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An Arkansas judge issued a scathing order Tuesday evening largely rejecting Hunter Biden's "duplicitous" requests and his argument that he needed a nine-month delay in his paternity case proceedings because of the coronavirus outbreak and other personal matters. [cut] Hours later, Clinton Lancaster, the attorney for the plaintiff in the case, 28-year-old Lunden Alexis Roberts, wrote to the judge that there had been a breakthrough -- and that money was apparently involved.

While it hasn’t been in the news as much lately, work is still being done on improving and deploying the technology required for self-driving vehicles to share the streets with us. Uber has been working on it for a while now with an eye toward eventually eliminating their drivers entirely. Similarly, manufacturers and distributors have expressed interest in self-driving trucks to cut down on supply chain costs, though Congress has thus far been protecting the truck drivers who would lose their jobs as a result.But how do regular commuters feel about the technology? Are people really ready to jump...

As the number of confirmed 2019 novel coronavirus cases continues to multiply, many Americans are emptying store shelves of hand sanitizer, bleach, and canned goods. But there’s an acute fear among Asian Americans that the virus’ origins in China will spark a violent xenophobic backlash. Along the West Coast, where the worst outbreaks of the coronavirus in the U.S. have occurred, those fears seem to be spurring a surge in gun sales. “People are panicking because they don’t feel secure,” said David Liu, who is Chinese American and owns Arcadia Firearm and Safety, which is just east of Los Angeles....

A 100-year-old man has recovered from coronavirus and returned home after fighting off the deadly disease, according to Chinese state media. The pensioner, who was receiving treatment at a hospital in Wuhan, China, is the oldest known person to have recovered after contracting the virus, reports Xinhua news agency. He was among more than 80 patients who had been diagnosed and since gone on to recover - with all being discharged from a wing of Hubei Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital on Saturday. The pensioner managed a recovery despite suffering from underlying health conditions, including Alzheimer’s disease, hypertension and...

While many talking heads at liberal mainstream media outlets have suggested that former Vice President Joe Biden is poised to defeat President Trump in the general election later this year, CNN anchor Jake Tapper suggested otherwise, comparing Biden's candidacy to John Kerry's against President George W. Bush. During Tuesday night's election coverage, Tapper made the case why Sen. Bernie Sanders I-Vt., would remain in the race as he later indicated that he would the next day, since he is a "stronger debater" than Biden and will attempt to prove he's a stronger candidate at the upcoming debate. Then he drew...

I don't get it. Newsom is calling for people to steer clear of big meetings, sporting events, etc. SO WHY HASN'T HE ORDERED TELECOMMUTING FOR STATE WORKERS? Is it a "state of emergency" or is it not? And why isn't the media asking him this question?

I’m not saying Biden shouldn’t be president. That has always been true. I am saying that he lacks the physical and mental qualities necessary to to the job–not to do it well, but to do it at all. Biden’s mental status has slipped badly over the last few years, and he appears physically frail as well. Both his handlers and the press try to shield him from public scrutiny and hide his decline, but under the bright lights of a presidential campaign, it can’t be done. This video clip is alarming not only for Biden’s inappropriate and bizarre response to...

New Mexico’s oil boom could soon turn to bust after world prices for crude crashed on Monday. The price for U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate bottomed out at $31.13 per barrel when trading closed Monday afternoon, down nearly 25% from $41.28 a barrel last Friday. That’s the sharpest one-day plunge in prices since Jan. 17, 1991, when the U.S. launched Operation Desert Storm in Iraq, and it’s the lowest level for WTI since early 2016, when the industry was mired in a two-year downturn.

Since the scattering at Babel, the nations of the world have all tried to come up with a human remedy to answer the haunting effects of guilt and one's transgressions against Almighty God (Rom 1:18-32). Our transgressions are against Almighty God and His ETERNAL spiritual and moral absolutes; and all must give an account to Him in RIGHTEOUSNESS (Rev. 21:11-15). Almighty God has provided a Savior and a RIGHTEOUS remedy to redeem and cleanse man from ALL his transgression and that remedy is found in Jesus Christ (John 3:16-17, 1 John 2:2, 4:10). Listen to what the Word of Almighty...

A new ad from Stacey Abrams's voting-rights nonprofit displays an asterisk next to Georgia governor Brian Kemp's (R.) name as the Democrat continues to suggest her former opponent's 2018 victory was illegitimate. . . . Her cause in Georgia has received attention from national Democrats, with presidential candidates such as Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), and Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.) saying the race was stolen from Abrams.

Thanks, open borders! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqhJmsZC_a4&feature=emb_title 

... He Turns the Tables on ThemHouse Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) hit back on Tuesday after Democrats accused him of being racist for labeling COVID-19 as the "Chinese coronavirus." The disease has also been commonly called the Wuhan virus since it originated out of the city of Wuhan, China. McCarthy called it the Chinese coronavirus while informing people about the new government website that was created to inform people about the virus. In response, many of his Democratic colleagues said McCarthy was being racist or xenophobic.[snip] (Coronavirus Disease)

The remainder of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo was canceled Wednesday as officials in both Houston and Harris County declare a health emergency. According to an alert from the Houston Rodeo app, the grounds at NRG Park will be closed as of 4 p.m. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said the new presumptive positive case of coronavirus that was reported Tuesday in Montgomery County was not related to international travel, and there was evidence of community spread in that case. That is what led to the decision to cancel the Rodeo, Turner said.

  SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today filed a multistate amicus brief in two consolidated cases urging the U.S. Supreme Court to retain a previously established multi-factor test designed to safeguard the rights of workers and religious organizations. The test has been used since 2012 to determine which employees fall under the so-called “ministerial exception” and are therefore not protected by state and federal anti-discrimination laws. The defendants in each case have asked the court to broadly expand the exception, which could risk the unnecessary elimination of workplace protections for employees of religious organizations across the country.“Our nation’s...

The U.S. government's disaster response agency placed an urgent request last week seeking contractors who can deliver portable toilets, showers, and hand-washing stations throughout the United States within 24 hours notice, a potential sign of how the administration could be preparing to respond to a coronavirus pandemic. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it was looking for vendors who are able to provide "portable facilities, to include toilets, showers, and handwash stations during a FEMA disaster response to all U.S. state, local, tribal, and territorial government locations," according to a "sources sought notice" the agency posted on the federal public...

Almost 200 people died from the coronavirus in 24 hours, Italy's Civil Protection Agency confirmed Wednesday — the highest daily increase in absolute terms registered anywhere in the world since the respiratory illness emerged in China at the end of last year. In response, the country's prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, told reporters the government would allocate 25 billion euros ($28.3 billion) to help mitigate the impact on the fragile economy. Only a week ago, he estimated it would need just 7.5 billion. From Tuesday to Wednesday, 196 people died, bringing the total number of deaths to 897, the Civil Protection...

Yahoo News politics editor David Knowles located three Trump-bashing psychologists to demonstrate the same partisan reflexes. The March 5 article was headlined "Trump's mental state — not Biden's — is the real concern, mental health professionals say." Exhibit A is Bandy X. Lee, who appeared on Stelter's show to promote her mental-fitness evaluation, insisted there is no comparison between Biden and Trump: “A few stumbled words are not the same as the extreme danger that result from a list of signs that Donald Trump has shown,” Bandy Lee, a psychiatrist on the faculty at the Yale School of Medicine, told...

A Democratic senator is calling for investigations into why various agencies in the Trump administration are cooperating with congressional probes of Hunter Biden’s work for Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy firm. Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy sent a letter to four inspectors general Wednesday asking them to investigate

A former Homeland Security adviser warned that the US is just over a week away from the nation’s hospitals “getting creamed” by the rapidly spreading coronavirus, reports said. Tom Bossert, who served under President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2018, told NBC News Tuesday the US is headed for the same sort of health care crisis Italy is experiencing. In a Monday op-ed in the Washington Post, Bossert said it’s imperative for the country to “reduce the acute, exponential growth of the outbreak” as soon as possible “in order to reduce suffering and the strain on our health care system.

New York City has cancelled its St. Patrick’s Day parade due to the global spread of the coronavirus, according to The New York Daily News. Earlier on Wednesday, Chicago and Pittsburgh joined major cities including Dublin, Boston, Denver and New Orleans in nixing the Irish celebrations. Over 4.4 million people attend these six parades, among the largest gatherings affected by COVID-19. Hundreds of events have been cancelled, postponed or transformed into “digital-only” affairs. According to Forbes’ C19 Cancellation Tracker, since early February more than 12 million attendees worldwide have had their plans changed by the coronavirus, which has claimed over...