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In Anyang, China, five members of a family came down with the coronavirus after hosting a guest from Wuhan in early January. But the visitor, a 20-year-old woman, never got sick herself. Some individuals who are infected with the coronavirus can spread it even though they have no symptoms, studies have shown. Asymptomatic carriers are a well-known phenomenon. But the coronavirus is a new pathogen, and these cases may complicate scientific efforts to detect cases and to curb transmission. “I don’t think there’s any question that someone who is without symptoms and carrying the virus can transmit the virus to...

Bernie Sanders does not want you to see these photographs of the health care that regular Cubans get Commentary by Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)February 28, 2020In Cuba, if you’re a tourist with U.S. dollars, you get great health care.And if you’re a high ranking government official, you also get great health.But if you’re just an average Cuban citizen, you get the kind of health care that’s in these photographs.All of these photographs are from the internet archive of the website therealcuba.com. The reason I’m using the internet archive is because the account at the original website “has been...

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) took four days to test a woman with the first confirmed case of coronavirus where the origin of the disease is unknown because she hadn't traveled abroad or been exposed to an infected patient as experts warn the deadly virus could spread quickly in the US like it did in Italy. The woman, who is a resident of Solano County, which is about 35 miles outside of Sacramento, was admitted into UC Davis Medical Center on February 19. But questions are now being asked over the CDC's handling of the case after...

Trump shakes up Justice Department, intelligence community BY OLIVIA BEAVERS - 02/27/20 06:00 AM President Trump is challenging two institutions with crucial roles to play in the next election with a controversial appointment to the intelligence community and tweets directed at the Justice Department. The intelligence appointment underscored Trump’s priority of loyalty over experience, according to critics, while the tweets complicated proceedings at the Justice Department while creating turmoil for Attorney General William Barr. This has led to stringent criticisms that he is weakening the Justice Department and intelligence community, two institutions with crucial roles to play in the next...

By Saturday night, we will know if South Carolina is the firewall that ex-Vice President Joe Biden and the rest of the Democratic Party establishment needed to prevent Sen. Bernie Sanders’ socialist revolution from consuming the party in an uncontrollable conflagration. Biden needs the Palmetto State to be a firestorm that sucks the oxygen out of Tom Steyer, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar. Above all, he needs to fight the “Bern” with fire. The latest Clemson University poll shows Biden with a commanding 18-point lead over his socialist rival. For now, it appears African-American Democrats are ignoring Biden’s poor finishes...

Bernie Sanders on Monday night released a plan for “how we pay for every program that we have developed.” No one’s surprised that the numbers don’t remotely add up — or even pass the laugh test. The list only covers 10-year costs for seven of his headline items: $16 trillion for the Green New Deal; $4 trillion for free college, pre-K and day care; $2.5 trillion for affordable housing and so on. Independent estimates from progressive outfits like the Urban Institute put the price for Medicare for All at well over $30 trillion. Sanders insists it will cost half that...

Ad spending on the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries has surpassed $1 billion — a record-shattering number with four months to go before the Democratic Party convention, a new analysis released Thursday reveals. Billionaire former three-term New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg has already spent $539 million on ads, the report by Advertising Analytics found. It had been previously reported that Bloomberg broke the record for TV and radio ad spending for a presidential campaign. “Michael Bloomberg is the $500M+ elephant at the center of the Democratic primary and has fundamentally changed the election with his billions,” the study said.

Michael Bloomberg on Thursday defended his covert surveillance of New York City Muslims as mayor in the wake of 9/11 as he faces mounting criticism for the policy. Under Bloomberg’s backing, the NYPD spent at least six years cataloging information on Muslim communities, surveilling Muslim-owned businesses, mosques and other schools and organizations linked to the faith — which advocates have described as racist and baseless religious profiling. But Bloomberg said it was what authorities were “supposed to do” following the terror attacks during an appearance on PBS Newshour.

An Arkansas judge has nixed Hunter Biden‘s bid to put off his child support deposition until after most of the key Democratic primaries are over, according to a news report. “He needs to make himself available unless his hair is on fire,” Circuit Court Judge Holly Meyer fired back at Biden’s lawyers during a conference call Wednesday, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. “He needs to be in Arkansas and he needs to be in a deposition.” Biden, 50, the son of former vice president and Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden, had asked Meyer to postpone his deposition until April.

She’s running — a podcast. Hillary Clinton is planning to launch her own podcast in the late spring after being inspired by her appearances on programs from Conan O’Brien and Howard Stern, Politico reported Thursday. The 2016 presidential candidate and former first lady still hasn’t settled on a title for her show, but it will reportedly be co-produced by iHeartMedia.

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Farrakhan says “Trump killed my brother Qassem Soleimani,” claims to be messenger promised in Qur’an FEB 27, 2020 5:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER “Mr. Trump killed my brother Qassem Soleimani. Mrs. Clinton killed my other brother Muammar Qaddafi.” “Let me tell you something brothers, the Quran asks a question – Do you wonder that a man born from among you has been selected by God, to be a messenger of His to the people, and a warner to the world and the nations? Yeah, that’s who I am. You may know me as Louis Farrakhan.” Remember, this traitor has the...

The results of the Iowa caucus remain unchanged even after a recount by the Iowa Democratic Party (IDP), which was requested by the two Democratic front-runners, former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. “The recount process resulted in no change to National Delegate allocation,” the IDP said in a statement Thursday. Buttigieg remained the winner in the state, with a marginally higher delegate count than Sanders: Buttigieg had 562.954 and Sanders had 562.021.

Michael Bloomberg's campaign called on his 2020 Democratic rival Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to release further information on his heart health, after Bloomberg's campaign made public on Thursday doctor's letters attesting that the former New York City mayor's "outstanding health" enables him to run for office. Bloomberg's last annual health exam was on July 25 and the 78-year-old billionaire underwent an annual cardiac stress test at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, according to a letter from his internist, Dr. Stephen Sisson. According to test results, Bloomberg had "normal" left ventricular cavity size, function and ejection at 60-65 percent. He also had...

"They need to investigate this. They have no other alternative..." A Ukrainian court forced the opening of an investigation into claims that former Vide President Joe Biden pressured the resignation of a special prosecutor in order to benefit his son Hunter Biden. Ditch the fake news ==> Click here to get news you can trust sent right to your inbox. It's free! The Ukrainian State Bureau of Investigations confirmed the investigation into Biden's motivation to press for the 2016 dismissal of prosecutor general Viktor Shokin, according to a report from the Washington Post. The investigation mirrors the demand made by...

“Life, Liberty & Levin” host Mark Levin gave a fired-up answer Thursday to criticism of President Trump's response to the coronavirus outbreak by Democratic leaders, most notably House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. "I watch this and I realize there's a lot of stupid people on TV," Levin told "Hannity." "The last people I want playing doctor with me or the American people are Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi." Reading off a fact sheet, Levin named a series of actions taken by Trump and his administration since the outbreak began, even as Democrats accused...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Northern California school districts said they have been notified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, urging their sites to prepare for possible novel coronavirus outbreaks. The CDC on Wednesday confirmed a case in Northern California that is possibly the first instance in the U.S. of community spread of COVID-19. The Solano County patient “had no known exposure to the virus through travel or close contact with a known infected individual,” according to the California Department of Public Health. Travis Unified School District and Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District said they were contacted by the CDC. “While...

Investigators in Ukraine have launched a probe into former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden over allegations that he pressured Ukrainian officials to fire the country’s top prosecutor in 2016, according to a report. The Ukrainian probe was launched in response to a court order, after the ousted prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, made an appeal for action in the matter, Shokin’s attorney, Oleksandr Teleshetsky, told The Washington Post. “They need to investigate this. They have no other alternative,” Teleshetsky told the Post. “They are required to do this by the decision of the court. If they don't, then they violate a whole...