Tag: COVID-19

French President Emmanuel Macron hugs a resident as he visits a devastated street of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday Aug.6, 2020. French President Emmanuel Macron has arrived in Beirut to offer French support to Lebanon after the deadly port blast.

France’s Macron announces school closures and domestic travel restrictions amid COVID-19 surge

Jeremy Beaman · March 31, 2021 9:47 pm

This May 29, 2019 photo released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows some of 1,036 migrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, the largest that the Border Patrol says it has ever encountered. The federal government is opening a new mass shelter for migrant children near the U.S-Mexico border and is considering housing children on three military bases to add 3,000 more beds to the overtaxed system in the coming weeks.

San Diego teachers given option to replace regular schedule to teach migrant children in person

Michael Lee · March 31, 2021 8:38 pm

Janet Yellen will join the Brookings Institution where she'll join fellow former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, who has been working and blogging there since leaving the Fed. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Thirteen states sue Biden administration over tax cut restriction in $1.9 trillion spending package

Zach Halaschak · March 31, 2021 8:13 pm

Beltway Confidential

The Cuomo VIP scandal is worse than you thought

Becket Adams · March 31, 2021 7:19 pm

"Judge Curiel is an American hero who stood up to the Mexican cartels," tweeted former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Schwarzenegger slams Newsom’s claims of a ‘Republican recall’

Carly Roman · March 31, 2021 6:28 pm

Rambo Islas, 8 months, is held by his mother Maria Islas, as he gets a shot for a vaccine administered by RN, Nicole Ives at the Dallas County Health & Human Services immunization clinic in Dallas on Friday, March 8, 2019.

Woman comes down with COVID over month after receiving both doses of vaccine

Michael Lee · March 31, 2021 5:18 pm

COVID-19 was the third-leading cause of death in 2020: CDC

Cassidy Morrison · March 31, 2021 5:03 pm

People queue up to buy face masks at a cosmetics shop in Hong Kong, Friday, Jan. 31, 2020.

Edwards eases COVID-19 occupancy limits; mask mandate continues

Washington Examiner · March 31, 2021 5:00 pm

N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order Monday banning state employees from using taxpayer funds to travel to North Carolina on nonessential work.

New York considers bill paying illegal immigrants and felons up to $27,000 in CARES Act back pay

Carly Ortiz-Lytle · March 31, 2021 4:35 pm

Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down governor’s ‘unlawful’ mask mandate

Jeremy Beaman · March 31, 2021 4:13 pm

Pictured are President Trump, left, and Joe Biden, right.

Too much risk aversion is too risky

Michael Barone · March 31, 2021 4:12 pm

Despite nearly hitting vaccination goals, rising hospitalizations pause Pritzker’s bridge plan

Washington Examiner · March 31, 2021 4:00 pm