By Barnini Chakraborty | Fox News From 71-year-old federal fraudsters to Colombian drug lords, there has been a mad dash of high-profile prisoners petitioning the courts for a compassionate or restricted release in the wake of COVID-19. That means, while others are locked up in cramped over-crowded cells, they get to go home. Criminal justice advocates have rallied around […]
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Clip surfaces of Biden accuser Tara Reade’s mother phoning into ‘Larry King Live’ in 1993 alluding to claim
By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News A resurfaced clip on “Larry King Live” in 1993 appears to show the mother of Tara Reade — who has accused Joe Biden of past sexual assault while in the Senate — alluding to “problems” her daughter faced while working as a staffer for the then-Delaware senator. In a telephone interview with Fox News […]
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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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Testing shows hundreds of thousands in LA County may have been infected with coronavirus
By David Aaro | Fox News The coronavirus outbreak in Los Angeles County is believed to have infected at least 200,000 people by early April, which would far surpass the number of officially confirmed cases, according to a report on Monday. A large scale study by the University of Southern California and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health found that […]
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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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New data suggest the coronavirus isn’t as deadly as we thought
By Andrew Bogan | The Wall Street Journal The Covid-19 shutdowns have been based on the premise that the disease would kill more than two million Americans absent drastic actions to slow its spread. That model assumed case fatality rates—the share of infected people who die from the disease—of 1% to 3%. The World Health Organization’s estimated case-fatality rate […]
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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 antibody testing finds Bay Area infections may be 85 times higher than reported: researchers
By Alexandria Hein | Fox News A team of researchers in California found that the number of coronaviruses cases in one county may actually be up to 85 times higher than the what health officials have tallied, and say their data may help better estimate the virus’ true fatality rate. Earlier this month, Stanford University-led researchers tested 3,330 adults and children in Santa […]
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Elon Musk, CNN spar over ventilator story; Musk surprised network ‘still exists’
By Brian Flood | Fox News Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk mocked CNN on Thursday, saying he’s surprised the liberal network still exists after it reported he did not supply ventilators to hospitals treating coronavirus patients — a claim the billionaire disputed in a series of tweets “Three weeks after Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he had obtained more than 1,000 […]
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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 […]
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Sources believe coronavirus originated in Wuhan lab as part of China’s efforts to compete with US
By Bret Baier, Gregg Re | Fox News EXCLUSIVE: There is increasing confidence that COVID-19 likely originated in a Wuhan laboratory not as a bioweapon, but as part of China’s effort to demonstrate that its efforts to identify and combat viruses are equal to or greater than the capabilities of the United States, multiple sources who have been briefed on the details […]
