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The brother and nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Salman have been arrested over a plot to oust the king and his son, Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, a brother of King Salman, and the monarch's nephew Prince Mohammed bin Nayef were accused of treason. They were taken from their homes early on Friday by black-clad royal guards, the Wall Street Journal reported. The Saudi royal court has accused the two men, once potential contenders for the throne, of 'plotting a coup to unseat the king and crown prince' and could face lifetime imprisonment or execution, the...

The outbreak of COVID-19 has bludgeoned risk assets and sent those perceived as havens — gold and government bonds, for example — to new heights. And the landscape that has emerged since the emergence of the coronavirus-borne disease late last year in Wuhan, China, is increasingly uncertain. That dynamic has left many investors, traders, analysts and strategists to question whether the timing is right to buy into a market that has been prone to stunning day-to-day and even intraday swings over the past month.

According to recent reports from Italy the coronavirus patient zero in the Pavia area is a Pakistani immigrant who refused to self-isolate after testing positive for the virus.

Sorry for being ableist and ageist Bernie Bros and Russians, but come on, man! We’d love to see a rigorous debate between President Trump and Joe Biden, who promises he will beat Trump like a drum, but there are gaffes and then there are gaffes. We cannot win this re-election… We can only re-elect Donald Trump’

the 36-year-old Omaha woman who has tested positive for COVID-19 visited Fremont on Feb. 29 according to a release from the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services. State and local officials are requesting basketball players, coaches and team staff who participated in the Special Olympics event at the Fremont Family YMCA on February 29, 2020, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. to self-quarantine to limit exposure to others and monitor themselves for development of COVID-19 symptoms as listed below until Saturday, March 14, 2020. “We’re asking for basketball players, coaches, and team staff who participated this event on February...

  WASHINGTON, D.C., February 28 (C-Fam) The humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders launched online medical abortion guidelines that its partner group acknowledges will be used for do-it-yourself abortions.Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), says it “has teamed up with” HowToUseAbortionPill.org to create an online video guide on how to use pills to abort an unborn child up to 22 weeks. In a cartoon-based guide, MSF shows how to “push out the pregnancy,” in “a process that is similar to miscarriage.” MSF says its “goal is to ensure that everyone” can get the information “no matter...

After South by Southwest was cancelled on Friday over concerns about the coronavirus, two of its founders told the Austin Chronicle that the film festival doesn’t have insurance to cover the cancellation. Nick Barbaro, a co-founder of SXSW who is also the publisher of the Chronicle, told the paper that the festival does not have cancellation insurance relating to a disease outbreak or a policy that would be triggered by the city declaring a local state of disaster. “We have a lot of insurance (terrorism, injury, property destruction, weather). However, bacterial infections, communicable diseases, viruses and pandemics are not covered,”...

NEW YORK, January 31 (C-Fam) Abortion groups are scrambling to keep U.S. government funding after Senate and House Republicans caught them exploiting loopholes in the U.S. pro-life foreign policy that forbids them to receive taxpayer monies to promote and perform abortions abroad.After President Trump put the policy in place upon taking office in 2017, Population Services International (PSI) hosted a conference call to explain how it would use the loopholes in the Mexico City Policy, now called the Protecting Life in Global Health Policy. The group would go on to receive over $180 million in 2018, even though they were...

WASHINGTON, D.C. March 6 (C-Fam) According to the UN’s special expert on freedom of religion, the fringe views of UN human rights bodies must take precedence over the mainstream beliefs of many leading world religions, when it comes to law and policy.In his newly-launched annual report, Ahmad Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, wrote about the intersection of religion and gender equality.  He concluded that laws based in traditional morality, often religious in nature, should be repealed if they conflict with the opinions of human rights scholars and UN experts.“States have an obligation to guarantee...

Most people know that the flu can kill. Indeed, the so-called Spanish flu killed 50 million people in 1918—more than were killed in the first world war. But what about TCC? Can you really catch your death? TCC is a collection of symptoms—coughing, sneezing, a runny nose, tiredness and perhaps a fever—rather than a defined disease. Although it shares a lot with the initial symptoms with the flu, it's a very different infection. Rhinovirus causes about half of all TCC, but other viruses can cause one or more of the symptoms of a TCC, including adenovirus, influenza virus, respiratory syncytial...

🤦‍♂️ #Hypocrisy

The Left is blaming Trump for supposedly being late in responding to the virus. What were they doing as it started to blow up? They were engaged in impeachment mania 24/7, including on MSNBC, CNN, Wash Post and NYT - and of course in the Democrat House of Reps. Not a word of warning or concern about any public health issues. They're frauds, the lot of them.

The primary season has only just begun, but already, it has reminded us of several truisms that the major parties always forget from year to year: - That young people just don’t vote in the numbers that older people do, so don’t build your hopes upon changing the makeup of the electorate… - That money can’t make up for a lack of charisma, so a rich bore can’t just spend his way to victory… and of course, - That our primary calendar looks like something designed by a practical jokester rather than someone who wants the best for America. But...

Prelims on ESPN, now Main card at 10 eastern on PPV* 2 belts on the line Israel Adesanya (c) vs. Yoel Romero for the Middleweight title Zhang Weili (c) vs. former Champ Joanna Jędrzejczyk for the Women's Strawweight strap UFC 248

Italy is set to lock down at least 16 million people in the region of Lombardy and in 11 other provinces in the north and east of the country. The mandatory quarantine will last until early April. The dramatic escalation in the country's efforts to contain the new deadly coronavirus will close gyms, pools, museums and ski resorts. Italy is Europe's worst-hit country and reported a steep rise in virus infections on Saturday. The new measures, which also apply to financial centre Milan and tourist hotspot Venice, could take effect as early as Sunday and will last until 3 April....

The appointment of Neil Gorsuch to fill the empty Supreme Court spot. It was a master class move and only time will tell how big help it would be in the future! With the 9th circuit constantly trying to remove President Trump executing orders. Well, this is where it’s good to have the Supreme Court on your side! For far too long the 9th Circuit has been dominated by liberal justices appointed by presidents from the Democratic Party. The 9th Circuit has undergone a massive overhaul under the Trump administration. “The 9th Circuit includes 13 district courts, presided over by...

      U-571 U-571 is truly an "on the edge of your seat" film about a US Navy crew trying to sail a Nazi U-Boat to England in 1942 (won't explain how that happens, see the movie). In one scene, the boat is attacked by depth charges from a German destroyer. The crew turns to the young skipper for guidance and asks what they should do to save the boat and their lives. He says he doesn't know. Somehow they survive this attack. The wise, crusty Chief then has a fatherly chat with the skipper in a quiet...

On Super Tuesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) came in third in her home state of Massachusetts and fourth in Oklahoma, the state in which she grew up. The humiliating damage to her 2020 presidential aspirations couldn’t be ignored, and she dropped out two days later. As Mike noted, the media appears to have been hardest hit (after Warren herself). They were behind her all the way and often twisted themselves into disconcerting displays of cognitive dissonance to excuse, downplay, and/or completely ignore her extensive list of negatives. None of which, by the way, had anything to do with her being...

This is getting kicked around by those who want to blame Trump for everything. Since when has the federal government been the buyer and provider for facemasks for all us hospitals? When? Never, that's when. Can you imagine their response if Trump micromanaged their workings, the demtards would go crazy at his interference and demands on private and public hospitals. The money it would cost, the storage area for all this material, the logistics to order this even when there are no shortages. Dems won't even let him do his job securing and fortifying the border. Do you really think...

“You Shall Have No Other gods Before me…” ( Exodus 20:3)In this, the first Commandment, God lays exclusive and absolute claim to our hearts. We are to center ourselves around God himself, and no one else. Thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all of thy heart, and with all of thy soul and all of thy mind and all of thy strength.Only the true God is worthy of such totality of the devotion of all of our faculties. This commandment tells us of the possibility of “other gods”, that they exist, and that people often try to center...