by WorldTribune Staff, April 21, 2020 The United States travel industry has lost eight million jobs amid the coronavirus crisis. That is a third of the industry’s U.S.-based jobs, the U.S. Travel Association said. Travel spending on airlines, hotels, and the hospitality industry has sunk so low that spending losses will top half a trillion […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 20, 2020 A weekend host on taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) accused President Donald Trump of encouraging “armed insurrection” via his tweets calling for liberating states from what protesters say are oppressive coronavirus stay-at-home orders. NPR Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon made the accusation twice during his three-hour show on […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 20, 2020 A New York Times columnist blamed Fox News host Sean Hannity for the death of a man who may have contracted the coronavirus while on a cruise to Spain. The April 18 NY Times article by Ginia Bellafante linked Hannity’s using the term “hoax” over the media’s coverage of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 19, 2020 The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has projected that debt held by the public due to the coronavirus crisis “will exceed the size of the economy by the end of Fiscal Year 2020 and eclipse the prior record set after World War II by 2023.” The budget-focused think […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 19, 2020 President Donald Trump called on Minnesota, Michigan, and Virginia to “liberate” amid coronavirus lockdown orders that are getting “carried away.” Trump called out Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, who on Friday signed several gun control measures into law, including reinstating the state’s “one-handgun-a-month” rule and legislation that expands gun-purchase […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 16, 2020 Among the Democrats pushing for a nationwide vote-by-mail system amid the coronavirus outbreak are House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sens. Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, and former President Barack Obama. Leftist billionaire George Soros is funding lawsuits and activism pushing for mail-in voting. The Democrats’ desire for mail-in-voting […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 16, 2020 South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is one of the few who have resisted ordering a lockdown amid the coronavirus outbreak. “The people themselves are primarily responsible for their safety,” Noem, a Republican, said. “They are the ones that are entrusted with expansive freedoms.” But when 300 workers at a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 16, 2020 Did we ever actually need to “flatten the curve” on the coronavirus? That was the “purported rationale for the shutdowns that have crushed our economy and devastated the lives of tens of millions of Americans,” John Hinderaker wrote for the Powerline Blog on April 14. “The theory behind curve-flattening […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 15, 2020 In Philadelphia, cops dragged a passenger off a bus for not wearing a face mask. In Brighton, Colorado, cops handcuffed a father in front of his family for playing T-ball with his daughter in an empty park. Three Massachusetts men were arrested, and face the possibility of 90 days […]
