VOA News By Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON – China accused U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday of “wantonly spewing poison and spreading lies” about the origin of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. A day ago, the top U.S. diplomat there was “enormous evidence” that the pandemic originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China, not a nearby […]readmore
VOA News U.S. President Donald Trump says he believes his treatment by the national media is worse than that endured by Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War-era president assassinated in 1865. “I am greeted with a hostile press, the likes of which no president has ever seen. The closest would be that gentleman right up there,” […]readmore
By VOA News Scientists in Washington State say Asian giant hornets have been spotted in that state, the first time anywhere in the U.S. Researchers at Washington State University (WSU) say Asian giant hornets, Vespa mandarinia, are more than five centimeters long and the world’s largest hornets. They have with a sting that can kill humans […]readmore
VOA News The Trump administration is not planning to extend federal coronavirus social distancing guidelines that expire Thursday, instead focusing on working with states to reopen the country. Individual state governors are deciding when and at what pace to relax restrictions on non-essential businesses and group gatherings and calls for people to stay home. Trump […]readmore
VOA News By Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON – Dr. Anthony Fauci, the lead U.S. infectious disease expert, warned Thursday against reopening the country too quickly for fear of giving the pandemic new life. As some U.S. state governors are moving to reopen commerce, Fauci urged them to “go very slowly” if they do not have the capability […]readmore
Chef Benjamin Velasquez closed his kitchen March 13, 2020 and laid off 10 workers when non-essential businesses were ordered to shut down to stop the spread of the coronavirus. VOA News By Chris Simkins As America confronts staggering job losses and weathers a screeching halt in many sectors of the economy, small businesses with limited cash […]readmore
VOA News By Ken Bredemeier The ranks of the unemployed keep growing in the U.S., with another 3.8 million workers claiming jobless compensation last week as the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the world’s biggest economy, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The newest claims boosted the six-week total to 30.3 million, even as a […]readmore
VOA News U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion that disinfectants could be used to treat coronavirus patients is triggering alarm among health experts, and warnings from a maker of the sanitizing solutions. Trump said at his regular White House coronavirus media briefing Thursday that scientists should investigate inserting disinfectants into patients’ bodies to cure COVID-19, the […]readmore
VOA News By Marissa Melton Editor’s Note: This is one in a series of profiles of Americans struggling with the economic impact caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Joyce Rydstrom of Alta, Iowa, had to shut the doors to her hair salon last month when the governor ordered a suspension of nonessential businesses to slow the spread […]readmore
VOA News By Steve Herman WHITE HOUSE – U.S. President Donald Trump will sign a $484 billion bill aiding small businesses and hospitals severely impaired by the coronavirus pandemic at noon Friday in the Oval Office, the White House announced Thursday night. The funds in the fourth spending package in just two months will allow tens […]readmore