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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Sirens blared across Puerto Rico’s busiest beaches on Monday as police cleared hundreds of tourists from the U.S. territory’s coast in a crackdown on people violating a newly imposed curfew aimed at curbing the new coronavirus. Using loudspeakers, police in patrol cars ordered people off the beach: “Please stay at home. Governor’s executive orders. The beach is closed.” The sweep surprised many tourists in the capital of San Juan, some of whom disregarded orders to stay inside their hotels on a sunny day. “Why would I get sick at the beach? I’m not going...

During an interview with conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt Monday morning, Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu pushed back on the Chinese Communist Party and explained how officials in his country have been accurately calling the disease, "the Wuhan Pneumonia Coronavirus." "When the coronavirus started in Wuhan, we sent our CDC officials and experts to that area to make an investigation. And we knew that there was something wrong in that place. But the Chinese government officials were rather quiet about the real situation. And I think right now, the world already knows where it started, and that is the...

On Friday, an exhausted-looking election official in Arizona was speaking at a press conference about the state’s upcoming primary when he gave up, mid-speech. “I’m sorry, I can’t do this,” said Maricopa County election day director Scott Jarrett, before he left the platform, and the room. It had been a difficult week. Arizona election officials were organizing a vote while also figuring out how to protect voters from the novel coronavirus. State officials fought in court over the legality of mail-in ballots, and 78 polling places — many of them schools and nursing homes — pulled out of participating in...

The Archdiocese of Hartford has cancelled all weekday and weekend Masses in the churches of the Archdiocese through April 3, 2020.

The complaint said Phelps sent Schiff’s office a “threatening communication” through his schedule-a-meeting website in November. “You little c---sucker I want to come and see you so I can spit in your face and I want to kill you with my bare hands and smash your sick little round fat lying face in,” the message said. “You had better hope I never meet up with you mother f---er.” The message was signed by “Robert M. Phelps Republican.” The email included Phelps’s full name, address, phone number, and email.

San Francisco's mayor has announced an unprecedented three week lockdown that will begin on Tuesday at midnight and which bans anyone from leaving their home for anything other than doctor's visits or trips to the supermarket. In addition to the lockdown in city parameters, six counties in the Bay Area are being told to 'shelter in place'. The lockdown is the strictest action to be taken in America. Anyone who breaks it faces legal repercussions. It will last until April 7. Mayor London Breed called it a 'defining moment' on Monday morning. 'This is going to be a defining moment...

We’re beginning to see what was really going on with all those closed-down WalMarts. Corona Virus is just an excuse; we went through this same hysteria with the Swine Flu epidemic of 1976 and again with the TEOTWAWKI of Y2K. And Avian Flu, and SARS and a dozen other crises. Yes, follow commonsense practices for hygiene, take care of yourself. Seek medical help if necessary. Do NOT surrender to fear. Fear is our biggest enemy. Videos that surfaced in the last few days show us how our mainstream media managed to convince Americans to fight each other for toilet papers....

Coronavirus has been with us for longer than you think. According to documents seen by the South China Morning Post (SCMP), the Chinese government first detected a case of COVID-19 on Nov. 17. Yet it still hasn’t been able to confirm that this case really is the fabled “Patient Zero.” Officially, the coronavirus didn’t exist until Dec. 31. The new leak of government documents therefore pushes the discovery of COVID-19 back by several weeks. In other words, the first person to have had the coronavirus may have caught it even earlier than November. That;s why people who had pneumonia in...

According to a number of cognitive scientists, mankind uses its unique ability to reason primarily for justifying pre-held convictions, rather than for forming convictions. It is of critical importance for strategists to understand and acknowledge this human tendency, as it causes one to easily fall prey to a number of cognitive biases, which prevent one from seeing things how they really are, and more important for the strategist, how they are likely to become. One of the most famous cognitive biases is confirmation bias. As we prefer to be proven correct, we naturally incline towards information that confirms our views...

Amazon is hiring an additional 100,000 employees in the U.S. to meet the surge in demand of online shopping amid the coronavirus outbreak, the company said Monday. The company is looking to add extra warehouse and delivery workers. It will raise pay for these employees by $2 per hour in the U.S., £2 per hour in the UK, and approximately €2 per hour in many EU countries. Amazon currently pays $15 per hour or more in some areas of the U.S. This story is developing, please check back for updates.

Researchers on Monday administered the first shot in a trial for a potential vaccine for the novel coronavirus, federal officials said. The trial is taking place at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle, and aims to enroll 45 healthy adults over a six-week period, according to the National Institutes of Health. Study participants will receive two doses of the vaccine approximately 28 days apart. The study is a Phase 1 trial, and is meant to evaluate different doses of an experimental vaccine, and is the first of multiple steps in the clinical trial process for evaluating its potential...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday called for citizens to restrict themselves from taking unnecessary trips outside of their homes for at least two weeks. “We must all limit the number of people with who we’re in contact with every single day. Scientists say so, that's the absolute priority,” Macron said, according to a Sky News translation of the televised address. The new measures will go into effect from noon Tuesday and last for at least two weeks. "We're at war," Macron reportedly said. The limited traffic means people should not gather to meet friends or family, he said. Citizens...

President Donald Trump on Monday released a series of coronavirus guidelines to slow the spread that calls for a lockdown of America, including the closing of restaurants and schools. 'Each and every one of us has a critical role to play in stopping the spread,' the president said in the White House briefing room. He predicted the virus would be a threat until the summer. 'People are talking about July, August, something like that,' Trump said. But Dr. Anthony Fauci stepped in to clarify the guidelines were not in affect that long. 'The guidelines are over a 15 day-trial guideline,'...

In an effort to gain support on the far-left flank of the Democratic Party Sunday night, former Vice President Joe Biden vowed to stop oil drilling in the United States and said he would implement a ban on new fracking. "No more drilling on federal lands. No more drilling, including offshore. No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period. Ends," Biden said. "No new fracking."This translates to (massive job losses) for millions of Americans, not to mention how Biden's policy would create an unaffordable increase in energy prices.

Stocks fell sharply Monday even after the Federal Reserve embarked on a massive monetary stimulus campaign to curb slower economic growth amid the coronavirus outbreak. The S&P 500 dropped 12.1% while the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 3,065 points, or 13.2%. The Nasdaq Composite traded 12.6% lower. The major averages fell to their lows after President Donald Trump said the worst of the outbreak could last until August. He also told reporters the U.S. “may be” heading into a recession. The S&P 500 fell as much as 11.4% while the Dow lost more than 12% earlier. The Nasdaq was briefly...

The sister of a convicted murderer whose execution was temporarily stayed by the Supreme Court after protesters raised doubts about his guilt confronted the Alabama governor who approved his execution. “You killed my brother,” said Pamela Woods, sister of Nathaniel Woods, who died March 5. “He’s an innocent man and you killed him,” she said to Gov. Kay Ivey at a press conference. Ivey was then rushed away by aides.

Former Fugees member Pras Michel showed up to Manhattan Family court wearing a full Tyvek suit Monday — after an intern with coronavirus had been there a week prior. The “Ghetto Superstar” rapper — who was cuffed last week for not proving he made a $20,000 child support payment — showed up wearing a head-to-toe white Tyvek suit and handed over a receipt that he said proves he made the payment over the weekend. Last week, a legal intern, who had spent two weeks in the 60 Lafayette building, tested positive for COVID-19.

President Trump on Monday urged Americans to avoid traveling and gathering in public spaces in an effort to blunt the spread of the coronavirus. "If everyone makes this change, or these critical changes and sacrifices now, we will rally together as one nation and we will defeat the virus," Trump said in the White House briefing room. "We're going to have a big celebration all together."

Idris Elba is the latest celebrity to announce he’s tested positive for coronavirus. On Monday, the 47-year-old “Luther” star took to social media to reveal the news. “This morning I tested positive for Covid 19,” he captioned a video of himself and his wife Sabrina Dhowre, 30. “I feel ok, I have no symptoms so far but have been isolated since I found out about my possible exposure to the virus. Stay home people and be pragmatic. I will keep you updated on how I’m doing. No panic.”

The Italian healthcare landscape includes crumbling hospitals, doctors trained on books rather than patients, and per capita spending one-third that of the United States. And Americans like to say their medical care is the best in the world, while Italians consider their National Health Service to be hopelessly dysfunctional. (In 2000 the World Health Organization ranked the Italian system second-best on the planet. But that stellar rating was based solely on equality of access on the one hand and health outcomes such as life expectancy on the other, ignoring any on-the-ground realities in between: waiting times, emergency room efficiency, surgical...