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[ad_1] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Shen/Xinhua via Getty Images Some Democrats are urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to take the White House’s $1.8 trillion stimulus deal. “We’re not that far apart and the last few things should be negotiated — we should be able to get something done,” Rep. Ro Khanna of California said in […]

[ad_1] Nearly 10,000 people are gearing up to attend President Donald Trump’s rally at the Des Moines International Airport on Wednesday, defying advice from White House experts on limiting social gatherings there to 25 people. Meanwhile, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning that small, intimate gatherings inside homes this

[ad_1] Wisconsin Gov Tony Evers said the state is being “overwhelmed” by the surge of Covid-19 cases. (Getty Images) Wisconsin’s rising coronavirus crisis reached a distressing new high, as the state reported its worst day of the pandemic yet. Wisconsin on Tuesday recorded a new state record for the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in

[ad_1] Cases of COVID-19 patients being reinfected have cropped up around the world but experts say it’s unclear whether the virus will be like the vast majority of diseases and not return more severe on its second go-round. “So far these cases appear to be very rare but they’re also not very surprising,” said David

[ad_1] An elderly woman in the Netherlands is the first reported person to die after becoming infected with COVID-19 a second time, according to a new study. The unidentified 89-year-old woman — who had a rare form of cancer — tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this year after going to a hospital emergency room with

[ad_1] Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic challenger Amy McGrath sparred Monday evening over the federal response to the coronavirus crisis, the Supreme Court nomination fight and the Republican incumbent’s decadeslong record in a hard-hitting televised debate in Kentucky. McGrath, a retired Marine combat pilot, was aggressive from the outset in blaming the senator

[ad_1] The city’s paramedics say a rise in the number of seriously ill COVID-19 patients they are treating is bringing back disturbing memories of the height of the pandemic in New York last spring. “We’re seeing more young people complaining of fever and cough and having trouble breathing,” a paramedic assigned to the FDNY Emergency

[ad_1] The coronavirus pandemic may have caused tens of thousands of more deaths in the spring and summer than previously thought, a new study says. Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond found nearly 75,000 more people may have died from the pandemic than what was recorded in March to July, according to the report published

[ad_1] The virus that causes COVID-19 can survive far longer than previously thought — remaining infectious on surfaces such as bank notes, glass, phone screens and stainless steel for 28 days, according to a new study. By comparison, the flu virus has been shown to survive on surfaces for 17 days. Researchers at Australia’s science

[ad_1] Elementary and high schools do not appear to be COVID-19 super-spreaders, new data suggests — a finding that threatens to turn some pandemic theories on their head. Statistics involving 200,000 schoolkids from 47 states in the last two weeks of September yielded an overall coronavirus infection rate of just .13 percent among students and