(Bloomberg) — Donald Trump isn’t “fit for office” and lacks the “competence” to serve as president in part because he’s solely focused on his political fortunes, former national security adviser John Bolton said. Bolton’s comments in an interview with ABC News come as he’s promoting his tell-all memoir, which delivers withering criticism of Trump’s leadership …
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TULSA, Okla. – President Donald Trump promoted his rally here on Saturday as an opportunity to reignite his reelection campaign and move past the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 120,000 Americans and devastated the economy. He claimed that nearly 1 million people had requested tickets and boasted, “We’ve never had an empty seat, …
Hopes for a return to normal life after the coronavirus hinge on the development of a vaccine. But there’s no guarantee, experts say, that a fully effective COVID-19 vaccine is possible. That may seem counterintuitive. So many brutal viral diseases have been conquered by vaccination — smallpox, polio, mumps — that the technique seems all …
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Wall Street predicts the White House will push through approval of one or maybe even two Covid-19 vaccines to help bolster Donald Trump’s chances before the U.S. presidential election. While scientists, including the nation’s top virus expert Anthony Fauci, have set their eyes on a vaccine by early 2021 at the earliest, sell-side research analysts have been …
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The number of COVID-19 infections soared by 31,243 since yesterday’s update to reach 2,219,119 in the United States, Johns Hopkins University’s tally showed on Friday. The daily jump in coronavirus cases surpassed Thursday’s growth by nearly 5,000. Meanwhile, the death toll from the virus stood at 119,086 after 705 fatalities related to the infection were …
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https://youtu.be/gDjMDGwOd3A Six Trump campaign staffers on the advance team for the president’s rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Saturday have tested positive for the coronavirus, the Trump campaign confirmed to CBS News. According to the campaign, the staffers were immediately quarantined and will not have contact with any rally attendees. “Per safety protocols, campaign staff are …
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Nearly 85,000 people in the U.S. oilfield services industry have lost their jobs due to the pandemic-driven oil price crash and demand destruction, Houston-based Petroleum Equipment and Services Association (PESA) said in a new analysis this week, warning that it is likely significantly underestimating the jobs losses in the sector. According to PESA’s analysis of Bureau …
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(Bloomberg) — Oil consumption is set to recover from the impact of coronavirus more slowly than previously thought, even though the worst of the demand destruction doesn’t look quite as awful as had been feared a month ago. Global demand will still be below pre-pandemic levels by the end of 2021, never mind this year, …
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As of 2 a.m. Thursday, Gila River Hotels & Casinos shuttered all three of its properties for two weeks amid a recent rise in COVID-19 cases in Arizona. Leaders at Gila River Hotels & Casinos declined The Arizona Republic’s repeated requests to confirm the number of employees who have tested positive for COVID-19, saying that …
No states currently allow cashless payments on casino floors. The CDC recommends mobile payments to limit the handling of cash, and therefore, risk of Covid-19 exposure. More than half of casino customers say they are less likely to use cash in their everyday lives because of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report released Tuesday …
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