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Scores of veterans killed in ‘horrific’ coronavirus outbreak at Massachusetts elder care facility

By David Aaro | Fox News The coronavirus has killed at least 80 veterans at an elder care facility in Massachusetts, in what’s being described as the deadliest known outbreak at a long-term care facility in the U.S. An additional 82 veterans and 81 employees have tested positive for the virus at Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, and federal officials are trying to determine whether residents were […]

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Dem lawmakers eye ‘opportunity’ for historic expansion of government amid coronavirus crisis

By Adam Shaw | Fox News Former Obama White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said during the 2008 financial crisis that lawmakers should “never let a crisis go to waste,” and many Democratic lawmakers appear to be heeding that advice — using the coronavirus pandemic as a jumping-off point to renew calls for a historic expansion of government. Emanuel repeated his mantra again last […]

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Protests against coronavirus lockdown orders spread in North Carolina, Missouri: ‘My rights are essential’

By Andrew O’Reilly | Fox News Angry demonstrators took to the streets in North Carolina and Missouri on Tuesday to voice their discontent at their states’ stay-at-home orders amid the coronavirus pandemic. The protests in Raleigh, N.C. and Jefferson City, Mo., are the latest in a series of protests across the country against state lockdown orders – fueled […]

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Trump ramps up pressure on Pelosi over stalemate on small business program: ‘Come back to Washington’

By Adam Shaw | Fox News President Trump on Friday ramped up the pressure on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, urging her to “get back to Washington” and solve the stalemate in Congress over a $250 billion request to top-up a small-business loan program as part of the response to the coronavirus crisis. “An incompetent political hack! Come back to Washington & […]

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Sanders suspends presidential campaign, rendering Biden presumptive Democratic nominee

By Paul Steinhauser, Brooke Singman | Fox News Bernie Sanders suspended his Democratic presidential campaign on Wednesday, effectively ensuring former Vice President Joe Biden will be the party’s nominee even as the liberal Vermont senator vowed to continue to lead his “movement” into the future. The senator, at one point the front-runner for the nomination, initially announced the decision during an all-staff conference […]

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Trump says US may put a ‘very powerful hold’ on funding to World Health Organization

By Andrew O’Reilly | Fox News President Trump signaled Tuesday he may put a “very powerful hold” on funding to the World Health Organization as he lashed out at the United Nations specialized agency and accused it of “being very China-centric” amid the coronavirus pandemic. Reiterating his complaints from a tweet earlier in the day, the president said that the WHO “has been […]

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New York City stockpiled ventilators for a pandemic, only to later auction them off: report

By Tyler Olson | Fox News In 2006, then-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration began purchasing ventilators to allow the city to be prepared for a pandemic like the current coronavirus crisis — only for the city to later auction them off, according to a report. ProPublica reported Monday that the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene issued a report in 2006 […]

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Pelosi pushes ‘SALT shakeup’ stimulus that could reduce her tax bill and enrich her wealthy district

By Gregg Re | Fox News House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is pushing for a new stimulus bill that would roll back the state and local tax deduction (SALT) cap, a proposal that would predominantly help wealthy individuals — including most residents in Pelosi’s district and perhaps even Pelosi herself. A 2019 report from the Joint Committee on Taxation projected that of those who would face lower […]

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Coronavirus in the US: State-by-state breakdown

By Alexandria Hein, David Aaro | Fox News As of Monday morning, the novel coronavirus has infected more than 164,470 people across 135 countries and territories, resulting in over 5,700 deaths. In the U.S., at least 49 states plus the District of Columbia have reported confirmed cases of COVID-19, tallying over 3,700 illnesses and 68 deaths. CORONAVIRUS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Here’s a […]