GOP refuses Democrats’ demands for relief package, won’t negotiate over lending program
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said they would not agree to any compromise with Democrats that changed their proposal to add $250 billion to the Paycheck Protection Program.
White House rejects bailout for Postal Service
Advocates worry the agency is vulnerable as it is projected to lose $2 billion a month because of the pandemic.
Two nurses shown above say they do not have enough personal protective equipment for their jobs at Moses Taylor Hospital. (Elizabeth Herman for The Post)
Pa. hospital risked infecting cancer patients, babies and staff, nurses say
Moses Taylor Hospital in Scranton, Pa., wasn’t prepared for the influx of covid-19 patients in the absence of vast quantities of protective gear. Measures by its parent company, which runs 99 U.S. hospitals, led administrators to order staff to shuttle between floors, where staffers feared they would infect cancer patients and babies.
The military’s medical facilities remain mostly empty in New York. This is why.
The Javits Center and the USNS Comfort are treating coronavirus patients now, but the transition has been hampered on several fronts.
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Ty Turecek’s Colorado ranch includes several thousand acres protected in perpetuity through an easement. (Matthew Staver for The Post)
States have lengthy waiting lists of ranchers and farmers ready to put restrictive conservation easements on their property to stave off the big-box stores, self-storage complexes and residential construction consuming millions of acres of fertile open space.
The stinging public criticism, which may be unprecedented by an administration since VOA was founded in 1942, took the independent news service’s officials by surprise.
Severe weather is likely this weekend for portions of the South.
Analysis
Though markets move erratically in the short-term, analysts say their outlook for the next week, month or quarter is generally spot on: “There is some method to the madness.”
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Whether with many or few, with eggs or without, the occasion is a moment of culinary joy.
