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U.S. Attorney General William Barr said the coronavirus pandemic was placing "unprecedented burdens" on Americans' civil liberties during a Tuesday radio interview with broadcast journalist Hugh Hewitt.Though Barr said the stay-at-home orders that states issued to contain the outbreak were necessary as the virus began spreading across the U.S., he described them as "disturbingly close…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General William Barr waded further into a debate over governors’ stay-at-home orders meant to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, saying he would not rule out legal action against states if he thought their actions infringed civil liberties. FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: U.S. Attorney General William Barr awaits the…

“A lot of people still believe we are in a worst-case scenario, and that’s actually not true,” said Dr. Peter Dunn, a vice president overseeing inpatient capacity management at Mass. General. “The curve is flattening even more and it is due to all the many community- and government-based efforts to minimize the spread.”Dunn also cited…

The comptroller general is expanding an investigation into President Trump’s border wall to look at a no-bid contract that will pay a whopping $32 million a mile — far higher than other wall sections — a senator said Saturday. The award went to BFBC, an affiliate of Barnard Construction, whose chairman is a reliable GOP…