Monthly Archives: May, 2020

Some analysts are worried that the pressure from senior officials could distort assessments about the coronavirus and be used as a weapon in an escalating battle with China.Volunteers disinfecting the Qintai Grand Theater in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the coronavirus outbreak began.Credit...Aly Song/ReutersWASHINGTON — Senior Trump administration officials have pushed American spy agencies to…

(CNN)Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer extended the state's coronavirus emergency declaration by executive order after the Republican-controlled Legislature advanced a bill that would not have renewed the original declaration. Whitmer signed a new or…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.LOS ANGELES-- Gov. Gavin Newsom directed California residents to a list of outdoor activities that the state said are still permissible during the statewide shelter-in-place order, drawing ire on social media.Newsom reportedly directed state residents to read the list that includes…

(CNN)Dr. Anthony Fauci, a key member of the White House coronavirus task force, said Thursday evening it's important to give governors "wiggle room" on reopening their states, but cautioned they shouldn't "wiggle too much." "The discretion is given to the go…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A Kazakhstan woman fell more than 110 feet to her death last weekend after posing for a cliffside photo to celebrate the end of the area's coronavirus lockdown.Olesia Suspitsina, 31, was out hiking with a friend in Duden Park, located in Antalya, Turkey --…