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The President of the United States of America, the Honorable Donald J. Trump, paid a State Visit to India on February 24-25, 2020, at the invitation of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi.Comprehensive Global Strategic PartnershipAs the leaders of sovereign and vibrant democracies recognizing the importance of freedom, equal treatment of all citizens, human rights, and a commitment to the rule of law, President Trump and Prime Minister Modi vowed to strengthen a United States-India Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership, anchored in mutual trust, shared interests, goodwill, and robust engagement of their citizens.President Trump and Prime Minister Modi pledged to deepen defense...

While Lesvos and Chios residents continue to clash with police, heavy construction machinery has arrived at the plots of land where the government’s proposed new migrant camps will be situated. Samos Island residents are ready to take it to the streets as well, in full protest against the building of the new, enclosed detention camps.

Millennial Millie reveals the ultimate back story of how Barack Obama attempted to use an executive order to prevent Donald Trump from fully becoming President and how Trump cleverly got around it.

Office of National Drug Control Policy All News Today, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Director Jim Carroll released the largest-ever amount of annual baseline funding for its High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) Program.More than $266 million will be disbursed to 29 regional HIDTA Programs in 50 States, Washington, DC, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, which is more than $2 million higher than the previous year’s  funding level.The HIDTA Program is the Nation’s leading effort to coordinate the action and priorities of Federal, State, local, and tribal law enforcement partners in disrupting and...

Should white people sing black spirituals? Western Michigan University is grappling with that question after a black student was triggered and suffered a social media meltdown when a predominantly white choir sang “Wade in the Water.” “So apparently Western Michigan University thinks it’s ok for WHITE peoples to sing negro spirituals while the instructor talking bout ‘these songs don’t belong to one race.’ They sure as hell DO,” WMU music major Shaylee Faught wrote on a social media now seen by more than 1 million people. Faught got triggered after the choir’s black conductor reportedly told the audience that the...

ll eyes were on Bernie Sanders last night on the debate stage, and a common criticism he faced was over his electability. Mini Mike said “Bernie will lose to Donald Trump, and Donald Trump and the House and the Senate and some of the statehouses will all go red,” describing the situation as catastrophic. Pete Buttigieg blasted the cost of Sanders’ “free everything” policies, saying that the true cost adds up to “four more years of Donald Trump.” I agree – but you have to laugh at the lack of self-awareness among the other candidates if they actually believe they’re...

I would like to mention the possibility of aspirin as the enhancer of virulencein 1918 pandemic. During 18 months of so called "Spanish Flu pandemic" in 1918-19, 27 million people died world-wide. Mortality rate was the highest especially in the second wave of the pandemic: October 1918, especially in US. The age-specific mortality curve did not trace the "U", but resembled a "W" with very high mortality rates in healthy young adults aged 20-40 years as well as in those less than 5 years of age and those aged 65 years and older. No adequate explanation of this mortality pattern...

(CNN) — When it comes to novel coronavirus safety, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests facial hair be kept to a minimum so it fits within a facepiece respirator. Side whiskers, soul patches, lampshades and handlebar mustaches are good to go, according to a CDC infographic. But styles like a stubble, beard, Dali and mutton chops, are not recommended because they are likely to interfere with a facepiece respirator. Masks and respirators are being utilized around the world to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, which has reached more than 80,000 cases globally. A respirator covers at...

More coronavirus cases are now being reported each day outside China than inside the hardest-hit nation, the World Health Organization has said. Just 411 patients were struck down yesterday in China, where 96 per cent of COVID-19 cases have been recorded since the crisis began in December. But data obtained by the UN-agency show 427 cases were recorded outside China, amid a worrying spike in Italy, South Korea and Iran. The WHO's director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom admitted the sudden jump in cases was 'deeply concerning' as fears of a pandemic continue to grow. More than 81,000 cases of the coronavirus...

In the early 1990s, the population of Bend was around 25,000 and leaned Republican. A lumber mill operated along the banks of the Deschutes River in Oregon’s high-desert country. Today, the lumber mill is an REI outdoor recreation store. The population has quadrupled. And for the first time in memory, the number of registered Democrats in Deschutes County recently eclipsed the number of Republicans. The transformation shows how demographic shifts and the GOP’s tack further to the right are helping push the party into a nosedive along the West Coast. The last Republican presidential candidate that California went for was...

MOSCOW—The Russians were excited once again for a U.S. presidential election in which they could interfere to sow division and discord, but their excitement soon turned to dismay when they found an election already too chaotic for them to follow. “Everyone is ready to tear each other apart in the Democratic primary,” commented Aleksei Teplov, a Russian hacker. “It seems like if we tried to add any more chaos, it would just be a drop in the ocean.” Teplov described how anytime they tried to get people to turn against each other, it was always overshadowed by a grassroots campaign...

This is just sick, and Coronavirus had nothing to do with it. – Rush Limbaugh took a lot of crap on Tuesday after he said on his Monday program that the Democrats and their corrupt toadies in the nation’s news media were conspiring to “weaponize” the Coronavirus against President Donald Trump. Since Rush said that, though, the accuracy of his remark has been proven beyond a shadow of any doubt at all. It started with the statement Tuesday morning by CDC official Dr. Nancy Messonnier – who happens to be the sister of Deep State snake Rod Rosenstein – that...

“Socialism has failed everywhere it’s ever been tried,” Haley said. “Instead of prosperity, it leads to poverty.” “Instead of opportunity, it creates dependency. Instead of liberty, it means oppression at home and often means aggression abroad instead of hope for a better tomorrow,” she said. She pointed out that though countries around the world suffer from socialism, “socialism has become trendy in parts of America these days,” drawing on Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s affinity for socialism. “It’s in Congress, where an up and coming congresswoman says, ‘Capitalism is irredeemable,'” Haley said, referring to...

Hyderabad House New Delhi, India 1:23 P.M. IST PRIME MINISTER MODI: My friend and President of the United States, Donald Trump; respected members of the American delegation; ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. Once again, a very warm welcome to President Trump and his delegation in India. I am especially really happy that he has brought his family with him on this visit. In the last eight months, this is the fifth meeting between President Trump and myself. Yesterday, the unprecedented and historic welcome for President Trump yesterday in Motera will always be remembered. Yesterday, it became clear once again that...

The Census Bureau is paying a Chinese-controlled TV station to run ads promoting this year's census, Axios reports. The strategy is part of the bureau's overarching 2020 Census Paid Media Campaign, which pays government money to community media outlets to run ads about the census with the hope that the agency is able to reach as many people as possible. The Census Bureau is not directly running the media campaign. The government agency outsourced the project to marketing firm VMLY&R, which delegated outreach to Asian American audiences to another firm, TDW+Co. "The 2020 Census Paid Media Campaign decision was made...

Motera Stadium Ahmedabad, India 1:55 P.M. IST PRESIDENT TRUMP: Namaste! Namaste. (Applause.) And hello to India. This is such a great honor. Let me begin by expressing my profound gratitude to an exceptional leader, a great champion of India, a man who works night and day for his country, and a man I am proud to call my true friend: Prime Minister Modi. (Applause.) The First Lady and I have just traveled 8,000 miles around the globe to deliver a message to every citizen across this nation: America loves India, America respects India, and America will always be faithful and...

Former Vice President Joe Biden has an 18-point lead over his Democratic presidential primary opponents in South Carolina, according to a poll released Wednesday. Biden has 35 percent support in the Clemson University poll released just days ahead of Saturday’s South Carolina primary. Businessman Tom Steyer, who has focused much of his campaign on South Carolina, pulled in a distant second at 17 percent support in the poll.

Contact: (916) 210-6000, agpressoffice@doj.ca.gov SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today sent a letter to members of Congress with an update on California’s implementation of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). In the letter, the Attorney General urged Congress to use federal legislation to build on rather than preempt the consumer rights and privacy protections made possible by the CCPA or other state law. Attorney General Becerra further emphasized that Congress should provide consumers with greater enforcement power and be a partner to the states in the work of protecting consumer privacy.“I invite Congress to look to the states as...

CLAIM: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) claimed at the Democrat debate in Charleston, South Carolina, broadcast on CBS Tuesday night that she was fired from her first teaching job for being pregnant. Specifically, Warren said that after she was visibly pregnant, her principal “wished me luck and gave my job to someone else. Pregnancy discrimination? You bet.” VERDICT: False. Warren has been making this claim on the campaign trail since June 2019, but all the documentary evidence surrounding her departure from her first job as a public school teacher in New Jersey during the 1970-1971 academic year indicates it was voluntary....

NORTH HERO, VT—After another long few weeks out on the campaign trail, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders finally got a few minutes to take a break at one of his three homes. This particular home, his quaint, $600,000 lakeside mansion, has one of Sanders' favorite rooms in all of his homes: a "Hall of Dictators," where he hangs portraits of his favorite totalitarian despots. "Hello there, fellas," Sanders said as he closed the door behind him. "I hope I'm doin' you proud, guys." Sanders walked up to one portrait and began to caress the face of Fidel Castro. "Fidel, I'm sorry...