by WorldTribune Staff, April 8, 2020 The stay-at-home order issued on March 20 by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker includes a ban on parties of more than ten people. The mayor of Alton, Brant Walker, ordered police to crack down on violators of the governor’s order. When Walker sent police to break up one of the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 7, 2020 A Democratic state lawmaker in Michigan who used hydroxychloroquine to treat her coronavirus is crediting President Donald Trump for saving her life. Michigan state Rep. Karen Whitsett was diagnosed with the coronavirus late last month and said she started to feel better just two hours after taking the drug […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 6, 2020 As they did during the war effort in the 1940s, America’s large and small businesses “are now stepping up to aid both in combating the invisible enemy and in helping Americans who are hurting physically and financially at this time,” a columnist noted. “This is in part the genius […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 3, 2020 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has exempted religious services from his stay-at-home order aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus. DeSantis, a Republican, deemed churches as “essential,” telling reporters during a Thursday press conference that the government does not have the authority to close a church and adding that […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 2, 2020 Americans are buying firearms in record numbers as more and more state and local governments issue stay-at-home orders amid the coronavirus outbreak. Small Arms Analytics and Forecasting (SAAF), which compiles firearms sale statistics, estimates that a total of 2,583,328 guns were sold in March. The FBI recorded 3,740,688 background […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 2, 2020 An employee at a business in Arlington, Virginia was arrested after he confronted three people who allegedly broke into and attempted to rob the store. The employee, using a legally owned firearm, shot one of the suspects. “Following consultation with the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office, the employee, Hamzeh Abushariah, 33, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 1, 2020 “The private sector is responding to President Trump’s call to step up and help combat the coronavirus,” the White House said in a March 31 statement. Some 50 companies have answered President Donald Trump’s call for help, including Facebook, Anheuser-Busch, Ford, Fiat Chrysler, and Toyota. “While by no means […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 26, 2020 On March 22, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told NBC News that he asked President Donald Trump to mobilize the military to fight the coronavirus outbreak in the city. He suggested that if Trump doesn’t act immediately, then “people will die who could have lived otherwise.” On […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 25, 2020 Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he would prescribe Chloroquine to coronavirus patients. In an interview on AM 990 in Philadelphia on Tuesday, Fauci spoke with Townhall columnist and morning host Chris Stigall about the hope in the hydroxychloroquine drug that […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 24, 2020 Bookies have never been accused of a lack of creativity, and they are proving that as the coronavirus outbreak has all but shut down sports in the United States. Bets can’t be placed on who will pull off the biggest upset in the NCAA basketball tournament, how many three-pointers […]
