VOA News By Carla Babb PENTAGON – The head of the Army Corps of Engineers is warning that his team is “beginning to run out of time” to build new temporary hospitals to expand capacity to combat the coronavirus across the country. Army Corps of Engineers Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite told reporters Wednesday that the military needed to start construction of temporary hospital […]readmore
VOA News By Katherine Gypson Less than two weeks after U.S. lawmakers passed the largest economic relief package in the country’s history, Congress is set to advance even more funding Thursday to help struggling American workers. The measure would provide additional funding for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), a $350 billion program that is part of […]readmore
VOA News By Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump is waging a new political fight against the adoption of mail-in voting rights throughout the U.S., claiming it is rife with possible fraud and would significantly benefit opposition Democrats. Trump himself recently requested an absentee ballot to vote in the Republican presidential primary in Florida, […]readmore
VOA News By Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON – November’s U.S. national presidential election is now set: President Donald Trump against former Vice President Joe Biden. The sudden certainty emerged Wednesday as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, suspended his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. He faced dwindling odds against Biden, who is making his […]readmore
Photo: Police officers check motorist on a road access point to Tandarei, eastern Romania after authorities impose a severe quarantine status on the city VOA News By Jamie Dettmer Outside wartime nothing like it as ever been seen before in modern Western history. The lockdowns by democratic states with their draconian constraints on civil liberties and […]readmore
By Associated Press SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO – Puerto Rico’s governor on Wednesday asked federal officials to ban all flights from U.S. cities with a high number of coronavirus cases to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. territory. The petition by Gov. Wanda Vázquez to the Federal Aviation Administration came after officials accused […]readmore
PROVIDENCE, RI—Lt. Governor Dan McKee today shared news of a donation of 208,000 face masks from Rhode Island’s Chinese-American Community to the Rhode Island Department of Health and several municipalities to support local COVID-19 response efforts. Blackstone Valley businessmen Louis Yip and Sunny Ng of Tai-O Group facilitated the donation at the request of Lt. Governor […]readmore
New drive-through testing site at Twin River will offer on-the-spot results State’s testing capacity doubled thanks to partnership with CVS Health PROVIDENCE, R.I.– Governor Gina M. Raimondo announced today that Rhode Island has formed a partnership with CVS Health to make free, rapid COVID-19 tests available to all Rhode Islanders. Tests using the new Abbott […]readmore
El nuevo sitio de pruebas de manejo en Twin River ofrecerá resultados en el acto La capacidad de prueba del estado se duplicó gracias a la asociación con CVS Health PROVIDENCE, R.I.- La gobernadora Gina M. Raimondo anunció hoy que Rhode Island se ha asociado con CVS Health para poner a disposición de todos los […]readmore
VOA News By Associated Press For Pope Francis at the Vatican, and for Christians worldwide from churches large and small, this will be an Easter like none other: The joyous message of Jesus Christ’s resurrection will be delivered to empty pews. Worries about the coronavirus outbreak have triggered widespread cancellations of Holy Week processions and in-person […]readmore
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