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Fleets of firetrucks can be seen rolling down the streets of Wuhan spraying chemicals in the air. Chinese government-owned newspaper The People’s Daily released video of the “disinfection” of the city of Wuhan featuring fire trucks and platoons of men in hazmat gear roaming the streets and spraying chemicals in the air. The People’s Daily, which is the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, posted the video to Twitter. “Full-front disinfection work has started in #Wuhan, an effort to contain the spread of #coronavirus,” the tweet caption read. In the footage, fleets of fire...

Seattle’s City Council on Monday voted to ban some residential evictions during winter months in a 7-0 vote after narrowing the scope of the originally proposed measure. The final, passed version of the bill cut the months covered by the measure from five to three months and limited it to low- and moderate-income tenants, as well as an exemption for landlords with four or fewer housing units, the Seattle Times reported. “This is huge and I think we should be proud of our movement,” said Councilmember Kshama Sawant (D), who sponsored the legislation, although she expressed disappointment with the amendments....

A Columbus man who was considered the last of the surviving Flying Tigers from World War II has died. Frank Losonsky, 99, died Thursday at home from natural causes, his son Chris told the Ledger-Enquirer in a phone interview Monday. No funeral service is planned, he said. According to a 2019 article on the Voice of America website, Losonsky was the last survivor of the Flying Tigers. That’s the nickname of the legendary World War II bombardiers officially called the American Volunteer Group. They were 311 U.S. military service members recruited to help the Chinese Air Force fend off the...

Oh my God, I’ve made a bad impression already,” Dick Cavett says apologetically after I ever-so-gently correct his pronunciation of my name. When I suggest that I should be the one worried about interviewing one of the all-time great interviewers, he’s quick to put me at ease. “You’d better put that aside and out of your mind,” he tells me. “I can’t detect any faults in you so far. I’ve reached the 83-year-old talk show legend by phone at his home in Connecticut just a few days before the new documentary, Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes, is...

KENT, Ohio (WKBN) – Kent State University is finalizing its plans to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the May 4 shootings that killed four students in 1970. Activist and actress Jane Fonda will be the featured speaker on May 3. The event is free and open to the public, but you will need a ticket to get in. Fonda was there once before for a May 4th memorial in 1974. A number of other events will be held the weekend of May 1-4. Markers will be dedicated to honor the nine students hurt in the National Guard attack. Sandra Scheuer,...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is urging senators to reject efforts to rein in President Trump's ability to take military action against Iran without congressional approval. The Senate is expected to vote this week on a resolution from Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) that would require Trump to end any military hostilities against Tehran within 30 days. "I will strongly oppose our colleague's effort and urge the Senate to defeat it," McConnell said from the Senate floor. McConnell argued that the Kaine resolution is "blunt and clumsy" and would "severely limit the U.S. military's operational flexibility to defend itself against...

EXETER, NH -- Gwen English was sitting in a coffee shop next to Hillary Clinton in 2008 when Clinton began to tear up in response to a question from a voter during the height of that year’s presidential campaign. English, a retired teacher, loved Clinton. But she contrasted Clinton’s reserve with the more engaging personality of Sen. Amy Klobuchar. English is anxious, like just about every Democratic voter here in the Granite State, about whether her party is on track to unify around a candidate who can defeat President Trump in the general election this fall. “It’s total fear,” English...

... Almost 200 Second Amendment supporters massed on the sidewalk outside Bloomberg’s brand new campaign office with signs and bullhorns to greet the Bloomberg ”Gun Violence Prevention Tour” when it pulled up in the overwhelmingly liberal Northern Virginia enclave of Arlington for an Second Amendment infringement gala. The fly in the anti-gun punchbowl, however, was that our impromptu gun rights rally attendance was two to three times the number of the Bloomberg minions gathered inside. In addition to the VCDL members that mixed in with our Patriot Picket squad, we were also supplemented by the ArfCom Regulars, who made their...

Harrison Ford has gone from trashing America to trashing its president. The actor appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Monday night to promote his new Disney movie Call of the Wild and called President Donald Trump a “son of a bitch.” Kimmel held up a fake promotional poster showing fake reviews for Ford’s new film. The reviews were attributed to Donald Trump. One of them read, “It was a perfect call,” which alludes to how President Trump described his call last summer with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a call that pretty much sparked the Democrats’ impeachment campaign to oust the president....

President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City, is now submitting his investigative work on U.S. political corruption in Ukraine to the Department of Justice. Giuliani’s work seems focused on uncovering money laundering, corruption by Joe Biden and his son Hunter and other political elites, and Attorney General William Barr acknowledged Monday that DOJ has set up a vetting process for Giuliani’s information, which the former mayor gained from overseas travel, including a trip to Ukraine with reporter Chanel Rion of One America News. “For that reason, we had established an intake process in the field...

...This is the story of our times—the story of the family, once a dense cluster of many siblings and extended kin, fragmenting into ever smaller and more fragile forms. The initial result of that fragmentation, the nuclear family, didn’t seem so bad. But then, because the nuclear family is so brittle, the fragmentation continued. In many sectors of society, nuclear families fragmented into single-parent families, single-parent families into chaotic families or no families. If you want to summarize the changes in family structure over the past century, the truest thing to say is this: We’ve made life freer for individuals...

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department will back off its sentencing recommendation for Roger J. Stone Jr., President Trump’s former campaign adviser and longtime friend, a senior department official said Tuesday, with senior department officials intervening to overrule front-line prosecutors who tried the case. The move is highly unusual and is certain to generate allegations of political interference. It came after federal prosecutors in Washington asked a judge late Monday evening to sentence Mr. Stone to seven to nine years in prison on seven felony convictions for trying to sabotage a congressional investigation that threatened Mr. Trump. Early on Tuesday, Mr....

Here's hoping 2020 is the best year yet!! Now that he has been forever acquitted, President Trump should put the failed partisan impeachment attempt behind him, then concentrate on winning the 2020 election with wide coattails. Then bide his time as the cases against the various coup plotters wind their way through the justice system. Highest priority political items: Win the election, hold the senate, take back the house!! And then continue the work of making America great again: Build the wall, enforce the law, deport them all!! End DACA!! End sanctuary cities!! End anchor babies!! Continue cutting regulations, cutting...

The event felt less like a campaign rally and more like a curiosity. It’s not a curiosity anymore. Monday night's rally was a celebration, and unlike any any political event I’ve ever experienced. Four years ago, I walked in from a freezing New Hampshire blizzard into my first Donald Trump for president rally. We knew a few things — at least we thought we did. At the time he wasn’t just a long shot, he was frankly an impossibility. The event felt less like a campaign rally and more like a curiosity. It’s not a curiosity anymore. Monday night’s rally...

The Justice Department is preparing to change its sentencing recommendation for Roger Stone after top brass were “shocked” at the stiff prison term initially being sought, according to a senior DOJ official. Federal prosecutors had recommended that Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentence Stone to between 87 and 108 months in prison for his conviction on seven counts of obstruction, witness tampering, and making false statements to Congress on charges that stemmed from former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. “The Department was shocked to see the sentencing recommendation in the filing in the Stone case last night,” the official told...

President Donald Trump directed the Department of Interior to open up more federal lands for energy production and recreation, including in Utah where he downsized massive amounts of land put off limits by the Obama administration. The Department of Interior announced the finalized plan last week even as environmentalists challenge Trump’s 2017 proclamations to return the boundaries Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante monuments to be consistent with the Antiquities Act of 1906.

"Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" is an American country and pop song originally recorded by Freddy Fender in 1959, and re-recorded by him in 1975. It is considered by many to belong to the swamp pop idiom of south Louisiana and southeast Texas that had such a major musical impact on Fender."Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" was certified gold for sales of one million units by the Recording Industry Association of America. The song was a major hit in New Zealand. In 1975, it spent a total of 12 weeks in the number one position in the New Zealand...

Only married couples can have sex, according to a legal loophole still on the books in Virginia. Democratic state legislators in the Virginia House of Delegates repealed the “crime of fornication” last week—in the state that has long used the slogan, “Virginia is for lovers” to attract tourists, Fox 40 reports. Currently, fornication is a Class 4 misdemeanor and carries a fine up to $250. “It’s a stupid law. It’s crazy,” Democratic delegate Mark Levine, who introduced H.B. 245, said. “No one should think they can be prosecuted for this common practice.” […] “Now that the Democrats are in power,...

A Chinese lawyer who had been documenting the coronavirus outbreak in the city of Wuhan has not been seen or heard from since last week, and friends and family say they fear he may have been forcibly quarantined by the Chinese government. The lawyer, Chen Qiushi, 34, made a series of social media posts about the outbreak in Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus epidemic, starting on Jan. 25, several days after the city was locked down by the Chinese government to help stop the spread of the virus, which has killed over 1,000 people in China. Calling himself a...

Radical anti-American financier George Soros recently unveiled a scheme to sink $1 billion into a new global university to fight nationalism and climate change, twin phantoms he emotes are “threatening the survival of our civilization.” Why is this a bad thing? Because global warming is a hoax and nationalism –at least in a good nation like the United States— is a good thing, and because Soros is a living, breathing malignancy who has devoted the past several decades of his life to advancing evil in the world. If America is indeed “one nation under God,” as the Pledge of Allegiance...