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"On Wednesday, March 4, we issued a memo stating that our plans to host the Masters Tournament, the Augusta National Women’s Amateur and the Drive, Chip and Putt National Finals had not changed. Unfortunately, the ever-increasing risks associated with the widespread Coronavirus COVID-19 have led us to a decision that undoubtedly will be disappointing to many, although I am confident is appropriate under these unique circumstances. "Considering the latest information and expert analysis, we have decided at this time to postpone the Masters Tournament, the Augusta National Women’s Amateur and the Drive, Chip and Putt National Finals."

What just happened? The Democratic presidential nomination race, which gave signs of lasting months, is now basically over. Sen. Bernie Sanders won North Dakota and lost Washington after carrying a lead on Wednesday. In Michigan and Missouri, where he won 50% and 49%, respectively, against Hillary Clinton in 2016, he carried 36% and 35% against former Vice President Joe Biden in Tuesday's primaries. He was wiped out even worse in Mississippi and lost in Idaho. It turns out that the apparent similarity between the Republican contest in 2016 and Democrats' contest in 2020 was only apparent. Bernie Sanders is not...

#Breaking: President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, tests positive for Coronavirus

White House coronavirus expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Friday morning that the current state of crisis in the US would last for two months and that 'it's all on the table' in terms of how much more severe things may become. In a series of interviews with Good Morning America and CBS This Morning, Fauci gave his bleak assessment of what is still to come. 'It's certainly going to get worse before it gets better...there's no doubt we have not peaked yet,' he said. Asked directly if America was heading towards a complete shutdown like China and Italy, he...

The story of this carbine goes back to 1997, when Kel-Tec introduced the Sub-9 carbine. In general, it was a conventional blow-back gun with the magazine inserted through the hand grip. Designed during the high-capacity-magazine-ban years, it used popular and available pistol magazines, but the Sub-9's claim to fame was its unusual folding form. When folding or collapsible stocks were not legal, the Sub-9 worked around that concept by creating a carbine that folded in half at the chamber, halving its overall length for storage and transport. The folding is initiated by pulling down on the back of the trigger...

Watch this and remember it, because it is absolute truth, and the Democrats and media will ultimately pay a price for it. – In his opening monologue last night, Fox News host Tucker Carlson delivered a brilliant expose’ of how our corrupt news media and leading Democrat politicians are conspiring with China’s propagandists to smear our own country as the “source” of the coronavirus. Below is a clip of the monologue, followed by a transcript. First, the clip: Benny ✔ @bennyjohnson China is trying to blame the Coronavirus on the US, and our Media is helping their efforts. Embedded video...

Dr. Brian Monahan, attending physician of Congress, told a closed meeting of Senate staffers this week that 70 million to 150 million Americans -- a third of the nation -- could contract the coronavirus. Dr. Anthony Fauci testified that the mortality rate for COVID-19 will likely run near 1%. Translation: Between 750,000 and 1.1 million Americans may die of this disease before it runs its course. The latter figure is equal to all the U.S. dead in World War II and on both sides in the Civil War. Chancellor Angela Merkel warns that 70% of Germany's population -- 58 million...

(CNSNews.com) – U.S. forces carried out retaliatory strikes against Iranian-backed Iraqi militias overnight Thursday following a rocket attack on an Iraqi base that killed two U.S. troops and one British soldier. The Pentagon said the airstrikes targeted facilities of Kata’ib Hezbollah (K.H.). The Qods Force-backed Shi’ite militia has a long history of attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq. “These strikes targeted five weapon storage facilities to significantly degrade their ability to conduct future attacks against Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) coalition forces,” it said in a statement, referring to the U.S.-led coalition helping the Iraqis to defeat ISIS. “These weapons storage...

During the House impeachment proceedings, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) released a report which included the phone records that included calls made or received by Rep. Devin Nunes(R-CA), journalist John Solomon, Rudy Giuliani, and others. The records in the report didnÂ’t contain the content of the conversations but included who called who and how long the call lasted. The belief was that the records were obtained through subpoenas to the phone companies of records related to Giuliani and Lev Parnas, with the obvious purpose meant to try to impugn the people whose records were included without reason or cause. What made...

Newly crowned WBC Heavy champion Tyson Fury is a follower of Jesus Christ. He always makes room for a pre-fight prayer to settle the nerves and make sure everything goes to plan... Tyson Fury tells the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, who met last week with U.S. Attorney General William Barr and Ivanka Trump, said Friday he has tested positive for the coronavirus. Dutton said he was tested after developing a fever, a common symptom of COVID-19, and a sore throat, which is a less common sign. "Anyone who tests positive is to be admitted into hospital and I have complied with their advice," Dutton said in a statement. "I feel fine and will provide an update in due course." Dutton visited Washington, D.C., for security meetings last week and met with both Barr and...

There is a popular legend that 19th-century Italian priest Don Bosco, the founder of the Catholic Salesian Order and a revered saint, had a prophetic dream in 1883 that predicted a flourishing, futuristic city between parallels 15 and 20 in central Brazil. Many Brazilians believe the dream of Dom Bosco, as they call him, found fulfillment in the modern capital city of Brasilia, built between 1956 and 1960. Indeed, even before Brasilia was completed, a shrine, located directly on the 15th parallel, was sculpted and dedicated to Dom Bosco. Today’s Brasilia is filled with references to him, including the Santuario...

The president of the United States Soccer Federation, Carlos Cordeiro, announced Thursday night that he was resigning. The announcement comes just days after widespread outrage from a court filing from the federation that argued "the overall soccer-playing ability required to compete at the senior men's national team level is materially influenced by the level of certain physical attributes, such as speed and strength, required for the job." "My one and only mission has always been to do what is best for our Federation, and it has become clear to me that what is best right now is a new direction,"...

You better sit down for this one. The New York Times got its hands on a presentation given at a CDC conference in February that gathered the agency’s senior officials, and top epidemiological experts, together at a meeting to game out how bad the virus outbreak could be in the US. Here’s what they discussed. Excerpts: The C.D.C.’s scenarios were depicted in terms of percentages of the population. Translated into absolute numbers by independent experts using simple models of how viruses spread, the worst-case figures would be staggering if no actions were taken to slow transmission. Between 160 million and...

Always look for the silver lining! Wife missing in Bar Harbor, Maine. A few days after his wife disappeared in a kayaking accident, a Bar Harbor man answered his door to find two grim-faced Harbor Master officers. "We're sorry Mr. Flynn, but we have some information about your wife," "Tell me! Did you find her?!" Cedric Flynn asked. One officer said, "We have some bad news, some good news, and some really great news!" Fearing the worst, Mr. Flynn said, "Give me the bad news first." The officer said, "I'm sorry to tell you, sir, but this morning we found...

As regular readers know, I’ve taken a lot of criticism in these comments threads, especially from Trump supporters, for my alarmism on coronavirus over the past month or so. That’s fine — I’m a big boy. I do wish to point out, though, that the kinds of things we were talking about on this blog weeks ago are things that are now mainstream. If you took me seriously back then, you are much better prepared to weather what is upon us. A reader wrote me last night: I’m a regular reader in Baton Rouge and want to thank you for...

“A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame” (Proverbs 13:5).

his brings tears to my eyes. I have heard this song twice in my life, both in Siena, during the Palio di Siena. You hear people singing it at top of the lungs all over town. I’ve been to the Palio twice, and there developed a deep love of that city and its people. This, friends, is the spirit of Siena, and the spirit of Italy. Viva Siena! Viva Italia! valemercurii @valemercurii People of my hometown #Siena sing a popular song from their houses along an empty street to warm their hearts during the Italian #Covid_19 #lockdown.#coronavirusitalia #COVID19 #coronavirus

The first hearing on allowing gay bathhouses to reopen in San Francisco has been postponed in light of the coronavirus outbreak. After initially issuing an order banning events with 50 people or more in city-owned buildings, San Francisco Mayor London Breed issued another order Wednesday placing a moratorium on all large gatherings of 1,000 people or more. That is in effect until March 25 and can be renewed. In light of coronavirus developments, Board of Supervisors President Norman Yee over the weekend asked his colleagues to postpone their legislative proposals likely to draw a large contingent of the public to...

A judge has gutted the Trump administration’s minimal curbs on the many Indian-run companies that import Indian college graduates to take the jobs needed by young U.S. graduates.“A recent federal policy for employers that place H-1B skilled guestworkers at third-party worksites can’t be enforced,” according to a March 11 report in Bloomberg Law. Judge Rosemary M. Collyer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Tuesday that a February policy memo from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services didn’t go through proper rulemaking procedure, and that the agency’s interpretation of the “employer-employee relationship” requirement is inconsistent with its...