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It began last night with the Presidents message. It will be over in 30 days. Do not panic. The Patriots are in full control. God wins.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie are in self-isolation after she fell ill and was tested for the new coronavirus, while school was canceled in Ontario to limit the spread of the outbreak. In a major blow to hockey-obsessed Canadians, the National Hockey League (NHL) suspended the rest of the season due to the outbreak. Health authorities also recommended canceling the World Women’s Curling Championship due to start Saturday in British Columbia. With the Canadian dollar at a four-year low against its U.S. counterpart and stocks plunging globally, the Bank of Canada announced the expansion of its...

Brazil announced Thursday that its president’s press secretary — who recently spent four days in South Florida with a delegation headed by President Jair Bolsonaro — had tested positive for the coronavirus, setting off immediate ripples that reached from South Florida to Washington, D.C. By days’ end Thursday, the mayors of Miami-Dade County and the City of Miami and U.S. Sens. Rick Scott and Lindsay Graham had announced they would self-quarantine; the medical campus of Miami Dade College said it was shutting down “until further notice” — and questions arose whether President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, who...

George Pell looks set to successfully overturn his convictions for child sexual abuse, legal experts have tipped. The High Court of Australia on Thursday reserved its decision following the second and final day of the former Vatican treasurer’s ­appeal, during which prosecutors were ­accused of changing their case on the run. Lawyers in attendance later agreed the appeal, against a majority decision in the Victorian Court of Appeal which upheld his convictions, was likely to succeed. University of Melbourne law professor Jeremy Gans, who was in Canberra for the hearing, said yesterday was a “very good day for Pell”. “There’s...

I got some pretty negative comments when I asserted this. It is true. It is accurate. Trump haters want people to die in order to stop Trump from being reelected. MSNBC Hopes Americans Dying From Coronavirus Will “Take Down Trump’s Presidency” WALLACE: We gave them a proof point that we were indeed, incompetent. And also people died. I mean this has the makings structurally of the same kind of moment. GLAUDE: If there was any moment that would shake that 40%, the folks who would allow him to shoot someone down someone on fifth — if theres any a moment,...

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Far Left Democrat Finally ADMITS To Unethical Behaviors, Provides Evidence Of Corruption. Ilhan Omar has just come out and admitted she is in a relationship with a man she was accused of illicitly paying. The far left Democrat was hit with an ethics complaint alleging she was having an affair with married Tim Mynett and cheating on her husband Ahmed Hirsi. The complaint alleged that she was using campaign funds to reimburse her lover as he traveled with her having an affair. Now Ilhan has married the man she previously claimed in the press she was not involved with. This...

As the Chinese government has gotten a grip on its breakout of the 2019 coronavirus disease, or COVID-19, internal narratives have been shifting. Having initially declared a “people’s war” on the disease, Chinese President Xi Jinping, clad in a facemask, went to Wuhan this week— the city where the virus, known as SARS-nCoV-2, is thought to have had its zoonotic genesis. On Thursday, Lijian Zhao, an official spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, took to Twitter to insinuate that “it might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan.” Zhao, no stranger to Twitter controversy, added that...

The bones were found more than a century ago, in the Church of St. Mary and St. Eanswythe in Folkestone, a port town in southeastern England, representatives of the Diocese of Canterbury said in a statement released on March 6. Though people immediately suspected that the bones came from the young saint, the remains were never thoroughly analyzed until now. After extensive testing, archaeologists and historians have announced that the bones were indeed St. Eanswythe's, and are England's earliest verified remains of a saint. The bones were likely hidden away to protect them from destruction during the Protestant Reformation, according...

Satellite images from Iran shows how mass graves have been hurriedly dug to accommodate the spiralling number of coronavirus victims, experts believe. Aerial photos appear to show a cemetery in the holy city of Qom being expanded after the outbreak began there in mid-February. Experts who spoke to the Washington Post say there are signs that the new 300ft trenches were dug for the many virus victims who have died in the city.

Nancy Pelosi should be made acting President of the United States effective immediately. #CoronavirusPandemic #TrumptheWorstPresidentEVER

The NCAA has called off its men's and women's basketball tournaments as part of a complete cancellation of all remaining spring and winter championships. "This decision is based on the evolving COVID-19 public health threat, our ability to ensure the events do not contribute to spread of the pandemic, and the impracticality of hosting such events at any time during this academic year given ongoing decisions by other entities," the NCAA said in a statement Thursday.

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LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced Thursday that there are now six presumptive cases of the coronavirus in Arkansas. Positive tests for the virus were reported in Saline, Jefferson, Grant and Pulaski counties. Schools in those counties have been temporarily closed. According to Hutchinson, four of those who tested positive had contact with a patient in Pine Bluff who was the first person in the state to test positive. One person is a UAMS Medical Center employee who was working at Arkansas Children's Hospital. Arkansas Department of Health Director Nate Smith said the first person to...

Excerpts: Gov. Jay Inslee ordered the closure of all K-12 schools, public and private, in King, Snohomish and Pierce counties for more than a month. … state schools chief Chris Reykdal hinted that schools may remain closed even longer and perhaps well into the fall. … Across the three counties, nearly 563,600 attend public or charter schools. Roughly 216,700 of them qualify for subsidized meals, leaving many of the 43 school districts there scrambling to plan for feeding children during an extended closure.

Instead of the “Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA),” we should rename it to the Federal Initiative to Spy on Americans Act, because that’s exactly what this unconstitutional surveillance program does. Our government should not spy on Americans. They should feel confident their privacy is protected and that neither the government nor any agent affiliated with the government are abusing Americans’ constitutional rights. That’s why I oppose H.R. 6172, the USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act. When your house has foundational problems, you don’t slap a new coat of paint on the window shutters and say the problem is fixed. Instead, you call...

Here’s what I’m going to cover in this article, with lots of charts, data and models with plenty of sources: How many cases of coronavirus will there be in your area? What will happen when these cases materialize? What should you do? When?

Topline: As the coronavirus pandemic wipes out markets, closes schools and colleges, suspends major conferences, sports leagues and cultural events as well as upends the travel industry, businesses losing out on cash flow have started laying off workers