Monthly Archives: May, 2020

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Tuesday backed the Republicans’ push to subpoena former Obama administration officials. “Senate Republicans are taking steps to issue new subpoenas to a wide variety of Obama administration officials,” the Kentucky Republican said from the Senate floor. “The American people deserve answers about how such abuses could happen.” Mr. McConnell also…

US Vice President Mike Pence speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House on April 13, 2020, in Washington, DC.Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty ImagesVice President Mike Pence said Tuesday he is not taking hydroxychloroquine as a preventive treatment for the…

London (CNN)The World Health Organization (WHO) has agreed to hold an inquiry into the global response to the coronavirus pandemic, adopting a resolution a summit that has been overshadowed by President Donald Trump's threat to permanently cut US funding to t…

The first such reports published by the journal, the statement continued, were on Jan. 24, where two studies described the first 41 coronavirus patients from Wuhan, the inland Chinese city where the outbreak began, and detailed the first scientific evidence confirming person-to-person transmission of the new virus. The first study, the Lancet noted, was led…

Annie Glenn, the widow of astronaut and US Sen. John Glenn who became an inspiration to people with disabilities around the globe by overcoming a severe stutter, died Tuesday at age 100. Glenn died of complications from the coronavirus at a nursing home near St. Paul, Minnesota, said Hank Wilson, a spokesman for the Glenn…