The Premier League may be the wealthiest and most popular football league in the world, but the way its clubs have handled the coronavirus pandemic lags well behind their European rivals. Despite clubs — many of which are owned by multi-billionaire businessmen — earning billions of dollars from the current television rights deal, several have…… MORE
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Donald Trump’s blatant hypocrisy on voting by mail
During his daily coronavirus briefing on Tuesday, President Donald Trump made very clear that voting by mail — an alternative many are suggesting to deal with the ongoing stay-at-home directives — is a very bad thing. And more than that, he suggested, it’s deeply corrupt. “No, mail ballots, they cheat,” said Trump. “OK, people cheat.…… MORE
What California is doing right in responding to the coronavirus pandemic
Within weeks of the Grand Princess cruise ship arriving off the California coast — an early harbinger of the coming coronavirus pandemic — Gov. Gavin Newsom issued the first statewide mandatory restrictions in the United States. He ordered California’s nearly 40 million residents to stay home to help combat the outbreak, but he didn’t stop…… MORE
Talks could get ugly as Congress races to pass $250 billion more for small business loan program
The White House and congressional Republicans are working quickly to pass $251 billion in additional funds for an emergency small business loan program by the end of this week. Democrats are amenable to the new funding — with conditions of their own. Bottom line: Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New…… MORE
A truck driver stabs four women, killing three, at a Tennessee truck stop, officers say
Officers fatally shot a truck driver suspected of stabbing four women at a Tennessee truck stop. Three of the women, who worked at the Pilot Travel Center in Knoxville where investigators said they were attacked, died of their injuries. The fourth was taken to a hospital for treatment, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said. When…… MORE
ABC News: US intelligence warned of China’s spreading contagion in November
US intelligence officials were warning as far back as late November that the novel coronavirus was spreading through China’s Wuhan region and posing a threat to its people and daily life, according to ABC News. The US military’s National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI) compiled a November intelligence report in which “analysts concluded it could…… MORE
HHS to work with GM under Defense Production Act to produce 30,000 ventilators for national stockpile
The Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday announced a nearly $500 million contract with General Motors under the Defense Production Act to produce 30,000 ventilators that will be delivered to the national stockpile to help treat coronavirus patients. The ventilators would be delivered to the Strategic National Stockpile by the end of August…… MORE
Trump and Pence stay close even as aides ramp up guards protecting chain of command
For two days in a row, President Donald Trump has downplayed questions about whether he should distance himself from his second-in-line to guard against them both contracting coronavirus, even as other world leaders see members of their cabinets infected — or, in the case of Britain’s Boris Johnson, fall victim to the disease themselves. Instead,…… MORE
Jose Mourinho accepts training in a public park was wrong
Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho has acknowledged he breached UK government guidelines after he and a number of his star players were pictured flouting social distancing regulations by training in a north London park. Pictures appeared on social media on Tuesday of Mourinho holding a makeshift training session for midfielder Tanguy Ndombele, while Davinson Sanchez and…… MORE
Democratic super PAC turns up focus on Trump’s coronavirus response
A top Democratic super PAC will begin running scores of new digital ads on Wednesday aimed at holding President Donald Trump accountable for a host of comments he has made about his administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Priorities USA, which is now supporting former Vice President Joe Biden, will release seven digital ads that…… MORE
