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Moscow, March 26, Interfax - Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin has asked residents not to visit religious sites amid the coronavirus epidemic. "Being aware of the feelings of Moscow believers, I still recommend and ask them to abstain from visiting religious sites on these days," Sobyanin said in a statement on his website on Thursday.

CNN analyst Joe Lockhart attacked Dr. Deborah Birx as a Trump “Kool-Aid” drinker after she tamped down a number of coronavirus alarmist theories. This included a sexist attack on her as a “Stepford Doc.” Birx, of course, is the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, who along with Dr. Anthony Fauci, has become a household name in the wake of the Chinese virus pandemic. Birx’s credentials are impeccable, including a stint in the Obama administration, and during public briefings she has shown an independent streak when it comes to clarifying things said by President Trump, and to both their credit, she...

Running beneath it all, in a continuous loop through our national psyche, are basic questions leaders are struggling to answer: When can we safely lift these quarantines? How many people could die if we do it too early? Just how dangerous will this pandemic turn out to be? This is why epidemiology exists. Its practitioners use math and scientific principles to understand disease, project its consequences, and figure out ways to survive and overcome it. Their models are not meant to be crystal balls predicting exact numbers or dates. They forecast how diseases will spread under different conditions.But one factor...

Gov. Andy Beshear is telling Kentuckians not to travel to Tennessee, a state he said has not taken the same “aggressive” steps as Kentucky in preventing the spread of COVID-19. “I cannot control that Tennessee has not taken the steps that we have,” Beshear said. “I need you to not go to Tennessee for anything other than work, or helping a loved one, or maybe to the grocery.” Beshear said Kentuckians on the southern border who travel into Tennessee to visit bars, restaurants or other types of establishments that are closed in Kentucky, risk bringing the virus back into the...

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday announced a temporary ban on evictions statewide for those affected by the novel coronavirus. The measure prevents the evictions of renters over the nonpayment of rent through May 31. It covers those who have lost work because of the pandemic, have become sick or have had to take care of family members with COVID-19. Law enforcement and the court system also would be prohibited from executing evictions while the order is in effect. Renters would still be required to eventually pay all the rent they owe, and must notify their landlords in writing within seven...

No matter how many abortions there are in America, Planned Parenthood and their blood-thirsty cohorts are always screaming, “More, more!” On Twitter, Planned Parenthood freaked out that with the proposed Chinese coronavirus stimulus bill, Republicans are “ONCE AGAIN exploiting a public health crisis to target sexual and reproductive health care” and “cater[ing] to anti-abortion extremists while threatening health care access for millions.” Their complaints? That the bill doesn’t take the unprecedented step of ignoring the Hyde Amendment that protects taxpayers from funding abortion, that Planned Parenthood could potentially be denied new nonprofit loans, and, for some reason, they wanted funds...

President Donald Trump has ordered General Motors to make ventilators under the Defense Production Act hours after criticizing the company for not acting quickly enough to produce the devices amid the coronavirus pandemic.

You know you live in a healthy society when its “elite” journalists demand even more dead bodies than those being produced by a pandemic. That’s precisely what the New York Times editorial board asked for in their recent piece that called for even “more” abortions during the coronavirus outbreak. Imagine that; even as normal life has been interrupted all around us, lefties need abortion mills to be one of the few constant and sure things still operating. In the shocking op-ed titled “Make Abortion More Available During the Pandemic — Not Less,” the New York Times attacked the fact that...

Thou Shalt Not Steal… (Exodus 20:15)A man can have nothing unless it is given to Him by the LORD…( John 3:27)God gives gifts to people. He gives advantages, strengths, talents, insights, personality traits, family connections… etc. , we all have different gifts, by the grace of God. In this sense, God is not egalitarian, He gives varying gifts in differing amounts to people as it pleases him. We are all called to be stewards of those gifts, and it is possible to develop them or squander them, to increase them or to trade them away, but everybody has received certain...

AddThis Sharing Buttons Share to Facebook FacebookShare to TwitterTwitterShare to More More54.5K Live Action News has learned that during the COVID-19 pandemic — while there is an urgent need and shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) to help coronavirus patients — Planned Parenthood is asking for donations of PPE. Hospitals are running out of masks and gowns in the fight to save lives infected with COVID-19, yet Planned Parenthood Keystone in Pennsylvania posted, “Donations Needed: In uncertain times like this, Planned Parenthood is as committed to patients as always. We will provide as many people as possible with the critical...

2018 Flu Season PBS article: Tis the season for gathering with friends and family to share latkes and gingerbread, but also for those dreaded colds and bouts of the flu. As temperatures drop, both illnesses start to tick up, as does the risk of taking you, your co-workers and loved ones down one-by-one. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate the average person gets two to three colds per year — mostly in the winter and spring. The country as a whole sees 9.3 to 49 million cases of the flu annually. Cold and flu viruses, despite their ferocity...

The governor of Idaho has signed a bill to prohibit the killing of unborn babies in abortions as soon as the U.S. Supreme Court allows states to do so. Sponsored by state Sen. Todd Lakey, R-Nampa, Senate Bill 1385 passed along party lines in a 27-5 vote and eventually passed in the House as well 49-18. The legislation would ban abortions once Roe v. Wade is overturned. Exceptions would be allowed for rape, incest and risks to the mother’s life. All other abortions would be considered a crime. This week, Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed the legislation into law. The...

The House today passed a massive economic relief bill that will provide financial support for a nation reeling from the coronavirus crisis. For pro-life Americans, the good news is that the legislation will not force Americans to fund the Planned Parenthood abortion business, which kills over 330,000 babies in abortions every single year. Earlier this week, the package passed the Senate 96-0 after Republicans were able to stop pro-abortion democrat leader Chuck Schumer from forcing Americans to fund the abortion giant. Today the House approved the measure on a voice vote. During the development of the first stimulus bill to...

The numbers speak for themselves. Rather than "give" 6,000.00 per person to the individuals to use as they see fit, Washington demands their cut: 1,000.00 back (maybe) IF you have less than 90,000.00 income limit, otherwise nothing. And the rest going to the people the Washington political class selects and the democrat's ABCNNBCBS press corpse approves! 2 trillion is roughly 1/10 of the entire US economy. How will they spend all of that in two months?

Last weekend, Louisiana officially became the first abortion-free state in the country. Officials issued an order mandating that all non-essential surgeries cease in the state while it battles the outbreak of the coronavirus and they indicated it also applies to abortion. After the order, Benjamin Clapper, Executive Director of Louisiana Right to Life, told LifeNews.com that the Louisiana Department of Health issued new healthcare facility guidelines postponing all medical and surgical procedures unless the procedures are to treat an “emergency medical condition” as defined by the notice. The pro-life group followed up on the order with phone calls to each...

Biden advertised his Coronavirus livestream to his 4.62 million Twitter followers. But only 632 people tuned in to watch Sleepy Joe on YouTube.

Like a responsible New Yorker, Brooklyn-based photographer Jeremy Cohen was cooped up in his apartment practicing social distancing during the coronavirus lockdown. But when he spotted a girl dancing on her rooftop, he channeled his inner Romeo, using his balcony and technology to get her attention. In a 31-second TikTok video that has 4.4 million views on Twitter as of Monday afternoon, he captures the entire meet-cute moment. He also notes, “I can’t believe this actually worked, and yes this is a true story.” “I looked out my window and saw this girl dancing, perhaps to a TikTok song,” Cohen,...

The online edition of Kim Strassel’s weekly Wall Street Journal Potomac Watch column “Big-government contagion” is accompanied by a video that gives us the gist, but it omits lot of the painful details. Details such as these: Democrats used the bill to tighten every fiber of the social safety net. Put aside the $260 billion for unemployment benefits, potentially necessary in light of record jobless claims. The bill throws $25 billion more at food stamps and child nutrition; $12 billion at housing; $3.5 billion to states for child care; $32 billion at education; $900 million at low-income heating assistance; $50...

Although the coronavirus has caused large-scale pro-life gatherings to stop for the time being, pro-life advocates are still praying and helping women outside of abortion centers. They are doing so in part because abortion businesses continue to kill babies — sometimes in defiance of orders to stop doing abortions to conservative medical resources to fight the virus. Yesterday, as pro-life advocates helped women at the Planned Parenthood abortion center in Columbus, Ohio — one of the abortion businesses operating outside a state mandate to stop non-essential medical procedures, a police offer told the pro-life people they were not allowed to...

Hall of Fame center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is experiencing a very similar phenomenon shared among many during the coronavirus outbreak. That would be none other than sports withdrawal. Abdul-Jabbar, 72, shared his thoughts on going through the absence of sports. All major leagues in the United States have suspended operations. The NBA and NHL stopped their season with less than one-third of the season to go. MLB halted spring training and the hiatus has now extended into the original Opening Day date. Meanwhile, the NCAA canceled the annual March Madness national championship. The actor and author penned a column in The...