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Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden will take part in a CNN town hall focusing on the coronavirus pandemic on Friday night, according to a network announcement. The 60-minute town hall will "feature questions submitted by individuals living in some of the communities hit hardest by the coronavirus," per CNN. Biden will join the event from his home studio in Delaware. It will be moderated by "AC 360" anchor Anderson Cooper. The former vice president has been mostly sidelined in recent weeks by the coronavirus pandemic, a development sparking anxiety among some Democrats. President Trump has seen his approval numbers rise...

Texas is ordering air travelers from the tri-state area around New York City and from New Orleans to self-quarantine for 14 days after they arrive -- to reduce spread of the novel coronavirus.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic super PAC Priorities USA said on Thursday it planned to expand its use of an advertisement critical of President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic despite the Trump re-election campaign’s efforts to stop it. Trump’s campaign on Wednesday said it had sent cease-and-desist letters to local television stations that were running the ad in Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin - all expected to be swing states critical in November’s presidential election - because of what it considers a false assertion that Trump referred to the virus as a hoax. It threatened litigation if stations...

“Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips” (Proverbs 27:1 KJV).

In the months prior to the most ferocious stock market crash in history and the eruption of the biggest public health crisis of our generation, we witnessed the biggest exodus of corporate CEOs that we have ever seen. As you will see below, corporate insiders also sold off billions of dollars worth of shares in their own companies just before the stock market imploded. In life, timing can be everything, and sometimes people simply get lucky. But it does seem odd that so many among the corporate elite would be so exceedingly “lucky” all at the same time. In this...

Mexican protesters have blocked the Mexico-bound lanes at the main crossing in the twin border cities of Nogales to demand their government conduct strict coronavirus testing on Americans and other travelers entering the country Protesters wearing face masks and carrying signs used a pair of vehicles to blockade the two southbound lanes on Wednesday at the DeConcini crossing, which links Nogales, Ariz., and Nogales in the Mexican state of Sonora, the Arizona Republic reported. Some of the signs asked US residents to “stay at home,” while others called on Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to beef up controls and...

American entrepreneurs are finding new ways to manufacture essential masks, ventilators, and other virus-fighting tools. We need to count on them if we want to win this war against the pandemic. As confirmed Wuhan coronavirus cases in the United States surpass 60,000, our nation is in war mode. Winning a war requires all hands on deck. It appears American businesses and innovators are up to the challenge, however, as more and more private companies are contriving creative ways to play a part in beating this pandemic.In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been making apparent his state’s dire need for...

An old priest lay dying in a Hospital. For years he had faithfully served the people of the nation’s capital. He motioned for his nurse to come near. Yes, Father?” said the nurse. “I would really like to see Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi before I die”, whispered the priest. I’ll see what I can do, Father,” replied the nurse. The nurse sent the request to them and waited for a response. Soon the word arrived. Chuck and Nancy would be delighted to visit the priest As they went to the hospital, Chuck commented to Nancy I don’t know why...

MEXICO CITY -- The governor of a state in central Mexico is arguing that the poor are “immune” to the new coronavirus, even as the federal government suspends all nonessential government activities beginning Thursday in a bid to prevent the spread of the virus. Puebla Gov. Miguel Barbosa's comment Wednesday was apparently partly a response to indications that the wealthy have made up a significant percentage of Mexicans infected to date, including some prominent business executives. Officials say three-quarters of Mexico's 475 confirmed cases are related to international travel, and the poor do not make many international trips. Some people...

VIDEO Let him answer the question, Brianna! CNN's incredibly rude Brianna Keilar on Thursday kept cutting off guest Peter Navarro, the White House trade advisor, as he tried to answer her question about supplying ventilators. As you can see, each time Navarro tried to answer the question, Keilar rudely interrupted him including screeching about "wasting your time" and then abruptly ending the interview before Navarro could even answer the question she asked. Whether the interruptions by Keilar were done on her own or whether she was obeying the producer in her earpiece, it all has the same conclusion: CNN...

No, I’m not talking about Melania; due to the ongoing Covid 19 crisis, FLOTUS Friday, like much of America, has been suspended until further notice and the country remains on lockdown.For what it’s worth this is my take so far:It would seem that the models used to forecast the run of the Wuhan virus run are faulty. The forecast used to predict 2.2 million U.S. deaths and 510,00 deaths in Great Britain was produced by Imperial College in London. It is “the epidemiological modeling which has informed policymaking in the United Kingdom and other countries in recent weeks.”OK, but is...

The founding member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Habib Barzegari, has died of the Wuhan coronavirus, Saudi TV network Al Arabiya reported Tuesday citing Iranian state media. Barzegari was also among the advisers to the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, news reports say. With this latest high-profile death, the outbreak has claimed several senior members of the Iranian regime, including several IRGC commanders, Khamenei’s top aides, and senior regime officials.

It wasn’t long ago, just in recent days, in fact, that we were being told the coronavirus was going to kill more than 2 million Americans. But some researchers are indicating the forecasts of doom were driven by faulty models. What then, are we supposed to make of the models that have been fueling the global warming hysteria? The forecast used to predict 2.2 million U.S. deaths and 510,00 deaths in Great Britain was produced by Imperial College in London. It is “the epidemiological modeling which has informed policymaking in the United Kingdom and other countries in recent weeks.” OK,...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Music in The Bible) Psalms Psalm 137 1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept     when we remembered Zion. 2 There on the poplars     we hung our harps, 3 for there our captors asked us for songs,     our tormentors demanded songs of joy;     they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!” 4 How can we sing the songs of the Lord     while in a foreign land? 5 If I forget you, Jerusalem,     may my right hand forget its skill. 6 May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth     if I do not remember...

"A good turn"? The guy was coughing up blood----I bet the "good turn" is from the malaria drug. The virus that put John Bessler in the hospital — the virus that left him coughing up blood after days of fever in his apartment, alone — was at first mistaken for the common cold. What else, after all, could it have been? “I didn’t think he had it at the beginning,” Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Bessler’s wife, tells PEOPLE. “I mean, he was quarantining himself. But based on what he told me, I was far away, but I didn’t really think...

When the United States Senate votes unanimously for what President Trump calls the largest spending bill in the history of the planet, I take it as read that it's just the usual bazillion-dollar boondoggle that will merely lead to "North Troy Syndrome" on steroids. By the way, the $25 million for the Kennedy Center remained in the bill. On the telly, critics of Kennedy Center greasing in a coronavirus emergency bill tend to preface their remarks with "I'm all in favor of the arts but..." Just for the record, the Kennedy Center is nothing to do with "the arts". It...

Michigan Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer is the latest Democrat to ban doctors from prescribing the lifesaving drugs hydroxychloroquine and Z-Paks to save senior citizens in the state. Hydroxychloroquine is safe and has tested 100% positive in treating the coronavirus.

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says it's going to take a one-world government to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. It's a two-part problem, the former Labor leader explained: first the medical crises and then the economic shutdown imposed in response. "This is not something that can be dealt with in one country," Brown told the Guardian newspaper of London. "There has to be a coordinated global response." That means at least a temporary form of global government, Brown said. It should start with a task force of world leaders, health experts and the heads of international groups that would have...

In this trying time, would you take 50% more pay to work from home? That is essentially the question handed over to city workers by Mayor Jim Kenney, whose administration late last week announced a deal with the municipal unions to keep at least 15,000 city employees – a majority of our city’s workforce – employed as “essential” workers making time and a half as our nation’s economy collapses around us.