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OK Freepers. Almost everybody is at home today dealing with all their normal stresses in life, and some truly mind-boggling/bizarre new one's. So, what are you drinking today?

This story first appeared in 1600 Daily, the White House’s evening newsletter. Subscribe now to get breaking news from President Trump before anyone else. “I want all Americans to understand,” President Trump wrote on Twitter this afternoon. “We are at war with an invisible enemy, but that enemy is no match for the spirit and resolve of the American people.”He’s right. Thanks to the dedication of our doctors, nurses, and scientists—as well as the love, patriotism, and determination of our citizens—no country is better prepared to meet this challenge than America. No nation on Earth will emerge stronger and more...

A New York Congressman, he broke with his party in 2016 and endorsed Hillary Clinton for president, saying Trump was “unfit” for office. Representative Richard L. Hanna on Capitol Hill in 2011. He deplored what he saw as his Republican Party’s lurch to the right and endorsed Hillary Clinton for president over Donald J. Trump.

In Philadelphia, Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw has set forth new guidelines to stop police officers from arresting people accused of a host of nonviolent misdemeanor crimes. Instead, they’ll briefly detain the suspect to confirm the identity and fill out arrest warrant paperwork, then release the suspect. The arrest warrant will be served at a later time when the coronavirus risk has faded. The list of crimes that will no longer lead to people being processed into jail includes prostitution and all narcotics crimes. https://twitter.com/GregArgosCBS3/status/1240014588302761986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1240014588302761986&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rightjournalism.com%2Fallegedly-leaked-memo-shows-that-the-police-will-release-looters-and-will-delay-the-arrests-for-property-theft-drug-crimes-and-prostitution-during-covid-outbreak%2F In a recently surfaced documents that are detailing the city’s policies for its state of emergency...

... Only hours before Sunday’s debate, Mr. Biden’s campaign announced that he is “adopting Senator Sanders’ proposal”—from a bill Mr. Sanders sponsored in 2017—to fund tuition-free college for families who earn under $125,000 a year. This probably would cost hundreds of billions of dollars over a decade. It could devastate private colleges and liberal arts schools. It would banish economic incentives, forcing universities to compete, more than they already do, over whose climbing wall is the gnarliest. Lest Elizabeth Warren feel left out, Mr. Biden is adopting her plan “to fundamentally reshape our bankruptcy system.” To pick two of her...

Cities and states across the US have ordered the closure of nonessential businesses. So far, San Francisco and Philadelphia have ordered sweeping closures of nonessential businesses, and the states of Washington, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut have also shuttered many nonessential businesses and ordered bars and restaurants to become takeout- or delivery-only operations. But which businesses are considered "essential" and which are considered "nonessential"?  https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-a-nonessential-business-essential-business-coronavirus-2020-3

A test can see if a person has ever been infected, even if they had no symptoms. by Antonio Regalado Mar 18, 2020 How widespread is the new coronavirus? How many people get it and don’t even know? What is the actual death rate? Those are some of the biggest questions that science doesn’t have the answers to. But a team at the Icahn School of Medicine in New York City just developed the very test we need to tell us. Their test, described in a preprint paper released today, looks for tell-tale antibodies to the coronavirus in people’s blood,...

President Donald J. Trump today announced a major partnership with the Ad Council, major media networks, and digital platforms to effectively communicate accurate and timely information directly to the American people. This partnership is another important component of the all-of-America response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and will benefit high-risk populations and the general public with public service announcements (PSAs) around social distancing, personal hygiene, and mental health.As a result of this announcement, the following products are created as a result of this partnership: First Lady of the United States Melania Trump, Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Deborah Birx, and other Administration...

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room12:06 P.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT:  Thank you very much.  I would like to begin by announcing some important developments in our war against the Chinese virus.We’ll be invoking the Defense Production Act, just in case we need it.  In other words, I think you all know what it is, and it can do a lot of good things if we need it.  And we will — we will have it all completed, signing it in just a little while.  Right after I’m finished with this conference, I’ll be signing it.  It’s prepared to go.  So...

Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said Wednesday that his wife has tested positive for the coronavirus. Fischer made the announcement during his daily briefing, which he’s been making via video because he’s been in isolation for several days. His wife, Dr. Alex Gerassimides, is a pediatric pathologist. This story will be updated.

NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel said Wednesday that the COVID-19 coronavirus “is a bat virus, not a China virus.”...He also argued that “China certainly feels that” referring to the virus as the “Chinese virus” amounts to “scapegoating.”“This is a virus that came from the territory of China but came from bats,” he continued. “This is a bat virus, not a China virus.”

Hunter Biden, the son of former vice president Joe Biden, cofounded a record production company in 2018 that recently defaulted on its mortgage payments and went into foreclosure on its studio, state records show. The company, Biden Enterprise LLC, which claims to work with rising hip hop and country artists, was registered in a Las Vegas suburb and listed Robert Hunter Biden and Michael Elisaldez as directors. Elisaldez, a 42-year-old Californian who described Hunter Biden as a "good friend" in social media posts, boasted about working with singers and songwriters, including Instagram model and influencer Kristen Strout and former Family...

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (50 U.S.C. 4501 et seq.) (the “Act”), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows:Section 1.  Policy and Findings.  On March 13, 2020, I declared a national emergency recognizing the threat that the novel (new) coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2 poses to our national security.  In recognizing the public health risk, I noted that on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization announced that the outbreak of COVID-19 (the...

A Montrose, Colorado, woman and her daughter were arrested after police said they illegally sold human bodies and body parts from their funeral home. Megan Hess, 43, and her mother Shirley Koch, 66, were the owners of Sunset Mesa Funeral Directors. They were indicted on charges of obtaining and selling body parts, including legs, heads, and a spine from their funeral home, The Denver Post reported. Some of the body parts had infectious diseases, and some were mailed across the world. U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn said Hess and Koch allegedly sold body parts and gave the incomplete cremated remains to...

They’re gonna fight for their right to party. Thousands of American college students refuse to let the pesky coronavirus pandemic get in the way of their annual pilgrimage to Florida for spring break. Ignoring repeated warnings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization about the potentially deadly COVID-19 virus, the masses showed up in Miami — only to find their good times hijacked by safety measures to prevent the spread of the deadly coronavirus that are taking effect. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered the closure of all bars and nightclubs in the state for...

“If all of us can take these important steps requested by the president over the next two weeks, then we can be confident that we will get through this, and we will see a better, healthier future for America.” We need the American people’s help to fight coronavirus now By Vice President Mike Pence USA Today March 18, 2020   In the fight against the coronavirus, the Trump administration is not just taking a whole of government approach, but a whole of America approach.…Now is a critical time. As the president said on Monday, over the next two weeks, there...

“Gray Death” is a particularly dangerous mixture of heroin, fentanyl, carfentanil and other synthetic opioids, and it has made its way to Indiana. Carfentanil, which is used as a tranquilizing agent for elephants and other large mammals, is 10,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 times more potent than fentanyl, according to the Indiana Department of Homeland Security. They say a persistent increase in opioid overdoses tied to carfentanil have been seen around the country. Carfentanil and other fentanyl-related compounds can be absorbed through the skin or accidentally inhaled, making them dangerous to first responders and other medical personnel....

by Rod Thomson President Trump just announced a $1 trillion stimulus package. Democrats will greatly lard it up in Congress. I have severe reservations. Given everything we have ever known about how Congress and D.C. works, a “stimulus” package that would chuck $1 trillion at industries and people over the next month or so sounds like a perfect disaster. Remember, all of it, like the obscene overspending we’ve been happily skipping along with, comes from our children’s pockets. That’s immoral. First, a reminder for Congress and the White House that money doesn’t grow on trees and we’ve already been spending...

Eight Republican legislators voted against a stimulus bill in the U.S. Senate designed to provide some American workers with paid sick leave. The Republican senators—Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, James Inhofe and James Lankford of Oklahoma, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, Tim Scott of South Carolina and Mike Lee of Utah—rejected the measure, which the House passed last week. Still, the bill was approved 90-8 with overwhelming bipartisan support. The sliver of GOP opposition feared that the legislation would put undue financial burdens on small businesses and raise the deficit amid economic downturn from...

Either the corona situation isn’t as dangerous as the media claims it is Or this cameraman’s boss just really hates him https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1240296494277652482