President Donald Trump announced Friday he’s declaring a national emergency to deal with the coronavirus crisis as cases increase alarmingly and criticism mounts over how he’s responding to the situation. He also said he “most likely” will get tested himself, although he said he had no symptoms. “I think I will be,” he said. “Fairly…

Image copyright AFP via Getty Images Image caption The FDA says no therapeutics or drugs are currently approved to treat or cure the coronavirus An Arizona man has died and his wife is in a critical condition after both ingested chloroquine phosphate in an apparent effort to stave off Covid-19. President Donald Trump has touted…

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Harry and Meghan have reportedly relocated from Canada to California President Donald Trump says the US will not foot the bill for Prince Harry and Meghan’s security amid reports that the pair have moved to the US from Canada. Mr Trump tweeted he was “a great friend and admirer…

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Democrats accuse the president of trying to settle scores by firing senior official Michael Atkinson US President Donald Trump has fired a senior official who first alerted Congress to a whistleblower complaint that led to his impeachment trial.Mr Trump said he no longer had confidence in Michael Atkinson, the inspector…

UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock tests positive for the coronavirus.Hancock announced the news on Friday just hours after Boris Johnson announced that he had also caught the virus.Both said they had mild symptoms and would be self-isolating for seven days.Here’s what happens if Boris Johnson becomes too ill to remain prime minister.Visit Business Insider’s homepage…

Prime Minister Boris Johnson told UK residents that officials “know things will get worse before they get better” in the novel coronavirus pandemic.Johnson wrote in an open letter to UK residents on the “moment of national emergency” posed by the pandemic, days after he tested positive and entered self-isolation.Officials have turned to address the next…

Boris Johnson will not be tested for coronavirus despite meeting his Health Minister who has since tested positive for COVID-19.A Downing Street source said a test was unnecessary because he had no symptoms.The Health Minister Nadine Dorries was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Monday.Other members of parliament who came into contact with the minister have gone…

The UK logistics sector pleads with Boris Johnson to extend the Brexit transition period.The prime minister has insisted that he will not delay the next stage of Brexit, despite the COVID-19 virus crisis.The Freight Transport Association on Wednesday said: “Our industry needs the support of government, not to be broken by it.”The sector said companies…

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Jin S. Lee The billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban told CNBC on Wednesday he’d been “putting 1%, 1.5% to work on every down day” as coronavirus fears roiled the US stock market. The investor said he’d mostly been buying up Live Nation stock and SPY, an exchange-traded fund that tracks the S&P 500. Cuban also sold…

Restrictions on movement in Northern Ireland will last longer than three weeks, the first minister has said.Arlene Foster said a range of things would need to be reviewed after the initial period.But she said if she was a “betting person” she would think the measures to slow the spread of coronavirus would continue beyond Easter.On…

Orders for the 2020 Corvette Stingray, Chevrolet’s mid-engine sports car decades in the making, have been cut short and are closed as of Wednesday.General Motors confirmed the order closure to Business Insider, saying it was due to “overwhelming demand” and the United Auto Workers strike of late 2019. Orders for the 2021 Corvette will open in…

Younger generations are calling the coronavirus pandemic the “boomer remover,” reported Hannah Sparks for The New York Post.Coronavirus risk increases with age and for people with preexisting conditions, which has made the pandemic a big concern for the elderly.But a recent CDC report shows that up to 20% of people hospitalized with coronavirus in the…

Wall Street has been putting more resources toward building “knowledge graphs,” a technique first developed by Google, in recent years to help understand linkage between datasets. Thinknum, an alt-data provider that scrapes information from the web, is launching a platform specifically for knowledge graphs on April 2. Marta Lopata, Thinknum’s chief growth officer, told Business Insider these…