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Mike Pence’s office has dubiously argued the vice president does not need to wear a mask because he is regularly tested for coronavirus.
The vice president faced questions about his lack of mask usage earlier this month after a photo circulated of a mask-less Pence greeting Colorado governor Jared Polis, who was wearing a mask in the picture.
Vice President Mike Pence was criticized for ignoring mask guidelines when visiting the Mayo Clinic facilities in Minnesota today.
Footage of Pence’s visit showed the vice president not covering his face as he met with the clinic’s employees and at least one patient.
PENCE flouts Mayo Clinic policy that everyone on campus wear a mask, even as he meets with staff and a patient. pic.twitter.com/kfo64KQDhU
Mayo Clinic had informed @VP of the masking policy prior to his arrival today.
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New York governor Andrew Cuomo said it would be a “major, major undertaking” to develop a plan on reopening the state’s schools.
Cuomo emphasized no school district was allowed to reopen at the moment, as the state has mandated schools to remain closed for now.
New York governor Andrew Cuomo said some hospitals in the state would send the results of its hydroxychloroquine trials to federal health officials today.
Cuomo declined to describe the results of the trials, focused on whether the anti-malaria drug can help treat coronavirus patients.
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It’s been one month since Trump declared a national emergency over the coronavirus pandemic, and many of his key promises remain unfulfilled.
An in-depth NPR investigation found many of the pledges that Trump made in his March 13 Rose Garden speech have only been parially realized, while others have gone completely ignored.
NPR’s Investigations Team dug into each of the claims made from the podium that day. And rather than a sweeping national campaign of screening, drive-through sample collection and lab testing, it found a smattering of small pilot projects and aborted efforts.
In some cases, no action was taken at all.
Independent congressman Justin Amash pushed back against Trump’s claim that he has the authority to reopen the economy at the federal level, an assertion that is also challenged by constitutional experts.
President Trump is flat-out wrong. The president has no authority to “close down” or “open up” the states. He’s the one creating conflict and confusion. Put down the authoritarianism and read the Constitution. https://t.co/3AFqRx7YTX
A four-hour long gun battle which left six people dead started as a targeted attack by two suspects on a Jewish kosher market in New Jersey, say officials.
Police in the New York metropolitan area were put on high alert to protect Jewish neighbourhoods after the attack
Sam Little arrested after Guardian exposed massive distribution network of MMS in Uganda that was being supervised by US pastor
A British man has been arrested in Uganda on suspicions of “intoxicating the public” after he claimed to have carried out a trial of a “miracle cure” on local villagers using industrial bleach.
Sam Little, 25, from Arlesey in Bedfordshire was picked up by Ugandan police at 6am on Thursday in a village church in Kitembi, a few miles outside Fort Portal in western Uganda. Also arrested were two Ugandans who are suspected of being involved in the distribution of the bleach, which is known by advocates as MMS or Miracle Mineral Solution.
U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez first ran for the U.S. House in 1992 and has been raising money for his campaigns ever since. He has brought in more than $50 million during that time, according to the Center for Responsive Politics , a Washington research group.
Michele Tuck-Ponder, Esq. was named Executive Director of Destination Imagination, Inc. after serving as the Interim CEO since December 2017 Destination Imagination , a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching students the creative process through hands-on science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics and social entrepreneurship challenges, today announced the appointment of Michele Tuck-Ponder, Esq.
Dr. Krishna P. Singh, President and CEO of Holtec International, in his office in Marlton, where the company was headquartered prior to moving to Camden. You could say Krishna "Kris" Singh, the founder and CEO of Holtec International, discovered this inconvenient truth after an interview he gave to a New Jersey business publication was, to say the least, poorly received this week.
Rep. Chris Smith, R-4th Dist., New Jersey's longest serving congressman, was the only Garden State Republican considered safe. The furor erupted after the Washington Blade, a newspaper in the nation's capital that covers the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, published excerpts from a tape recording of Smith's May appearance at Colts Neck High School.
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., questions witnesses before the Senate Judiciary Committee during the final stage of the confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Sept. 7, 2018.
Twice Upon a Time: Identical twin sisters, 32, marry identical twin brothers, 34, in a fairy-tale ceremony presided over by identical twin ministers... and now they will all live in the same house Trump DENIES concern over son Don Jr.'s legal exposure for infamous Tower meeting and then admits for the FIRST time it was to get dirt on Hillary, but adds he personally 'did not know about it!' 'I was asked to rough him up': Man who robbed 'Girls Gone Wild' creator in 2004 claims he acted on orders from a notorious Genovese mob boss Matty 'The Horse' Ianniello Trump fires off furious tweet at the 'Fake News' calling them 'dangerous & sick' as the president ramps up his rhetoric against the press - again labeling them the 'Enemy of the People' who 'can cause War!' Kellyanne splits with Trump and says 'I don't believe journalists are the enemy of the people' after the president launches early ... (more)
Two local school districts, Allamuchy and Montague, are among 12 statewide targeted in an ACLU legal action accusing them of illegally denying enrollment to illegal immigrant children by requiring what amounts to proof of legal residency. The lawsuits, filed on Thursday, come amid a searing national debate about states that have sanctuary policies for those residing in the country illegally and as some Trenton politicians, including Gov. Phil Murphy, are pushing for New Jersey to join their ranks by allowing driver's licenses for illegal immigrants.
Or from reading the "public letter of admonition" sent by the U.S. Senate's Select Committee on Ethics to Robert Menendez, the Democratic incumbent seeking a third full term representing New Jersey. Nationwide, Democrats are defending 26 Senate seats, Republicans only nine.
"We have to make sure that we have a foolproof process so no one hacks or gets to this information," Assemblywoman Annette Quijano said. Mayors convene in support of driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants "We have to make sure that we have a foolproof process so no one hacks or gets to this information," Assemblywoman Annette Quijano said.
Senator Steven Oroho and Assemblyman Hal Wirths said that legislation advanced by the Senate Budget & Appropriations Committee will weaken New Jersey's Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund and put employers at risk of future tax increases. “At its worst point, New Jersey's UI Fund was more than $2 billion in the red,” said Oroho.
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WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez is "leading a lavish lifestyle courtesy of corruption." Former Celgene Corp. executive Bob Hugin is a "greedy drug company CEO."
Throughout the nation, Americans are taking a stand against cruel puppy mills by supporting efforts to prohibit puppy mill operators from selling dogs in pet stores. Recently, Maryland became the second state in the nation to ban the sale of puppy mill puppies in pet stores when Gov. Larry Hogan signed bipartisan legislation to protect dogs and the state's consumers.
Gov. Phil Murphy speaks at a press conference alongside Fred Guttenberg, right, the father of murdered Parkland, Florida student Jaime Guttenberg, and New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal at a press conference in Hackensack. ( But as Gov. Phil Murphy vows to tighten the state's already-strict gun laws, data shows more than three-quarters of guns connected to crimes in the Garden State come from beyond its borders.