The latest: WHO chief warns health workers are ‘dangerously’ ill-equipped to combat COVID-19, calls for more production of masks, gowns, gloves. South Korea struggling to treat COVID-19 patients in Daegu as case numbers rise. Iran reports 586 new coronavirus cases, says 92 people have died. B.C. and Ontario report additional cases Tuesday, bringing total coronavirus cases in…
Super Tuesday is the single biggest voting day of the U.S. 2020 election — outside of the actual vote for president on Nov. 3. Democratic primaries are being held in 14 states, Democrats in American Samoa will caucus, and Democrats abroad begin to vote, too. There are 1,357 delegates at stake on Tuesday out of the total 3,979 pledged…
It felt like the Dirtbag Left got it wrong when they cheered the Chapo Trap House star Virgil Texas‘s triumphant tweet, “RAT MODE: TERMINATED” on Sunday, didn’t it? That assumes you understand any of what you just read — but that’s what it’s come to, and it’s important because U.S. politics changed a lot after Sunday. The…
Rivals no more, Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg united behind Joe Biden’s presidential bid on Monday as the Democratic Party’s moderate wing scrambled to boost the former vice president just hours before voting began across a series of high-stakes Super Tuesday states. The New York Times reported Beto O’Rourke, a former Texas congressman, was set to…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held an edge over his main rival in Israel’s third election in under a year, exit polls indicated Monday night, but it was unclear whether he could clinch the parliamentary majority needed to claim victory. Exit polls on Israel’s main TV channels showed Netanyahu and his nationalist and religious allies…
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar ended her Democratic presidential campaign on Monday and will endorse rival Joe Biden in an effort to unify moderate voters behind the former vice-president’s White House bid. She is flying to Dallas and plans to join Biden at his rally Monday night, according to her campaign. Klobuchar outlasted several better-known and…