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March 2, 2020

Navy set to revamp its education strategy with a renewed focus on academics

Concerns that the U.S. has lost its edge economically and technologically over its enemies has prompted the Navy to reenvision its approach to education.

March 2, 2020

2 quarantined over coronavirus at Nebraska Medical Center are released

The women were passengers on Diamond Princess cruise ship and had been quarantined since Feb. 17.

March 2, 2020

Coronavirus outbreak in China has one unexpected side-effect

In an effort to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, which has affected more than 80,000 and killed more than 3,000 people in China, the country shuttered factories and quarantined many of its citizens. However, as the country's factories slowly return online from the aftermath, there has been one unexpected side effect to the decline in economic activity. Pollution has vanished.

March 2, 2020

China closes first makeshift hospital as new cases drop in country, increase worldwide

China closed one of its makeshift hospitals for the first time on Monday as new coronavirus cases decrease in China and continue to spread worldwide.

March 1, 2020

Chinese man who stabbed 2 at coronavirus checkpoint gets death penalty, state media report

A Chinese man was sentenced to death row Sunday on charges that he stabbed two people to death at a coronavirus checkpoint in China earlier this month, according to state media.

March 1, 2020

Steve Bannon defends Sen. Tom Cotton's controversial coronavirus origin claim

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon defended Sen. Tom Cotton's earlier suggestion that the deadly coronavirus may have originated in a high-security biochemical lab in Wuhan, China, telling "Sunday Morning Futures" that more information must be gathered from China before an origin can be conclusively determined. 

March 1, 2020

Sen. Marco Rubio: China's coronavirus deception put world at risk

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., blamed China's failure to share necessary information that could have contained the coronavirus for putting the world at risk as more countries reported their first death from the virus over the weekend. 

March 1, 2020

Taliban peace deal part of broader US goal to refocus on China, Defense Secretary Mark Esper says

Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Sunday said President Trump’s peace deal with the Taliban, which opens the door for withdrawing American troops from Afghanistan, is part of a broader goal to refocus the United States’ military resources on preparing for a potential future war with China.

February 29, 2020

Trey Gowdy: It 'breaks my heart' to see coronavirus politicized, it should be 'unifying'

Former Republican South Carolina congressman Trey Gowdy said it "breaks [his] heart to see [coronavirus] politicized." 

February 29, 2020

Kris Kobach warns southern border could be 'wide-open doorway' for those infected with coronavirus

While President Trump "did the right thing" by shuttering ports of entry to people coming in from China in reaction to the coronavirus outbreak, the southern border is still not secured leaving the United States exposed, former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach said Saturday.