Monthly Archives: May, 2020

Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said Monday that the party “will not be holding a virtual convention,” pledging that the presidential nominating convention in late August will be conducted at least partly in-person. The coronavirus outbreak forced Democrats to move their convention from July to August, and it’s still unclear whether that event will…

Stock futures turned slightly lower in early trading Tuesday after the market scored its best session in six weeks a day earlier on rising optimism about a coronavirus vaccine.Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average implied an opening loss of about 40 points, after moving more than 200 points higher in after-hours trading. S&P 500 and Nasdaq…

Undocumented Californians may begin applying for disaster assistance payments of $500 per person and up to $1,000 per household.The state government has made available $75 million to help a projected 150,000 undocumented immigrants weather the coronavirus crisis.To qualify, applicants must show that they are ineligible for federal assistance programs stemming from the coronavirus pandemic, such…

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization. | Mark Schiefelbein-Pool/Getty Images President Donald Trump threatened to permanently end funding to the World Health Organization and reconsider the country's membership in the global health body in a Monday letter criticizing the organization for its coronavirus response. The letter, which Trump publicly revealed in a…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., asked the Trump administration to declassify the entire email that President Obama’s former national security Susan Rice sent herself just before her boss was about to leave office, a report said.Politico reported Monday that it viewed Johnson’s letter,…