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Even though Gov. Tom Wolf has barred most road construction because of the coronavirus, PennDOT has managed to get a waiver to begin a major road repair project this week on a busy stretch of Interstate 95. It involves an 11-mile section of the highway that runs from the Pensylvania-Delaware border northward to Tinicum Township, Delaware County, just beyond the Route 420 interchange. PennDOT classified the project as “critical infrastructure” repairs. It was among more than three-dozen projects across the state that got the governor’s blessing to proceed.

The Johns Hopkins Blue Jays will be searching for a new head lacrosse coach for the first time this century, the university announced Tuesday a.m. Two-time national champion head coach Dave Pietramala agreed to mutually and responsibly part ways with his alma mater, according to a press release. In 2015, Pietramala and then-AD Tom Calder agreed to a contract extension that ran through the 2020

WISCONSIN FREEDOM RALLY #REOPENWISCONSIN Public · Hosted by Madison Marie and 3 others Friday, April 24, 2020 at 1 PM Wisconsin State Capitol Bldg. 100-172 W Washington Ave, Madison, Wisconsin 53703 Let’s open up Wisconsin! The more people that come together, the more Mountains we will move. We need you there!!! Please share this with as many Wisconsinites as you can. Consider a screen shot of the Event and text to your family and friends. You are amongst friends, fellow business owners, farmers , parents and fellow Wisconsinites coming together for common goals. Join our Re Open WI group for...

U.S.—Former president Barack Obama endorsed Joe Biden for president in a touching, intimate video Tuesday, saying, "Biden has touched us all." Many were worried Obama wasn't going to endorse Biden, but he came through for the DNC establishment, telling everyone how deeply and personally Biden has touched everyone he has ever worked with. "Many leaders, um, you know, they, um, don't rub you the right way," Obama said. "But not Joe. Joe, see, he, um, touches everyone he comes into contact with, whether they want him to or not. He's breathing down Trump's neck in, um, in the race now,...

Pelosi said that the November election will 'probably be moving toward vote by mail' House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that she would like to see "vote by mail" funding of up to $4 billion in Congress' next coronavirus stimulus package for upcoming elections. Pelosi suggested on Wednesday that the funding would to help states "expand" their vote-by-mail capabilities and allow voters to cast ballots by mail rather than show up in-person at the polls. "Vote-by-mail is so important to our democracy so that people have access to voting and not being deterred, especially at this time, by the ammunition to...

RUSH: Look at Madeleine Albright — for crying out loud — on Fox News. Holy smokes, what is that? Oh, my God! She’s blue. She’s blue! Do you see that? She could be part of the Blue Man Group. She could be a cheerleader for the Seattle Seahawks. Holy smokes! That’s gotta be lighting. It has to be lighting. Oh, man. We’ll get a screen grab of this and we’ll put it at RushLimbaugh.com. Somebody quickly get your phone out at the website! Go to Fox, and take a screenshot of that so people will know what I just interrupted...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that he would be reopening some states as early as April. The president revealed his plans during a press conference in the Rose Garden. The day will be very close. … It’s going to be very, very close, maybe even before the date of May 1st,” Trump said. The president reaffirmed the reopening dates would vary from state to state, depending on the level of coronavirus infections. “Actually there are over 20 that are in extremely good shape, and we think we’re going to be able to get them open fairly quickly, and others...

A Resurrection All About Politics. Francis’s Easter Message To the “Popular movements” On the evening of April 12, Easter Sunday, the major Catholic media outlets reported on the letter sent that same day by Pope Francis to the “popular movements” all over the world, the same ones he convened and met with for the first time in Rome in 2014, a second in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia in 2015, and a third in Rome again in 2016.The “popular movements,” his definition, represent the mass of those “excluded from the benefits of globalization.” They are “street vendors, recyclers, carnies,...

Updated April 14, 2020, 7:58 p.m. ET9 minutes ago 9 minutes ago Cuomo Insists He Doesn’t Want a Fight With Trump: Live Updates Governor Cuomo, after appearing on four different television channels to spar with the president, said he wanted to work as partners.

An inmate who was released from a Florida jail in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus is back behind bars and accused of committing second-degree murder the day after he got out, deputies say. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office confirms 26-year-old Joseph Edwards Williams was arrested on a warrant Monday night in Gibsonton. They say he is connected to a March 20 shooting homicide in the Progress Village area. Deputies responded at 10:40 that night to several 911 calls about gunshots fired near 81st Street South and Ash Avenue. A man was pronounced dead at the scene. Online...

Scientists say they have discovered the first evidence of a “significant” mutation of the coronavirus — raising concerns that strides made toward a vaccine so far could become “futile,” according to a new study. The researchers, who isolated a strain of the virus from a sample collected in India in January, said the mutation appeared to make the bug less able to bind to a receptor on human cells called ACE2, an enzyme found in the lungs. The discovery of this mutation “raises the alarm that the ongoing vaccine development may become futile in future epidemic if more mutations were...

President Donald Trump this afternoon announced he would halt federal taxpayer funding for the WHO, the international agency that has botched its response to the coronavirus. WHO has been accused of lying to the world about the coronavirus and it has come under fire for saying killing babies in abortions is somehow an essential procedure as the world deals with the coronavirus pandemic. Trump announced Tuesday that the U.S. will halt monetary contributions to the World Health Organization while the administration reviews the mistakes it made managing the pandemic. As the Washington Examiner reports: “With the outbreak of the COVID-19...

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Patrons refuse to take the city’s shelter in place seriously, Cassava’s co-owner says Cassava, a popular restaurant located in San Francisco’s Outer Richmond District, had been open for brunch, dinner, and alcohol takeout since San Francisco’s shelter-in-place order went into effect nearly a month ago. According to Cassava co-owner Yuka Ioroi, while they haven’t been seeing a wild profit with this new model, it was enough to sustain the business — but as patrons aren’t practicing proper social distancing or wearing masks, she has to temporarily shut her business down to keep herself and her employees safe. Ioroi says that...

RUSH: Holy smokes. Did you see the White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing yesterday? Holy smokes. That was a throwback to the campaign of 2016. That is exactly why Donald Trump got elected. Donald Trump and the White House comms shop put together a video montage popularized by this program. We were the first to do it on Rush the TV Show and the radio program way, way, way, way back in the early nineties, a montage of leftists and Democrats in the media. And now everybody does it. The White House did their own, chronicling the media lying, chronicling...

Rich Old Homeowners Are California's Future, so Why Shouldn't We Take Our Subsidies to the Grave?MEMO To: California Association of Realtors Re: Death and Taxes Barring some wild technological advance, all Californians eventually will die. But why can’t our property tax discounts live forever? That’s the question raised by your glorious new idea: a ballot initiative to make our state’s famously generous Proposition 13 property tax savings even more generous—and portable. Your “People’s Initiative to Protect Prop 13 Savings” is a proposal as perfectly Californian as the Golden Gate Bridge. It provides a concrete symbol of an undeniable reality: Limiting...

And you already thought Hillary Clinton was humorless. Michael Moore revealed he tried to create a comedy all-star team — including Amy Schumer, Chris Rock and Bill Maher — to anonymously help write material for Clinton during her 2016 run for president, but her camp turned Moore down and called Schumer too “dirty,” he said. “Before the debates … I kept thinking, ‘Trump has such thin skin, if Hillary just had like a comedy shiv in her hand, just to slip under that thin skin, he will implode,’ ” Moore said on Schumer’s podcast, “3 Girls, 1 Keith.” The “Bowling for...

(CNN)A federal appeals court late Monday night ruled in favor of supporters of abortion rights and allowed an abortion procedure called "medication abortion" to be used in Texas while an ongoing legal challenge continues. The order by the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals is the latest development in a lawsuit that has been bouncing between federal courts in Texas, causing chaos on the ground for clinics and patients in the state. Monday's ruling is temporary, but it could stall or maybe even avert a potential Supreme Court showdown over the issue. The controversy began last month when Texas Gov....

Over 80 million Americans are expected to receive a stimulus check by the end of this week as part of the first wave of payments, the Treasury Department said this week. The Department expects “a large majority of eligible Americans” will get their payments in the next two weeks. While some have received theirs already, those who are still waiting for one will soon be able to track it online. Americans will also be able to provide the Internal Revenue Service with their direct deposit information if it’s not on file with the agency. “If you do not receive them...

The XFL's parent company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday, the first business day after the league suspended operations and laid off almost all of its employees. The filing, officially made by Alpha Entertainment, listed the XFL with assets and liabilities each in the range of $10 million to $50 million. The largest creditor was listed as the St. Louis Sports Commission at $1.6 million. Seven of the league's eight coaches also are among the top creditors. In a statement, the XFL attributed its decision to the coronavirus pandemic: "The XFL quickly captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of...