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Alhambra Unified’s response? No.As fear about novel coronavirus spreads — much faster than the disease itself — nearly 14,000 people have signed an online petition, urging Alhambra Unified to cancel all classes until the outbreak ends. Officials say the movement is just part of a hysteria sweeping across the San Gabriel Valley, especially among the large Asian community, one full of conjecture and rumors. “The virus has already made a name for itself by killing many individuals in China as well as spreading to other countries at a rapid pace,” the Change.com petition reads. “There have been cases in Orange...

Felony charges were filed Monday against a 25-year-old man accused of stealing a Lincoln Navigator hearse with a woman’s body inside from in front of a church in East Pasadena. James Juarez pleaded not guilty to one felony count each of fleeing a peace officer’s vehicle while driving recklessly and driving or taking a vehicle without consent. Juarez, who is being held on $35,000 bail, was ordered to return to court on March 13, when a date is expected to be set for a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is enough evidence to proceed to trial. If convicted as...

A Chinese court has sentenced Hong Kong bookseller Gui Minhai to 10 years in jail for "illegally providing intelligence overseas". Mr Gui, who holds Swedish citizenship, has been in and out of Chinese detention since 2015, when he went missing during a holiday in Thailand. He is known to have previously published books on the personal lives of Chinese Communist Party members. Rights groups condemned the "harsh sentence" and called for his release. He was one of five owners of a small bookstore in Hong Kong who went missing in 2015. It later emerged that they had been taken to...

Ivanka Trump has officially become a registered Republican for the first time after years of voting Democrat and supporting liberal causes. 'I am a proud Trump Republican,' Ivanka declared in a New York Times interview on Monday, revealing that she had registered red so she can vote for her father Donald Trump in the New York state primary next month. Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner, both senior White House advisers, were registered Democrats for years, known to donate to liberal candidates and causes. She's been seen as a more moderate member of Team Trump, having been outspoken about her...

Flavor Flav, prototypical hype man of the legendary and socially forward rap group Public Enemy, has been, it would seem, let go. According to a statement issued on Sunday by Public Enemy, which Flavor Flav and Chuck D co-founded in the early '80s, the group and another iteration of it, Public Enemy Radio, "will be moving forward without Flavor Flav." The statement went on to "thank him for his years of service." A trademark for Public Enemy is registered solely to Chuck D, under his given name, Carlton Ridenhour. Flavor Flav responded to the announcement on Twitter on Monday afternoon,...

Unloved assistant to smarten up its act in Microsoft 365. US only, naturally Microsoft has jammed yet another knife into the consumer incarnation of its unloved electronic assistant, Cortana.As the release of Windows 10 20H1 (or 2004) looms, the company snuck out a blog late on Friday letting the dozen or so customers still using the thing know that "consumer skills including music, connected home and third-party skills will no longer be available in the updated Cortana experience in Windows 10."Cortana services in the Microsoft Launcher on Android will also be axed as a sad-faced engineer resets the "Days since...

A local nonprofit is repurposing city garbage cans as storage units for homeless people. The green cans were originally intended to be used for a city compost program, but the program eventually tanked, leaving the city with hundreds of unused cans. The nonprofit Steelbridge has 100 city cans for homeless people to store their possessions in. The cans are then securely sealed and stored at Steelbridge. “In this cart people can store as many things as people can fit in it as long as the lid can close and we can seal it off for their protection and privacy,” said...

In a surprise moment at the end of his Dallas rally on the eve of Super Tuesday, former Vice President Joe Biden called former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke up to the stage -- and vowed to put O'Rourke, who has said the government should forcibly seize assault rifles from Americans, in charge of gun-control efforts. ... Biden, taking the microphone after O'Rourke spoke, then announced, "I want to make something clear -- I'm gonna guarantee you, this is not the last you're seeing of this guy -- you're gonna take care of the gun problem with me, you're gonna be...

The coronavirus has sent stock markets plummeting and no industry, including housing, is immune. Mortgage rates are hitting multi-year lows as investors, fearful of a possible coronavirus pandemic, have flocked to safe havens like Treasuries, sending the 10-year Treasury note to a record-low yield. While low rates will give hesitant homebuyers a reason to purchase, the heightened demand for housing could further depress historically low inventory. Additionally, homebuilders rely on China, where the coronavirus or COVID-19 originated, for construction materials and any disruption in the supply chain could impact their ability to deliver much-needed new inventory into the market. “There’s...

South Korea spike: 600 new infections pushed the East Asian country's total past 4,800, including 29 deaths -- the biggest outbreak outside mainland China. (Please see link, for full article)

China has taken over as president of the UN Security Council for the month of March 2020, pledging to promote solidarity and cooperation..... The council's presidency is a capacity that rotates every month among its 15 members

He said the continuing confirmation of additional cases is "a critical phase" .....the situation has changed completely due to the massive number of infections of 'followers of a fringe religious group known as Shincheonji.' Most of the cases were reported in Daegu, 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul, and the neighboring province. "The crisis in Daegu and North Gyeongsang Province reached its peak and the whole country has entered a war against the infectious disease," Moon said. He ordered all of the government's organizations to shift to a "24-hour emergency situation room system," citing the need to bolster readiness to handle...

I'm thinking of voting for Bernie Sanders in the primary tomorrow. His shellacking in the general election would help Democrats repudiate the far left.

ATLANTA - Gov. Brian Kemp, during a late-night press conference, announced two people in Georgia have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. Both patients live together and one recently returned from Italy. Georgia Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Kathleen Toomey said the patients lived in Fulton County, according to officials, and contacted their doctor once one of them returned and felt sick. Because of their travel history, they had contacted their doctor and arranged to meet the doctor without putting the general public at risk. Dr. Toomey said because of the precautions the two patients took, the risk of...

Judy Sheindlin announced she’s ending her long-running show “Judge Judy” after its 25th season, but that doesn’t mean she’s leaving TV any time soon. The acclaimed television personality announced the big news during an interview on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” that’s set to air on Monday. The 77-year-old celebrity revealed that Season 25, which will air in 2021, will be the “best year yet” and a fitting end to the show that sees her preside over people’s legal squabbles. Fortunately for fans, they'll still be able to see her on TV as she will be moving from “Judge Judy” to...

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The Liberals have banned single-use plastic by 2021 and have signed onto an international plastics treaty, but are they living how they preach? An order paper response to a question asked by Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner shows one government ministry spent nearly a million dollars on single use plastic water bottles since 2017. In 2018, the Liberals signed onto the G7 Oceans Plastic Charter to “commit to a more resource-efficient and lifecycle approach to plastics stewardship on land and at sea”. The following year, Trudeau announced that he would ban single use plastics and introduced us to his “paper...

A group that is working on getting President Donald Trump re-elected refused to pull an advertisement that features former President Barack Obama talking about his vice president, Joe Biden......Obama asked television stations in South Carolina to stop running the ad. The Perkins Coie law firm sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Committee claiming that the video featured an “unauthorized use of President Obama’s name, image, likeness, voice, and book passage.”...........In a response letter, the group declined to stop running it, asserting the use of the content “is a lawful expression of political speech” and that it “has complied with all...

Evangelist Franklin Graham has taken legal action against two more venues for canceling his U.K. tour events planned for May due to his biblical views on homosexuality, according to a spokesperson of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. After launching legal proceedings against the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow, BGEA has now sued the FlyDSA Arena in Sheffield and ICC Wales in the city of Newport, South Wales, Christian Today reported. The Scottish Event Campus, owners of the Glasgow Hydro, had been given time until Thursday to explain why it canceled Graham’s event slated for May 30 — the first night...

Those few people watching “Hardball” on MSNBC were treated to a surprise announcement — the episode they were watching had been the last, and host Chris Matthews says he’s retiring.