Coronavirus News

[ad_1] South Dakota welcomed hundreds of thousands of visitors to a massive motorcycle rally this summer, declined to cancel the state fair and still doesn’t require masks. Now its hospitals are filling up and the state’s current COVID-19 death rate is among the worst in the world. The situation is similarly dire in North Dakota, with the state’s governor […]

[ad_1] Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito delivered a politically-charged speech to a conference of conservative lawyers. YouTube Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito expressed concern about religious liberty with regard to same-sex marriage and COVID-19 restrictions during a speech on Thursday. “You can’t say that marriage is a union between one man and one woman,” Alito

[ad_1] The Conversation Amy Coney Barrett sizes up 30-year-old precedent balancing religious freedom with rule of law Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s first week as an active Supreme Court justice began on Nov. 2 and almost immediately included a case that could test her credentials as a religious conservative. On the surface, Fulton v. City of

[ad_1] Michael Osterholm, part of President-elect Joe Biden’s COVID-19 advisory panel. Meet the Press/NBC A US nationwide lockdown lasting four to six weeks would help control the coronavirus and revive the US economy, Michael Osterholm, a COVID-19 advisor to President-elect Joe Biden, said Wednesday. On Thursday, Osterholm clarified his statement and told ABC News that

[ad_1] Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito delivered candid takes on several divisive issues facing the U.S., from the measures put in place to address the COVID-19 pandemic to tensions between gay rights and religious freedom, during an address to the conservative Federalist Society on Thursday.  Alito said the restrictions imposed by political leaders in order to

[ad_1] Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf. Samuel Corum/Getty Images) Department of Homeland Security acting secretary Chad Wolf is planning a tour of Latin America from December 7, The Washington Post reported. A DHS source told The Post the weeklong trip — to Brazil, El Salvador, Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador — is “a boondoggle,”

[ad_1] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Alex Wong/Getty Images; Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images Odds of a stimulus package before January appear very dim. Republicans and Democrats are not budging from their past spending demands. Pelosi and Schumer say the $2.4 trillion stimulus plan is their starting point while the GOP argues

[ad_1] WASHINGTON — As Americans prepare to gather for Thanksgiving, and as the approach of winter drives those gatherings indoors, a coronavirus outbreak in a rural Amish community offers a warning of what could lie ahead for other parts of the nation. The outbreak was relatively confined — only 30 people were initially infected, of

[ad_1] Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump with their two eldest children on September 22. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump pulled their children out of the Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School and moved them to Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Three Milton parents told the

[ad_1] Republican US Senate candidate Kelly Loeffler reacts after she enters the runoff against Democratic US Senate candidate Raphael Warnock, in Atlanta, Georgia (REUTERS) A team of CNN journalists left a rally held by Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler over fears that it would become a coronavirus superspreader event.   CNN correspondent Kyung Lah and her