A top lawyer who defended President Trump during his Senate impeachment trial believes the Constitution grants the government “power” to vaccinate citizens against their will. Speaking with Crowdsource the Truth host Jason Goodman over the weekend, Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz said the public’s safety outweighs any private liberty concerns of U.S. citizens who do not wish to…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Legal challenges to governors’ coronavirus shutdown orders are piling up nationwide, putting state leaders on the defensive as citizens and businesses itching to get back to normal take their arguments to court — in some cases succeeding at voiding the governors’ actions. The Wisconsin Supreme Court, for…
President Donald Trump, joined by members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, listens to a reporter’s question at a coronavirus briefing at the White House, March 22, 2020. (Tia Dufour/White House) The administration has used deft improvisation to secure huge supplies of PPE. There is a new cardinal rule in journalism — never write anything…
For some survivors of sexual violence, the lockdown has brought on more trauma. Drazen Zigic via Shutterstock Coronavirus lockdowns are making the recovery of survivors of sexual and gender-based violence who have been forced to flee their homes even harder, according to our new research. Following a request by Refugee Women Connect, an NGO working with forced…
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary will not accept a ruling by the European Union’s top court that four asylum-seekers stuck in a transit zone on the Hungarian-Serbian border should be released, a security aide to Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Tuesday. The Court of Justice of the European Union reviewed the case of two Afghan…
President Trump released a blistering letter late Monday to the head of the World Health Organization, stating that his administration conducted an investigation that confirmed the health body’s multiple failures in the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak, and warned that his current funding freeze will become permanent if the organization does not make “substantive” improvements within…
(Bloomberg) — Pressure mounted on Boris Johnson to be more open about his coronavirus strategy as a panel of lawmakers called on his government to publish the scientific advice behind Britain’s response to the pandemic. The prime minister also faced calls for transparency from thousands of teachers who joined an online meeting to demand clarity…
The border control station Saalbruecke between German Freilassing and Austrian Salzburg | Pool photo by Lukas Barth-Tuttas via Getty Images The plan is aimed at making some summer travel possible but could be derailed by a second wave of infections. Germany plans to ease foreign travel restrictions from June 15, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said…
Drugmaker Moderna received positive coronavirus trial results U.S. equity markets soared Monday after drugmaker Moderna announced progress toward a COVID-19 vaccine and as lockdowns continued to ease nationwide. Ticker Security Last Change Change % I:DJI DOW JONES AVERAGES 24597.37 +911.95 +3.85% SP500 S&P 500 2953.91 +90.21 +3.15% I:COMP NASDAQ COMPOSITE INDEX 9234.82807 +220.27 +2.44% The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained as many…
‘Disturbing reports from Iran that the tomb of Esther & Mordechai, a holy Jewish site, was set afire overnight,’ ADL National Director Jonathan Greenblatt tweeted. BERLIN – National Director of Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Jonathan Greenblatt announced Friday on Twitter that the tomb of Esther and Mordechai in Iran was torched. “Disturbing reports from Iran that…