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Concerns over the spread of the novel coronavirus have translated into an economic slowdown. Stock markets have taken a hit: the UK’s FTSE 100 has seen its worst days of trading for many years and so have the Dow Jones and S&P in the US. Money has to go somewhere and the price of gold – seen as a stable commodity during extreme events – reached a seven-year high. A look back at history can help us consider the economic effects of public health emergencies and how best to manage them. In doing so, however, it is important to remember...

Intensifying its enforcement in so-called sanctuary cities across the country, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has begun 24-hour-a-day surveillance operations around the homes and workplaces of undocumented immigrants. The agency plans to deploy hundreds of additional officers in unmarked cars in the coming weeks to increase arrests in cities where local law enforcement agencies do not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. ICE leadership has requested at least 500 special agents who normally conduct long-term investigations into dangerous criminals and traffickers to join the enhanced arrest campaign rolling out in sanctuary cities, according to an internal email reviewed by The New York...

Leonard Dupree was sentenced to life in prison in his early 20s. Now, he’s asking a judge to take a second look at his case as a result of unlikely testimony. NBC 6 Investigator Tony Pipitone reports. For years, Leonard Dupree has been going in and out of court trying to reverse the life sentence he received in his early 20s. Dupree, 42, is a convicted armed robber. He spent time in prison for one in 1997, and then a jury found he pulled another one in 2000. Because the second crime occurred less than a year after he was...

Among the most notable voters who abandoned Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Super Tuesday were Native Americans. Warren spent decades claiming she was “part Cherokee and part Delaware” — even taking a disastrous DNA test to try to prove it. She was ultimately forced to apologize and admit the claim was bogus, as President Trump mocked her as “Pocahontas.” “I think that her claim and digging in her heels and the [DNA test] did hurt her,” Simon Moya-Smith, a 36-year-old Native American activist, told The Post. “That’s why I voted for Bernie on Super Tuesday, and I didn’t vote for...

“Happy Rebirthday!” (John 3:1-17) Yesterday, March 7, was my birthday. Or was it? Oh yeah, sure, March 7 was the day I was born--so many years ago now. But that’s not my only birthday. I’ve got another one, too, and it’s even more important. And that’s September 10. You see, that’s the day I was baptized--again, so many years ago, but that’s my re-birthday. For on that day I was born again, born from above, born of water and the Spirit. And all of you who have been baptized in the name of the triune God--the day of your baptism,...

The first coronavirus case had been reported in the nation’s capital. A man in his 50s who lives in Washington, D.C., tested positive for COVID-19 Saturday, Mayor Muriel Bowser said. The patient began exhibiting symptoms in late February and was hospitalized locally on March 5, she said.

After years of ideologues and elites using the natural gas industry as a punching bag for politics and climate change activism, Nick DeIuliis, the CEO of CNX Resources, one of the largest natural gas producers in Western Pa., has had enough. At a Rotary Club speech in downtown Pittsburgh the blue-collar man who earned degrees in engineering and law, and his job at the top, decided to speak out 'to defend an industry' that has become a regional economic game-changer. ........“Natural gas and manufacturing have been demonized and ridiculed on a consistent and regular basis 'by a cabal of misguided,...

March 08 2020 Second Sunday of Lent Reading 1 Gn 12:1-4a The LORD said to Abram: “Go forth from the land of your kinsfolk and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you.“I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. All the communities of the earth shall find blessing in you.”Abram went as the LORD directed him. Responsorial Psalm Ps 33:4-5, 18-19, 20, 22....

BORDER SECURITYFeds Bust Heinous Birth Tourism Ring in Southern California Birthright citizenship is being exploited. Published 3 hours ago on Mar 7, 2020By Richard Moorhead ShareTweetFlip Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials conducted raids on three residential buildings being used for an elaborate ‘birth tourism’ scheme in Southern California last week. The buildings were being utilized by a birth tourism ring called You Win USA Vacation Resort. The entity charged pregnant foreign women around $50,000 in return for shepherding them through the US visa and immigration process, with the understanding that they would exploit America’s birthright citizenship laws to ensure their...

SEATTLE — Two more deaths from coronavirus were reported Saturday, bringing the total to 17 in Washington state. So far, at least 104 have tested positive for COVID-19, health officials said. The deaths come just a day after three people died at EvergreenHealth Medical Hospital, officials said. One earlier reported death occurred in a patient never hospitalized and the other was a death at Harborview last week that was later found to have been likely caused by COVID-19. In total, there are 28 confirmed cases of coronavirus at EvergreenHealth. Of the 16 coronavirus deaths reported in King County, 14 are...

A member of the Sephardi Jewish community in Flatbush, Brooklyn, is in serious condition following a trip to Italy due to a possible case of coronavirus, Yeshiva World News reported. The man, who is in his 30s and resides on Ocean Parkway, just returned from Milan, Italy, and is currently on a respirator. The identity of the patient is unknown, but Yeshiva World News have asked people to pray for Yosef ben Esther.

GENEVA (ChurchMilitant.com) - The Holy See has condemned the "ideological colonization" of a United Nations report which is demanding the submission of religious-based morality to progressive laws and policies supporting abortion, LGBT rights and gender ideology. Image Ahmed Shaheed, Special Rapporteur on Religious Freedom In a strongly-worded statement, Abp. Ivan Jurkovič, the Vatican's permanent observer to the U.N., reiterated that "the Holy See has always understood 'gender' and related terms according to the ordinary, generally accepted usage of the word 'gender,' based on the biological identity that is male and female." "Particularly unacceptable and offensive are the numerous references that...

On Saturday night, 31 states and the District of Columbia reported at least one confirmed or presumptive positive case, with those cases totaling 372. Including those infected people repatriated from abroad, and those trapped aboard the quarantined cruise ship Grand Princess off San Francisco, the total is at least 442. Washington state had the most cases with 103, including 16 deaths, followed by New York with 89 cases and California, with 81 cases and one death. Florida, which reports 11 cases, has also seen two fatalities. In the interior of the country, a number of more sparsely populated states reported...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The morning drop off at Eldorado High School on Friday turned into a scene where police had to be called. Anti-abortion demonstrators were legally on the sidewalk outside the high school with graphic signs sharing their view on abortion. At some point in the morning, someone going onto campus was upset they were there. “I don’t know exactly because I wasn’t right there. I think he felt he should stand in front of the sign or something. One person thought they got pushed,” said Rosemary Connell, a pro-life demonstrator. Albuquerque Police Department was called to the...

ROCKLIN, Calif. (KMAX/KOVR/CNN) - Sacramento County Sheriff deputies and Rocklin Police, some wearing protective gloves, converged on a residential street Thursday as a sheriff’s helicopter circled overhead, ordering people to get inside. Sacramento County Sheriff deputies and Rocklin Police, some wearing protective gloves, converged on this residential street in Rocklin, Calif. (Source: KOVR/KMAX/CNN) People who live there were unclear why. Officers eventually let them come and go from their homes. It was later learned that the first California coronavirus patient to die from the illness lived on this block. The Placer County Health Department issued a brief statement shortly after...

"If the situation of generalized panic continues, thousands of businesses, especially small ones, will first enter a liquidity crisis, then close their doors.”. . . . In the three most affected regions — Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna (in descending order) — cancellation rates on bookings of hotels, flights and apartments have reached as high as 90%. These three regions also happen to be the main motor of Italy’s economy, accounting for 40% of Italy’s GDP. The country’s financial capital (and capital of Lombardy), Milan, is like a ghost town, with many of its most important landmarks, including the Teatro alla...

Orthodox teaching on the practice is more complex than some media suggest. People magazine recently published its pro-abortion issue, “Women’s Choices, Women’s Voices.” In it you’ll find the misleading story of an Orthodox Jewish mother and wife in the suburbs of New York City who once traveled to Colorado to abort a distressed baby in the 31st week of pregnancy. The woman chose to tell her traumatic story, relayed to a People staffer, anonymously because she fears her community and friends will stigmatize her for ending a life, “even for medical and religious reasons.” And she ends her story on...

The Lafayette Police Department and the Boulder County District Attorney’s office are asking the public for help in locating Francisco Barraza-Porras . . . Barraza-Porras, who was last known to be living in Lafayette, Colorado, was arrested Jan. 2 and charged with multiple counts of sexual assault on a child. Instead of keeping him in custody or handing him over to ICE, local law enforcement released him back into the public with an order to appear to appear before court on March 2. However, Barraza-Porras never showed up to his court date, and law enforcement doesn’t know where he is.

The small-town hospital where Kentucky’s first case of coronavirus appeared says it took steps to isolate the patient, even though the person had not yet been tested for coronavirus. Harrison Memorial Hospital also said Saturday that employees who had contact with the patient with coronavirus will isolate themselves to protect against the spread of the disease. The Cynthiana hospital said in an announcement posted on its website that the person who has tested positive for COVID-19 first came to the facility “with flu-like symptoms.” The hospital did not say when that occurred. The hospital said it has been screening patients...

After drawing severe criticism, Memorial Presbyterian Church in St. Louis, Missouri, seeks to explain why a theatre production, called Transluminate and which highlighted the work of several transgender playwrights, was held at a venue space owned and operated by it. The church “does not believe in transitioning to a different gender,” Memorial Presbyterian Church said in a statement. “However, we want to affirm the human dignity of people with gender dysphoria.” “Transluminate is a short-play festival and celebration of transgender, agender, non-binary, genderqueer, and genderfluid artists,” read the public invite to the event, held Feb. 29 and March 1 at...