By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A stunning 26.5 million Americans have sought unemployment benefits since mid-March, confirming that all the jobs gained during the longest employment boom in U.S. history have been wiped out as the novel coronavirus savages the economy. The deepening economic slump amid nationwide lockdowns to control the spread of COVID-19, […]
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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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Barr: DOJ may side with citizens who sue states over ‘onerous’ coronavirus restrictions
By Ronn Blitzer | Fox News Attorney General Bill Barr took a clear swipe Tuesday at state restrictions on citizens during the coronavirus pandemic, indicating not only that people could sue over measures that go too far but that the Justice Department could end up siding with them against the states. In an appearance on Hugh Hewitt’s radio program, Barr specified some of […]
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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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Tying It All Together: China, Dr. Fauci, French Company Sanofi Pasteur, George Soros and the Gates Foundation
By Jim Hoft Links between Dr. Tony Fauci, China, French company Sanofi Pasteur, George Soros and the Gates Foundation are old and deep. The China coronavirus ties them all together. In late December 2019, Taiwan sent an email to the World Health Organization (WHO) stating that a unique ‘atypical pneumonia’ was identified in China and […]
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Governors face tough decisions as coronavirus lockdowns set to expire by May 1
By Andrew O’Reilly | Fox News Lockdown orders are set to expire by May 1 in nearly two dozen states even as new cases of the novel coronavirus continue to rise, forcing governors across the country to decide whether to lift the orders or extend them. As of Monday morning, the states whose lockdown orders expire by May 1 are Alabama, Alaska, […]
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Hundreds protest coronavirus stay-at-home order in California to ‘defend constitutional rights’
By Travis Fedschun | Fox News Hundreds of people gathered Sunday in Southern California to protest the state’s stay-at-home orders to prevent the spread of coronavirus, the latest in a growing number of demonstrations nationwide. The protesters assembled in San Clemente, near the city’s pier, before marching a half-mile through town joined by drivers who honked in support. Leigh Dundas, a human rights attorney, […]
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Coronavirus reopening – Democrats resisting for this reason
By Liz Peek | Fox News Nancy Pelosi does not want Americans to go back to work. She and other Democrats will loft every possible excuse to prevent the nation from reopening, claiming that Trump’s intention of doing so is “deeply frivolous and wrong,” as Pelosi claimed is a recent tweet. She mocks the president’s supposedly cavalier attitude that […]
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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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Top coronavirus model significantly lowers total estimates of US deaths in new projection
By Adam Shaw | Fox News A key coronavirus model has lowered its estimate of total U.S. deaths in its latest projection of how many will die due to the contagious virus. The revision will likely fuel criticism from skeptics that initial projections were overblown, and one that government leaders may use to say that efforts to combat the spread […]
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Coronavirus timeline shows politicians’, media’s changing rhetoric on risk of pandemic
By Gregg Re | Fox News As reporters looked on during a contentious White House briefing this week, President Trump stepped aside and played a brief video showing several media figures downplaying the coronavirus in January and February, including some personalities who now argue the president didn’t act quickly enough. Looking back, members of both parties have mud on their face […]
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MSNBC host suggests Biden form ‘shadow government’ to counter Trump on coronavirus
By Dom Calicchio | Fox News The U.S. presidential election is still seven months away but an MSNBC host is already suggesting that Democrat Joe Biden set up a “shadow government” against the Trump administration amid the coronavirus outbreak. Stephanie Ruhle pitched the idea Wednesday during an interview with Jim Messina, who served as deputy chief of staff of operations under former President Barack Obama. Messina […]
