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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — The number of Northern California residents who contracted the coronavirus on a February cruise to Mexico aboard the Grand Princess grew to at least five Friday with two new cases reported in Contra Costa County. Meanwhile, Vice President Mike Pence announced on Friday that 19 crew members and two passengers on the current cruise have tested positive for the coronavirus. He said the ship would dock at a “non-commercial port” over the weekend and the more than 2,000 passengers would be allowed to leave the boat. “We have developed a plan which will be implemented...

AUSTIN, Texas — For the first time in its 34-year history, South by Southwest has been canceled as the City of Austin declares a local disaster due to concerns about coronavirus spreading. In an announcement on Friday by Mayor Steve Adler, Judge Sarah Eckhardt, Dr. Mark Escott of the Interim Health Authority and Austin Public Health Director Stephanie Hayden, the City of Austin declared a local disaster, canceling the spring festival event as the COVID-19 virus causes worldwide concern. Judge Eckhardt also signed a companion declaration of disaster to apply county-wide in Travis County to festival gatherings that have guests...

He’s never heard of Prozac? Bill Clinton waves off his tawdry affair with then-White House intern Monica Lewinsky in a new documentary — by saying it was something he did “to manage my anxiety.

South Korea has tested more than 140,000 people for the new coronavirus and confirmed more than 6,000 cases. Its fatality rate is around 0.6%. This suggests that, as many health experts have predicted, the virus' fatality rate seems to decrease as more cases are reported. That's because more widespread testing leads more mild cases to be included in the count. The US, by contrast, has tested around 1,500 people. The country has 221 confirmed cases and 12 deaths, suggesting a death rate of 5%. The US' testing capacity has been limited.

...[T]he Democratic campaign in the fall will only be about one thing: smearing Donald Trump with all the old and repeated claims trying to make the Big Lie stick this time. I don’t think it will work, because it is nakedly untrue and thus unfair. We have seen this play run over and over again. When you go down the list of over-the-top machinations against Trump, or anyone associated with Trump, you understand who and what you empower if you vote for the Democrats in November.

In a year when the General Assembly passed sweeping LGBTQ-friendly legislation, it’s a relatively low-profile health bill that has opponents questioning whether the state is going too far in its protections for transgender Virginians.The Senate Commerce and Labor committee voted 12-2 on Monday to report a bill from Del. Danica Roem, D-Manassas, that would ban health insurance companies from denying or limiting coverage based on a patient’s gender identity or transgender status. The legislation, which passed the House 54-41, is expected to clear the Senate in a similarly party-line vote.The bill codifies federal protections first established under the Affordable Care...

Alfredo Ortiz of Job Creators Network writes in USA Today that amid the positive economic indicators in the country, about 6.4 million jobs are open nationwide. In order to fill these jobs, high schools and colleges need to prioritize skills-based education and training: Millions of available jobs are in middle-class professions that pay roughly $50,000 a year or more, according to Labor Department estimates. These include 600,000 construction and manufacturing jobs, whose median annual full-time pay is $47,000 and $49,000, as well as over a million health care and social assistance positions, whose median annual pay is $45,000. . ....

I know some here hold it against Glenn Beck for opposing Trump back in 2016. However, this program shows the danger that America is in. This is 1930's Germany all over again. Bernie Sanders may be a clown,but his advisors are real world expert threats to subjugating nations. If Bernie is elected,they will move quickly, like the night of long knives.

...While Amash would obviously have no chance to win the presidency if he ran as a Libertarian, he could theoretically peel off voters from Trump in the battleground state of Michigan, which may be the ulterior motive behind his potential run...

A new section of border wall in going up on San Luis, Arizona (Southern edge of the City of Yuma, AZ). The area of new infrastructure is located just west of the port of entry. The new stretch is expected to completed by the end of 2020, along with an additional 99 miles of new border wall in Yuma County. This is part of President Donald Trump's promise to complete 400 to 450 miles along the entire southern border.

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace was beaming as she discussed the possibility of the deadly coronavirus sweeping the country and killing an untold number of Americans. The reason for her glee? MSNBC and the rest of the mainstream media see an opportunity to direct the public's ire toward the president should the virus result in a deadly pandemic, which the media assures us is already here. The coronavirus originated in China and has quickly made its way around the world. Wallace, who worked in the Bush administration during the deadly storm, sees an opportunity for the media to blame President Trump for...

March 6, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Sante Fe’s Archbishop John Charles Wester has asserted that Communion in the hand is “every bit as respectful” as receiving on the tongue in a statement regarding his response to the coronavirus. “There is nothing ontologically preferable to receiving on the tongue,” he said as he announced that all communicants in the archdiocese must receive in the hand due to the coronavirus. The archbishop said in a statement earlier this week that “[g]iven the highly contagious nature of the flu and the coronavirus, communicants MUST [capitalization in the original] receive Holy Communion in the hand...

Scripted television is trying to normalize and celebrate abortion but a recent reality dating show provided the truth: abortion hurts women. On the Netflix dating show Love Is Blind, contestants “date” by having conversations with a wall (physical, not emotional) between them. After getting engaged, they get to meet! In episode two “Will You Marry Me” (yes, they get engaged that fast), released on February 13, contestant Amber opens up to Barnett on a date about how the abortion she had after being pressured by her former boyfriend still hurts her today. AMBER: It was really the hardest thing I’ve...

Sonoma County public health officials Monday followed in the footsteps of several other Bay Area governments dealing with the coronavirus, declaring a public health emergency while confirming the existence of a second patient diagnosed with the illness. But Sonoma County officials have diverged sharply in another way from their counterparts in other places, refusing since last week to identify the local hospital or hospitals that are treating coronavirus patients. Barbie Robinson, head of the county’s Department of Health Services, has cited the federal law meant to guard patient privacy as the cause for withholding the information in conversations with Sonoma...

Mick Mulvaney, President Trump’s third and least powerful chief of staff, was replaced Friday by North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows, an announcement Trump made in an evening tweet. Trump named Mulvaney special envoy to Northern Ireland after a 14-month tenure... Meadows, one of the most conservative members of the House since 2013, has been a staunch Trump defender and leading surrogate during the recent impeachment. Meadows was one of the most disruptive members of Congress during the rise of the tea party, filing a motion to remove Republican House Speaker John A. Boehner in 2015 that helped lead to his...

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Former British spy and author of the junk Trump-Russia dossier, Christopher Steele, defended his unconfirmed trash report on candidate Donald Trump. The former British spy inflicted upon America the Russia scam that derailed the Trump administration for three years. Steele, who spoke at Oxford University today, says he will not cooperate with William Barr and John Durham. There is currently a criminal referral on Steele for lying to congressional investigaters. The Daily Caller reported: “I stand by the integrity of our work, our sources and what we did,” Steele said at the Oxford Student Union. Steele’s glowing self-assessment is in...

The Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health is known for its population control agenda that is being advanced by programs that train thousands of new abortionists. One of those programs is an online video training program called “Innovating Education in Reproductive Health.” This online program has produced several tutorial video series on such topics as the following: * Abortion Course: Week by Week * Abortion Course: By Track * LARC Insertion and Removal Series Each series features several videos that teach or explain various aspects of surgical and chemical abortions and long-acting birth control. However, these videos act as more...

NEW JERSEY — More retailers are leaving the state – leaving more than 1,200 layoffs in their wake as New Jersey continues to deal with what's been called a nationwide "retail apocalypse." At least 24 stores also have announced in recent days that they're planning to close very soon. The news comes after a number of major national chains had already announced closings in New Jersey and elsewhere (see lists below). Many of them are popular chains, too, that either ran into bankruptcy or decided to downsize stores "in order to preserve the whole company and save the jobs of...

The US government has banned an electric shock machine that is used to zap children and young adults with special needs in a school outside Boston – the only institution in the world known to practice the controversial punishment “treatment”. Sanders shifts focus to Michigan as Warren drops out – as it happened Read more The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has taken the extremely rare move of imposing a total ban on the production and use of the electric shock machines, known as electrical stimulation devices. It said the ban – only the third such comprehensive prohibition of...