The Trader Joe’s on 14th Street NW in D.C. has temporarily closed after an employee at the store tested positive for COVID-19, the company said in a statement. Trader Joe’s said the employee was last at the store on Sunday and it is closing the location for additional cleaning. It was not clear when the store might reopen. The company…
Daily Archives: April 8, 2020
DC Orders All Grocery Stores, Outdoor Markets Must Enforce Social Distancing
All grocery stores, food banks, convenience stores, outdoor markets and other places where people buy food in Washington, D.C., must enforce certain social distancing guidelines, the city’s mayor ordered Wednesday night. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s order stipulates that all “retail food sellers†do the following: Post signs at the entrance telling customers to: wear a mask or mouth covering, avoid entering…
Almost all of the federal stockpile of personal protective equipment is depleted, new documents show
Only 11.7 million N95 respirator masks and 7,920 ventilators have been distributed — both small fractions of the estimated amount needed.
Linda Tripp, whose tapes exposed Clinton scandal, dies at 70
Linda Tripp, whose secretly recorded conversations with Monica Lewinsky led to the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton, died at age 70.
Linda Tripp, whose tapes led to impeachment of Bill Clinton, dies at age 70
Linda Tripp, whose recordings of Monica Lewinsky exposed President Bill Clinton’s affair with her, passed away at 70 years old.
Cost of Navy secretary’s trip to Guam? $243,000, his job and isolation after coronavirus exposure
Acting Navy chief Thomas Modly’s Guam trip to see sailors on the stricken USS Roosevelt cost $243,000. He’s now in coronavirus isolation, out of a job.
West Virginia Asks National Guard to Help With Unemployment Calls
Gov. Jim Justice says West Virginia National Guard members who have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic will be used to process mounting unemployment claims. Justice said in a news release last week that the Workforce WV call line will operate around the clock starting Monday
New White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany takes heat for past comments on Obama, coronavirus
Kayleigh McEnany posted several tweets in 2012 about the theories spread by “birthers,” or those who questioned Obama’s birthplace.