Monthly Archives: May, 2020

Tiger, Georgia, calls itself a “sleepy” town. So when the owners of the Tiger Drive-In movie theater posted that it was open on Facebook this month, they expected only their devoted customers among the roughly 2,000 living in the town would notice. The post reached more than a quarter of a million people. “I was…

The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits has soared to more than 30 million in just six weeks of the coronavirus crisis, the Labor Department said Thursday, while President Trump blamed the economic misery on China and predicted a “very strong comeback” by the time he faces re-election in November. More than 3.8 million…

President Trump on Thursday said former Vice President Joseph R. Biden needs to address a former staffer’s accusation of sexual assault. Mr. Trump declined to opine on the veracity of the claim by Tara Reade, who worked as an aide during Mr. Biden’s time in the Senate. But he also doesn’t see why the presumptive…

The dogs that Transportation Security Administration agents use at some airports to screen passengers are cute — and that’s sometimes all they are, an audit of the canine program found. In a withering report, the Department of Homeland Security inspector general said Thursday that the dogs’ training is so outdated that they may not be…

ANALYSIS/OPINION: Anti-vaping opportunists are trying to use today’s public health crisis to capitalize on last fall’s public health hysteria. Citing concerns about vapers’ potential susceptibility to COVID-19, several states are looking into including vaping regulation as part of their coronavirus response. In a similar vein, the House Oversight Committee urged the Food & Drug Administration…