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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reportedly made his first public appearance since April 11 when he attended a ceremony on Friday celebrating the completion of a fertilizer factory near the capital of Pyongyang. Kim’s arrival was reported by the Korean Central News Agency, but could not be verified by several national news outlets, including the Associated Press and Reuters. His […]
About a month before coronavirus was declared a pandemic, President Donald Trump publicly theorized the deadly disease would “miraculously” go away once the weather heats up. “And by the way, the virus, they’re working hard, looks like by April, you know in theory when it gets a little warmer it miraculously goes away,” Trump said during New […]
An Illinois surgery technician died from coronavirus just days before he was scheduled to retire. According to the Chicago Tribune, Juan Martinez tested positive for this disease on April 17, after he and his son, Juan Martinez Jr., began exhibiting symptoms around his 60th birthday in mid-April. Martinez Sr., who had worked as a surgical tech for 34 […]
As the global health crisis rages on, coronavirus scams have proliferated, with the latest involving ventilators. New York state paid $69.1 million to a man to produce ventilators, even though he had no medical supply expertise—and the ventilators ultimately never arrived, BuzzFeed News reports. On March 27, as the COVID-19 pandemic was underway, Donald Trump […]
Three members of a family living in Miami have died on three consecutive weekends in a row after they contracted the coronavirus, ABC News reports. 42-year-old Mario Mayorga Jr. was first diagnosed with COVID-19 in March, and other members of his family tested positive just a week later. 72-year-olds Esperanza and Mario Mayorga were among those who were […]
As we pointed out last month just as COVID-19 problems here in the States were starting to finally be taken with seriousness by a presumed majority, an under-discussed facet of the novel coronavirus‘ impact became strikingly clear, i.e. its very real effects on the sex work industry at large. Resourcefully, strip clubs in progressive-minded cities like Portland […]
The unemployment rate continues to hit stunning new heights. Another 3.8 million people applied for unemployment benefits in the week ending April 25, NPR reports. Though that’s a decline from the prior week’s 4.4 million, a total of 30.3 million people have now filed for unemployment in the six weeks since the COVID-19 pandemic began […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis has laid out a plan Wednesday to reopen Florida amid the coronavirus pandemic. The announcement came just one day after the state tallied an additional 83 COVID-19 deaths, marking its biggest spike in daily fatalities since the crisis began. The governor told reporters Florida will enter “phase 1” of reopening its economy starting Monday, but […]
Under a new executive order given by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, teenagers within the Peach State will no longer need to pass a formal driving test in order to secure a driver’s license. Instead they’ll just have to get the ‘A-okay’ from their parents. Like roughly 80 percent of news these days, this development is […]
According to a report from The Intercept, workers from companies that include Amazon, Walmart, Instacart, Whole Foods, Target and FedEx will be walking out on Friday in an effort to force their employers to establish better safety standards, and give out more hazard pay, during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Intercept adds that the employees’ […]
