STOCKHOLM — The Swedish government’s decision to go its own way on coronavirus just got political. In the first party leaders’ debate in parliament since the pandemic began, opposition politicians went after Prime Minister Stefan Löfven on Wednesday, saying Sweden’s spiking death rate from COVID-19 and inability to protect residents of elderly care homes represented…
Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is about to unleash a massive negative ad campaign against Joe Biden — the president’s most aggressive effort yet to damage his Democratic opponent. With Trump’s poll numbers sagging amid his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, the offensive underscores how his advisers believe they must turn the race into a choice…
China’s behavior during the coronavirus pandemic will help to "sharpen opinion" in the U.K. toward its security ties with Beijing, the chairman of the United Kingdom’s parliamentary defense committee said. The U.K. government is undergoing a "mindset change" with regard to Beijing "not least because of the attitude, the conduct of China throughout Covid-19," said…
Michael Cohen’s early release from prison was delayed without explanation, one of his lawyers said Saturday in a statement that also said President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney was being held “in the functional equivalent of solitary confinement.” Cohen adviser and friend Lanny Davis did not directly allege any political meddling in the handling of…
The president had just retweeted a call to #FireFauci, and activity on the @FauciFanClub Instagram account was spiking. Donald Trump had given a presidential platform to a bellicose movement to oust Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s ubiquitous face of science and sober coronavirus warnings, and his detractors were coming out of the digital woodworks. But…
President Donald Trump yanked U.S. funding for the World Health Organization on Tuesday, complaining that the United Nations public health agency was overly deferential to China and had put too much faith in Beijing’s assertions that it had the coronavirus outbreak there was under control. “Had the W.H.O. done its job to get medical experts…
Blood tests that measure a person’s antibodies to the coronavirus could be a powerful tool to determine when it’s safe to reopen the country. But concerns about the accuracy and availability of the tests — which detect whether a person has ever been exposed to the virus, and are different from the tests used to…
FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn has acknowledged the need to ramp up testing, but on Sunday his tone was cautious: Having an inaccurate test is worse than not having a test at all. Going forward, Hahn said on ABC’s “This Week,” “further ramping up testing, both diagnostic as well as the antibody tests, will really be…