Tag: President Donald Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio will temporarily become chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Republican leaders announced, taking charge of the panel at a time of turnover and tension in the nation’s intelligence…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he is taking a malaria drug to protect against the coronavirus, despite warnings from his own government that it should only be administered for COVID-19 in a hospital…

Dear editor, I want to give a big shout-out to all the doctors, nurses, and other medical people for their dedication and skills in the course of this pandemic. You are truly patriots in the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly eight years after he was last on the ballot, Barack Obama is emerging as a central figure in the 2020 presidential election. Democrats are eagerly embracing Obama as a political wingman…

WASHINGTON — A Trump administration health official who filed a whistleblower complaint last week plans to tell Congress today that without a science-based national response to the pandemic, 2020 will be the “darkest winter in…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is holding its second week of arguments by telephone because of the coronavirus pandemic, with audio available live to audiences around the world. The court has heard four days…

Mike Pompeo is pushing the conspiracy theory that COVID-19 is manmade, even though the intelligence and scientific communities contend it emanated from an outdoor market in Wuhan, China. Nope, says Pompeo. Conniving scientists at a…

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A document created by the nation’s top disease investigators with step-by-step advice to local authorities on how and when to reopen restaurants and other public places during the still-raging outbreak has…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has stopped talking about the decades-old antimalarial drug he once touted as a “game changer” for COVID-19, but it won’t be as simple for the rest of the health system…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration failed to prepare for the onslaught of the coronavirus,  then sought a quick fix by trying to rush an unproven drug to patients, a senior government scientist alleged in…