Monthly Archives: August, 2020

Show captionDonald Trump announces FDA emergency authorization for blood plasma as a coronavirus treatment. Photograph: Pete Marovich/Getty ImagesCoronavirus outbreakPresident blamed ‘deep state or whoever’ for slow progressFormer FDA head hits back after chief of staff repeats claim After expressing frustration at the slow pace of approval for coronavirus treatments, and causing controversy by publicly linking…

President Trump on Sunday granted an emergency authorization for the usage of convalescent plasma to treat coronavirus patients, dubbing it a “major breakthrough."Speaking to reporters from the White House Sunday, Trump said the FDA has "issued an emergency use authorization... for a treatment known as convalescent plasma.""This is a powerful therapy that transfuses very very strong antibodies…

For then-Rep. Chris Collins, it was his big moment on the national stage — he got to officially nominate Donald Trump to be the Republican presidential candidate at the party’s 2016 convention. Three years later, Collins would plead guilty to insider trading and lying to the FBI, and now faces a 26-month prison sentence. It…

Darko Bandic Associated Press A wedding reception in Maine has caused 53 confirmed cases of coronavirus and counting.Nearly half of those cases include people who didn't go to the wedding, Maine's CDC reported.It's not clear whether people wore masks at the event, but the venue exceeded the state's indoor limit of 50 people.Visit Business Insider's…

Former FBI Director James Comey spoke dismissively of Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham's investigation of the origins of the bureau's Russia probe Sunday, saying he has not been contacted for it and that it is being used as a political tool for President Trump and his supporters.In an interview that aired Sunday on CBS' "Face the…