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China issued a warning on Monday to its citizens against traveling to the United States, claiming that they are likely to be subject to “unfair treatment” because China is the origin country of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. In a statement, the Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism said that “excessive epidemic prevention measures” are making many Chinese people feel uncomfortable. The warning also cites a supposed “security situation” across the country, without explaining what specifically is being compromised. “Recently, Chinese tourists have been treated unfairly repeatedly in the United States due to excessive epidemic prevention measures and the security situation...

Most registered voters say they believe President Trump is likely to be re-elected for a second term in November, even if they aren’t voting for him. That’s according to a recently published CBS News poll. Many registered voters reportedly have already made up their minds about who they are voting for in the 2020 presidential election, regardless of who the Democrat nominee turns out to be. Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders leads in overall preference among Democratic primary voters polled.

Not many people know Madison Bumgarner as well as his former manager Bruce Bochy. Bumgarner was only 19 years old when he made his major league debut for Bochy and the Giants in 2009. He spent 11 years taking the mound with Bochy manning the dugout in San Francisco. The two formed a close bond over more than a decade together, while winning three World Series championships. But even Bochy seemed surprised by Bumgarner's rodeo alias "Mason Saunders" that he used over recent years in team-roping competitions. The Athletic reported Sunday that Bumgarner has participated in competitions under an alias,...

Human trials testing a potential vaccine for the COVID-19 coronavirus are expected to begin in six weeks, U.S. health officials announced Tuesday. “We are on time at least and maybe even a little bit better,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, told reporters at a press conference. “Hopefully, no further glitches.” The White House reportedly asked Congress on Monday for $1.25 billion , including money to develop a vaccine and therapeutics to treat the virus. The National Institutes of Health has been working...

Lawmakers in both parties on Tuesday expressed growing alarm that the threat of coronavirus in the United States is serious, and that the Trump administration is not doing enough to fight it. Two Cabinet members at separate hearings were grilled over what lawmakers described as an insufficient response so far, while Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) said the White House's budget request to handle the disease was lackluster. ..

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) slammed former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in an interview Tuesday, suggesting that even if the billionaire candidate were to win the presidency in November, he would pave the way for "a worse Trump." "Obviously, we have to beat Trump, but if we beat Trump and go back to the same policies that we had before, a worse Trump is going to come. A Trump that’s more sophisticated, whose fascism is less obvious, is going to come, and things could get even worse," Ocasio-Cortez, a prominent campaign surrogate for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), said during...

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Americans who do not identify as either a man or a woman would be able to choose a third non-binary gender option on their passport under a bill proposed by a House Democrat on Monday. The Gender Inclusive Passport Act, introduced by Representative Ro Khanna, would require the State Department to create a gender-neutral option “in a passport, passport card, or Consular Report of Birth Abroad, and for other purposes.” “Respecting every American’s gender must extend to travel abroad,” Khanna, a California Democrat, said in a statement. “The freedom to move and express yourself no matter what should be guaranteed in this country. …...

It was our family dream, to live in America. It took three years of planning and paperwork, and winning a life lottery, but there it was: permission to come to the United States of America.  The year was 1991 and the Soviet Union was in the midst of a collapse. We were living in our government-issued apartment: two bedrooms, three families. My grandparents slept in the living room. (Themed, empty rooms and choice of your home is a capitalist concept found in America, not present in countries that endured years of socialism.) Food was sparse and the idea of a...

The nation’s top Marine, Commandant Gen. David Berger, took to social media Tuesday morning to stress the service’s “most important matters.” A series of eight tweets telegraphed a wide range of areas the officer wants his chain of command to focus on in 2020, which includes a push for more female infantry officers and and examination of the cost of one-year paid maternity leave. Gen. Berger wrote: “While I am aware of the good work already being done across the force in support of my planning guidance implementation, these are some of my most important matters for immediate execution. (1/8)”...

How did Xi Jinping—the general secretary of the Communist Party of China, who has been consolidating his power since taking over the post in 2012—let things get to this point? It might be that he didn’t fully know what was happening in his own country until it was too late. Xi would be far from the first authoritarian to have been blindsided. Ironically, for all the talk of the technological side of Chinese authoritarianism, China’s use of technology to ratchet up surveillance and censorship may have made things worse, by making it less likely that Xi would even know what...

Vatican Abp organizing Global Education Pact touts pope’s ‘new humanism’ where God ‘withdraws’ Vatican archbishop Vincenzo Zani said Pope Francis’s ‘new humanism’ centers on a God who ‘creates but then withdraws.’ Abp. Vincenzo Zani, secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education. ROME, February 25, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — The Vatican prelate tasked with organizing the Global Education Pact to be signed at the Vatican on May 14 has explained the theological vision at the heart of Pope Francis’s “new humanism,” in which God withdraws in order to allow for the possibility of human freedom. Speaking to LifeSite at a Global...

Bob Iger will step down as Disney CEO and assume the role of executive chairman, Disney announced on Tuesday. Bob Chapek, who most recently served as chairman of Disney parks, experiences and products, will assume the role of CEO, effective immediately, Disney announced. Shares of Disney fell about 2.5% after hours. Iger will remain executive chairman of Disney through the end of 2021, according to the company. He has been instrumental in making Disney a media powerhouse with key acquisitions and content plays. He launched Disney+, immediately making Disney a popular streaming service provider. Disney said the service had 26.5...

A woman was arrested after she allegedly assaulted a Federal Air Marshal on a flight from Frankfurt, Germany, to Virginia on Saturday. Dana Mustafa, 27, of North Carolina, was aboard a United Airlines flight bound for Dulles International Airport when flight attendants reportedly caught her smoking inside the lavatory, according to Fox 5. When they told her smoking was not allowed and asked her to return to her seat, Mustafa became upset and claimed she was going home to see her family but they had just been killed in a car accident. “A Federal Air Marshal then observed Mustafa leave...

As the report notes, the millennials (defined as individuals 18-37 in 2018) “demonstrate lower basic financial literacy levels while at the same time being more likely to overestimate their own financial knowledge.”

[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Who Criticised Francis, Suspended Włocławek Bishop Wiesław Mering forbad the former Karaganda/Kazakhstan Archbishop Jan Lenga, 69, to preach and to say Mass in public. Lenga was secretly ordained a priest in 1980 in Soviet Union and has fought totalitarian regimes for many years. Since his retirement, he has been residing at the Licheń sanctuary, Włocławek diocese. Diocesan chancellor, Father Artur Niemira, told KAI that the ban also applies to contacts with the media. It will remain in place until further restrictions will be announced by the Vatican. Lenga describes Francis as an antichrist and heretic. During liturgies,...

If you've been watching Pete Buttigieg out on the stump, you might feel like you're experiencing a little déjà vu. The Recount went back and found numerous instances of the South Bend mayor imitating President Barack Obama's famous speeches.

Pete Buttigieg is Barack Obama's Mini Me, or, as one Twitter user put it, "Fauxbama." Buttigieg's speech cadence, his shirt sleeves and even the knot of his tie are the same as President Obama's. And now a political Twitter account called "The Recount" has found that former Mayor Buttigieg's words are exactly the same as Obama's. For years Barack Obama reused and recycled Deval Patrick's old "no red America, no blue America, just the United States of America" speech written by their mutual political spirit animal David Axelrod. Obama, ahem, borrowed Elizabeth Warren's "you didn't build that" trope to denigrate initiatives by business owners...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday alerted Americans to begin preparing for the spread of coronavirus in the United States, after the flu-like virus surfaced in several more countries. The announcement signals a change in tone for the U.S. health agency, which had largely been focused on efforts to stop the virus from entering the country and quarantining individuals traveling from China.