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Vatican City, Apr 20, 2020 / 10:00 am MT (CNA).- Pope Francis has decided to postpone by one year World Youth Day and the World Meeting of Families, according to the Vatican. The events were expected to take place during the summers of 2022 and 2021. World Youth Day, programmed for Lisbon, Portugal in August 2022, will now take place in August 2023, according to an April 20 statement from Matteo Bruni, Holy See press office director. The World Meeting of Families, previously scheduled to be held in Rome in June 2021, will now happen in June 2022. Both events...

Protestants protest California quarantineProtestant pastors in the Golden State are suing Catholic Gov. Gavin Newsom to allow public worship despite the Wuhan virus lockdown. The suit comes after one of the pastors was slapped with a $1,000 fine for leading a service on Palm Sunday in violation of the statewide stay-at-home order. The Center for American Liberty — a nonprofit based in California — filed the lawsuit earlier this week. Harmeet Dhillon, the center's chief executive, told the Associated Press, "If a Californian is able to go to Costco or the local marijuana shop or liquor store and buy goods...

April 23 (Reuters) - The largest oil producer in North Dakota has halted most of its production in the state, notifying some customers it would not supply crude at current pricing, according to people familiar with the matter. Continental Resources Inc, the company controlled by billionaire Harold Hamm, stopped all drilling and shut in most of its wells in the state’s Bakken shale field, said three people familiar with production in the state. North Dakota is the second-largest oil-producing state in the United States after Texas. Global oil prices have plunged this spring because of excess supplies and a lack...

Hydroxychloroquine is one of many medications frequently used in rheumatology practice. Its remarkable versatility is attested by its routine use in lupus, in patients with an autoimmune coagulopathy, in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, as well as those with a low-level inflammatory arthropathy. It’s an amazing medication, with a novel history and wide array of indication and multiple actions that we now better understand. . . . . .The HCQ story begins in 1638 when the wife of the Viceroy of Peru, Countess Cinchona, acquired malaria while living in the New World. Rather than getting the “approved” therapy, blood-letting, she was...

It's been two weeks since Wisconsin voted in a Spring Election that Democrats spent days claiming would spark a massive surge in Coronavirus cases across the state...In the seven days leading up to the in-person vote, Wisconsin averaged 174.1 new Coronavirus cases per day...In the seven days leading up to the in-person vote, Wisconsin averaged 174.1 new Coronavirus cases per day...

Has anybody ever catalogued how China has benefited from Feinstein’s and Feinstein’s husband’s associations with China? Has anybody ever catalogued how China has benefited from Pelosi’s and Pelosi’s husband’s associations with China?

I feel strange. I’m rooting for ABC to show me some hope. Good start IMO.

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The Angels singer, 46, and his next-door neighbour, legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy, 76, were once bitter enemies over a plan to build a “super-basement” underneath Robbie’s mansion. But Robbie says the two are now in harmony. He denied “hilarious” reports that he was blasting out songs by Jimmy’s ex-bandmate Robert Plant and Black Sabbath to annoy his neighbour, but said he would have loved to have played pranks on him. Robbie and Jimmy first clashed in 2014 over the basement scheme. Jimmy told planning chiefs he feared vibrations from the work would damage his Grade I listed home in...

A federal judge on Thursday blocked a California law requiring background checks for people buying ammunition, issuing a sharply worded rebuke of “onerous and convoluted” regulations that violate the constitutional right to bear arms. U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of San Diego ruled in favor of the California Rifle & Pistol Association, which asked him to stop the checks and related restrictions on ammo sales. “The experiment has been tried. The casualties have been counted. California’s new ammunition background check law misfires and the Second Amendment rights of California citizens have been gravely injured,” Benitez wrote in a 120-page opinion...

Televangelist Jim Bakker said he’s been cut off by credit card companies after he was accused of selling a fake coronavirus cure and asked viewers to send cash or checks or he may have to file for bankruptcy. “You can’t use credit cards if you do give to our ministry at this time because there’s a situation,” Bakker said on his show this week. He told viewers that the government said, “’You sold products that we didn’t approve of,’ but that’s not what we did.”

I just watched today’s lamestream media argue-ferst otherwise known as a coronavirus task force update. A recurring preach of the media has been that Trump isn’t testing enough. So I found a well balanced chart which compares America’s CV testing to other countries To be fair in comparing America’s testing response you would have to move each of the country lines to start with zero cases at the same horizontal point. If you can imagine it then you will see that, even percapita, the USA has ramped up testing far faster than any of the other countries compared. Add that...

The Treasury Department is considering taking unprecedented control over key operations of the U.S. Postal Service by imposing tough terms on an emergency coronavirus loan from Congress, which would fulfill President Trump’s longtime goal of changing how the service does business, according to two people familiar with the matter. Officials working under Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who must approve the $10 billion loan, have told senior officials at the USPS in recent weeks that he could use the loan as leverage to give the administration influence over how much the agency charges for delivering packages and how it manages its...

...Lancet Global Health scientists conclude that contact tracing will work when “less than 1 percent of transmission occurred before the onset of symptoms.” That’s the opposite of the coronavirus: Victims are most contagious before or just as their symptoms begin, research indicates. By the time they are diagnosed and asked for contacts, those contacts are already infecting others. Oxford University scientists also caution that the coronavirus spreads by too many mechanisms “to be contained by manual contact tracing.”...

(Catholic Caucus) [Barf Alert] Bishops of Georgia respond to Governor Kemp’s April 20 order Dear Friends in Christ,Knowing how much Catholics everywhere are yearning to return to the Eucharist and to gather once again in our churches, we must communicate that, having struggled with our decision, we believe that we must yet maintain the current practice of sheltering in place. With input and support from the priests of both the Archdiocese of Atlanta and the Diocese of Savannah, we are, for the safety of all Georgia residents, not authorizing the return to congregating at churches or making our churches available...

SANTA FE – With New Mexico’s coronavirus infection rates showing signs of flattening and the state’s testing capacity increasing, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Wednesday that state officials can begin gradually easing up on business restrictions. But the governor said that New Mexicans should not let up on social distancing and that she will soon be extending a statewide stay-at-home order through May 15. The order is now scheduled to expire May 1. Lujan Grisham also said that a 15-member Economic Recovery Council will provide the Governor’s Office with advice about the slow reopening of the state’s economy and that...

For a moment Tuesday, everything was wonderfully normal during a quick run to our Woodbridge office for supplies. The lights in the entryway danced off our three Pulitzer prizes, there was a sign on a broken coffee machine and my mailbox was overflowing with letters and magazines. It felt like any other day in the office until I turned a corner and walked into our newsroom. That’s when it hit me: The place was empty and dark. It has been the same at our offices in Trenton, Mullica Hill and Jersey City for more than six weeks now. Ditto for...

The country’s nearly half a million undocumented students won’t be able to access any of the coronavirus emergency relief colleges and universities are receiving to help their students. The Trump administration on Tuesday barred undocumented college students from receiving emergency cash assistance from the new stimulus law that could help with living expenses, such as food, child care and housing.

A Yale psychiatrist who repeatedly has issued long-distance diagnoses of President Trump without having met him, now is going after Trump supporters. Bandy Lee says they resemble "child soldiers" and easily could turn into "armed troops in the streets" if the president doesn't win re-election in the fall. Salon reports Lee, a forensic psychiatrist at the Yale School of Medicine, claimed the "armed protests" are a natural evolution of the loyalty Trump "demands from his supporters." She previously urged the House Judiciary Committee to interview "mental health experts" during the Democrats' impeachment of Trump.

The Supreme Court is making it harder for noncitizens who are authorized to live permanently in the United States to argue they should be allowed to stay in the country if they've committed crimes. The decision Thursday split the court 5-4 along ideological lines. The decision came in the case of Andre Barton, a Jamaican national and green card holder. In 1996, when he was a teenager, he was present when a friend fired a gun at the home of Barton's ex-girlfriend in Georgia. And in 2007 and 2008, he was convicted of drug possession in the state. His crimes...