Enlarge / US President Donald Trump speaks about COVID-19 after signing a Proclamation in honor of National Nurses Day in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, May 6, 2020. reader comments 252 with 115 posters participating Share this story The poor federal response to the COVID-19 crisis has become even lighter ..
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Enlarge / Dana Deasy, Department of Defense chief information officer, testifies during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on May 6, 2020 in Washington, DC. Getty Images reader comments 117 with 93 posters participating Share this story GPS is facing a major interference threat from a 5G network approved by the Federal Communications Commission, US ..
reader comments 75 with 49 posters participating Share this story The FBI says that the men behind the disgraced GirlsDoPorn website were willing to go to extraordinary lengths to harass and intimidate 22 women who sued them for fraud and coercion. A judge awarded those women $13 million in January. Now one of the men, Matthew Wolfe, is ..
reader comments 93 with 62 posters participating Share this story Three US senators today urged Comcast to open all of its Wi-Fi hotspots to children who lack Internet access at home during the pandemic. A letter from Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) says that Comcast recently refused a request to ..
Enlarge / The city of San Luis Obispo in 2013. George Rose/Getty Images reader comments 131 with 82 posters participating, including story author Share this story Covid-19 Coverage View more stories There’s a battle raging in California over the future of natural gas. Environmentalists want building codes to encourage new buildings to be electrically heated ..
reader comments 217 with 103 posters participating, including story author Share this story Covid-19 Coverage View more stories A new whistleblower complaint by a former US health official details how the Trump administration’s COVID-19 response was hampered by cronyism and denial about the virus’s severity. The 89-page complaint filed by Rick Bright, an immunology expert who led ..
Enlarge / Trump wore protective eyewear on his May 5 trip to a Honeywell N95 mask factory in Arizona, but not an actual mask. reader comments 357 with 146 posters participating Share this story The White House’s coronavirus task force is shifting its focus away from emergency response and toward economic recovery from the COVID-19 ..
Enlarge / A Frontier plane landing back in 2016, when sitting crammed next to other passengers was still deeply unpleasant but didn’t feel as potentially life-threatening. reader comments 172 with 103 posters participating Share this story With schools and businesses closed, conferences and conventions canceled, and travel restrictions in effect, very few of us are ..
Enlarge / A CenturyLink service van parked in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on May 2, 2019. reader comments 30 with 23 posters participating Share this story CenturyLink’s slow broadband deployment, already a problem before the pandemic, has gotten even slower as the public health crisis causes cities and towns to halt construction. Since 2015, CenturyLink ..
Enlarge / President Donald Trump speaks as Vice President Mike Pence looks on during a briefing on the coronavirus pandemic at the White House on March 26, 2020. reader comments 343 with 129 posters participating Share this story Covid-19 Coverage View more stories The United States is expected to see about 200,000 new COVID-19 cases ..
