BREAKING: Pete Buttigieg is dropping out of the presidential race, Politico reports Sources close to Buttigieg’s campaign confirmed that the 38-year-old announced the end of his White House bid on Sunday It came after his disappointing fourth-place finish in the South Carolina primary An aide told DailyMail.com that Buttigieg will give a speech in South … Read more
World coronavirus death toll passes 3,000 as disease kills five more people in Italy – where cases have jumped 50% in a day Case numbers also soared to almost 1,700, roughly 500 fresh cases today Outbreak is one of the largest outside of mainland China and Europe’s biggest Despite checkpoints around contaminated northern regions, it … Read more
Italy’s coronavirus death toll rises to 34 with almost 1,700 confirmed cases Case numbers also soared to almost 1,700, roughly 500 fresh cases today Outbreak is one of the largest outside of mainland China and Europe’s biggest Despite checkpoints around contaminated northern regions, it is seeping out By Jack Elsom For Mailonline Published: 17:20 GMT, … Read more
US health officials have been conducting secret meetings with lawmakers, senators revealed at a Tuesday Appropriations Subcommittee meeting. Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire criticized the secrecy of a briefing that had taken place earlier that morning, and said that her constituents were ‘concerned’ that they weren’t getting all the information that they needed about … Read more
Health officials have confirmed the first fatality inside the U.S. attributed to the coronavirus. Officials in King County, Washington, which includes the city of Seattle, said in a statement on Saturday that new cases had been identified, including one patient who died. No other details were immediately available about the two new cases in Washington, … Read more
President Donald Trump said Friday that he’s dispatching Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to the signing of an agreement with the Afghan Taliban aimed at beginning a draw down of thousands of U.S. troops and ending America’s 18-year involvement in the war. Trump said Pompeo would soon, at the president’s direction, witness the signing of … Read more
California health officials are monitoring 8,400 people for coronavirus symptoms after their arrival on domestic commercial flights, Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday. The state currently has only about 200 test kits, an ‘inadequate’ number, but has been in ‘constant contact with federal agencies’ that have promised to send a fresh supply of kits in … Read more
Donald Trump’s campaign SUES the New York Times for ‘libel’ over columnist’s claim of a ‘real Trump-Russia quid pro quo’ to get Putin’s election help Donald Trump’s reelection campaign filed a lawsuit against The New York Times alleging it engaged in ‘libel’ against the president The lawsuit stems from a March 2019 op-ed It claimed … Read more
Donald Trump made Vice President Mike Pence his coronavirus czar in a sudden announcement Wednesday. He also declared the U.S. would spend ‘whatever’ it takes to beat coronavirus Wednesday at a White House press conference as the infection’s scale grew around the world. ‘We’re very, very ready for this, for anything,’ he said, even if … Read more
The first case of coronavirus where the origin of the disease is unknown has been confirmed in the United States, officials revealed Wednesday. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that the person, a resident in Northern California, had not recently returned from a foreign country, and had not been in contact with another confirmed case. … Read more