Now that she’s been named as Joe Biden’s running mate for the 2020 presidential election, Sen. Kamala Harris’ stances on a wide range of issues are being scrutinized once again.Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he has selected Harris, who hails from California, as his vice-presidential pick in the race against President…
Dear Moneyist, My mother currently owns a beautiful home in Virginia Beach that is paid for; she inherited a very sizable number of assets from her late husband. In her will, she would like to leave the house to me, but has stipulated that her boyfriend can remain in the house indefinitely, although he will…
Mobile, medical and testing: three simple words.It’s when you put the three of them together that all the trouble begins. You have to meet up with the test subject. You have to extract the specimen. You have to send the specimen to the lab. You have to trust the lab’s results. (This particular step is…
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. consumer was weak. Early in 2020, a survey found that 49% of Americans expected to live paycheck to paycheck each month. More strikingly, 53% said that they don’t have an emergency fund that covers at least three months of expenses. With almost 70% of U.S. GDP tied to…
I went through a divorce about five years ago and my youngest child will graduate college this spring. I have just gotten my finances stable again and I am back saving money. I have about eight to 10 years left to work, and should have enough saved for a modest retirement when that time comes.…
Children can indeed get the coronavirus. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP and the Children’s Hospital Association analyzed publicly reported data on kids and COVID-19 from 49 states, Puerto Rico and Guam, as well as New York City and Washington, D.C. Their report found that as of July 30, at least 338,982 children have tested…
DUBLIN — Ireland is a nation of saints, scholars and status quo.This small island in the northwestern tip of Europe is ruled by two old foes: the right-of-center Republican Fianna Fáil party and the right-of-center Christian Democratic Fine Gael party, which have been on opposing sides of the political divide since independence in 1922. But…
How contagious is someone who has contracted COVID-19 — yet displays no symptoms?This study, published in the medical journal JAMA Internal Medicine this week, provides one theory for the first question. It isolated 303 patients with COVID-19 in a treatment center in South Korea. Of those, 110 (36%) were asymptomatic and 21 (19%) developed symptoms…
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for the last three decades and an expert on pandemics for the last four decades, has been optimistic on a vaccine arriving at the end of 2020 or in early 2021, but he has also cautioned the public on their expectations for the…
President Donald Trump’s executive order and memorandums to provide relief during the coronavirus pandemic don’t seem feasible or legal, experts said Saturday. Trump made an end run around Congressional Democrats with an executive order and three memoranda aimed at boosting the economy, but analysts said the wording of the orders raised more questions than answers.…