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While it's in the preliminary stages of it's investigation, the Justice Department is now looking into sketchy stock market transactions......

The mass-media company, which owns many large newspapers including USA Today, announced Monday that the coronavirus downturn has forced the company to make deep cuts....

Just when you think the low-life tainting the White House with his spoor cannot sink any deeper, he reminds us there's just no line he won't cross. Donald J. Trump proves every single day that even a deadly crisis won't alter his feculent M.O....

Amy Breslow is asking for blood plasma donations from anyone who recovered from the coronavirus in order to help her husband who is in critical condition after testing positive for the virus....

Trump says the U.S. will "have done a very good job" if there are fewer than 200,000 deaths....

You're not supposed to say the quiet parts out loud, Mr. President! On Monday morning, President Donald Trump told the......

States continue to postpone Democratic presidential caucuses and primaries as the threat of coronavirus looms large and White House social distancing guidelines remain in place for another month....

You would THINK Fox News knows these phone calls with Trump do. not. help. them. or. him. He loves doing them and thinks he does a great job so never mind. And one highlight (?) was when he told the clearly wishing-for-sweet-death-to-take-them-now Fox and...

Citing " unprecedented threats" to their safety due to the coronavirus crisis, U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee on Saturday urged the Trump administration to "make continuous efforts" to release thousands of unaccompanied migrant children fro...

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Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo hosted Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on yesterday's edition of Sunday Morning Futures, during which the two continued to spread a debunked conspiracy theory that the COVID-19 virus might have originated in an infectious diseas...

Like many of you I've struggled to make sense of the so many ways our world has changed, been upended......

A gray market of importers are donating respirator masks to US hospitals....

The Last Week Tonight host says America would be better off if it were led by that TikTok hamster....

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After nearly 2,000 students flooded back to Liberty University fresh off of spring break, the school's president Jerry Falwell is......

Here's what you need to know today....

There was a lot of hand-wringing in the media over the 2009 stimulus. The 2020 stimulus? Not so much....

Scientists say a moonshot effort is needed to end social distancing and this pandemic. Will leaders listen?...

The Republican denial of the severity of the coronavirus crisis, borne of a fanatical and irrational devotion to Donald Trump and an equally dangerous fear of become a target of his rage should they contradict him, is driving their policy response. That&#...

Jobless claims are already at record numbers, and it's getting worse....

Donald Trump's daily pandemic campaign rallies have been the sources of countless lies and bizarre asides, but this Sunday's effort, moved to the Rose Garden in belated effort to more closely adhere to social distancing guidelines, was unhinged. I...

During yet another rambling phone-in segment with Fox and Friends... And seriously, this is all Donald Trump WANTED out of the 2016 Presidential Election. A way to market the Trump name on the political scene and a permanent (yet flexible) paid segment on...

It's time to leave the precautionary measures against COVID-19 to the experts, President Donald Trump conceded on Monday. During a......

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) took aim at "foreigners" on a COVID-19-infected cruise ship that is set to land in......

Here is what we need to do to minimize the chances of a November meltdown....

The source of the hopes for a coronavirus cure should raise a lot of red flags....

As it always does at the first of each month, come Friday the Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the latest numbers on the employment situation. With the nation gripped by the coronavirus pandemic, count on these to look far different from what milli...

His campaign is happy to raise questions about some stolen masks instead of addressing a lack of needed supplies in U.S. cities....

The US was facing shortages of doctors and nurses even before coronavirus hit....

Pretty much what everyone expected when Falwell kept their school open , against every health recommendation in the state. Just 1900 students returned this week, out of over 15,000, and then 800 went home. Now there's talk of multiple lawsuits. Stupid...

The president spent a very long 54 minutes talking about his coronavirus response on "Fox & Friends" Monday morning....

Rep. Grace Meng, D-NY, discusses Elmhurst, Queens, an area in her district that is being hit hard by the coronavirus....

The Justice Department is looking into those suspicious stock transactions by senators before the coronavirus-inspired market crash. Sen. Richard Burr cashed out up to $1.5 million in mid February, while Sen. Kelly Loeffler didn't just sell off millio...

NEW YORK (AP) — A Navy hospital ship with 1,000 beds is scheduled to arrive Monday morning in New York......

Our survey reveals tension between preserving privacy and responding to a public health crisis....

MADRID (AP) — Spain overtook China on Monday in confirmed coronavirus infections as the pandemic stretched scores of Spanish hospitals......

The president said in a "Fox & Friends" interview that his administration is exploring "different ways" of providing additional pay for medical workers....

A leading AIDS activist and epidemiologist explains our current crisis — and gives advice on surviving an epidemic....

Drs. Leana Wen and Siddhartha Mukherjee discuss measures to keep medical workers and the public safe as coronavirus infections across the globe are on the rise....

TOKYO — The Tokyo Olympics will open next year in July, the same slot scheduled for this year's games. Tokyo......

The coronavirus pandemic is wreaking havoc on milk sales, the seasonal labor force, restaurant contracts, and more....

NEW YORK (AP) — A possible strike by Instacart workers highlights the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on the grocery......

President Donald Trump said Monday that he wouldn't mind running against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for president and said Cuomo would make a better candidate than former Vice President Joe Biden....

If you haven't seen the Tiger King documentary on Netflix, you should, because it isn't just crazy, it's also a window into what Donald Trump might be like if he hadn't been born to a rich daddy. It's about a white-trash network of big...

WUHAN, China (AP) — Shopkeepers in the city at the center of China's virus outbreak were reopening Monday but customers......

Horror master Stephen King was a guest on Reliable Sources with Brian Stetler yesterday. "In the last three or four weeks, people are saying to me, 'We're living in a Stephen King world.' And all I can say is boy, I wish we weren't. Bu...

The headline news from Donald Trump's Sunday press briefing was that he's dropping his push to kill us all by "reopening the country" on Easter and instead is extending social distancing measures until April 30. But as usual, the official ...