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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign told Senate Republican candidate Jeff Sessions on Thursday to stop promoting himself as a Trump ally, lashing out at the former U.S. attorney general, whom the president soured on. “We only assume your campaign is doing this to confuse President Trump’s loyal supporters in Alabama into believing the president supports your candidacy in the upcoming primary run-off election. Nothing could be further from the truth,” Trump re-election campaign chief operating officer Michael Glassner said in a letter to Sessions, a U.S. senator from Alabama before he became attorney general. Sessions was an...

Small coastal towns that have taken in an influx of NYC’s elite fleeing the coronavirus epidemic are now reeling from a spike in COVID-19 cases as the prices of Hamptons rental homes soar from $5,000 to over $30,000 for just two weeks. The exodus of the Big Apple's residents has caused some town populations to burgeon and practically double and rentals to skyrocket - but locals in these 'refugee' towns are becoming hostile and demanding city dwellers stay away from their vulnerable towns for fear they may bring the deadly infection. Suffolk County, home to the Hamptons, is seeing the...

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine announced Thursday a potential vaccine for the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19. The vaccine has been effective on mice when delivered through a patch on the skin that researchers say feels like Velcro on the skin. Researchers say production of the patches and vaccine is scalable and if effective, can be produced in large quantities. Scientists are awaiting approval from the F-D-A for expedited human trials. It is the first study to be published after it was critiqued by other scientists “at outside institutions that describes a candidate vaccine for COVID-19.” During a news...

The colleges made these decisions in light of nationwide school closures, the cancellation of SAT and ACT tests this spring and several schools’ consideration of grading on a pass/fail or credit/no credit basis, all due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The announcements help answer some high school students’ concerns about whether they will be able to satisfy course and test requirements to attend college. Prospective UC students can still submit SAT and ACT scores for admission next year in order to qualify for scholarships or satisfy UC admission eligibility and some university graduation requirements. But the UC says no student will...

RUSH: I want to play for you a political sound bite from David Plouffe. Oh, speaking of, you know, it reminds me of something. I’ve been thinking, and I want to run this by you. Who else would be mentally tough enough to stand up to all of this garbage besides Donald Trump? I don’t want anybody to think that what I’m doing here is a direct criticism of Trump. You know, I’ve heard all these media people pine away for Obama during crises like this. Obama was not good during this. Folks, I say this objectively. I can show...

A Homo erectus skullcap found northwest of Johannesburg in South Africa has been identified as the oldest to date, in research published in Science. The hominin is a direct ancestor of modern humans, experienced a changing climate, and moved out of Africa into other continents. The discovery of DNH 134 pushes the possible origin of Homo erectus back between 150,000 and 200,000 years. Credit: Therese van Wyk, University of Johannesburg. ____________________________________________________________________________________ An unusual skullcap and thousands of clues have created a southern twist to the story of human ancestors, in research published in Science on 3 April. The rolling hills...

Today is the 103rd anniversary of Woodrow Wilson’s speech to congress calling for a declaration of war on Germany. https://freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com/2020/04/02/woodrow-wilson-was-he-a-father-of-the-greatest-generation-or-globalist-disaster/ Why has this feature of the American system – congressional declaration of war as opposed to authorisation of military force – disappeared? Which method worked better? Is the rejection of the Democrats by the people at the elections of 2020 a fair judgement on Wilson’s presidency? Who were the fathers of The Greatest Generation?

The Oral Arguments in Duncan v. Becerra (The California Magazine Ban) were held today. I have attached the video. The Judges on the Panel were: Kenneth K. Lee (Trump Appointee) Barbara M. Lynn (Klintoon Appointee District Judge sitting by designation.) I think, but I am not certain that the third judge is Consuelo Callahan (GWB appointee) but she didn't say her name at the outset. (Can anyone check me on that?)

More troops are headed to the southern border to support federal agents during the coronavirus pandemic, according to several reports. The Department of Homeland Security requested the additional forces in mid-March, and the request was approved last week, according to a memo obtained by the San Diego Union-Tribune. “The coronavirus pandemic has placed the country in a public health crisis and DHS is working with its partners across the government to take action to prevent the further spread of the virus in a ‘whole of America’ approach,” a CBP spokesperson told the U-T. The additional troops will supplement about 5,000...

CENTRAL — A Central pastor who has defied state orders limiting public gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic plans to put the state and city police on legal notice that restrictions on places of worship violate the state and U.S. Constitution and that the governments risk a lawsuit, the pastor's lawyer said Thursday. The Rev. Tony Spell, pastor of Life Tabernacle Church, has continued to hold in-person public services drawing hundreds to his church off Hooper Road even after Gov. John Bel Edwards ordered people to stay home and greatly limited public gatherings and other "non-essential" forms of public life and...

The U.S. government Thursday eased restrictions on blood donations from gay men and other key groups because of a drop in the nation's blood supply triggered by the coronavirus outbreak. The Food and Drug Administration's new policy aims to allow tens of thousands more Americans to give blood, including gay and bisexual men and people with recent tattoos and piercings. "We want and we need healthy people — all healthy people — to give blood," said Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams, who announced the changes in a media briefing with the FDA.

Wichita, KS — Sedgwick County commissioners voted 4-1 on Wednesday to approve a recommendation to limit abortions as non-essential procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic. The vote came after pro-life activists made the commissioners aware that women from several states, including Louisiana – a COVID-19 hot spot – were flocking to the Trust Women Wichita abortion business for elective abortions. That recommendation will now be passed on to chief county health officer Dr. Garold Minns, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, and Gov. Laura Kelly. Yesterday, in response to questions at a news conference about the Sedgwick County action aimed...

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.