm Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo to serve as President Joe Biden’s commerce secretary and help guide the economy's recovery during and after the coronavirus pandemic. The vote was 84-15. Raimondo, 49, was the first woman elected governor of Rhode Island and…

CO2 emissions have risen to levels higher than what were recorded before the coronavirus pandemic, according to the International Energy Agency. The Covid-19 crisis saw the biggest drop in annual carbon dioxide emissions since the Second World War – with a 6% fall last year. The lowest point was in…