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As the coronavirus contagion ravages the U.S. economy and social distancing requirements force the closure of businesses and put millions out of work, the federal government is actively inviting foreign labor into the country to seek jobs, Tucker Carlson said Wednesday on "Tucker Carlson Tonight." According to Carlson, the Department of Homeland Security released 20,000 H-2B visas Wednesday for seasonal workers to take landscaping, food processing and tourism jobs -- while another 15,000 "bonus visas" are scheduled to be released in May. "By law, the United States only has to offer 66,000 H-2B visas per year," the host said. "But...

Over the weekend, the global evangelical Christian charity Samaritan's Purse set up an emergency field hospital in New York City's historic Central Park to help the Big Apple handle the coronavirus crisis. Mayor Bill de Blasio has thanked the organization ... by promising to monitor it to make sure there's no "discrimination." Hizzoner told the New York Post that he found it "very troubling" when he heard that Samaritan's Purse would open a pop-up hospital in the park to help during the coronavirus crisis. de Blasio views the charity with suspicion because its president and CEO, Franklin Graham, has championed...

The Secretary of Health in Baja California is reporting its first three coronavirus-related deaths in the state. One is an unidentified 70-year-old man from Mexicali, which is located about 120 miles southeast of San Diego. He died Monday and reportedly had a history of diabetes, hypertension and obesity according to Dr. Alonso Oscar Perez Rico, Baja California’s Secretary of Health. The man died four days after being admitted to a hospital displaying symptoms of COVID-19. The other two deaths are both 40-year old men... During the last 14 days, there have been 43 confirmed cases in Baja California, about 3%...

Las Vegas Sands owner Sheldon Adelson was forced to close his doors due to the coronavirus pandemic, but he says he won’t allow that to destroy his employees. “I’m paying every one of our nearly 10,000 employees as though they were still working. We’re even working to make up for lost tips. I hope to do that right up until the time that we can reopen our businesses,” Adelson explained.

... By mid-March, 3M doubled mask production to nearly 100M per month globally, including 35M per month in the U.S. at plants in South Dakota and Nebraska, and Roman says the company wants to double its global mask production over the next year. 3M has said it will be making 50M masks per month in the U.S. by June, and Honeywell (HON +0.7%), which primarily made masks outside the U.S. before the coronavirus pandemic, plans to hire 1,000 workers to make 20M N95 masks per month by May at plants in Rhode Island and Arizona. ...

A number of European governments have rejected Chinese-made equipment designed to combat the coronavirus outbreak. Thousands of testing kits and medical masks are below standard or defective, according to authorities in Spain, Turkey and the Netherlands.

The WHO lied about the seriousness of the global coronavirus pandemic. The WHO praised China despite their continued lying. And WHO leader Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus then later created an international panic and global depression when he overstated the mortality rate of the COVID-19 pandemic...But now the WHO’s sister organization, the United Nations, believes they should be paid more after the pandemic. They want more power and cash — a LOT MORE power and cash. Secretary General Antonio Guterres announced his “shared responsibility, global solidarity” plan this week.

MLB players’ union has been discussing a handful of potential neutral stadiums that could host baseball games to restart the 2020 season, New York Yankees pitcher Zack Britton said Wednesday. Britton told MLB Network Radio that about five sites have been talked about in meetings about potentially getting the season back up and running. The season was suspended and Opening Day was delayed because of the coronavirus outbreak. MLB PLAYERS UNION CONSIDERS PLAYING GAMES WITH NO FANS TO START SEASON, ANGELS PITCHER SAYS “I know there's sites that have already been discussed -- I'm not sure if I should even...

What to Know A regional EMT group has issued new guidelines almost unthinkable even days ago -- if someone's in cardiac arrest and you can't revive them in the field, don't bring them to the emergency roomThe guidance from the Regional Emergency Medical Services Council of New York City applies to the city as well as Nassau and Suffolk counties. The group, known as REMSCO, is the state-designated coordinating authority for the regionThe newly implemented order takes effect Thursday in an effort to control the surge of patients in hospitals due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic As the coronavirus stretches...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday she's creating a new House committee to oversee the coronavirus response that will have subpoena power to seek information from the Trump administration. "It would have subpoena power that’s for sure. It's no use having a committee unless you have subpoena power," Pelosi, D-Calif., said Thursday during a teleconference call with reporters. "And we would hope that there would be cooperation because this is not a kind of an investigation of the administration it's about the whole [response]." Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., will chair the House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Crisis. The committee...

The South Texas border city of Laredo has ordered all residents to wear some sort of face mask or face cover in public buildings and while pumping gas starting Thursday. The new restrictions come at a time when the city deals with a spike in cases, which now stands at 53 cases, and three deaths linked to COVID-19 — the most in South Texas. During an emergency meeting on Tuesday night, the Laredo City Council voted to require that face masks that cover the nose and mouth be worn when entering a public building, pumping gas, riding in public transportation...

Gunfire and blockades Wednesday again terrorized the northern Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo, but was not a threat to the border Texas city of Laredo, the city’s fire chief told Border Report. “I saw the situational report come in that there was some gunfire occurring in Nuevo Laredo and I don’t have any details but it’s happening on the other side of the river so it’s not impacting our community,” Laredo Fire Chief Steve Landin said in a video conference call on Wednesday afternoon. Rapid gunfire can be heard in video shot on the streets of Nuevo Laredo, just across...

Residents of New Haven, Connecticut, criticized Yale University in a recent city council meeting, claiming that the school needs to step up its financial obligation to the city as well as offer its campus up in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic...Yale reportedly fails to “adequately contribute to New Haven,” some argued, a reality that has apparently been exacerbated by the coronavirus outbreak. Residents “reiterat[ed] long-standing calls for an increased financial contribution from Yale,” with one citizen claiming that the city is “in a deeper and more widespread sense of emergency” than before.

I've said it before. New York has a hapless Governor and a clueless Mayor. They're running around wailing about the ventilators they need and don't have while the not using what they already have on hand. In the mean time, they are allowing the Chinese virus fire that is COVID 19 to continue to spread unabated through the city. This is something else I've said before. NYC has an Achilles heel. Mass transit. Mass transit is the blood of the city. The city cannot live without it. It is used not just by commuters, but by all kinds of essential...

FBI figures released Wednesday show March 2020 shattered the single month record for the number of National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) checks conducted in one month. FBI numbers account for 3,740,688 background checks last month, shattering the record of 3,314,594, set in December 2015; the only other time NICS checks crossed the three million threshold for a single month. Moreover, the number of checks conducted in March 2020 represent a nearly 30 percent increase over the number conducted in March 2019, and that period witnessed the second highest number of checks of any March in history up to...

Researchers in the United States have unveiled the structure of the "spike protein" of 2019-nCoV—the virus behind the current coronavirus disease outbreak. Despite the fact that researchers have already pieced together the virus's genetic sequence, the World Health Organisation has warned that a vaccine is still 18 months away. But knowing the structure of the virus's spike protein gives us crucial information about exactly how the virus infects host cells. This could be a vital piece of the puzzle in making the hoped-for vaccine a reality. What is a spike protein? A viral spike protein is like a key that...

As night follows day, Adam Schiff is vowing to launch another "investigation" into the Trump administration's response to the Wuhan flu. Whether or not it was spawned in that wet market or the Wuhan lab as a bio-weapon, China seems to be using it as a cudgel in a diabolical attempt to bring the U.S. to its knees. Trump likely knows this but for a moment must accede to the hysteria. China thought it had us between the rock and the hard place since the Chinese produce so many of our needed drugs, beginning with Tylenol and all manner of...

Pope Francis Strips God’s Wrath From Mass for Pandemic Catholics mock new liturgy as 'April Fools' joke' VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - The new "Mass in Time of Pandemic," published on April 1 by the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship, has been stripped of all references to the "wrath of God." The liturgy, approved by Pope Francis, eliminates all prayers emphasizing "repentance" — references which abound in the "Recordare domine testamenti" [Remember, Lord, thy covenant] votive Mass — composed and used for deliverance from pestilences since the Black Plague in the mid-14th century.   Old "Mass for Deliverance from Death in Time of Pestilence" In the...

BILLINGS, Mont. -- Major construction projects moving forward along the U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico are raising fears that the coronavirus could race through temporary camps and workers could spread it to nearby rural communities that would not be able to handle an outbreak. Despite a clampdown on people’s movements in much of the country, groups of workers travel every day from camps in New Mexico to build President Donald Trump’s border wall. Along the northern border, a Canadian company says it will start work this month on the disputed Keystone XL oil pipeline, which could bring thousands of...

Get ready to root for the New England Patriots. Seriously. In a remarkable story reported by the Wall Street Journal’s Andrew Beaton, the Patriots’ team plane—emblazoned with the team logo, Lombardi trophies and a gargantuan “6X” to commemorate the team’s Super Bowl wins—became the focus of a humanitarian effort that brought more than a million masks into the United States for the fight against COVID-19.