Aggregated news and blog articles from around the Web.
The move comes as Trump makes a broad push against inspectors general scrutinizing his actions. By Kyle Cheney and Connor O’Brien | 7 April 2020 POLITICO — President Donald Trump has upended the panel of federal […]
By Tyler Durden | 10 April 2020 ZERO HEDGE — Early in America’s growing coronavirus crisis Joe Biden was more or less persona non grata as even his ardent supporters began to complain that seemingly everyone else, including […]
Private equity has made multibillionaires of executives like Blackstone’s Steve Schwarzman (net worth: $17.5 billion) and Apollo’s Leon Black ($7.5 billion). Thanks to the $2 trillion bipartisan bailout bill, the industry’s coronavirus losses will belong […]
By Alan Gomez, Maria Clark and Rebecca Plevin | 8 April 2020 USA TODAY — … Attorney General William Barr ordered the release of some medically vulnerable inmates from federal prisons, and sheriffs released thousands […]
By Tyler Durden | 9 April 2020 ZERO HEDGE — As some misguided liberals complain about fruits “left rotting on the trees” because Trump’s immigration crackdown has left no undocumented migrants to pick the vegetables (a […]
By Kassidy Vavra and Henry Pettit | 9 April 2020 THE SUN — GIANT Asian hornets that have begun to invade the coronavirus-stricken U.S. may cost the economy millions of dollars a year. The insects, which […]
By Tyler Durden | 9 April 2020 ZERO HEDGE — With America’s small and medium businesses suffering from cardiac arrest now that the economy is in a indefinite coma, it is hardly a surprise that the […]
Neither the Fed nor the Treasury can bail out brick-and-mortar retailers. By Wolf Richter | 30 May 2020 WOLF STREET — Macy’s announced today that it would lay off “the majority” of its 123,000 employees after it had […]
By Tyler Durden | 7 April 2020 ZERO HEDGE — In an unprecedented move, an “unprecedented driving slump” has major auto insurers like Allstate and American Family Insurance refunding partial premiums to their customers. Allstate is expected to refund […]
By Tyler Durden | 7 April 2020 ZERO HEDGE — Infamous for his painful but ultimately profitable “big short” bet against mortgage-backed securities during the 2008 financial crisis, Michael Burry, the doctor-turned-hedge-fund-manager has been on a multi-day […]
The masks were procured from China and shipped to Israel in order that the IDF can begin using them within days. 8 April 2020 THE JERUSALEM POST — A plane carrying over a million surgical […]
By Tyler Durden | 7 April 2020 ZERO HEDGE — Not even in Khruschev’s wildest dreams did central planners ever conceive of anything so absolutely batshit insane as what is taking place in US “markets” right […]
By Amazing Polly | 6 April 2020 NEED TO KNOW — The Washington Post says some hospitals are withholding ventilators from Coronavirus patients who are struggling to breath, which is a death sentence for many of them. According […]
By C. Douglas Golden | 4 April 2020 THE WESTERN JOURNAL — The problem with making informed decisions about coronavirus is that we don’t have a whole lot of data on it at the moment. The […]
By Mark Levy | 4 April 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS — Tens of thousands of medical workers across the United States are suddenly out of work as operating rooms and doctor’s offices go dark, casualties of urgent […]
By Tyler Durden | 3 April 2020 ZERO HEDGE — This is definitely not a good look. At a time when the federal government is struggling to manage its $2 trillion bailouts for main street and […]
By P.J. Huffstutter | 3 April 2020 REUTERS — Dairy farmer Jason Leedle felt his stomach churn when he got the call on Tuesday evening. “We need you to start dumping your milk,” said his […]
In an exclusive for MintPress, constitutional attorney John Whitehead warns that the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to bring the American Police State out into the open on a scale we’ve not seen before. By John Whitehead […]
By Maria Puente and Andrea Mandell | 3 April 2020 USA TODAY — A member of the Kennedy family and her young son are presumed dead after their canoe was found miles from where they were last […]
The great power competition has begun in earnest By Bruno Maçães | 3 April 2020 NATIONAL REVIEW — What started as a catastrophe for China is shaping up to be a moment of strategic opportunity, […]
Like the American left, the globalists never let a crisis pass without attempting a power-grab. By Jim Hoft | 2 April 2020 GATEWAY PUNDIT — The WHO lied about the seriousness of the global coronavirus pandemic. […]
By Tyler Durden | 2 April 2020 ZERO HEDGE — Update (1800ET): And so Wall Street wins again. After we warned earlier that the SBA’s $350BN Paycheck Protection Program, which is expected to be launched at […]
By Ryan J. Foley | 1 April 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS — As the federal government prepares to launch a $349 billion loan program meant to help small businesses survive the coronavirus pandemic, critics have growing concerns […]
Traces of the virus were detected in parts due for delivery from overseas in the coming days By Bill Gardner and Harry Yorke | 30 March 2020 THE TELEGRAPH — Britain’s attempt to ramp up mass coronavirus […]
By Steven Nelson | 30 March 2020 NEW YORK POST — Mayor Muriel Bowser is threatening residents of Washington, DC, with 90 days in jail and a $5,000 fine if they leave their homes during the coronavirus […]
Military teams that monitor foreign missile and warplane threats to the United States are isolated at a number of military sites, including Cheyenne Mountain The Cold War-era bunker is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado The […]
Goal is to get location data in up to 500 U.S. cities to help plan response; privacy concerns call for ‘strong legal safeguards,’ activist says By Byron Tau | 28 March 2020 THE WALL STREET […]
By Justin Wise | 30 March 2020 THE HILL — The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Sunday issued an emergency-use authorization for a pair of anti-malaria drugs as health officials work to combat the rapid […]
‘The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated,’ Gene Della Sala quipped after Florida officials said he died from the coronavirus. By D’Ann Lawrence White | 21 March 2020 PATCH — Despite the Florida Department […]
By Netta Ahituv | 26 March 2020 HAARETZ — “We are praying and hoping that the Messiah will arrive before Passover, the time of our redemption. I am sure that the Messiah will come and bring […]