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Denmark is opening its schools for children age 11 and younger. Whatever happens – good or bad – this should be a lesson for the rest of the world. Denmark is opening its schools for children age 11 and younger.The BBC just reported:Coronavirus: Denmark lets young children return to schoolChildren up to the age of 11 are returning to nurseries and schools across DenmarkWhatever happens – good or bad – this should be a lesson for the rest of the world.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Midway through his daily update in Frankfort on Wednesday, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear acknowledged the commotion just outside his briefing room, a group of protesters demanding the state re-open its economy. “Everybody should be able to express their opinions,” he said about the protesters, who were clearly audible during the WAVE 3 News broadcast of Beshear’s news conference. “They believe we should open the economy. It would absolutely kill people. We know we’re not to that point. My job isn’t to make the popular decision, but the right decision.” Among the chants heard: “Abortion is not...

Following President Trump’s lead, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday created a task force to plan for the “resurgence and reopening of Florida" from the coronavirus shutdown. DeSantis also made a major shuffle in leadership by sidelining the state’s Department of Economic Opportunity head Ken Lawson and putting Management Services chief Jonathan Satter in charge of the state’s beleaguered unemployment compensation system. The governor also notably distanced himself from Florida Surgeon General Scott Rivkees’ comments Monday that social distancing could last as long as a year or more until there was a vaccine. Trump, who is eager to “reopen” the country...

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A group of more than 90 House and Senate Democrats are demanding President Trump’s administration halt all border wall construction at the United States-Mexico border during the Chinese coronavirus crisis.

California’s $75 million Disaster Relief Fund will support undocumented Californians impacted by COVID-19 who are ineligible for unemployment insurance benefits and disaster relief, including the CARES Act, due to their immigration status. Approximately 150,000 undocumented adult Californians will receive a one-time cash benefit of $500 per adult with a cap of $1,000 per household to deal with the specific needs arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. Individuals can apply for support beginning next month. The state’s Disaster Relief Fund will be dispersed through a community-based model of regional nonprofits with expertise and experience serving undocumented communities. In addition to the $75...

The case of Duorijie, an old farmer from the rural county of Haiyan in China’s north-western Qinghai Province, can be considered nothing short of a miracle. Stabbed in the head in 1994, during a violent mugging, Duorijie had reportedly been living with a long knife blade stuck in his brain ever since. Lucky to have survived the attack, the farmer had been experiencing all kinds of troublesome symptoms because of the knife blade in his brain, like lost vision in his right eye and chronic headaches. Duorijie initially sought medical assistance in 2012, when his headaches became too hard to...

John Horton Conway, the famous Cambridge and Princeton mathematician, died on April 11th. I am sure those who know about him will be saddened.

In certain counties, first responders (police) are allowed to enter stores before others and make their purchases without any rationing. As Orwell wrote, some pigs are more equal. Everyone should have to live under the same rules, ESPECIALLY THE POLICE. To allow them special privileges and to escape the inconveniences associated with this lockdown is disgusting. Law enforcement must understand what it is like to live like those they have power over. To allow them special privilege is license for abuse and makes them more inclined to enforce laws that have no impact on them what so ever. . It...

The media are outraged that President Trump is talking about re-opening the country, following their previous position that he sure was taking his sweet time at opening up the country. Fortunately, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's death forecasts from the Wuhan coronavirus have shrunk from 1.7 million Americans in mid-March; to 100,000 to 200,000 two weeks ago, provided there were massive suppression efforts; to -- most recently -- 60,000. Every week, it seems, we’re another two weeks away from the “apex.” According to a model recently published in The New York Times, if Trump had issued social distancing...

George W. Bush Presidential Center @TheBushCenter "When the crisis is over...we must be ready to come together around a new strategy for globalization that secures its benefits and cures its ills."

Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.( Isaiah 24:1-3)Isaiah is one...

In short: Lady has been given the run around about her SBA loan application Her bank won't tell her anything and the SBA won't tell her anything CSR agent has a breakdown mid-call Tells her the reason nobody can tell her anything is that all loan applications are being held in a third party database offsite Only the people running the SBA and Chuck Schumer have access, so he can't check on her application even if he wanted to Says that they're skimming the money to shell companies they own and not to trust anything the media says Shell companies...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Midway through his daily update in Frankfort on Wednesday, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear acknowledged the commotion just outside his briefing room, a group of protesters demanding the state re-open its economy. “Everybody should be able to express their opinions,” he said about the protesters, who were clearly audible during the WAVE 3 News broadcast of Beshear’s news conference. “They believe we should open the economy. It would absolutely kill people. We know we’re not to that point. My job isn’t to make the popular decision, but the right decision.” Among the chants heard: “Abortion is not...

I have heard reports of people getting their stimulus checks deposited into their accounts. My son has for sure. Mr mm went to the IRS webstie and it told him that they had not determined if we qualified or not, which is ludicrous based on the income we had for the last couple years. Has anyone else gotten their money or had problems like this? Does anyone know how to resolve it?

The question has been raised as to whether the President has authority to call a special session of the Congress in view of Senate Concurrent Resolution 33, pursuant to which the Congress now stands adjourned. That resolution provides that the Congress stands adjourned until January 2, 1948, unless in the meantime the President pro tempore of the Senate, the Speaker, and the majority leaders of both Houses jointly notify the members of both houses to reassemble. Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution provides that the President may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in...

Ever since a “senior official in the Trump administration” penned an anonymous 2018 New York Times column attacking President Trump as unfit for office, Washington has been engrossed in a high-stakes whodunit. After an exhaustive investigation, the White House believes it’s cracked the case, identifying Trump's turncoat as his former deputy national security adviser, Victoria Coates, according to people familiar with the internal probe.

I swear I don’t make this stuff up – who could? – Say you’re the Democrat Speaker of the House. And say that in that role, you pretend to care about the “little people” of this country. Now, say your country is in the middle of dealing with a global pandemic. And say that one of the thing congress has already done – despite your best efforts to screw it up – was to pass a stimulus bill that included $359 billion in what we’re calling a Small Business Relief Fund. And say that that SBRF is designed to replace...

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Microsoft released and then deleted an ad for its VR technology featuring Marina Abramović, the performance artist infamous for hosting a “spirit cooking” dinner at her house in 2015, to which Clinton campaign manager Tony Podesta and his brother were invited. The ad originally went live on Good Friday. Abramović, the daughter of high-ranking officials in Yugoslavia’s communist dictatorship, authored a book in 1996 called “Spirit Cooking with Essential Aphrodisiac Recipes.” The ingredients include “fresh breast milk with fresh sperm milk” to be eaten on “earthquake nights.” In a Spirit Cooking themed performance in 1997, Abramović wrote for “fresh morning...