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In September, a 21-year-old man was arrested after using his cellular phone to take videos of an unclothed woman in a dressing room at a mall in Broward County. snip... According to federal court records, Nguyen was using Google to search for crime scene photos of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, which took the lives of 17 students and staff on Feb. 14, 2018. Nguyen also did online searches for Nikolas Cruz, a former student at the Parkland high school who attacked the school with an assault rifle. Nguyen also searched for local gun ranges and directions from...

WASHINGTON D.C. – South Florida congressman Mario Diaz-Balart has tested positive for COVID-19. In a release sent by his office, Diaz-Balart (FL-25) received word on Wednesday that a test he took over the weekend had come back positive. He is the first member of the United State Congress to test positive for coronavirus. Diaz-Balart began feeling symptoms of coronavirus on Saturday night, including fever and a headache. He then decided to self-quarantine in Washington D.C., where he will remain. “I want everyone to know that I am feeling much better,” Diaz-Balart said in a statement. "However, it is important that...

I dont usually do this, but VidAngel is letting people stream the life of Christ, in the series called THE CHOSEN for free. I thought some Freepers might enjoy it. It would cast through your phones. In an effort to make #QuarantineLife a little more bearable, we are offering free VidAngel — including unlimited filters, access to Dry Bar Comedy, and our record-breaking/award-winning series The Chosen — for the next two weeks (from now until March 30). To sign up, simply click the button below. No credit card info required. All we ask is that you agree to social distancing...

A comet is currently brightening faster than expected, giving hope that it will become a prominent object visible with the unaided eye in May. An image of Comet C/2019 ATLAS taken from Walmer, Kent, UK, on March 12th, 2020. Image credit: Paul Sutherland The celestial visitor is labelled C/2019 Y4 ATLAS, indicating that it was discovered in 2019 by a sky survey called the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS). This robotic survey, based in Hawaii, searches for small objects to help defend Earth against possible future impacts, and has found several comets as well as asteroids. Comet C/2019 Y4...

Fraudster Michael Avenatti’s attorney is scared to visit him at the dirty and dangerous Metropolitan Correctional Center — because he fears the lockup could be a coronavirus hotbed. . . . “Mr. Avenatti’s cell was infested with rats. The jail reeks or urine. As of yesterday, Mr. Avenatti had not shaved in weeks. Meanwhile, across the country, public officials are declaring states of emergency as a result of the spread of the coronavirus,” Srebnick wrote.

House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters proposed having the Federal Reserve give households $2,000 for adults and $1,000 for children for each month of the coronavirus pandemic. Waters's proposal released on Wednesday also calls for suspending all consumer and small-business credit payments, such as mortgages and credit card payments, during the pandemic

How long does it take to get a No.1 hit? In the case of the ‘70s group Ace, fronted by singer Paul Carrack, the answer is 45 years. The British band’s 1975 single “How Long” originally reached No.3 when it was released, but this week it made it to No.1 on Billboard's Rock Digital Song Sales chart, selling 4,000 downloads, reaching 831,000 streams and increasing sales by more than 2000 percent. The reason behind the song's sudden return to popularity is its use in a new ad for Amazon Prime titled “Binge Cheat,” which features the song’s opening line, “How...

The Senate passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act by a vote of 90-8 on Wednesday, after some initial hesitations from Republicans as to how the relief bill would affect small businesses. The measure will provide free COVID-19 testing to anyone who thinks they made need it, as well as paid medical leave for employees. President Trump, who endorsed the measure last week, awaits the bill at his desk.

There has been controversy recently about what to call the virus that has unleashed a worldwide pandemic. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) prefers “novel coronavirus.” Others have referred to it as the “Wuhan virus,” after its place of origin, as is common in naming diseases. The Epoch Times suggests a more accurate name is the “CCP virus,” and calls upon others to join us in adopting this name. The name holds the CCP accountable for its wanton disregard of human life and consequent spawning of a pandemic that has put untold numbers in countries around the world at risk, while...

A cheating UK hubby is “in a blind panic” over his extramarital affair — now that he has contracted the coronavirus on a secret trip to Italy with his mistress, according to a new report. The unnamed patient, in his late 30s — described as “well-heeled and with a high-flying job” — told his wife he was away on a business trip within the UK, the Sun reported. When the man returned home, he began showing symptoms of the deadly bug, and tests confirmed that he was in fact infected, according to the report.

The Trump administration's efforts to stop the use of H-1B workers by IT contractors suffered a major setback in court. This week, a federal judge ruled that the government exceeded the law. Trump administration has been denying H-1B work visa applications for IT contractors through stringent regulation interpretations. The IT contractors sued, claiming the administration's governance was too rigid. This week, the contractors won a significant court victory. U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer in Washington, said the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) "exceeded the law" and went too far in its interpretations of H-1B work visa rules. Her...

AOC and Bernie Sanders chimed in today on the toilet paper shortage caused by President Trump's inaction. The two Progressive snakes suggested that had President Trump displayed the minimum of leadership that the shortage could have easily been averted. The duo claimed that had President Trump suggested that people use both sides of the toilet paper the shortage would have been half as bad at a minimum.

An American Airlines flight from Dallas to Nashville took over eight hours to take off and was delayed three times after a man reportedly joked about having coronavirus. Flight #1076 to Nashville was set to depart around 6:30 p.m. and arrive at 8:40 p.m. Saturday but did not finally arrive at BNA until 4:40 a.m. Sunday. The man, who has not been identified, reportedly wouldn’t lift his tray table up before the plane took off at which point he claimed he had coronavirus. “People were freaked out because nobody knew what was going on,” said passenger Brandon Kenney, “People didn’t...

How’s Grandpa Joe Biden’s gun-grabbing looking now, I mean in a world where the Democrat-led Philadelphia publicly announced there will be no jail time for burglary, car theft, vandalism… Where non-violent crimes, like someone robbing your home, will be met with a bench warrant instead of the hoosegow? Since no one’s going to prison for non-violent crime, I have a question… Is looting a violent crime? Isn’t looting merely property damage + burglary? ‘Scuse me. I may have to take a couple of days off for a trip to Philly so I can upgrade my stereo system. Meanwhile, in other...

Since isolation is the new theme for the indefinite future, how about listing your favorite solitude, alone or loneliness songs.

German President Angela Merkel made a statement about Germany’s response to the COVID-19 crisis Wednesday and perhaps picked the wrong analogy, saying that not since World War II has something required the Germans to work together in solidarity for a common cause.

The Senate passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act by a vote of 90-8 on Wednesday, after some initial hesitations from Republicans as to how the relief bill would affect small businesses. The measure will provide free COVID-19 testing to anyone who thinks they made need it, as well as paid medical leave for employees. President Trump, who endorsed the measure last week, awaits the bill at his desk.

Cities, colleges, and school districts are ordering students to study online from home; dioceses are cancelling their public mass schedules; states are ordering restaurants to close and demanding that theaters and conventions cancel or reschedule. We are seeing commerce shut down over fears of the Wuhan virus. While there’s nothing to say, politically, about the choices of private organizations like churches and businesses to go on hiatus, there is indeed a constitutional crisis erupting as governments engage in actual mandates of this nature. Our Constitution clearly requires that all takings require just compensation, and we haven’t heard these states offering...

Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday snapped at a CNN reporter who asked him about the future of his presidential campaign. “I’m dealing with a fu**ing global crisis,” the Vermont senator told CNN congressional correspondent Manu Raju.

Little Big will represent Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam with the song Uno.