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Yakima County officials had a united message on Tuesday about enforcement of coronavirus stay-home orders: The focus is education. Don't call 911 to report violations. And, no, officers are not pulling people over asking for papers authorizing them to be out and about.

he U.K. government has changed its regulations on abortion to allow for women to take abortion pills at home without having to travel to a clinic, after an initial change to the regulations was announced in error last week. The new guidance means that women can access abortion care while also following the U.K. government advice relating to the coronavirus outbreak, which advises residents to only leave their homes for very limited purposes. A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson confirmed to TIME Monday that current guidance will be updated so women who need an abortion up to ten weeks and can’t...

Henry Ford Health System says it’s been using the drug hydroxychloroquine to treat severe cases of COVID-19 in hospitalized patients. Hydroxychloroquine recently gained a large amount of attention after President Donald Trump mentioned the anti-arthritis and anti-malaria drug in his March 20 press conference as being promising. Since then, there has been much discussion as to whether the drug is actually effective in treating COVID-19. Dr. Marcus Zervos is an infectious disease specialist at Henry Ford. He says staff at Henry Ford has been using hydroxychloroquine to treat the most severe cases of COVID-19 in hospitalized patients. “We are not...

CNN’s Chris Cuomo made his first television appearance Tuesday night since testing positive for the novel coronavirus, describing the social distancing precautions he is taking and urging viewers to remain resolute even though “it’s going to get worse” as testing becomes more commonplace. “I feel fine, I’m able to do the show. You do not want this, and I am not able to be there for my family right now in the way that I want to be,” Cuomo said in a broadcast from his basement, where he also broadcast Monday ahead of the test results, adding that he was...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – The company behind a plan last week to cut some of its employees’ pay checks if the $2-trillion COVID-19 stimulus bill was approved has now changed its mind. The plan would’ve allowed the company to reduce paychecks by the amount of stimulus payment expected from the government. The company wanted those workers to sign what it called its “Employee Emergency Compensation Fund.” The agreement would have also allowed the company to take 50% of the stimulus act’s $500 per child credit. A worker who asked that we not identify him provided KXAN a copy of the letter...

The bizarre handling of Coronavirus and the obvious destruction of the United States of America...... I find myself seventy three years old here in Pittsburgh and deeply worried about the present and future of our country. As the days go by the problems ahead for the nation seem bleaker. My wife and I are Trump people yet this entire ugly event seems bigger and more evil than even he and his administration can solve. The quote below sums up the feeling I have about how the American people are being treated. I really cannot see a way out of this....

Dracula-centric projects, from Universal's remake to Renfield to the series The Brides are blooming. But what brought the Count back? Vampires are at the top of the horror-movie monster pyramid, and their fans have enjoyed watching them onscreen almost since the dawn of film as a medium. In the past decades alone, interest has peaked with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twilight, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries. However, despite being adapted many times, Dracula hasn't been a huge deal in pop culture since Francis Ford Coppola took the Count out for a spin in 1992, when the director adapted Bram...

rance has now officially sanctioned the malaria drug chloroquine as a potential coronavirus treatment for patients infected with the novel coronavirus. In the U.S. President Donald Trump has also been touting the use of chloroquine and a couple of other anti-malarial drugs to fight the deadly virus. "This ensures continued treatment of patients who have been treated for several years for a chronic condition with this drug but also allows a temporary authorization to allow certain patients with coronavirus to benefit from this therapeutic route," France 24 English quoted Jérôme Salomon, France's director-general of health. Also, the U.S.FDA has acted...

On Tuesday, authorities in Broward County, Fla. — where the cruise ship with four dead and two in dire need of medical attention hopes to dock this week — said a plan presented by owner Carnival Corp. does not yet address all their concerns. A representative for the U.S. Coast Guard said the Zaandam and an accompanying ship would not be allowed to enter U.S. waters without submitting “a complete plan for self-support of the medical issues occurring on board the vessels.” At a meeting Tuesday, Coast Guard Capt. Jo-Ann Burdian said a “unified command” — a group of local,...

A US surveillance aircraft has flown over South Korea, an aviation tracker said Wednesday, on an apparent mission to monitor North Korea just days after the communist nation fired what are believed to be two short-range ballistic missiles. The US Navy's EP-3E was spotted in skies above South Korea on Tuesday, Aircraft Spots tweeted. The operation came two days after North Korea fired two projectiles from the eastern coastal city of Wonsan toward the East Sea, marking the fourth major weapons test the North has conducted this year. The United States flew the same type of plane over the peninsula...

...♦ Within the 29 FISA applications reviewed, four were completely missing the Woods File. Meaning there was zero supportive evidence for any of the FBI claims against U.S. persons underpinning the FISA application. [ie. The FBI just made stuff up] ♦ Of the remaining 25 FISA applications, 100% of them, all of them, were materially deficient on the woods file requirement; and the average number of deficiencies per file was 20. Meaning an average of twenty direct statements against the target, supporting the purpose of the FISA application, sworn by the FBI affiant, were unsubstantiated. [The low was 5, the...

Cardinal Vicar of Rome tests positive for coronavirus Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, the Pope’s Vicar for Rome, says he is praying “for those who suffer”, after being diagnosed with Covid-19. By Vatican News Pope Francis’ Vicar General for the Diocese of Rome, Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on Monday after testing positive for Covid-19. The Cardinal is running a fever, but his general condition is currently good, and he has begun antiviral therapy. Cardinal De Donatis, following procedures in place to halt the spread of the coronavirus, has had fewer meetings with his staff at...

One woman documents her attempt to deal with this Coronaolypse.

I lost my secure, well-paying manufacturing job to free trade with the People’s Republic of China, and all I got was this damn virus that killed Grandma — and shut down even the lousy, ­insecure service-industry gig the Chinese had left me. Whether the political and journalistic classes like it or not, that’s how many working-class and left-behind Americans will politically interpret the events of the past couple of months. And not just Americans, but similarly situated voters across the developed world: Britons who backed Brexit, Italians who support the populist League and Five Star Movement, Spaniards who pull for...

I hear an EQ and big one in Montana...

Old film of busy London, England in 1930.

Former President Barack Obama suggested on Twitter on Tuesday that President Donald Trump “denied” warnings of the coronavirus pandemic.“We’ve seen all too terribly the consequences of those who denied warnings of a pandemic,” Obama wrote.The former president shared an article on Twitter about Trump rolling back fuel economy standards, and also accused the president of “climate denial.”https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1245007713387544576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1245007713387544576&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics%2F2020%2F03%2F31%2Fbarack-obama-suggests-donald-trump-denied-coronavirus-warnings%2F“We can’t afford any more consequences of climate denial,” he wrote. “All of us, especially young people, have to demand better of our government at every level and vote this fall.”Obama continues speaking up to criticize or challenge Trump’s response to the coronavirus, despite...

President Trump on Tuesday said Americans could use scarves as makeshift protective masks as the nation grapples with a shortage of protective gear amid the coronavirus outbreak. "You know, you can use a scarf, a lot of people have scarves," Trump told reporters during a news conference at the White House. "My feeling is if people want to do it there is certainly no harm to it. I would say do it rather than going out to get a mask."

Russia is sending the United States medical equipment to help fight the coronavirus outbreak, the Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday, citing the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

New information from the IRS on Monday shines more light on what people can do to get their checks from the government as quickly as possible while many families worry about paying the bills and buying food during the coronavirus crisis, which has cost millions of people their jobs. For Americans eligible for stimulus cash under the new relief law, the fastest way to receive it is to make sure they've filed a tax return for 2019 or 2018 with bank information so the government can deposit the money directly. The IRS says it will use people's 2019 returns to...