(Newser) – After all, there will be no Vanilla Ice concert in Austin this weekend. “This date has been canceled and will be rescheduled for another time,” said a representative of the rapper on Thursday, reports CNN. The outdoor performance was planned for Friday at Emerald Point Bar & Grill, …
Read More »Houston Hospitals Transfer Patients Out of Town Amidst COVID-19 Peak
Houston has been so overwhelmed by new cases of coronavirus that its hospitals are reportedly sending patients to facilities outside the city. With infections on the rise across the state, Harris Health Systems, operators of Houston’s Ben Taub and LBJ Hospitals, have had to transfer 33 of their patients to …
Read More »Trump Again Praises US COVID-19 Evidence As Cases Increase At Record Levels
FILE PHOTO: President of the United States, Donald Trump, attends the “Spirit of America Showcase” event at the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington, USA, on July 2, 2020. REUTERS / Tom Brenner / File Photo (Reuters) – President Donald Trump once again praised U.S. coronavirus testing as …
Read More »Thousands of Texans are in limbo of unemployment
FORT BEND COUNTY – A Fort Bend County man is one of the possibly thousands of Texans caught in the limbo of unemployment. Some residents, who worked out of state before COVID-19, are struggling to apply for unemployment insurance in the state where they were employed. “I have exhausted all …
Read More »The United States reports 55,000 cases of COVID-19 in a single day, reaches a new world record
(Reuters) – The United States on Thursday reported more than 55,000 new cases of COVID-19, a new daily world record for the coronavirus pandemic, as infections increased in most states. A spike in coronavirus cases over the past week put President Donald Trump’s handling of the crisis under the microscope …
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