Hospitalizations due to Covid-19 surpassed 100,000 nationwide this week, more than doubling the amount of those admitted last month and marking the second time rates have been this high throughout the pandemic, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. According to the Department of Health and Human …
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Foo Fighters, Sheryl Crow, Deadmau5, Carly Simon, and Sammy Hagar are among the artists who will share digital performances during Linda Perry’s Rock ‘N’ Relief Live Stream Concert Series, which will also features live performances from Los Angeles‘ Dodger Stadium parking lot, the site of the city’s Covid-19 vaccination center. …
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Charley Pride, the pioneering black country singer known for such hits as “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’” and “Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone,” has died in Dallas, Texas, from complications related to Covid-19, according to his publicist. He was 86. Born in Sledge, Mississippi, in 1934, Pride picked cotton, …
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — You could almost feel their anguish. Thousands of Donald Trump’s supporters streamed down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Supreme Court here Saturday, their collective lament about a stolen election clanging off the white marble of the institutions this president has tried — is still trying — to pulverize. …
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Deny the facts when the facts stand in your way seems to be the Trump administration’s motto. So, when the chair of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel, was told that a large majority of her party’s supporters are pretty much OK with an American COVID-19 death toll that has …
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Wade Davis holds the Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. His award-winning books include “Into the Silence” and “The Wayfinders.” His new book, “Magdalena: River of Dreams,” is published by Knopf. Never in our lives have we experienced such a global phenomenon. …
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If each of the graduating members of the Class of 2020 took 30 seconds to cross the stage at commencement, the Quaranteen University graduation planning team calculated, the commencement ceremony would take five hours. More than 500 seniors were registered to walk in the experimental ceremony, scheduled for May 22nd, …
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Last week, about two and a half months into lockdown, Miranda (not her real name), a 39-year-old mom from Brooklyn, got a text from one of her friends, expressing her frustration with being alone in the house with a small child during lockdown. “She said, ‘I feel like the curve …
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President Donald Trump did not wear a face mask — as is recommended by health officials to aid in preventing the spread of COVID-19 — during his tour of a Honeywell factory in Phoenix, Arizona on Tuesday. As Trump toured the factory, which is producing N95 masks for the federal …
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BTS confirmed on Tuesday that they will be suspending their planned world tour over coronavirus concerns. The seven-member South Korean group had previously postponed the North American leg of their Map of the Soul tour that was scheduled to kick off April 25th, as well as canceled a planned concert in Seoul. …
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