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China lied and people died. That’s a fact. Tired of being cooped up inside, do you miss sports, do you miss being outside with friends at BBQs and bars? We all do—and you should blame China for torpedoing pretty much everyone’s lives because of their incompetence. This government, which already kills its own people, decided to go for a grand slam hit of spreading this pneumonia-like virus, known as the Wuhan coronavirus, everywhere. It’s a pandemic. Oh, and now the Associated Press reports that China knew this virus would become a global pandemic, but sat on its hands for nearly...

A Drexel University student has filed a class action lawsuit against the college demanding a refund for tuition and other fees for the Spring 2020 semester that was disrupted by the COVID-19 outbreak. Grainger Rickenbacker, the filing plaintiff, is a full-time student at Drexel University and hails from South Carolina. He asserts that he and other students paid for services that were not delivered by their school. The form of those payments were tuition costs and other related expenses.

Russia has tested a system designed to shoot down satellites, the US Space Command announced Wednesday. “Russia’s DA-ASAT test provides yet another example that the threats to US and allied space systems are real, serious and growing,” said Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond, USSPACECOM commander and U.S. Space Force Chief of Space Operations. “The United States is ready and committed to deterring aggression and defending the Nation, our allies and US interests from hostile acts in space.”

Princess Anne seems to take a veiled dig at her nephews, Princes William and Harry in a new interview. The Princess Royal, who turns 70 this August spoke with Vanity Fair and described herself as a “fuddy-duddy” when it comes to charitable work, in comparison to the younger royals who she thinks might want to “go back to basics” when it comes to philanthropy. The interview was conducted before Harry and Meghan exited the royal family and announced the establishment of their own private foundation named Archewell after their son Archie. Harry — especially while still a working member of...

Lifelong Democrat and Georgia State Rep. Vernon Jones has officially endorsed Donald Trump for President. Jones, who is black, released statements to the media and social media. He also recorded a short video of himself not only giving his endorsement to Trump, but explaining why. In the video, he addressed a big elephant in many Democrat's room, which is why how he can be black and endorse Trump at the same time. His take was simple. Trump is doing great things for the black community. Lowest black unemployment rate ever. Funding for HBCUs (Black Colleges). Opportunity zones, school choice, you...

Old enough to drive a car? Then you would be old enough to receive $2,000 a month under a plan introduced this week by two Democratic lawmakers in the House of Representatives. Under the Emergency Money for the People Act, US citizens who are 16 or older — and make less than $130,000 a year — would receive cash payments from the federal government for at least six months and until unemployment falls to pre-pandemic levels. The bill was introduced Tuesday by Rep. Tim Ryan, a former presidential candidate associated with the moderate wing of the Democratic Party, and Rep....

Rapper Kanye West said he is “definitely voting” in the upcoming November election and left little doubt about who he will be backing. The interview: “Both my parents were freedom fighters, and they used to drink from fountains they were told they couldn’t drink from, and they used to sit in restaurants where they were told they couldn’t eat from. They didn’t fight for me to be told by white people which white person I can vote on,” said the Trump-supporting rapper-turned Christian in an interview with GQ magazine.

Hundreds of beeping vehicles swarmed downtown Lansing today, jamming up several intersections, blocking roadways and crowding the State Capitol lawn to protest Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s “Stay Safe, Stay Home” executive order. Many defied social distancing mandates in Whitmer’s order, crowding closely together with rifles and signs supporting Donald Trump. Others stayed in their cars and trucks, some pulling construction gear, landscaping equipment and motorboats. Music blared from loud speakers. Hundreds ignored guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by not wearing masks or face covers, shouting about how Whitmer needs to be removed from office. Rich Freiburger,...

A pro-life group in Columbia, South Carolina, has received an exemption from the state’s stay at home order, meaning the group can continue to protest safely outside the city’s Planned Parenthood facility. The exemption comes after group members were ticketed for their presence and threatened with arrest in violation of a citywide stay at home order last week. According to the Post and Courier, Mark Baumgartner, president of the group A Moment of Hope, received a citation on April 7 for violating Columbia’s stay at home order as his group was praying outside a Planned Parenthood facility. While responding police...

A medical ventilator to help Covid-19 patients breathe has been granted regulatory approval, meaning hundreds could be rolled out to hospitals from next week. Penlon’s ESO2 device, developed under the codename Project Oyster, will become the first model to get the green light from the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), with an announcement expected as soon as Thursday. Formal approval comes amid mounting concern that tens of thousands of ventilators ordered by the government are still awaiting regulatory clearance. The length of the process has stoked fears about the readiness of the NHS for a surge in patients...

A prominent Israeli mathematician, analyst and former general claims simple statistical analysis demonstrates that the spread of COVID-19 peaks after about 40 days and declines to almost zero after 70 days — no matter where it strikes, and no matter what measures governments impose to try to thwart it. Prof Isaac Ben-Israel, head of the Security Studies program in Tel Aviv University and the chairman of the National Council for Research and Development, told Israel’s Channel 12 (Hebrew) Monday night that research he conducted with a fellow professor, analyzing the growth and decline of new cases in countries around the...

“We Are No Longer Asking Or Suggesting That Marylanders Stay Home, We Are Directing Them To Do So.” ANNAPOLIS, MD—As the COVID-19 crisis escalates in the National Capital Region, Governor Larry Hogan today issued a Stay at Home order to protect public health and safety. The order, which takes effect at 8:00 p.m. tonight, states that no Maryland resident should leave their home unless it is for an essential job or for an essential reason, such as obtaining food or medicine, seeking urgent medical attention, or for other necessary purposes.

Mid-week, schmidweek, I can’t tell Sunday from Wednesday right now, so at this point it really doesn’t matter if it’s Saturday or whenever. Though as it happens today we are halfway between Western Easter and Eastern Orthodox Easter, so this is a suitable time o get in a few Easter-related memes and such that we didn’t have on hand last Saturday. And oh yeah, somebody named Barack O’Bernie or something endorsed Joe Biden for something.

https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1250080704446238725

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is expected to sign an executive order Wednesday requiring all New Yorkers to wear face masks or coverings in public places beginning this week.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Wednesday said that the aircraft carrier that docked in Guam after hundreds of sailors were infected with coronavirus could be back at sea “in a few weeks.” Esper’s comments on the USS Theodore Roosevelt came after the Navy said earlier Wednesday that 615 sailors from the ship have tested positive for COVID-19, and 4,046 of the 4,800-person crew have been moved ashore in Guam. The Pentagon chief said on Fox News that a majority of sailors who have the virus are asymptomatic “and so we’re trying to be doubly careful as we clean that ship...

Start time is 5PM eastern, maybe closer to 6 pm.

Ethel Kennedy has learned to stop worrying and love Che Guevara. The 92-year-old Kennedy clan matriarch’s late husband Robert and brother-in-law, President John F. Kennedy, may have faced off against a Russia-aligned Cuba in the infamous 1962 Missile Crisis — but that didn’t stop her from putting the face of the communist nation’s revolutionary hero on a mantle at her Palm Beach home, The Post has learned. In fact, her family says she’s been a fan of Guevara for years — and makes no apology about it. “My mom loves Che Guevara. Her dog is named Che,” her son, Robert...

RUSH: There’s a fascinating piece today. I know a lot of you people believe that this virus is a communist Chinese, purposeful weapon. Admit it. Many of you people think this. I know it because I’ve had people say so. (interruption) You have no doubt…? (interruption) Oh, yeah, I think there is doubt about it in some circles. You know, that some people playing around in a lab made a mistake, or is it a purposeful thing? I think there’s another way of look at this. Once Xi Jinping found out what he had, did he then use it to...

"There are 5,808 cases of the flu confirmed in South Dakota. The South Dakota Department of Health says the flu is widespread and the severity is high. Over 1,000 of these cases were confirmed in a single week."