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Michigan's Democrat governor, Gretchen Whitmer, has had her emergency coronavirus crisis powers repealed after her overreaching stay-at-home order triggered statewide unrest.The GOP-controlled Michigan legislature took steps to reign in Gov. Whitmer’s emergency powers on Friday.

The Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia has confirmed that former Vice President Joe Biden is the subject of an "active, ongoing investigation" into allegations of sexual assault.The department is actively investigating the complaint brought against Biden brought by his former staffer Tara Reade.

President Donald Trump dropped the hammer on the previous administration after revealing on live TV that the White House is investigating reports the Obama admin sent millions of dollars to the Wuhan lab suspected of being linked to the origins of COVID-19.Details have recently emerged that Barack Obama's National Institutes of Health (NIH) sent a $3.7 million grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2015.

The UK Government has dropped Chinese Communist Party-linked Huawei as the country's 5G cellphone network vendor over allegations China covered-up the initial outbreak of coronavirus.The move is another significant blow to China in response to the Chinese government's poor COVID-19 transparency.

The mayor of a northern California city, who recently stepped down after comparing supporters of President Donald Trump to members of the Ku Klux Klan, has been killed in a plane crash, reports say.Neon Nettle reported last week that Auburn Mayor William Kirby had compared the president and his supporters to the KKK, triggering a backlash online which prompted him to step down.

Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman (D) has slammed the shutdown of "nonessential" businesses amid the COVID-19 pandemic, demanding that "we must reopen" now.Mayor Goodman, a Democrat, blasted the coronavirus crisis measures as "total insanity."Goodman argues that shutting businesses down is "total insanity."

Anti-Trump former CIA Director John Brennan is at the center of the Justice Department's investigation into the origins of the Russian collusion hoax, according to reports.Former U.S. Attorney Joseph DiGenova confirmed Monday that his sources close to the DOJ's criminal investigation of the origins of the Obama administration's Trump-Russia counter-intelligence probe have named Brennan.

A viral petition calling for the director-general of the Worldwide Health Organization (WHO) to resign has gone viral, amassing almost one million signatures.WHO boss Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has come under fire over the organization's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Attorney General William Barr has revealed that U.S. Attorney John Durham's investigation, into the origins of claims of Russian collusion against President Donald Trump, has uncovered evidence "far more troubling" than what could be explained away as "mistakes or sloppiness."AG Barr shed new light on Durham’s review of the Russia investigation during an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Thursday night.

Attorney General William Barr is confident that when the coronavirus pandemic finally ends, Americans will realize that President Donald Trump saved a lot of lives by moving to close down the border early.Trump recently sent more than 550 troops to the Southern Border earlier to reinforce its closure and help prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Ammon Bundy said this at the public meeting he organized: "It's all of us going to the governer's house, right, literally, and saying, YOU WILL NOT DO THIS! WE ARE NOT OK WITH THIS! WE ARE GOING TO HIS HOUSE!" How is calling for potentially infected and undoubtedly armed angry people to show up at the Governor's personal residence not considered a real threat? He plans to hold another public event tonight in Emmett Idaho.

Per the NY Times, as China moves forward with expelling almost all American journalists from three major American newspapers, Trump administration officials have intensified discussions over whether to evict employees of Chinese media outlets who they say mainly act as spies. The action is under consideration because some U.S. officials want to retaliate against China in a new conflict that has revolved around news organizations and is being fueled by hostility over the coronavirus pandemic.

One of the constants in social media posts from or emails between conservatives is the hope that the coronavirus pandemic will knock the underpinnings from gender madness. The reasoning behind this hope is that the “gender is a social construct” theory was the luxury of a safe, affluent society. With people feeling insecure about both their physical safety and their economic security, “wokeness” will be exposed for the frivolous nonsense it really is and quickly recede.

Fox Business Network fired anchor Trish Regan. The network made the announcement on Friday saying that they have officially “parted ways” with Regan. “We thank her for her contributions to the network over the years and wish her continued success in her future endeavors,” the network said in a statement. “We will continue our reduced live primetime schedule for the foreseeable future in an effort to allocate staff resources to continuous breaking news coverage on the Coronavirus crisis.”

Amid deadlock, Senator Martha McSally threatened to introduce a bill withholding Senators pay “until Americans are put before politics” if the coronavirus relief package fails a second time. If the Senate can’t come together in a time of great need, no Senator should receive a paycheck—like millions of Americans. If the urgent COVID-19 relief package fails again, I’m introducing a bill immediately to withhold Senators’ pay until Americans are put before politics.

The co-director of Stanford University’s Meta-Research Innovation Center, John P.A. Ioannidis, wrote in an opinion piece this week a warning to Americans that participating in voluntary shutdowns and allowing the government to set curfews and manipulate the free market before dependable data collected could be a mistake. The professor of medicine, population health, statistics, biomedical data science, and epidemiology described the the current collection of data as “utterly unreliable” due to the inability to test everyone who had potentially been infected. Ioannidis said that coronavirus may be a “once-in-a-century evidence fiasco”.

Now a charity with nationwide reach, the nonprofit Code of Vets alleviates hardships faced by thousands of Americans who’ve come home from honorable military service. The cases they handle range from evictions and foreclosures to post-traumatic stress disorder and other medical issues. Yet their effort began not even three years ago as a mere Twitter page, recognizing the life and memory of one devoted patriot, Sergeant Danny Smiley. A Bronze Star Medal recipient who served in Vietnam and was exposed to agent orange, Smiley lost his battle with PTSD at the age of 57. His daughter is Gretchen Smith, herself...

A new report claims that the first people infected with the virus took sick more than a month before China ever admitted the virus existed, according to The Western Journal. Based on Chinese government documents to which it had access, the South China Morning Post reported that a 55-year-old in the Hubei province, which contains the city of Wuhan, contracted the disease on Nov. 17.

Fox News’ Michael Hollan published the “delivery do’s and don’ts” to ensure safety precautions are taken for those who use food delivery services. “As more and more people across the U.S. are preparing to stay in for the time being,” Hollan writes, “some may be asking if it’s safe to get food delivered to their house.” CNET reported that food delivery services such as Doordash, Uber Eats, Grubhub and Postmates have continued to operate.

Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley argued now is the time to commute the sentences of some federal prisoners who are vulnerable to the coronavirus outbreak. Pressley, who is a member of the liberal contingent of four women in Congress known as “the Squad,” told Al Sharpton on his MSNBC show Saturday that she and some other Democrats are advocating for the “compassionate” releases of inmates.