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Because the mainstream media prefers to focus on deceptive “gotcha” moments and doomsday scenarios as it relates to the Wuhan coronavirus crisis, an answer President Trump gave on Friday to a reporter’s question is not getting a lot of attention. But it should be. During Friday’s White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefing, Trump was …

Government officials in Ecuador began the process of finding a location to build a mass gravesite to bury the rising number of casualties from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Ecuador’s Vice President Otto Sonnenholzner told the local news outlet Ecuavisa that he spoke with local mayors, particularly the mayor of Guayaquil, about building the gravesite. Once …

Pregnant women in New York City will not have to endure labor alone or remain isolated from their partners and families after Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced an executive order on Saturday. In no hospital in New York will a woman be forced to be alone when she gives birth. Not now, not ever.https://t.co/umQte2k9WO — Andrew …

TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s wife said Saturday that she has recovered from being ill from COVID-19 disease caused by the new coronavirus. “I am feeling so much better,” Sophie Gregoire Trudeau said in a statement on social media. She said she received the clearance from her doctor and Ottawa Public Health. Trudeau’s …

Miranda Lambert has broken her silence about the coronavirus pandemic, stressing it was initially hard for her to put her thoughts into words. The country crooner, 36, took to Instagram Friday to share a photo of a touching gift she received from her parents this week while she and husband Brendan McLoughlin remain at home …

A royal footman who is in regular contact with Queen Elizabeth II has tested positive for coronavirus, according to a report. The positive test is just the latest alarm for the royal household, with a Buckingham Palace staffer reportedly becoming infected while the Queen was there — and even Prince Charles, 71, testing positive for …

She’s whipped Gwyneth Paltrow and Madonna into shape, and now Tracy Anderson can whip you into shape too as she prepares to live-stream her fitness classes amid the coronavirus pandemic. Anderson — whose grueling workouts are well-known to Manhattan’s socialites — will live-stream Sunday at 11 a.m. via Zoom. And she’ll be using everything you …

We survive because of simple kindnesses in these uncertain days. A neighbor offering to buy groceries. Friends gathering on Zoom, lifting salutary beers to one another, yearning for a chance to actually clink glasses again. Estranged friends reaching out, exchanging telephone calls, wishing each other safe passage day to day. We really do see the …

The travel industry has been decimated by the coronavirus — with estimates of over $24 billion lost as 825,000 jobs have been wiped out and more than 8.2 million visitors stay away from the United States alone. But with the storm clouds come a silver lining. Without the steady stream of cruise ships (some of …

Saved by the Fed. Federal Reserve programs, estimated at $6 trillion after some $2 trillion in promised fiscal stimulus last week, have averted a Depression-era crisis for US banks, some analysts say. But the enormous Fed sums may not be enough to fully cushion banks from a financial shock that was already building before the …