Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday made an extensive pitch for Americans to don face masks as a means to begin returning the country to normalcy while the coronavirus remains a threat. “There’s no stigma attached to wearing a mask. There’s no stigma attached to staying six feet apart,” the Kentucky Republican said at…
Biden: Trump’s ‘an absolute fool’ for stoking face mask controversy
President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden amped up their ongoing spat over wearing face masks in public on Tuesday with Biden calling the president an “absolute fool” for stoking controversy around the use of masks. The beef began Monday evening, when the president retweeted an image that appeared to mock Biden wearing…
Michigan state lawmaker apologizes after wearing mask that looks like Confederate flag
After initially denying the mask he wore was a Confederate flag, a Michigan state senator later apologized for wearing his “choice of pattern” during a Senate meeting, adding that he did not support “the things this pattern represents.” “I’m sorry for my choice of pattern on the face mask I wore yesterday on the Senate…