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Treasury secretary urges lawmakers to take urgent action Covid-19 now found in 50 states after West Virginia case Coronavirus – live updates See all our coronavirus coverage Unemployment in the US could soar from record low levels to 20% if strong action is not taken to tackle the coronavirus, the US treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, […] More
President lashes out at Andrew Cuomo and Gretchen Whitmer Coronavirus – US updates Coronavirus – global updates Donald Trump picked fights with Democrats on Tuesday even as he called for them to “keep politics out” of the battle against what he called, in a return to nationalist rhetoric, “the Chinese virus”. Related: US government to […] More
Andrew Cuomo: projections show cases could peak in 45 days Coronavirus – US updates Coronavirus – global updates New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, said the latest projections showed his state’s coronavirus cases could peak in 45 days’ time, after announcing on Tuesday that the state’s total number of cases had jumped to 1,374. Related: Trump […] More
One hundred and sixty years since the first Republican president spoke in New York, six conservatives targeted another On 27 February 1860, Abraham Lincoln spoke at Cooper Union in New York City. Concluding that “right makes might” and that slavery must not be allowed to expand, the little-known lawyer from Illinois took a giant leap […] More
Candidate said in 2011 an ‘enormous cohort of black and Latino men don’t know how to behave in workplace’ Michael Bloomberg has been plunged into a new controversy over comments made on race, with the presidential candidate stating that there is an “enormous cohort of black and Latino males” who “don’t know how to behave […] More
Eight Republicans and five Democrats are vying to take on AOC – but many voters in the district are voicing support for the congresswoman Democratic leftist superstar Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has risen to national – and even global – fame from an unlikely position as a young first-time congresswoman from New York. Related: ‘Try to keep […] More
Bloomberg is no friend to people of color, Muslims or progressives. His track record on race and criminal justice is repugnant Donald Trump is president of the United States. He must lose the next presidential election and leave office. Stakes feel higher than ever, which makes me suspicious of anyone who refuses to support the […] More
