Articles by Alan Herrera

Alan is a writer, editor, and news junkie based in New York.
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Trump Nearly Tweeted Tom Hanks Had Died After Misunderstanding Reports That The Actor Had Been “Discharged” From Care

According to a report in The Courier-Mail, President Donald Trump nearly tweeted that actor Tom Hanks had died from coronavirus after misunderstanding reports that the actor had been “discharged” from care at an Australian hospital. Trump had been prepared to tweet about Hanks’s death until Australia-based United States embassy officials informed Australian health authorities that Hanks…
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Mitch McConnell Criticized For Not Allowing Senate To Vote Remotely During Pandemic

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) faces a volley of criticism after telling reporters that he won’t allow senators to vote remotely to contain the spread of the coronavirus. “We’ll not be doing that. There are a number of different ways to avoid getting too many people together,” McConnell told members of the press. “We…
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Trump Changed His Tune on Coronavirus Only After Watching Tucker Carlson Monologue

According to White House sources who spoke to The Washington Post, President Donald Trump only began taking the coronavirus pandemic seriously after watching Fox News personality Tucker Carlson declare the crisis is “very real” on his program. As recently as March 9, the president had downplayed the effects of the virus, writing on Twitter that “Nothing…
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Senator Sherrod Brown Slams Mitch McConnell For “Wasted” Time on Coronavirus Bill

Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) is the latest legislator to criticize Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), saying McConnell is responsible for delays on a coronavirus relief package for families affected by the pandemic, which has claimed at least 97 lives across the United States. “Mitch McConnell has wasted four days in the middle of a…
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White House Official Calls Coronavirus “Kung Flu” In Conversation with Asian-American Reporter

A White House official reportedly used the racist term “Kung flu” while speaking to CBS News correspondent Weijia Jiang, who was born in China and grew up in West Virginia. The official has not been identified. “Makes me wonder what they’re calling it behind my back,” Jiang wrote on Twitter. This morning a White House…
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Trump Lashes Out at Democratic Governors Critical of His Coronavirus Response

President Donald Trump took to Twitter to lash out at the respective governors of New York and Michigan as the death toll attributed to the coronavirus pandemic continues to rise and as his administration faces blistering criticism for its response. The president accused Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) of politicizing the growing crisis, suggesting that a…
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Coronavirus Forces Supreme Court to Postpone Arguments, Including Fight Over Trump’s Financial Records

The Supreme Court announced it would postpone arguments for late March and early April because of the coronavirus pandemic. No new dates for the postponed arguments have been set at this time. Among the high-profile cases to be postponed was the March 31 argument on President Donald Trump’s refusal to release his financial records, including…
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Google Contradicts Trump After He Claims Company Is Building Nationwide Coronavirus Screening Website

During his Rose Garden address earlier today, President Donald Trump announced that Google is working to build a website to help screen Americans who may have coronavirus. “Google is going to develop a website — it’s going to be very quickly done, unlike websites of the past — to determine if a test is warranted…

Trump blames Europe for US coronavirus
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Trump Corrected by Insurers After He Claimed They’re Waiving All Copayments for Coronavirus Treatment

During an Oval Office address, President Donald Trump claimed that health insurers will “waive all co-payments for coronavirus treatments,” and the industry was quick to correct him. “Earlier this week, I met with the leaders of health insurance industry who have agreed to waive all co-payments for coronavirus treatments, extend insurance coverage to these treatments,…
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People Won’t Let Larry Kudlow Forget He Insisted Coronavirus Will Have “Minimal Impact” on Economy

The coronavirus outbreak is officially a global pandemic, and policy experts around the world are expressing significant concern over how the virus, which has claimed 4,729 lives worldwide according to the most recent official count, will impact global economies. White House Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow’s old statements have come back to haunt him in…
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Coronavirus Cases Continue to Climb Two Weeks After Trump Claimed They’d Be “Close to Zero”

Coronavirus infections in the United States continue to climb, topping over 1,000 cases nationwide two weeks after President Donald Trump erroneously claimed they’d be “close to zero.” “And again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good…
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Without Evidence, Fox Business Host Trish Regan Accuses Dems of Politicizing Coronavirus Outbreak

Speaking on her program, Fox Business host Trish Regan claimed without evidence that the coronavirus outbreak, which has claimed at least 26 lives in the United States, is being politicized by Congressional Democrats who’ve unleashed a “chorus of hate” toward President Donald Trump and, she said, are looking for another reason to impeach him. “We’ve…
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Dems Push for Paid Sick Leave Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

As the coronavirus outbreak continues to take a toll on the American economy, Democratic policymakers have taken to their chambers to work on a package that includes paid sick leave for those who self-quarantine and more robust employment insurance for those whose jobs are affected. President Donald Trump has different ideas, however: He’s announced he…
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Trump Slammed For Another “Pocahontas” Attack Against Warren as Coronavirus Outbreak Takes Toll

President Donald Trump claimed Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) “singlehandedly destroyed” the campaign of fellow Senator Bernie Sanders (ID-Vt.), accusing her of “stripping voters away” from him on Super Tuesday. Sanders “lost states that he easily would have won if she had dropped out 3 days earlier,” Trump said before suggesting that the Democratic National Committee…
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Trump Slammed for Canceling CDC Visit as Coronavirus Death Toll Rises

President Donald Trump has canceled his planned visit to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, according to an administration official who declined to be identified. “The president is no longer traveling to Atlanta today,†the official told reporters. “The CDC has been proactive and prepared since the very beginning and…
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Tucker Carlson Uses Biden’s Mental Health to Create Another Conspiracy Theory

Speaking on his Fox News program, Tucker Carlson argued that Joe Biden’s “fading intellect is not a handicap” but “an opportunity” for the Democratic leadership to “control” him should he win November’s general election. “To the cynical and darkly clever people who run the Democratic Party. Biden’s fading intellect is not a handicap. It’s an…
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As Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” Plan Hits A Legal Snag, His Administration Turns to SCOTUS

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco is preventing President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing its Migrant Protection Protocols, otherwise known as the “Remain in Mexico” policy, for asylum-seekers to stay in the country. Restrictions remain in place until March 11 for review by the Supreme Court. The ruling only applies to Arizona and…
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John Roberts Rebukes Schumer For Bogus “Threatening Statements” Against Gorsuch, Kavanaugh

Chief Justice John Roberts has rebuked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for “threatening statements” against two conservative justices. “Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous,” Roberts said, adding that the justices “will continue to…
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Republican Senator Slams Trump for Contradicting Medical Experts on Coronavirus

The coronavirus has continued to disrupt life in the United States as the epidemic appears to slow down in mainland China, and a Republican senator has advised President Donald Trump to “let the professionals do the talking†after the president continued to contradict medical professionals on the outbreak. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), who chairs the Senate…
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Iran Turns Down Trump’s Offer to Help with Coronavirus After Ayatollah Aide Dies

In the wake of the death of a top aide to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Abbas Mousavi, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, turned down the Trump administration’s offer of help fighting the coronavirus. “Since the outbreak of the virus in Iran, we have been observing the U.S.-led anti-Iranian propaganda campaign and know about the measures the…

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