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Beer stolen from Wildwood WawaTwo men stole packs of Corona from a gas station in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic and now Wildwood police say they’re trying to identify the culprits. Police said the thieves arrived at a Wawa Saturday night in a sun-damaged black four-door sedan and backed into a parking spot with all the windows rolled down. They both went inside the convenience store together but the passenger was the first to enter the beer cave and snatch two 12-packs of Corona and one case of Modelo beer, records show. The driver then grabbed three 12-packs of...

WASHINGTON — Senator Richard M. Burr sold hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of stock in major companies last month, as President Trump and others in his party were still playing down the threat presented by the coronavirus outbreak and before the stock market’s precipitous plunge.The stocks were sold in mid-February, days after Mr. Burr, Republican of North Carolina and the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, wrote an opinion piece for Fox News suggesting that the United States was “better prepared than ever before” to confront the virus.Two weeks after the sales, Mr. Burr spoke at the Capitol Hill Club...

Good Evening all: Here is the 48 hour update on the data presented below. The data has been fast changing and as for all data sets there is some good news, some bad news, and some interesting news. I am adding the UK to the analysis. I will post the incremental 48 hour data points under each country. In terms of the data, the Worldodometer uses 2400 GMT to measure the 24 hour period, so I am convinced this is standardized appropriately. From the High level view, Italy is going off the rails, Germany and France appear to be on...

s tragic as the story of Andrew Gillum‘s involvement in a situation that included the unfortunate collision of drugs, a male escort and a hotel room in Miami Beach may be, history has shown that it doesn’t necessarily spell a political downfall from which he can’t return. While all the details surrounding the suspected crystal meth incident on early Friday morning had yet to be fully sorted out, Gillum, the former mayor of Tallahassee, announced he would be retreating from public life and entering a rehab facility for help for the “alcohol abuse” and “depression” that he has suffered from...

Americans nationwide today give President Donald Trump a Plus 11 Net Virus Grade, according to SurveyUSA's latest time-series tracking poll conducted 03/18/20 and 03/19/20. 51% of adults nationwide approve of the way Trump is responding to the virus,.... 40% disapprove ..."

California estimates that more than half of the state — 25.5 million people — will get the new coronavirus over the next eight weeks, according to a letter sent by Gov. Gavin Newsom to U.S. President Donald Trump. “In the last 24 hours, we had 126 new COVID-19 cases, a 21 percent increase. In some parts of our state, our case rate is doubling every four days,” Newsom wrote in a letter dated Wednesday. Newsom asked Trump to dispatch the USNS Mercy Hospital Ship to the Port of Los Angeles through Sept. 1 to help with the influx of expected...

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US recovered cases are all 0 in the time file for March 18

(Reuters) - Turkey has sent 500,000 coronavirus test kits to the United States upon their request, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Thursday

Question: I want to know why Hawaii Five-O has been canceled. It’s been a hit since its first episode 10 years ago. It makes no sense to have a show that is so good and has great ratings to be canceled. —Mary Matt Roush: Networks don’t always feel compelled to give a “why” when it comes time to ending a long run, but it usually has a lot to do with the business of show. While Hawaii is popular, and does well in the international market, any show becomes increasingly expensive over the long haul when it comes to renewing...

The Winter Party Festival, an annual, weeklong LGBTQ event held in Miami, drew thousands from across the country when it kicked off earlier this month. But though it ended March 10, in the week following the event several attendees have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to festival organizers. “We know there are many places people could have been exposed before and after Winter Party as this virus has developed, but we wanted to make this information public as soon as possible,” Rea Carey, executive director of the National LGBTQ Task Force, which organized the festival, said in a statement...

In the past week, a story that keeps getting written and re-written by young journalists is the stubborn refusal of older Americans to panic about the Wuhan Virus. Pretty much every story reads: “Why is it that a healthy young American like me - in the demographic most likely to survive Coronavirus – is panicking

Independent restaurateur Tim Love, who lives in Fort Worth and owns 14 restaurants that employ 540 people, says he and his fellow restaurateurs never could have planned for a global pandemic that would force consumers to stay home for weeks. “It’s worse than a tornado, it’s worse than a hurricane, it’s worse than a fire,” he says. “This is going to destroy everything that I’ve built.” Timing is bad, too: He opened three new restaurants in Houston less than a week ago. -- “Most restaurants average between 8% and 10% margins. That’s what they make. So do the math on...

A senior Google employee who allegedly assaulted a pro-life activist countersued him for $5 million. Twenty-eight-year-old engineer Michael Gribbin said he was chalking pro-life messages on the sidewalk near a Washington, D.C., Planned Parenthood on Aug. 31, 2019, when Quinn Chasan, the head of customer analytics for Google Cloud physically assaulted him. Video footage of the incident posted to YouTube by Gribbin allegedly shows Gribbin following Chasan and demanding that Chasan give his chalk back. The footage then shows Chasan throw the chalk, walk to his bike and unlock it, and Gribbin grab the bike and say he will not...

“Mulan” star Tzi Ma is frequently recognized for his many film and television roles, including in last year’s indie hit “The Farewell” and the “Rush Hour” films. But it was an encounter weeks ago that has stayed with him. Ma had visited a Whole Foods grocery store in Pasadena, Calif., when a car approached him as he made his way to the entrance. “He rolls down the window and goes, ‘You should be quarantined,’ and then he took off,” Ma told Variety. He said he stood, speechless, before unleashing screams at the verbal assaulter, who was by then long gone....

When Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced a ban on spectators at the Arnold Classic, a juggernaut of a sports festival that brings tens of millions in revenue, the move seemed radical. It was March 3, and the state, after all, had not even had a single confirmed case of the novel coronavirus. But within days, large-capacity events were being canceled nationwide. A week later, DeWine recommended that his state’s colleges suspend in-person classes. Across the country, they soon did. He then closed Ohio’s public schools. Other states followed. And on Sunday, DeWine ordered all restaurants and bars be shuttered. By...

Euphemisms are common among abortion supporters because the reality of abortion is ugly. Rather than describe an abortion for what it is, the killing of a unique, living human being inside their mother’s womb, they use terms like “choice” and “termination of pregnancy” and they compare the procedure to having a tooth pulled or tonsils removed. On Wednesday, Idaho House Minority Leader Ilana Rubel, D-Boise, compared pregnancy to “organ donation” during a debate about a state abortion ban, The Lewiston Tribune reports. The legislation did pass, and it is on its way to Gov. Brad Little for his signature. The...

Celebrities thinking they were doing the world a service by singing John Lennon’s utopian “Imagine” are being ravaged on social media for the video they produced. Kristen Wiig, Jimmy Fallon, Will Ferrell and other liberal entertainers appeared in a 2-minute video posted on Instagram by actress Gal Gadot on Wednesday. Gadot said she’s been feeling “a bit philosophical” lately due to the self-quarantining she’s had to endure. Larry The Cable Guy ✔ @GitRDoneLarry Here’s a message from people with a lot of possessions that can take a year off of work and not flinch telling everyone outa work to imagine...

While much of the world is focused on saving people from the deadly coronavirus, Planned Parenthood is still committed to destroying unborn babies’ lives through abortions. Many states have shut down schools, banned large gatherings and urged non-essential businesses to close. In Maine, for example, Gov. Janet Mills announced Wednesday that restaurants and bars must close or provide only take-out services, and social gatherings of more than 10 people are banned, the Bangor Daily News reports. Mills also encouraged non-essential businesses, including malls, gyms and theaters, to close to help stop the spread of the virus. Amid the growing shut-downs,...

Massachusetts hospitals may not perform “nonessential” procedures like colonoscopies or knee replacements, but they may continue to perform abortions. Massachusetts Bureau of Health Care Safety and Quality director Elizabeth Kelley released a memorandum March 15 explaining that all procedures that are “nonessential, elective invasive” procedures will be postponed or canceled while Massachusetts is under a state of emergency, according to MassLive. “Terminating a pregnancy is not considered a nonessential, elective invasive procedure for the purpose of this guidance,” the memorandum said. “However, the ultimate decision is based on clinical judgment by the caring physician.” (RELATED: ‘Hail Satan’: Students Met With...