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It’s time for the FBI to open up a counter-intelligence investigation and obtain FISA warrants on Joe Biden and his associates — those are the rules, right? Biden on Wednesday admitted during an interview with NBC that he spoke with a foreign leader two weeks ago. After the reporter pressed Biden for more information, he quickly clammed up and refused to divulge any details. “With regard to speaking to foreign leaders, I haven’t spoke with a foreign leader in the last — uh, probably two weeks,” said Biden. The reporter pressed Biden for more details. “Who was the last foreign...

After checking into a hospital with "unbearably painful" symptoms, comedian Kathy Griffin has spoken out against Donald Trump's response to the coronavirus outbreak. In a quote tweet replying to the president, Griffin accused Trump of lying about how many coronavirus tests the United States has performed amid the ongoing pandemic that has claimed thousands of lives as it continues to spread around the world.

The ancient Greeks believed that true leadership in crisis came down to what they called pronoia -- the Greek word for "strategic foresight." Some statesmen, such as Pericles and Themistocles, had it. Most others, such as the often brilliant and charismatic but impulsive Alcibiades, usually did not. "Foresight" in crisis means sizing up a nation's assets and debits, then maximizing advantages and minimizing liabilities. The leader with foresight, especially in times of irrational despair, then charts a rational pathway to victory. Such crisis leaders do not fall into panic and depression when the media shouts "Catastrophe!" Nor do they preen...

A National Public Radio station, KUOW-FM in Seattle, Washington has announced it will not air President Trump’s daily White House coronavirus task force press briefings, saying the decision is “due to a pattern of false or misleading information provided that cannot be fact checked in real time.” KUOW is a college radio station owned by the University of Washington with translators and repeaters airing in Bellingham, Olympia and Tumwater. The announcement by KUOW came the same day as Trump’s approval rating for his handling of the COVID-19 Chinese coronavirus has soared, with the Gallup poll released Monday having it at...

A grocery store in Pennsylvania says it was forced to trash an estimated $35,000 in produce and other items Wednesday after a customer coughed all over them amid growing concerns over the coronaviruspandemic. The woman came into Gerrity's Supermarket in Hanover Township around 2:20 p.m. and "proceeded to purposely cough" on the store's fresh produce as well as a small section of its bakery, meat case, and grocery shelves, according to the store's co-owner, Joe Fasula

(CNN) — Tired of washing your hands for 20 seconds each time? Fingers starting to prune or feel like sandpaper? Please don’t stop. The world is counting on you to help stop the spread of Covid-19, the deadly new disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, or severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. Take heart that while you’re scrubbing, you’re also killing off a host of other nasty bacteria and potentially lethal viruses that have plagued humans for centuries — including influenza and a number of different coronaviruses. “There are four coronaviruses that circulate in humans regularly, almost every year,” said virologist Dr....

NEW ORLEANS — City and state officials worked to finalize plans Wednesday to move homeless people off the streets and fill a 155-room hotel in the Central Business District. The general manager of that hotel, the Hilton Garden Inn-New Orleans French Quarter Downtown on Gravier Street, confirmed the plan was to start moving people in groups of 35 from encampments and house and feed them for the next 30 days, using a mixture of federal, state, local and philanthropic funds. “We have transitioned our hotel into an intake facility,” said hotel general manager Adam Turni told WWL-TV in an exclusive...

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WeÂ’re probably at the end of the beginning of the great Chinese coronavirus insanity, and in not-to-long, weÂ’ll be back to work, despite the people screaming that Trump wants to kill all the old people to please Wall Street fatcats because of course he does. WeÂ’ll also soon be assessing blame. ThereÂ’s lots of blame because there are a lot of stupid people and institutions who should be blamed. There are also heroes. I wrote about them the other day. But most of the people you recognize from the idiot box were zeros. The list of zeros must begin with...

A grocery store in Pennsylvania says it was forced to trash an estimated $35,000 in produce and other items Wednesday after a customer coughed all over them amid growing concerns over the coronavirus pandemic. The woman came into Gerrity's Supermarket in Hanover Township around 2:20 p.m. and "proceeded to purposely cough" on the store's fresh produce as well as a small section of its bakery, meat case, and grocery shelves, according to the store's co-owner Joe Fasula. He described it as a "twisted prank."

Just one month ago, co-owner of Bendt Distilling Company Natasha DeHart was creating her unique blend of Texas whiskeys at her distillery in Lewisville. Now, she has shifted production entirely to combat the coronavirus and help Dallas County by producing and providing free hand sanitizer to local law enforcement, hospitals and first responders. “Daily, we have a pick-up from Dallas County and then they're distributing it to all first responders that are in the most need,” DeHart told Fox News. “Right now, it's literally just us providing hand sanitizer to Dallas County.”

Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago has been discussing a universal do-not-resuscitate policy for infected patients, regardless of the wishes of the patient or their family members - a wrenching decision to prioritize the lives of the many over the one. Richard Wunderink, one of Northwestern's intensive-care medical directors, said hospital administrators have asked Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker for help in clarifying state law and whether it permits the policy shift. "It's a major concern for everyone," he said. "This is something about which we have had lots of communication with families, and I think they are very aware of the...

President Donald Trump has been defending his handling of the coronavirus outbreak as the number of cases there continues to rise sharply. We've fact-checked some of the president's recent claims. Claim 1 "The United States has done far more 'testing' than any other nation, by far!" The latest data shows that 418,810 people have been tested in the US. This is more than the amount of people tested in South Korea, who had conducted the most tests globally up until this point. However, South Korea has a population of around 51 million, compared with the US which has about 328...

"If you were trying to design the most malevolently evil plan possible for America, increasing the number of deaths by 25% for a year and concentrating them mostly among the old and the sick wouldn’t even come close. But isolating everyone so they’re deprived of human companionship while inflicting a historically unprecedented economic catastrophe … that would be hard to beat."

Rep. Ilhan Omar said she has a “radical idea” to combat the coronavirus: making all hospitals public during the pandemic. “Here is maybe a radical idea to deal with some of the pressures our healthcare system is facing: All private hospitals should be made public for the duration of the virus,” the Minnesota Democrat tweeted Tuesday night. Omar has previously called for "Medicare for all" and has given her support to self-described democratic socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. "Imagine if the progressives consolidated last night like the moderates consolidated, who would have won? That’s...

Colorado has become the latest state to order residents to remain in their homes in the face of steadily rising coronavirus cases and deaths throughout the country.

The Department of Justice has announced that people who deliberately spread the coronavirus may face federal terrorism charges for “purposeful exposure and infection.” In a memo to law enforcement agency chiefs and US attorneys, Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen said that “because coronavirus appears to meet the statutory definition of a ‘biological agent’… such acts potentially could implicate the Nation’s terrorism-related statutes.”Rosen wrote that “we have seen an unfortunate array of criminal activity related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Capitalizing on this crisis to reap illicit profits or otherwise preying on Americans is reprehensible and will not be tolerated.The memo continues on to...

Authorities have charged a man accused of licking deodorants in a Walmart store in Missouri during the coronavirus outbreak for making a terroristic threat. Authorities charged Cody Lee Pfister, 26, after they found what they said was a video of a man licking the items in the Walmart store. A video posted on social media shows a man saying to the camera, “Who’s scared of the coronavirus? Don’t touch your mouth” before licking the line of deodorants on the store shelf. The City of Warrenton, Missouri’s, Police Department released a statement Monday that said “a local resident who took a...

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