CNN incorrectly "fact-checked" President Donald Trump in real-time during his daily coronavirus task force briefing on Friday. As the president was discussing testing levels in the United States, the network ran a misleading chyron indicating he was wrong to claim the U.S. led the world in coronavirus testing.
David Kris, Paul Rosenzweig, and I dive deep on the big tech issue of the COVID-19 contagion: Whether (but mostly how) to use mobile phone location services to fight the virus. We cover the Israeli approach, as well as a host of solutions adopted in Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, and elsewhere. I'm a big fan of Singapore, which produced in a week an app that Nick Weaver thought would take a year.
It’s painful now to see echoes of what my hometown went through around the world.
If your so-called “buddy” told you almost a full term into your presidency that you “didn’t give a shit about public service” or that the only reason folks were tuning into your pandemic press conferences was because they are “scared shitless,” would you consider that friendly constructive criticism, or cutthroat negativity from yet another leftwing opponent?
Consider the message received: Last week, Trump campaign concerns about a key Trump super PAC falling down on the job leaked out. That job was “attack, attack, attack”—and America First is following orders, with a $10 million ad buy attacking former Vice President Joe Biden in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
Last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially classified video game addiction as a mental disorder. The classification is for people who demonstrate impaired ability to control their game playing and an "increasing priority given to gaming to the extent that gaming takes precedence over other life interests and daily activities," despite "the occurrence of negative consequences."
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Voyage to the Depths of My Mind Memories are weird aren't they? Tiny glimpses into the past that pop in and out of our mind at a moment’s notice. Some memories can be called upon at will and brought up for conversation or rather just to ponder. Others must be prompted by an object or a smell to
The coronavirus has infected so many doctors, nurses and other health workers that some are now returning from their sick beds and heading back to the front lines
Metropolitan Tokyo asked some businesses to close and the ancient capital of Kyoto warned tourists to stay away as Japan battles a fast-spreading outbreak of the new coronavirus, amid fears the government's measures are too little and too late.
People around the world began celebrating Good Friday and Easter from the safety of their homes, as rare divisions surfaced in Japan over how to tackle the growing coronavirus outbreak there
The United States & The European Union Have Failed The Audit Of Pandemic
More than 10,000 people have responded to an Israeli woman’s Facebook plea to help overworked health-care professionals on the frontline of the country’s battle against the coronavirus pandemic
More than 10,000 people have responded to an Israeli woman’s Facebook plea to help overworked health-care professionals on the frontline of the country’s battle against the coronavirus pandemic
Over the course of the last week, laboratory confirmed Covid-19 cases in Hamden have risen from 65 to 183, and three residents have died due to infection from the virus.
Yemen’s internationally recognized government has announced the first confirmed case of coronavirus in the war-torn country, stoking fears that an outbreak could devastate an already crippled health care system