In this moment of history, where abnormal rules dominate and tomorrow feels strangely unknown, the frequently bombastic President Donald Trump said something comfortingly familiar: His teenage son wasn’t putting up a fight about having to stay home from school. “Well, Barron’s not so unhappy, OK. He’s not so unhappy,” Trump told Fox News on Monday.…… MORE
Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman appeared on CNBC earlier this month tearfully begging for a nationwide shelter in place because he thought “hell” was coming.” But investors didn’t realize that Ackman was about to profit in a big way from the turmoil on Wall Street. Ackman recently disclosed in a shareholder letter to investors in…… MORE
It had been two weeks since Oregon had declared an emergency in its coronavirus battle, and residents of Seaside couldn’t believe what was happening. Travelers — mostly from Portland, an hour-and-a-half drive away — were arriving en masse for a day at the beach. Kids had just gotten out of school that Friday, March 20,…… MORE
Eighteen months might sound like a long time, but in vaccine years, it’s a blink. That’s the long end of the Trump administration’s time window for developing a coronavirus vaccine, and some leaders in the field say this is too fast — and could come at the expense of safety. The estimated time made headlines…… MORE
A new report from the Justice Department inspector general found widespread problems in the way the FBI accounted for evidence used to back up allegations in the court applications for foreign intelligence surveillance warrants. The findings dig further into failures within the FBI in its approach to foreign surveillance of US citizens. So far, the…… MORE
As his two young children fidgeted and squealed in the background, Joe Kennedy III stood in his Newton, Massachusetts, kitchen this week and did battle with a raw chicken. “Use the top of your knife,” Boston chef Tiffani Faison gently coached over the video conference screen as the four-term congressman struggled to remove the bird’s…… MORE
Parents working nine to five — now from home, amid the coronavirus pandemic — will soon get some help in entertaining their kids, thanks to country music superstar Dolly Parton. The nine-time Grammy winner said beginning this Thursday, she will read bedtime stories to children in a new virtual series called “Goodnight with Dolly.” Each…… MORE
The White House will formally reissue nationwide coronavirus guidelines on Tuesday after President Donald Trump — faced with dire models showing up to 200,000 American deaths and polls indicating support for social distancing and calamitous scenes at New York hospitals — determined another 30 days were necessary to avert disaster. Not all of Trump’s advisers…… MORE
On Monday night, CNN’s Chris Cuomo asked his older brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the question that lots and lots of people have been talking about over the past month: Would he run for president? Here’s the brothers Cuomo’s full exchange: C. CUOMO: Let me ask you something. With all of this adulation that…… MORE
Walmart added to its worker safety policies Tuesday as protections for retail and grocery store workers come under greater public scrutiny. Walmart will begin taking workers’ temperatures at stores and warehouses before they begin their shifts. Any employee with a temperature above 100 degrees will be sent home to seek medical treatment, if necessary, but…… MORE
