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The COVID-19 outbreak has spurred not just a health crisis, but also an economic one. With millions of Americans now out of work and countless small businesses shut down, a large number of U.S. adults are already scrambling to pay their bills.While emergency savings can be a lifeline in situations like the one we're facing, 50% of Americans expect that their savings will run out by the end of April, according to a new survey by real estate service Clever. And given that the crisis is showing no signs of letting up in the near future, that's extremely troubling.Americans are feeling the crunch Unemployment...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo revealed Thursday that preliminary results from a coronavirus antibody study show the statewide infection rate is 13.9 percent, which would mean around 2.7 million residents could have carried the disease. The 3,000 samples were collected from 40 sites in 19 counties, according to Cuomo, and suggested the infection rate is as high as 21.2 percent in places like New York City. “These are people who were infected and who developed the antibodies to fight the infection,” Cuomo said. “They had the virus, they developed the antibodies and they are now ‘recovered’.” The governor says the...

The letter was heartbreaking as it recounted the death of an 88-year-old woman in a New York nursing home. But it was also angry and accurate about a strange New York policy that is ­fatally wrongheaded. “I am wondering who will hold Gov. Cuomo accountable for the deaths of so many older people due to his reckless decision to place covid19 patients in nursing and rehabilitation homes,” the letter began. “I am writing as a daughter who lost her beautiful 88 year old mother who was receiving physical therapy at one such facility.” The writer, Arlene Mullin, went on to...

In a 180-degree turn, Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones, a Democrat, said Thursday he will not resign because of the backlash from his endorsement of President Trump.

Passengers line up at Senen Train Station in Jakarta on Thursday to request refunds for their purchased tickets. The Transportation Ministry will restrict all passenger travel starting on Friday. The Transportation Ministry will restrict all passenger travel starting on Friday as the government attempts to prevent citizens from participating in the annual Idul Fitri tradition of mudik (exodus) to curb the spread of COVID-19. The ban will not apply to cargo transportation or to vehicles serving special purposes, such as ambulances and fire trucks. “The ban will apply to all types of public and private transportation by air, sea, land...

By now, the hours stuck at home to slow the spread of coronavirus are affecting most people, but teens seem to be really struggling. It's already a challenging time in the life of a teenager and being forced to spend so much of it with their family and not at school with friends makes them even more emotionally volatile. That was pretty evident in a recent video that showed one teen and his friend in England head to Asda, their local grocery store, and scream threats and abuse at the workers there. They also offended onlookers. When a woman chided...

Even for the execrable Nicolle Wallace — Trump-hater extraordinaire and Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferer — this was truly grotesque. Sure, tens of thousands of Americans have died, and the economy is in shambles. But hey, there's a "silver lining" to all the death and misery: Trump's alleged "lies" and sins" are hurting him politically. As Wallace put it Thursday afternoon on her MSNBC show Deadline: White House, "the things that we’ve been talking about for three years may be finally catching up with him." Translation: time and again, we've tried and failed to destroy Trump. But the virus is our...

Facebook is trying to prevent in-person gatherings, but there are too many posts to block. A spokesperson with Facebook had initially said hey received instructions by the state governments advising that in-person gatherings break lockdown and social distancing laws in place as a reaction to the coronavirus, and those events should be removed. Anti-quarantine posts have been removed for protests in California, Nebraska, and New York. Facebook faces issues enforcing the removal of posts and events that violating social distancing due to to the number of posts being made, and the differences in laws state-by-state. Anti-quarantine protests being organized through...

The commandant of the Marine Corps has banned the public display of the Confederate battle flag, a symbol that he said had the “power to inflame” division.

AUSTIN, Texas — An updated model now suggests that Texas is past the peak of deaths related to COVID-19. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, part of the University of Washington, projects that Texas' peak daily deaths happened on Sunday, April 19th.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA21) - No dates have been announced, but General Motors has notified "a small number" of employees about a pending return to work at the Fort Wayne Assembly. A spokeswoman tells ABC21 that the notifications are part of a planning effort that will lead to an eventual resumption of operations at the plant, which has been shut down for about a month. Workers at other General Motors facilities in North America are also being prepared for recall. The COVID-19 outbreak brought production at all major automotive plants to a halt in March.

Iran using world attention on other issues to launch its first military satellite with North Korea's help. How ISIS has lost its territory but continues to come out of hiding in various places to cause trouble as the U.S. leaves only two bases in Iraq. Plummeting world oil prices may be quickening our approach to the Ezekiel war. And finally the coronavirus and how it has changed our world. Author and scholar Oklahoman Dr. Hitchcock gives a perspective on America and what the changes in society mean for us.

The House cleared a new small-business and healthcare spending package on Thursday that will provide $484 billion in funding that responds to the impact of the coronavirus. The measure now heads to President Trump, who is expected to sign it into law immediately. ... House Democrats, who are in the majority, said the measure will be followed by a much larger and more costly economic aid package along the lines of the $2.2 trillion measure Congress passed a month ago.

Proposal: Creation of the COVID-19 Compensation Fund. Beneficiary: Victims of the Wuhan Virus. Fees: 20% tariff on all imports from China in addition to any existing tariff rates.

A surveillance camera captured a Palestinian terrorist ram his van into a an Israeli border police officer Wednesday morning, and then exiting his car attempting to stab the officer at a checkpoint between the West Bank town of Abu Dis and the Maale Adumim settlement.

I like John Solomon. He’s one of the few real journalists still working in the national media today, and did yeoman’s work on the whole Ukraine scam the Democrats mounted last year. But, on the subject of Spygate and the investigation of the investigators being conducted by U.S. Attorney John Durham, Solomon has become basically the boy who cried wolf. He, along with Greg Jarrett and Sara Carter, have made so many predictions about indictments coming soon on Sean Hannity’s radio show and tick-tock TV hour that I finally had to quit listening and watching. Embeded in this story at...

One of the most at-risk populations when it comes to the Wuhan coronavirus are those in nursing homes. The first place we really became aware of the virus in this country was at a nursing home in the state of Washington, The Life Center in Kirkland, where there were 3 deaths from the virus before March 11. Since then, at least 24 others have died there. Governments seem to have grasped that the elderly are most at risk from the virus. Gov. Andrew Cuomo even named his stay-at-home order after his own mother, Matilda ­Cuomo, because he wanted to emphasize...

Thought you might like this explanation of negative oil prices... The below analogy of the oil crash put on simple terms for those of you not understanding negative oil prices Why WTI traded at -$40... Imagine the following...you pay $500 today and commit to receiving an escort at your house in fifteen days, because your girlfriend will then be traveling... Unfortunately, quarantine came and your girlfriend will be home for the next 3 months... Like all girlfriends from all over the world... You do not want this woman to show up at your house at all and try to pass...

Nothing you are going to read is going to be a big shock to you if you’ve been paying any attention at all over the past two months. We’ve seen outrageous restrictions imposed upon personal mobility and activity and businesses shuttered, many of them forever, based on an ill-thought-out scheme of remedies that may work in an experimental setting but have never been tested or validated on a large scale. The problems are threefold. First, we don’t understand the pathogen. Since it first emerged, we have had the initial assurances from our experts that it was no big deal morph...

(Reuters) - The U.S. agency that enforces civil rights laws against disability discrimination said on Thursday that companies can test employees for COVID-19 before permitting them to enter the workplace as long as the tests are accurate and reliable. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) last month said employers may take workers’ temperatures without violating the the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), but Thursday’s guidance appears to authorize a broader array of testing options.