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Multiple aides who work for Vice President Mike Pence—including his chief of staff—have tested positive for COVID-19. CNN has confirmed that Pence’s chief of staff Marc Short was diagnosed with the coronavirus on Saturday. Also, a senior adviser for Pence who is not employed by the government, Marty Obst, tested positive for the virus along with one of the Vice […]
New York Giants running back Saquon Barkley and quarterback Daniel Jones were seen maskless in a New York City bar on Friday night, ESPN reports. The incident comes as the NFL continues to try and maintain strict rules about players not gathering outside of their designated practice facilities in an effort to contain the spread of COVID-19. According to NJ.com, […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci is coming around on the idea of a national mask mandate. The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has been wary of a rule from the federal government requiring Americans to wear a mask when they are outside their home, previously calling such ideas “authoritarian” and questioning whether […]
Donald Trump has been absent from White House COVID-19 task force meetings for “several months,” says White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Fauci. According to CNBC, Vice President Pence leads the task force meetings that used to occur every day during the first few months of the pandemic but have now been scaled down to one […]
A barista in a Southern California Starbucks kept her cool as a Trump-supporting customer went on an anti-mask tirade. The 19-year-old’s handling of the customer’s freakout went viral on TikTok. In the video, the person in question can be heard yelling “Trump 2020!” and “fuck Black Lives Matter” after she was told by employee Alex Beckom […]
Quite mercifully, this Friday brings the world the return of Borat with the Amazon Prime release of the concisely titled Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Ahead of the long-overdue sequel to the 2006 classic, star and creator Sacha Baron Cohen appeared in character on […]
A Garland, Texas woman died from complications related to COVID-19 while waiting for her commercial flight to take off, according to an announcement made by Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins on Sunday. The woman, who has not been named to protect the privacy of her and her family, died on July 25, though her case […]
On a campaign call on Monday, Donald Trump appeared to indicate that America is ready to move on from the coronavirus, and that Dr. Anthony Fauci is a “disaster.” CNN reports that Trump sounded frustrated on the call, seemingly brushing off the virus that he contracted earlier this month. America has over 8 million confirmed cases of […]
Confirmed COVID-19 cases have now surpassed a global total of 40 million. While the actual number of cases around the world is believed to be significantly higher due to a variety of factors, the latest number comes from the team at Johns Hopkins University, who—per the Associated Press’ update on Monday—is now reporting 40,088,893 confirmed cases. Last week, analysis […]
The 80th annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally will go down in infamy as a “superspreader event” that led to hundreds of thousands COVID-19 cases spanning several states and cost billions of dollars for public health care agencies. It was the nearly two-week event in August that drew half a million attendees, some of whom saw Smash Mouth frontman Steve […]
