This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe on-again, off-again saga of this year’s Group of Seven economic meeting has had several plotlines.To review: President Trump first announced he would host it himself at his in Florida. Then, after criticism over his decision to use his private business as the site of a government event, the annual meeting was relocated to the woodsy Camp David retreat in Maryland.The coronavirus pandemic then led to it being rescheduled as a virtual event. But after a few weeks, Trump attempted to reverse that decision in favor of an...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe on-again, off-again saga of this year’s Group of Seven economic meeting has had several plotlines.To review: President Trump first announced he would host it himself at his in Florida. Then, after criticism over his decision to use his private business as the site of a government event, the annual meeting was relocated to the woodsy Camp David retreat in Maryland.The coronavirus pandemic then led to it being rescheduled as a virtual event. But after a few weeks, Trump attempted to reverse that decision in favor of an...WW…

Gift ShareThis article is free to access.Why?The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service.Follow this story and more by Please NoteThe Washington Post is providing this important information about the coronavirus for free. President Trump and first lady Melania Trump paid tribute to fallen soldiers on Memorial Day by participating in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery, which has been closed to the public for months during the coronavirus pandemic.There were no crowds at the cemetery this year, as...…Gift ShareThis article is free to access.Why?The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service.Follow this story and more by Please NoteThe Washington Post is providing this important information about the coronavirus for free. President Trump and first lady Melania Trump paid tribute to fallen soldiers on Memorial Day by participating in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery, which has been closed to the public for months during the coronavirus pandemic.There were no crowds at the cemetery this year, as...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThis article is free to access.Why?The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service.Follow this story and more by U.S. deaths from covid-19 passed 60,000 on Wednesday, a figure President Trump had once projected would be the upper limit, as hopes rose for a drug treatment that the top U.S. infectious-disease expert said has shown a clear benefit in an early trial.Trump welcomed the promising early signs that an experimental antiviral drug, remdesivir, can be effective in speeding the...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThis article is free to access.Why?The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service.Follow this story and more by U.S. deaths from covid-19 passed 60,000 on Wednesday, a figure President Trump had once projected would be the upper limit, as hopes rose for a drug treatment that the top U.S. infectious-disease expert said has shown a clear benefit in an early trial.Trump welcomed the promising early signs that an experimental antiviral drug, remdesivir, can be effective in speeding the...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift SharePresident Trump’s who did not parrot White House talking points about a fast-track coronavirus vaccine is the latest example of the president’s effort to enforce an upbeat narrative about the pandemic, even if that does not square with the facts.Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is the most recent government physician or scientist. He did so in congressional testimony Wednesday, saying a vaccine greenlighted later this year would probably not be available to most Americans until...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift SharePresident Trump’s who did not parrot White House talking points about a fast-track coronavirus vaccine is the latest example of the president’s effort to enforce an upbeat narrative about the pandemic, even if that does not square with the facts.Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is the most recent government physician or scientist. He did so in congressional testimony Wednesday, saying a vaccine greenlighted later this year would probably not be available to most Americans until...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareIt was a bold claim when President Trump said that he was about to produce an overhaul of the nation’s health-care system, at last doing away with the Affordable Care Act, which he has long promised to abolish.“We’re signing a health-care plan within two weeks, a full and complete health-care plan,” Trump pledged in a with “Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace.Now, with the two weeks expiring Sunday, there is no evidence that the administration has designed a replacement for the 2010 health-care law. Instead, there is a...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareIt was a bold claim when President Trump said that he was about to produce an overhaul of the nation’s health-care system, at last doing away with the Affordable Care Act, which he has long promised to abolish.“We’re signing a health-care plan within two weeks, a full and complete health-care plan,” Trump pledged in a with “Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace.Now, with the two weeks expiring Sunday, there is no evidence that the administration has designed a replacement for the 2010 health-care law. Instead, there is a...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareRising tensions between the United States and China brought fresh mudslinging Wednesday as a sharp dispute over responsibility for the coronavirus pandemic spills into new forums such as Taiwan.In the span of several hours, the feud swung from Taipei to Beijing to the Internet, where an animated " on Chinese state TV's Twitter feed mocked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.President Trump then lashed out at China for a "worldwide killing" from covid-19 — part of messages that could become talking points in the presidential...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareRising tensions between the United States and China brought fresh mudslinging Wednesday as a sharp dispute over responsibility for the coronavirus pandemic spills into new forums such as Taiwan.In the span of several hours, the feud swung from Taipei to Beijing to the Internet, where an animated " on Chinese state TV's Twitter feed mocked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.President Trump then lashed out at China for a "worldwide killing" from covid-19 — part of messages that could become talking points in the presidential...WW…

This article was published more than 3 years agoCommentGift ShareThis article is free to access.Why?The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service.Follow this story and more by The White House announced Saturday that its sweeping travel restrictions will be expanded to include the United Kingdom and Ireland, as countries around the globe struggled to intensify efforts to combat the spread of the deadly coronavirus.The United States is limiting travel from 28 nations across Europe, though U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents are exempted. The...…This article was published more than 3 years agoCommentGift ShareThis article is free to access.Why?The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service.Follow this story and more by The White House announced Saturday that its sweeping travel restrictions will be expanded to include the United Kingdom and Ireland, as countries around the globe struggled to intensify efforts to combat the spread of the deadly coronavirus.The United States is limiting travel from 28 nations across Europe, though U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents are exempted. The...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareWILMINGTON, Del. — The incoming Democratic president also criticized President Trump for his refusal to concede his election loss and begin handing over power. Biden called Trump’s unprecedented actions “embarrassing for the country” and irresponsible.The delay in cooperation is setting back plans for a coordinated rollout of a coronavirus , Biden said. Most of that rollout would fall to the Biden administration next year, but the Trump White House is not sharing details of its distribution plan.Trump falsely claims that...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareWILMINGTON, Del. — The incoming Democratic president also criticized President Trump for his refusal to concede his election loss and begin handing over power. Biden called Trump’s unprecedented actions “embarrassing for the country” and irresponsible.The delay in cooperation is setting back plans for a coordinated rollout of a coronavirus , Biden said. Most of that rollout would fall to the Biden administration next year, but the Trump White House is not sharing details of its distribution plan.Trump falsely claims that...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift SharePresident Trump has told people around him that on Saturday he plans to nominate federal appeals court judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, putting forth a nominee who, if confirmed, would ensure a solid conservative majority on the high court for years to come, according to people familiar with the matter.Democrats have little chance to block the nominee, but a looms in the weeks ahead of the Nov. 3 election, the results of which Trump has said may...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift SharePresident Trump has told people around him that on Saturday he plans to nominate federal appeals court judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, putting forth a nominee who, if confirmed, would ensure a solid conservative majority on the high court for years to come, according to people familiar with the matter.Democrats have little chance to block the nominee, but a looms in the weeks ahead of the Nov. 3 election, the results of which Trump has said may...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift SharePresident Trump publicly pressured the Justice Department on Friday to move against his political adversaries and complained that Attorney General William P. Barr is not doing enough to deliver results of a probe into how the Obama administration investigated possible collusion between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign.The delayed report is “a disgrace,” and Trump’s 2016 Democratic opponent, , should be jailed, Trump said in a rambling radio interview, one day after he argued on Twitter that his current Democratic...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift SharePresident Trump publicly pressured the Justice Department on Friday to move against his political adversaries and complained that Attorney General William P. Barr is not doing enough to deliver results of a probe into how the Obama administration investigated possible collusion between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign.The delayed report is “a disgrace,” and Trump’s 2016 Democratic opponent, , should be jailed, Trump said in a rambling radio interview, one day after he argued on Twitter that his current Democratic...WW…