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President Trump announced Tuesday that he was immediately suspending funding to the World Health Organization (WHO). The State Department was otherwise poised to hand over to the WHO $893 million over the next two years. The President’s move came in response to the actions of the WHO and particularly its Director, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in defending China’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Estimates are that 95% of the deaths worldwide from the ongoing pandemic could have been avoided had Chinese authorities not lied about the scope of the outbreak and had instead warned the world of the scope of the...

A Maryland county is proposing assigning days that people are allowed to go to grocery and convenience stores based on what letter their last name begins with. Calvert County’s voluntary plan would limit people’s shopping to once every five days. The Hill reports that under the plan, A-C last names can shop on dates ending with 0 and 5, D-G names shop on dates ending with 1 and 6, H-L names go on dates ending with 2 and 7, M-R names can shop on dates ending with 3 and 8, and last names starting with S-Z shop on dates ending...

President Trump provided facts and context to reporters in the White House briefing room Monday. Mainstream news networks could not bring themselves to look. The media is anxiously rewriting history to blame the president for a pandemic borne out of a communist regime’s coverup. “He could have seen what was coming,” the New York Times now claims, in a report that argues the economy should have been closed back in February. Back when Nancy Pelosi said, “come to Chinatown”? When the New York Times called travel restrictions and quarantines “draconian”? When the Times attacked President Trump, during a pandemic,...

Queen Margrethe of Denmark turns 80 today, and to commemorate the occasion she gave an interview that appeared in the newspaper Politiken on Saturday. The conversation was wide-ranging, but the part that made headlines throughout Scandinavia was her admission that while she considers climate change an important issue, she’s not personally panicked about it, and that while she’s aware that climate does change – “it has changed and is changing all the time” – she’s not certain whether humans directly influence those changes. Let it be emphasized here that this is one queen who actually knows something about these matters:...

Some Democrats are hoping to push forward with the party's convention in-person this summer to give their candidates the best possible start to the fall fights over Congress and the White House. The novel coronavirus pandemic has shrouded the 2020 Democratic National Convention, originally expected to draw 50,000 attendees to Milwaukee in August, with uncertainty thanks to prevailing guidance to avoid large crowds to stop the spread of the COVID-19 disease. The host body also announced Thursday it was reassigning some employees and firing others amid the outbreak. Many Democratic National Committee members told the Washington Examiner this week they...

A Brooklyn man suspected of butchering his father walked into a bagel shop near the grisly crime scene and claimed he not only killed his dad — but also devoured parts of his body, police sources told The Post on Thursday. Khaled Ahmad allegedly walked into Park Bagels drenched in blood Wednesday, ranting to a clerk about the murder, a high-ranking police source said. “One of the store’s owners alerted the officer who was outside that it appears his partner was having an interaction with a person that they know is a regular and is crazy,” according to the source....

Investigators found the bodies of Thomas E. Johnson, 69, and his wife, Leslie Ann Jones, 67, late Monday inside their Oak Park home, where evidence showed injuries to the Chicago law firm partners were not self-inflicted...Johnson, who specialized in social justice issues, had also worked since 1991 as a hearing officer for the Chicago Police Board. In that role, he presided over a hearing last year for four cops accused of covering up a probe into the 2014 Laquan McDonald shooting, the Tribune reports.

For many on the LGBT left, stemming from the left more broadly, mocking and attacking Christians seems to be the only thing giving them a sense of purpose during the COVID-19 crisis. While it is normal to see headlines from major LGBT sites blasting Christian leaders and denouncing the “anti-LGBT” religious right, April has been particularly inundated with such articles, especially on the most-followed LGBT news site, LGBTQ Nation. With its 1.5 million followers on Facebook and 163,000 followers on Twitter, LGBTQ Nation holds a great deal of influence among its readers. Here are four of its headlines in the...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis: “Whisky Is The Real Water Of Life” Footage of Francis receiving a bottle of Scotch from Scottish seminarians and calling it “the real water of life” was censored by the Vatican, reports TheTimes.co.uk (April 15).Francis’ failed joke was part of a documentary about the Scottish Seminary in Rome. It was recorded last year at the Apostolic Palace and will air on BBC Scotland on Sunday.Vatican officials insisted that Francis’ remark be cut out of the film.The “water of Life” (Rev 21:6 and 22:1) refers to the Holy Spirit (CCC 1137).

Patrick Rooney, Founder of Old School™ (Natural Health / Success / Freedom) discusses what those who are paying attention already know: China is at war with us, and has been for some time. The reality came into sharper focus yesterday with Fox News's report that the Coronavirus (COVID-19) was very possibly created in a lab in Wuhan, China, and therefore the origin of the pandemic was NOT the Wuhan seafood market as widely reported. Whether China had an accident handling deadly virus, or whether they released it as a bio weapon, either way, questions are being asked or should be...

It was only a matter of time before Colin Kaepernick got involved in the fight against coronavirus, and now we know exactly what the activist, philanthropist and former football star is planning to do. With a video posted to Twitter on Thursday (April 16), Kaepernick announced his "Know Your Rights" fund to give financial relief to minorities who are being disproportionately affected by Covid-19. The athlete is kicking off the fund with $100,000 of his own cash. "Structural racism makes Black & Brown ppl more likely to die from #COVID19," Kaepernick captioned the video. "We've launched the Know Your Rights...

[Barf Alert] Silence over Easter police raids captures ‘through the looking glass’ moment Up and down Italy over the Easter weekend, police entered churches and broke up services, issuing citations and fines to those taking part, in several instances including the parish priest. Yet not only has there been no howl of protest from the country’s Catholic leadership, almost uniformly bishops have sided with the authorities. ROME - In Catholic terms, perhaps nothing captures the “through the looking glass” dynamic of the coronavirus pandemic like this: Up and down Italy over Easter weekend, police entered churches and broke up services...

San Francisco used to be a beautiful place to visit or even live. Democrats have run the state into a shit hole status! Fentanyl and Heroin abuse, the numbers are frightening, but let’s worry about illegal immigrants. While our mainstream media is focused on the “China” virus Pelosi’s San Francisco is going down. The streets of San Francisco look like a scene from the zombie movie the Walking Dead. The situation was serious in San Francisco already but now it seems that things have got out of control with the COVID 19 lockdown. Video below: https://twitter.com/Pismo_B/status/1250620053298401280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1250620053298401280&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rightjournalism.com%2Fvideo-here-what-is-happening-in-speaker-pelosis-tenderloin-zombieland-district-in-san-francisco-while-she-shows-off-her-expensive-kitchen%2F This isn’t the first...

New York City retracted 145 deaths previously reported, on April 15, to have taken place in Brooklyn and Manhattann [source] [source]

WASHINGTON - New White House guidelines outline a phased approach to restoring normal commerce and services, but only for places with strong testing and seeing a decrease in COVID-19 cases. President Donald Trump unveiled his administration’s plans to ease social distancing requirements on a call Thursday with the nation’s governors. The new guidelines are aimed at clearing the way for an easing of restrictions in areas with low transmission of the coronavirus, while keeping them in place in harder-hit locations. Places with declining infections and strong testing would begin a three-phased gradual reopening of businesses and schools, with each phase...

Allen Daviau, the five-time Oscar-nominated cinematographer who worked for Steve Spielberg and Barry Levinson on films including E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Empire of the Sun and Bugsy, died Wednesday of complications from the coronavirus. He was 77. His death was announced by the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital, where he lived. Daviau, who had surgery in 2012 that caused him to use a wheelchair for the rest of his life, is the fourth resident at the MPTF facility in Woodland Hills to die from the virus. Daviau was introduced to Spielberg in 1967 and worked on two of...

NEW YORK - If you got your stimulus payment this week from the IRS and it is still in your account, are you afraid to spend it? Many recipients immediately deployed the money they received as part of the CARES Act - up to $1,200 per adult and $500 per child - for urgent necessities, including food, rent and unpaid bills. Some did not even have the deposit register before it was swept away to cover overdrafts, unless they use a bank which pledged not to do this. If you are lucky enough to not to need the money right...

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A leopard wandered into a hospital in India and ended up locked inside a bathroom before being relocated by wildlife officials. The Forest Department in Ganhinagar said the leopard wandered into Ayurveda Hospital in the Kolavada area and was discovered in a bathroom by a female employee. Build your own natural seafood subscription! Easy to order, easy to manage. Hospital workers locked the bathroom door and contacted the Forest Department, which dispatched personnel to the scene. The leopard was safely relocated with no injuries to humans or the animal, officials said.

The Senate scheduled another two weeks of pro forma sessions Thursday, just a day after President Trump demanded senators either return to town or adjourn. The Senate is now slated to meet roughly every three days until May 4, when senators are expected to return to Washington. Initially, the Senate had planned on recessing through Friday, with lawmakers returning on Monday. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced Wednesday that he was extending the recess in consultation with medical professionals and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.). “As the country continues working together to flatten the curve, following the...