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Extreme generosity never goes out of style – especially during a pandemic. A good Samaritan left a lofty $3,000 tip on a single $7 pint of beer at a Cleveland restaurant voluntarily shutting down amid the coronavirus crisis — giving four servers an unexpected boost to their wallets on Sunday
A Texas superintendent who believes in “love” and “prayer” to tackle the COVID-19 crisis has allegedly made face coverings optional in his schools — despite a statewide mask mandate that’s been in place since July. Lance Johnson, who oversees the Peaster
New York’s left is starting to devour its own as part of a campaign to pressure local Democratic pols to aggressively tax the rich to address the state’s pandemic-fueled fiscal crisis. A group including the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, which is aligned
Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday reassured Americans that there’s “help” coming to fight the COVID-19 pandemic — saying that promising vaccine candidates have the potential to curb the health crisis. The Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Students going home from college for Thanksgiving could create a COVID crisis.
With the dark winter months looming, there’s one glimmer of hope in the fight against the COVID-19 crisis. Two, to be exact. Vaccine candidates from Pfizer, and its German partner BioNTech, and Moderna have shown to be 95 percent effective in ongoing trials. The promising results
in his new book, 'American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.'
Amid the continuous COVID-19 crisis, Giant Food supermarkets has made a giant error in judgment.
Hospitals in Austin, Texas, are taking in non-COVID patients from El Paso to ease the burden on the city’s overwhelmed medical facilities amid a massive surge in coronavirus hospitalizations. “We have patients in our hospitals right now from El Paso because there wasn’t room for them in El Paso,” Austin Mayor Steve Adler said during...
- Austin hospitals take El Paso patients as city battles COVID-19 crisis (Category: USA, New York)
- Austin hospitals take El Paso patients as city battles COVID-19 crisis (Category: USA, New York)
- Austin hospitals take El Paso patients as city battles COVID-19 crisis (Category: USA, New York)
- Austin hospitals take El Paso patients as city battles COVID-19 crisis (Category: USA, New York)
Saturday’s Thanksgiving-themed event handed out food to about 8,500 families facing financial stress from growing the crisis -- 17 times more people than the annual event usually serves.
The former president accused Trump of putting his own selfish whims ahead of a society grappling with a killer pandemic and an economic crisis.
North Korean despot Kim Jong Un has threatened punishment for citizens caught wasting food, as the Hermit Kingdom faces a famine. “At the beginning of this month, the Central Committee [of the Korean Workers’ Party] ordered residents to actively participate in solving our food crisis
- Lawmakers take up issue of genetically-altered foods (Category: USA, Washington)
- Tucson Originals holding food drive at its restaurants (Category: USA, Arizona)
- Lithonia Food Thief Strikes Same Homeowner 4 Times (Category: USA, Georgia)
- How long can someone survive in the cold without food? (Category: Technology)
with a pandemic, an economic crisis, urgent calls for racial justice, and the existential threat...
The coronavirus pandemic has killed more than two million people around the world in just over a year, researchers at Johns Hopkins University confirmed Friday in yet another horrifying milestone in the global crisis.
Rick Snyder, the former governor of Michigan, pleaded not guilty on Thursday after he was charged with two misdemeanor counts of willful neglect of duty in the Flint water crisis.
Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has been charged for his role in the Flint water crisis, which caused an outbreak of Legionnaires disease and contaminated residents’ homes with lead-based water. An indictment filed by the state attorney general’s office charged Snyder with two counts
Rick Snyder, the former governor of Michigan, will be charged in connection with the Flint water crisis, The Associated Press reported Tuesday.
The speech, Cuomo’s 11th since becoming governor, is being held virtually amid the COVID crisis and will lead into a week of similar events as the governor details his legislative wish list.
The United States has recorded more than 4,000 new coronavirus deaths in a single day for the first time ever, adding another grim record to a catastrophic health crisis that continues to overwhelm hospitals and devastate families around the country.
A growing group of lawmakers and advocates rallied Tuesday outside Gov. Cuomo’s Manhattan office as part of the Invest In Our New York Campaign, a push to lift the state out of its current financial crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic by closing legal loopholes enjoyed by the wealthy
An anti-masker who believed the COVID-19 crisis was just a “political” stunt issued an emotional plea to skeptics from his hospital bed — after becoming seriously ill with the virus. In a Facebook video shared by a pal on Monday, Chuck Stacey gasps for breath as he admits
” aimed at avoiding a crisis with less than three...
Dick Thornburgh, who as Pennsylvania governor won plaudits for his cool handling of the 1979 Three Mile Island crisis and as U.S. attorney general restored credibility to a Justice Department hurt by the Iran-Contra scandal, has died. He was 88. Thornburgh died Thursday morning at a retirement
Come on, man! Joe Biden raised eyebrows Tuesday when he accidentally referred to Kamala Harris as “president-elect.” The real president-elect was delivering remarks on the COVID-19 crisis in Wilmington, Del., when he gave his incoming vice president a massive promotion. “I hope
- Kamala Harris' VP win is huge for HBCUs, Tougaloo president says (Category: USA, Mississippi)
- Shribman: Gorman, summoned to participate, is celebrated (Category: USA, Massachusetts)
- Shribman: Gorman, summoned to participate, is celebrated (Category: USA, Massachusetts)
- Shribman: Gorman, summoned to participate, is celebrated (Category: USA, Massachusetts)
New Jersey veterans’ homes barred employees from wearing face coverings in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic — under a policy from Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration, a new report says. The administration even set up a “progressive discipline” process for “mask insubordination” in late March, just days before the state’s health commissioner ordered...
- David Shapiro: Finding laughs between groans as election goes overtime (Category: USA, Hawaii)
- Vaccines offer the key to speed of Hawaii’s economic recovery (Category: USA, Hawaii)
- Vaccines offer the key to speed of Hawaii’s economic recovery (Category: USA, Hawaii)
- Vaccines offer the key to speed of Hawaii’s economic recovery (Category: USA, Hawaii)
The Justice Department sued Walmart on Tuesday, accusing the nation’s largest retailer of fanning the opioid crisis with a system that pressured pharmacists to rapidly fill reams of pill prescriptions without adequate oversight.
Trump is putting pressure on Republicans to try one last time to flip the results when Congress convenes on Jan. 6 to count the Electoral College votes.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo huddled virtually with labor leaders to discuss the gravity of New York’s pandemic-fueled fiscal crisis as he and lawmakers struggle to close a massive hole in next year’s budget. “The governor’s message was, ‘Things are dire. I’
- David Shapiro: Finding laughs between groans as election goes overtime (Category: USA, Hawaii)
- Vaccines offer the key to speed of Hawaii’s economic recovery (Category: USA, Hawaii)
- Vaccines offer the key to speed of Hawaii’s economic recovery (Category: USA, Hawaii)
- Vaccines offer the key to speed of Hawaii’s economic recovery (Category: USA, Hawaii)
“Emergency food providers need additional food to meet the unprecedented demand in communities nationwide,” said N.Y. lawmakers
The policy change was aimed at preventing a repeat of the crisis when hospitals were overwhelmed by COVID patients earlier this year.
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