by WorldTribune Staff, April 10, 2020 Even though data shows they are more likely to test positive than women, many men with symptoms of coronavirus are reluctant to seek help, the White House Coronavirus Task Force said. Women make up 56 percent of those tested for coronavirus, of which 16 percent were found to be […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 9, 2020 A government watchdog group has filed a lawsuit against North Carolina and two of its counties for failing to clean their voter rolls. Judicial Watch’s lawsuit argues that North Carolina, Mecklenburg County, and Guilford County “failed to make reasonable efforts to remove ineligible voters from their registration rolls as […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 9, 2020 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s order to suspend most abortions in the state during the coronavirus crisis was upheld by a federal appeals court on Tuesday. In a 2-1 ruling, a panel on the New Orleans-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit overturned U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel’s […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 8, 2020 Even as the coronavirus infections appear to be receding in some of the hardest hit areas, it is still “taboo” in many circles to even talk about returning back to normal in the United States, Fox News host Tucker Carlson said. On Tuesday night’s broadcast of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 8, 2020 Coronavirus lockdowns are only serving to prolong the outbreak, a veteran scholar of epidemiology said. The virus could be “exterminated” if people were allowed to go about their daily lives while the most vulnerable to the virus are sheltered, Knut Wittkowski, previously the longtime head of the Department of […]
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 […]
