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The state on Friday loosened restrictions on using a controversial malaria drug for COVID-19 patients, making it more readily available for people in nursing homes and other facilities. The decision comes amid reports of nursing home residents dying from complications of the disease and after some doctors, politicians and pharmacists had called for a change in the state's rules. Until Friday's order, doctors had been barred from prescribing hydroxychloroquine and some other drugs to treat COVID-19 outside of hospitals unless patients tested positive for the virus.

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...Pierce started prophesying last September and then again in January about what the world is going through now. He said, "plague-like" conditions would hit the Earth through February, March, and April. In a new interview with CBN News on "The Prayer Link" show, he also had a word of hope about Passover. "This year would be the year that Believers would really have to understand Passover and that we will pass over!"..

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, April 9, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – As several localities across the United States invoke the coronavirus panic to attempt to stop pro-lifers from praying, protesting, or counseling outside of abortion facilities, police in Columbia, South Carolina went so far as to issue a citation to a man for allegedly violating a statewide stay-at-home order that had not yet taken effect. Mark Baumgartner, who heads the evangelical pro-life outreach group A Moment of Hope, was leading a group of protesters outside a Columbia Planned Parenthood facility on Tuesday, FITSNews reported. The participants more than satisfied the 6-foot “social distancing”...

On Good Friday, Christianity’s most solemn day, lawyers for religious freedom are expanding their war on governors and mayors who have ordered an Easter church lockdown and ban on drive-in services due to the coronavirus. Notable cases in Kansas, Virginia, Kentucky, and Mississippi argue that the orders violate the First Amendment and religious freedoms that the country was founded on. And in Washington, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has strongly urged opponents to drive-in services to drop the ban. In a letter to Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer, a ban fan, the Kentucky senator urged, "Religious people should not be singled...

Former President Barack Obama joined prominent Democrats arguing that the United States should implement a vote-by-mail option in the upcoming fall elections. “Let’s not use the tragedy of a pandemic to compromise our democracy,” Obama wrote on social media. “Check the facts of vote by mail.” Obama joined prominent voices such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton who argue that the coronavirus crisis is an opportunity to instigate a national vote by mail option for Americans. President Trump has been strongly opposed to the idea of voting by mail, citing inevitable fraud. “I think a...

A judge denied a request for a temporary injunction in a lawsuit that states Virginia’s stay-at-home order violates religious freedom. Southern Virginia Russell County Circuit Court Judge Michael Moore ruled in favor of Democratic Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring on Thursday and denied a request for a temporary injunction in Russell County resident Larry Hughes’s lawsuit, Hughes v. Northam, the Virginia attorney general’s office told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Friday. “The equities do not weigh in [petitioner’s] favor based on this pandemic,” Moore said in a statement, according to the AG’s office. “And to say that this injunction...

We know it’s spring, but you may want to dig out your Christmas lights. Denver residents are encouraged to decorate with colorful lights to show their gratitude and support for essential and frontline workers who are keeping us safe and healthy during the coronavirus pandemic. The Denver City and County Building was lit in red and white lights Thursday night to pay tribute to first responders and medical personnel. Mayor Michael Hancock was joined by Councilwoman Kendra Black and Police Chief Paul Pazen for the lighting ceremony.

The state that sent Bernie Sanders to the U.S. Senate has ordered Target, Wal-Mart, and other stores to stop selling “non-essential” vegetable seeds because “the ability to browse for seeds and purchase them in person doesn’t outweigh the risk of spreading the virus” Vermont is the state that sent Bernie Sanders to the U.S. Senate.Sanders once said that it was a “good thing” when people have to wait in line for food.These are Sanders’s exact words:“It’s funny, sometimes American journalists talk about how bad a country is, cause people are lining up for food. That’s a good thing! In other countries...

Washington Post reporter Darran Simon was found dead Thursday in his apartment, according to a memo sent to staffers. The cause of death has not been announced. Simon covered government and politics at WaPo, according to a Jan. 30 announcement from WaPo. Simon previously worked as a senior news writer at CNN, the announcement noted. “We are deeply saddened to report that yesterday, Darran Simon was found dead in his apartment,” the memo from Tracy Grant, WaPo’s managing editor for staff development and standards, reads according to the Washingtonian. “Our sympathy goes out to Darran’s family; we will share information...

Police fined members of a Mississippi church $500 each for attending a “drive-in” church service and supposedly violating social distancing orders. Meanwhile, the sole abortion clinic in the state continues to kill babies in abortion despite an order from the governor to stop all non-essential medical procedures. As the Washington Times reports, Temple Baptist Church is suing Greenville, Mississippi’s city government and mayor for busting up its “drive-in” church service: Police officers issued $500 fines this week to drive-in churchgoers whose service required churchgoers stay inside their cars with their windows rolled up while listening to an FM radio station...

Staff photo by Wyatt Massey The Very Reverend J. David Carter, far right, of the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul holds a monstrance to bless a family on April 8 while Fr. Valentin Iurochkin shakes incense from a thurible. The priests made home visits the past week to bring encouragement to families who could not attend in-person worship services because of COVID-19 concerns. In an effort to encourage Chattanooga's faithful through the ongoing global pandemic and its economic fallout, the Very Rev. J. David Carter of the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul visited people at their homes...

The survey of 762 people carried out between April 6-8 found that 72% would not feel safe attending a sports event without a vaccine.

Republicans specifically fear the prospect of voter fraud, since mail-in voting would be harder to authenticate. Stimulus payments in the next round of legislation must also include “undocumented individuals and mixed-status families where even just one parent is filing their taxes with an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number and the other parent and all children have an SSN,” CAP writes. Instead of turning off extra unemployment insurance benefits after the coronavirus pandemic is over, CAP advocates that unemployment insurance “and other stabilizers” – ostensibly stimulus checks — “should be automatically tied to economic conditions, so that continuing and future crises don’t...

Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Anthony Fauci discusses coronavirus models in exclusive interview on 'The Story'. #FoxNews

"TheDepartment of Health and Human Services is cutting red tape to begin rolling out mass testing for COVID-19. One America’s Jack Posobiec spoke to the CEO (Steve Anderson) Associations of Chain Drug stores to learn more." Check the CDC Website to learn who qualifies to be tested.

Officials with Burning Man announced on Friday that crews will not be building Black Rock City in 2020 due to COVID-19 concerns. They announced on their website they will be holding a virtual event instead. "[W]e believe this is the right thing to do," the blog reads, "...public health and the well-being of our participants, staff, and neighbors in Nevada are our highest priorities."

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A hundred years ago, there were no 4th of July celebrations in New York City. Parades were cancelled and children were banned from movie theaters. Half a million pamphlets warning people not to go outside were distributed. The city was in the grip of a deadly, mysterious illness that crippled child after child. The disease was poliomyelitis, or polio, and it was sending spasms of fear throughout the country. That summer, 27,000 people were infected and 6,000 people died in New York alone. It would be many years before scientists understood the disease and for the next few decades, nearly...

Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, said he expects a “real degree of normality” by the November elections as a partisan battle breaks out over voting by mail. “I would hope that by November we would have things under such control that we could have a real degree of normality. That’s my interest and my job as a public health person,” Fauci, a leading member of the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force, said Friday on MSNBC. The remarks come as Democrats and Republicans feud over the viability of expanding mail-in voting in the November election. The GOP, led...