President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday the only thing him and Former President Barack Obama have in common is “that we both had the honor of firing Jim Mattis.” The tweet came after Mattis, a retired Marine Corps general, criticized, in a statement first published by The Atlantic, Trump’s response to the protests being carried out across the nation since the police killing of George Floyd, an African American man in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Trump didn’t fire the general. Mattis served as his secretary of defense from 2017, when he was confirmed by the Senate, until he tendered his resignation in December of 2018 as he disagreed with Trump’s decision to pull U.S. troops from Syria, according to U.S. officials. In the letter, he said his views and beliefs in foreign policy and strategy didn’t align with those of the president’s.

Trump has claimed several times in the past he gave Mattis his “Mad Dog” nickname, which he has openly said he dislikes. Yet, news reports have referred to him by the nickname as far as 2004. During his Senate confirmation hearing for defense secretary, he said: “That nickname was given to me by the press, and some of you may have experienced similar occasions with the press where perhaps they didn’t get it quite right.” Other nicknames include “Chaos” and “Warrior Monk.”

For somebody to be exonerated, there needs to be an investigation where the individual is properly charged of the claims being investigated. The Justice Department is closing its investigations into Republican Senators Kelly Loeffler of Georgia, James Inhofe of Oklahoma and Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein of California for stocks trades made shortly before the coronavirus-caused market decline. The Washington Post first reported Tuesday prosecutors had alerted the senators’ defense attorneys the investigation was coming to a close. North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr, a Republican, continues to be investigated for his “more direct” involvement in trading stock following several closed briefings that evaluated the severity of the pandemic since its outbreak in China.

The probe, which the Federal Bureau of Investigation started two months ago, was just an investigation into claims that the senators had used private information to sell hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock. The Department of Justice never charged the senators for insider trading, which means an exoneration isn’t possible. Hence, Loeffler’s claim she was exonerated is false.

All four senators have widely denied their impropriety in the trading. In a recent tweet, Loeffler said the investigation was a “politically motivated attack” and the “clear exoneration affirms what I’ve said all along: I did nothing wrong.”

Michigan did not send ballots to registered voters like President Donald Trump said. Michigan’s Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, who has encouraged all voters to vote by mail for all elections held this year, announced Tuesday all 7.7 million registered voters would receive applications to vote by mail in the August primary and November general elections.

Responding to the president, Benson noted that her office was sending applications, not ballots, “just like my GOP colleagues in Iowa, Georgia, Nebraska and West Virginia.” The applications sent out, Benson said, ensure “that no Michigander has to choose between their health and their right to vote.”

In a similar tweet, Trump also accused the state of Nevada’s election officials of sending mail-in ballots to voters. Earlier this month, Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske, a Republican, announced registered voters would start receiving mailed absentee ballots to vote for the primary, held predominantly by mail.

On March 26, Nigerian River State Governor Ezenwo Wike closed the borders of the state and declared a full lockdown, expected to begin May 7, would restrict movement and business activities. The lockdown forced all hotels, guest houses and beer parlors to close indefinitely.

Speaking at the inauguration of the COVID-19 Task Force earlier this month, Wike said any hotel “that is operating, identify it and we will bring down the hotels. I have the political will, those people who disobey, will face the consequences.”

So far, two hotels were demolished on May 10: Prodest Hotel in Alode, and Etemeteh Hotel in Onne. A bar was also tore down.

“We said if any hotel operates, Government will bring down that hotel. We are doing what we have told people that we are going to do,” Wike tweeted.

It is unclear until when the lockdown will remain in place and until when the regional government will continue demolishing buildings.

There is no scientific proof the height of ceilings doesn’t stop the coronavirus from spreading. Isabel Díaz Ayuso, president of the regional government of Madrid, said patients at the Ifema Field Hospital healed much better compared to those in regular hospitals because the long hallways allowed patients to walk, which helps treat respiratory illnesses.

Díaz Ayuso said the low number of deaths in the field hospital, only 16 out of the 4,000 patients, is proof high ceilings and long hallways are crucial in the recovery of an infected person.

In the same interview, Díaz Ayuso said the “D” in COVID-19 was for December, as the virus originated in China in December of 2019. However, the letter is for “disease.”

When asked to elaborate on his claim that he has seen evidence proving the coronavirus was created in a lab in Wuhan, President Trump declined comment and said: “I can’t tell you that, I’m not allowed to tell you that.”

In a rare public statement that contradicted Trump’s claim, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence confirmed the Intelligence Community “concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not man made or genetically modified.” The statement said the Intelligence Community, formed by 17 agencies, will continue to examine new information to determine whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

At an April 14 Pentagon news briefing, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley said it shouldn’t be a surprise various intelligence agencies have taken “a hard look” at the theory. However, “at this point, it’s inconclusive although the weight of evidence seems to indicate natural. But we don’t know for certain,” he said.

A recent international study led by Kristian Andersen, an immunology and microbiology associate professor at the Scripps Research Institute in California, analyzed the genome sequence from SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses and found that the new virus, COVID-19, “is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.”

Last week, multiple intelligence agencies including the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) received a White House “specific tasking” requesting information about the coronavirus outbreak’s early days, according to an NBC News exclusive report. An official directly related to the matter said the White House requested the agencies to analyze data and figure out if China and the World Health Organization hid important information regarding the emerging coronavirus outbreak. During Monday’s press conference, President Donald Trump appeared to refer to the investigation, saying: “We’re doing very serious investigations, and we are not happy with that whole situation, because we believe it could have been stopped at the source, it could have been stopped quickly, and it wouldn’t have spread all over the world.”

The CIA declined to comment, and an official from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said they aren’t aware of such tasking. White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley agreed with Trump’s claims that the United States is “thoroughly investigating this matter.”

Trump has accused the WHO of being “very China-centric” despite being largely funded by the United States, and has since suspended U.S. funding of the organization alleging that China had influence over it since the outbreak.

U.S. Intelligence officials and experts have agreed China failed to report the numbers of cases and the seriousness of the outbreak in January. “If they took action six days earlier, there would have been much fewer patients and medical facilities would have been sufficient. We might have avoided the collapse of Wuhan’s medical system,” Zuo-Feng Zhang, an epidemiologist at the University of California Los Angeles, told AP.

Some places of the country have seen a decline in new COVID-19 cases, but not every major U.S. city has followed the trend. New York, once the epicenter of the breakout in the country, has seen a decline in hospitalization of new COVID-19 cases, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday. The number of deaths in the state rose slightly Friday to 437 after days trending lower.

However, cases in D.C., where Mayor Muriel Bowser has extended the stay-at-home order until May 15, don’t follow the clear downward trend necessary to reopen the city: Newly-confirmed daily cases over the past week vary from 171 to 51, according to the city’s situational update. In the last week, the city has reported almost 1,000 new cases.

Boston has reported, for the fourth consecutive day, a decline in new cases compared to the previous day, local news outlets reported. However, city officials have recommended against “reading too much into the daily numbers.” Despite the decrease, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh said he would have “serious concerns if we start relaxing some of the measures we have taken in Boston and the Commonwealth on May 4, especially if it is done without a clear and thoughtful plan.”

At this time, cases in the United States continue to rise.

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina announced the new herbal drink, based on Artemisia, a plant used in various malaria treatments and other endemic plants, will prevent and cure coronavirus patients. Dr. Charles Andrianjara, IMRA’s director general, said clinical observations in people who have used the drink have shown it to be effective in curative treatment. However, its safety and effectiveness have not been assessed internationally, nor has any trial data been published in peer-reviewed studies.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stated there is no scientific evidence that any alternative remedies can prevent or cure COVID-19 and clarified some herbal treatments may not be safe to consume.

Not clear and not exactly true, because the State Department, which issues visas,  already had announced March 20 it would suspend all routine immigrant and nonimmigrant visa appointments. The department did not establish a date when services would resume.

But the White House told CNN that Trump would in fact issue an executive order, although the order is expected to temporarily stop the issuance of new green cards and work visas.