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Month: January 2021

Biden says Covid-19 death toll will likely top 500,000 next month, asks Americans to wear mask for his first 100 days

The Covid-19 death toll in the United States will likely top 500,000 next month, President Joe Biden said in a news conference Thursday, as he portrayed his administration’s plan to respond to the pandemic as a “wartime undertaking.” Part of that plan involves asking Americans to wear masks for the first 100 days of his

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Fact check: 11 false claims Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has tweeted in the last month

A rookie Republican congresswoman from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene, was suspended from Twitter on Sunday for 12 hours after she repeatedly tweeted election misinformation. Greene has a long history of embracing baseless conspiracy theories. And she has been a serial tweeter of false claims — about the election, the Capitol insurrection and other subjects —

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Biden unveils Covid-19 plan he claims is based on ‘science not politics’ as he signs new initiatives

President Joe Biden’s first full day in office Thursday focused on getting the Covid-19 pandemic under control, rolling out his national strategy that includes several executive actions related to vaccinations and testing in hopes of moving the federal response in a different direction. “Our national strategy is comprehensive, it’s based on science, not politics. It’s

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