Tag: World Health Organization

In this April 3, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington. For more than a year, Wall Street has largely ignored the unpredictability and chaos that has plagued Trumpâs administration, confident that the businessman-turned-presidentâs policies would juice the economy and that a team of mainstream advisers would keep more controversial proposals at bay. Now the financial markets are showing that their patience with Trump has its limits.

Voters to judge Trump on coronavirus response, though states and WHO share responsibility: Analysts

David M. Drucker · April 17, 2020 4:00 am

Trump criticism of WHO and China stokes America First base

Rob Crilly · April 16, 2020 8:48 pm

Chair Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., makes opening remarks at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing with testimony from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about the FY'19 budget, Wednesday, June 27, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Lindsey Graham: ‘I would double’ WHO funding if Bill Gates led the organization

Mike Brest · April 16, 2020 5:52 pm

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La.

‘He needs to go’: Steve Scalise demands WHO remove its director-general for botched coronavirus response

Dominick Mastrangelo · April 16, 2020 5:01 pm

White House says G-7 leaders agreed to ‘thorough review’ of WHO

Caitlin Yilek · April 16, 2020 1:44 pm

President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing in the Rose Garden of the White House, Sunday.

Signs of stabilization arrive at same time as indications of massive economic toll

Cassidy Morrison · April 16, 2020 4:00 am

Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during an event to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Message to Compatriots in Taiwan at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019.

‘Increasing confidence’ China blamed coronavirus on wet market to deflect from Wuhan lab escape: Report

Jerry Dunleavy · April 16, 2020 1:13 am

Former British spy chief says China and WHO bear responsibility for flawed coronavirus response

Jerry Dunleavy · April 15, 2020 10:21 pm

Former President Jimmy Carter leads a morning devotion for volunteers at a Habitat for Humanity building project Monday, Oct. 7, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Carter fell at his home on Sunday, requiring over a dozen stitches, but he did not let his injuries keep him from participating in his 36th building project with the nonprofit Christian housing organization. He turned 95 last Tuesday, becoming the first U.S. president to reach that milestone.

‘Distressed’: Jimmy Carter disagrees with Trump decision to halt WHO funding

Mike Brest · April 15, 2020 7:59 pm

‘We alerted the world’: World Health Organization dismisses Trump accusations

Joel Gehrke · April 15, 2020 7:14 pm

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general de la OrganizaciÃ³n Mundial de la Salud, habla durante una conferencia en Ginebra, Suiza, el lunes 9 de marzo de 2020.

Flashback: WHO’s Tedros was accused of covering up cholera outbreaks in Ethiopia

Carly Ortiz-Lytle · April 15, 2020 7:10 pm

Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Tuesday, March 31, 2020, in Washington.

‘People would have prepared differently’: Birx says WHO handling of coronavirus set US back

Dominick Mastrangelo · April 15, 2020 6:38 pm