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Trump Administration Rushing to Save Farmers

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The Trump administration is rushing to save farmers from the effects of COVID-19 shutdowns on the agricultural economy. The Wall Street Journal’s Andrew Restuccia and Jesse Newman report: President Trump announced a $19 billion relief program for the agriculture sector, which has been hard hit by the coronavirus outbreak, turning to a playbook the administration has […]

South Carolina Plans Limited reopening

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Paul Sacca reports at The Blaze: Gov. Henry McMaster (R) will announce on Monday the re-opening of public beaches and retail stores, the Post and Courier reported. Beaches and retail locations had previously been closed since March 30 because of the governor’s executive order in response to the coronavirus pandemic. On Saturday, state Sen. Stephen Goldfinch (R-S.C.) […]

Trump, Not Cuomo, Was Right About New York’s Ventilator Needs

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Aaron Colen reports in The Blaze about Governor Andrew Cuomo’s miscalculation of New York’s potential ventilator needs. President Trump’s estimate, explains Colen, was much closer to reality. He writes (abridged): New York is giving ventilators away to other states that need them, reflecting how much the state’s coronavirus outbreak has evolved over the past few […]

Did China Decide to Take Down the Free World with the Coronavirus?

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At The Diplomat, Ben Lowsen makes the case that Xi Jinping and the Chinese government decided that if China was going to suffer the effects of the COVID-19 coronavirus, the rest of the world would too. Lowsen writes: We often ascribe a basic level of humanity to even the cruelest leaders, but People’s Republic of […]

New Evidence COVID-19 Outbreak Could Have Begun in Wuhan Laboratory

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Reporters have uncovered State Department cables from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing from 2018 suggesting that the lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology was not as safe as the Chinese claimed. Phil Silver reports for The Blaze: Evidently, what the U.S. officials discovered during their visits concerned them so much that they proceeded to […]

Miami Herald Reports some Stabilization in COVID-19

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Michelle Marchante and Devoun Cetoute report in the Miami Herald: Florida saw its second day of relatively low novel coronavirus confirmations since late March. The state has not seen two consecutive days of new reported cases under 1,000 since March 29. Wednesday evening, the Florida Department of Health confirmed 891 additional cases of COVID-19 and […]

Could Michigan Recall its Disastrous Governor, Gretchen Whitmer?

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Michiganders are furious with their governor’s mismanagement of the COVID-19 outbreak. A petition drive has begun to recall the governor and has already recorded more than 165,000 signatures as of Monday. Sarah Taylor reports at The Blaze: Last week, Whitmer placed what some voters insisted was a draconian and Orwellian statewide ban on visiting other residences because […]

Rivals Apple and Google Join Forces Against COVID-19

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Politico’s Leah Nylen and Mohanan Ravindranath explain the teaming up between tech giants Apple and Google against COVID-19. they write: Apple and Google announced Friday that they are teaming up on a major effort to help health officials trace coronavirus exposure risks, in a rare alliance between two huge rivals whose software dominates the market […]