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The Super Tuesday narrative is that Biden was vindicated and heÂ’s stronger than ever, but the primary map and the upcoming states suggest otherwise. With a sweep of the south and key victories in Minnesota and Massachusetts, the media narrative today will be all about how Joe Biden is the comeback kid, back from the dead, risen like a Phoenix from the ashes. That sort of thing.ItÂ’s the kind of story the media loves. They love it so much it doesnÂ’t matter whether itÂ’s true, or whether the media was writing Biden off less than a week ago. The surprise...

President Trump is set to deliver remarks to a conservative Latino group on Wednesday afternoon. The Latino Coalition Legislative Summit focuses on legislative issues impacting Latino business owners and leaders. The president is scheduled to begin at 1:50 p.m. SNIP

Asia Bibi is a Pakistani Catholic woman who was sentenced to death in 2010 for blasphemy against Islam. After more than eight years in prison, she was acquitted by the Supreme Court of Pakistan in 2018. “I was accused because of the name of Jesus and I knew I would be freed because of Jesus,” Bibi said at a Paris press conference last week. Bibi said that during her time on death row, her faith “was always strong because I knew that God was with me, God never leaves you alone, he always accompanies you.” Together with French journalist Anne-Isabelle...

Rules are changing on who can be tested for coronavirus after a growing number of people demanding to be checked have been turned away. The Centers for Disease Control issued new guidance Tuesday. Anyone can be tested for COVID-19 with no restrictions, so long as it's requested by their doctor. Vice President Mike Pence said millions of tests could be available by the end of the week. In addition to the new testing standards, some health care agencies are offering virtual visits where people can talk to a medical professional online. MultiCare Health System i offering these virtual visits for...

In this informative video, Reid Henrichs of Valor Ridge discusses rights and the importance of the people of the United States in safeguarding them. We the People are the vessel through which the Constitution and Bill of Rights are upheld. Tyranny gets its foot in the door under the guise of benevolence. Don't be fooled by the wolf in sheep's clothing. 7 minute video

When I was a kid in the 1950s, I attended a school summer camp where one of the fireside songs, sung to a Russian tune, was: No Lenin, no Trotsky, No Russian diplomatsky Will ever form a plotsky To overthrow the Czar. Hey! We all knew what had happened some 40 years earlier, but the ditty was fun to sing, and that was about my depth of understanding of the Bolshevik Revolution at that age. Today, another almost ancient phenomenon has magically appeared out of the radical mists of what was once considered a 20th-century failed movement. This marvel is...

The coronavirus crisis has brought about bleak times for travellers, with flights to many popular destinations restricted or cancelled. But the good news is that with airlines struggling to fill cabins, flight prices are plummeting. And package holiday prices are falling, too. TravelSupermarket has been analysing customer searches and package holiday prices and reports significant drops.

Seeking a place to get away from his girlfriend's incessant demands to marry her, a thief in Shanghai told police he wanted to get arrested and that's why he tried to steal a Bluetooth speaker worth 2,000 yuan ($285). "I did it because I wanted to have some alone time and stay away from my girlfriend," the man told the police in an interrogation shown in a video posted by Litchi News. He said his girlfriend has been pushing very hard to get married. A poster warning of the consequences of theft, gave him the idea that he could spend...

s it too late now for me to get my selfie with the fake Indian? How am I going to get her to autograph my copy of “Pow Wow Chow?” When does Bailey the wonder dog go back to Rent-a-Dog Kennel? She finished third in her “home state” of Massachusetts, and fourth in her native state of Oklahoma — this is Pocahontas’ own personal Wounded Knee, and throw in Horseshoe Bend and Tippecanoe, too.

If you could transport yourself back to the Middle Ages and tell people that living things too small to see can cause disease, they’d think you were crazy. Seeing is believing and, quite often, not seeing is not believing. Tragically, this phenomenon is also operative with the virus in our political system called Big Tech bias, which is, unseen by most and with no paper trail, killing Republican electoral chances and remaking our nation. What if I told you that Big Tech could have been responsible for President Trump’s impeachment? What about the credible expert who warns that Big Tech...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) on Wednesday announced four more coronavirus cases, bringing the state's total to six confirmed patients. The virus spread from a Westchester County attorney to his wife, 20-year-old son, 14-year-old daughter and neighbor who drove him to the hospital, Cuomo said at a press conference. Yeshiva University and the Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy and High School, where his son and daughter attend school, respectively, were closed Wednesday. Yeshiva University released a statement Wednesday saying it "unfortunately received news" that a male student tested positive for the coronavirus. Classes were subsequently canceled on Wilf Campus, although...

CALIFORNIA (VINnews) – Los Angeles-area officials declared an emergency, saying they’ve discovered six new COVID-19 cases in the county over the last 48 hours. “I have just signed a proclamation declaring the existence of a local emergency. I want to reiterate that this is not a response rooted in panic,” Kathryn Barger, chairwoman of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, said at a press conference. Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti joined county health officials and supervisors, along with the City of Long Beach health officer, at the news conference. County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis said the county declared the...

With the coronavirus socking it to the Asian box office, Deadline has learned that MGM, Eon and Universal are postponing the next James Bond movie, No Time to Die from its UK and international release date of April 2 and its U.S. Easter weekend global day-and-date of April 10, and moving the 25th 007 movie to Nov. 25, the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. “MGM, Universal and Bond producers, Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, announced today that after careful consideration and thorough evaluation of the global theatrical marketplace, the release of No Time to Die will be postponed until November 2020....

Jerusalem — Israel looked set to slide back into political deadlock on Wednesday as the final votes were being tallied from the third election in less than a year. CBS News correspondent Seth Doane reports Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party was holding on to a solid lead, but appeared to be falling short of the 61 seats needed to form a government. With nearly all the votes counted, Likud led the way with 36 seats followed by Benny Gantz's centrist Blue and White party, with 33 seats. The Joint List, an umbrella group of Arab-led parties, finished third with...

The Trump campaign is investing more money and resources in an attempt to attract African-American voters than any Republican presidential campaign in recent memory. The drive includes highly visible television advertising, including an $11 million Super Bowl commercial, along with ad purchases in local black newspapers and on radio stations; “Black Voices for Trump”; storefronts in key battleground states; and a sustained social media campaign directed at black voters whose consumer, religious and demographic profiles suggest potential support, including on such issues as immigration, abortion, gender roles and gay rights. For Trump, the effort became all the more crucial as...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's progressive candidates did not have a “super” Tuesday in the first congressional primaries of the 2020 cycle. The Democratic establishment, on the other hand, could breathe a sigh of relief after three primary challengers from Texas and California underperformed in highly anticipated contests against longtime Democratic incumbents and establishment darlings. A favorite of progressives across the country, Texas congressional candidate Jessica Cisneros, an immigration lawyer, came just short of recreating the AOC primary upset of her own when she attempted to unseat nine-term incumbent Henry Cuellar, who represents the Texas 28th district south of San Antonio. She...

Cruise ship passengers were kept on an ocean liner in yet another coronavirus scare at sea today after a former shipmate tested positive in Italy. Some 2,000 people were called back on board the MSC Opera from an excursion in Athens today and told not to leave the ship. Once they returned, the captain revealed that an Austrian tourist who left the ship on February 28 had been infected with the virus. The virus patient, a man, had disembarked in Genoa in northern Italy, the region at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak in Europe.

The coronavirus outbreak disrupted Islamic worship in the Middle East as Saudi Arabia on Wednesday banned its citizens and other residents of the kingdom from performing the pilgrimage in Mecca, while Iran canceled Friday prayers in major cities. The decisions in Riyadh and Tehran affected both Sunni and Shiite Muslims alike. The Saudi move expands a ban last week on foreigners visiting Mecca and Medina, home to the holiest sites in Islam. That decision alone disrupted travel for thousands of Muslims already headed to the kingdom and potentially affects plans later this year for millions more ahead of the fasting...

Genesis are reuniting in November to tour arenas all around the United Kingdom and Ireland. The 10-date tour — called “The Last Domino?” in a nod to the band’s two-part 1986 song “Domino” — begins November 16th at Dublin’s 3 Arena and wraps up December 11th at Newcastle, England’s Newcastle Utilita Arena. Tickets for most shows go on sale Friday, March 6th at 9:00 a.m. U.K. time.

Google is creating AI-powered robots that navigate without human intervention—a prerequisite to being useful in the real world. ====================================================================== Within 10 minutes of its birth, a baby fawn is able to stand. Within seven hours, it is able to walk. Between those two milestones, it engages in a highly adorable, highly frenetic flailing of limbs to figure it all out. That’s the idea behind AI-powered robotics. While autonomous robots, like self-driving cars, are already a familiar concept, autonomously learning robots are still just an aspiration. Existing reinforcement-learning algorithms that allow robots to learn movements through trial and error still rely...