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Meet Roo, a beautiful blue-eyed tabby. Roo is blind and paralyzed in his lower legs and also diagnosed with MPS (Mucopolysaccharidosis). Despite his condition, it doesn't stop him from enjoying being a cat and being pampered by his loving owners. Video, 11 minutes, 55 seconds

Declassified documents reveal the terror leader, who was killed in 2011, wanted to assassinate President Obama, leaving a "totally unprepared" Joe Biden in charge of the United States. A plan laid out in documents stored on Osama Bin Laden’s compound outlined a mission to send the United States into a crisis by assassinating then-President Barack Obama and leaving the “totally unprepared” Joe Biden in charge. First reported by the Washington Post in March of 2012, the terror leader’s plan was to take out a plane carrying the U.S. commander-in-chief, in addition to his top military commander, David Petraeus. “Obama is...

In a 5-4 vote Thursday, the state Supreme Court of Washington rejected a lawsuit calling for the release of thousands of inmates to help stem the spread of the coronavirus, according to reports. Those narrowly missing a shot at freedom included Gary Ridgway, the so-called “Green River Killer,” who in 2003 was sentenced to life in prison after confessing to killing as many as 49 women in the 1980s, Seattle’s KIRO radio reported. A lawyer representing the inmates being considered for release – about two-thirds of the state’s prison population, according to KIRO – argued that those behind bars aren’t...

LANSING, MI (WILX) -- Governor Gretchen Whitmer is going to release her plan to gradually reopen the state Friday. But first the State Senate will be voting to take away some of her powers. The Senate will vote on four proposals from Republican Tom Barrett of Potterville. He said current law gives the governor too much power during a state of emergency, and it's time for the legislature to take some of it back. Barrett's proposal would repeal a 1945 law Governor Gretchen Whitmer plans to use to extend her "stay home" executive order. Violating an executive order would become...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Photos released by Miami Beach police show what a luxury hotel room looked like when officers found former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum drunk and with two other men. The photos released Wednesday show vomit-stained and rumpled bed sheets, a box for a party light disco ball, spilled white pills on the carpet and a vial of a drug often used for erectile dysfunction. But the newly released photos and officer body-cam video shed no further light on what Gillum was doing or why he was there last month. Fire rescue crews and officers were called...

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WASHINGTON - What if the real “invisible enemy” is the enemy from within - America’s very institutions? When the coronavirus pandemic came from distant lands to the United States, it was met with cascading failures and incompetencies by a system that exists to prepare, protect, prevent and cut citizens a check in a national crisis. The molecular menace posed by the new coronavirus has shaken the conceit of “American exceptionalism” like nothing big enough to see with your own eyes. A nation with unmatched power, brazen ambition and aspirations through the arc of history to be humanity’s “shining city upon...

SEATTLE — As critically ill, elderly patients streamed into his emergency room outside Seattle, Dr. Ryan Padgett quickly came to understand how deadly COVID-19 could be. Of the first two dozen or so he saw, not a single one survived. It took longer for Padgett and his colleagues at EvergreenHealth Medical Center — the first hospital in the country to treat multiple coronavirus patients — to learn how easily the disease could spread. At first, the medical workers wore only surgical masks and gloves. Later, they were told to wear respirators and other gear, but the equipment was unfamiliar and...

The first person in Sadad Dakhare’s two-bedroom apartment in Oslo, Norway, to show symptoms was his 4-year-old niece. Next, his mother, his sister and he himself fell ill. Then, about a week after his niece became sick, Dakhare heard his 76-year-old father coughing heavily. He found his father lying in bed, gasping for air. “Just call an ambulance,” the father told Dakhare. At an Oslo hospital, Dakhare’s father tested positive for COVID-19 and was treated for a few days before he was discharged to finish his recovery at home. The Dakhare family’s story is a familiar one among Somalis in...

Pass the word. Lets make this go viral, and turn our national message of “END THE SHUTDOWN!” with a display of The Flag on you, on your lawn, on your car. Let this sacred symbol of Liberty and Freedom be our silent message to ALL that we want this tyranny to END NOW!!

Paris (AFP) - The coronavirus pandemic blindsided international organisations, prompted individual states to unilaterally strike out alone and heralded a new chapter in the 21st century's chief geopolitical rivalry between the United States and China. In the post-COVID-19 era, will multilateralism be dead? Regional and international organisations from the European Union to the United Nations have not managed to muster a coordinated response to the pandemic, while even economic organisations like OPEC have failed to halt the slide on markets. The United States, meanwhile, is halting payments to the UN's World Health Organization (WHO), the only body equipped to deal...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Calls mounted Thursday for an investigation into the ouster of a senior government scientist who says he's being punished for opposing widespread use of an unproven drug President Donald Trump touted as a remedy for COVID-19. Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, says he was summarily removed from his job earlier this week and reassigned to a lesser role because he resisted political pressure to allow widespread use of hydroxychloroquine, a malaria drug favored by Trump. On Thursday, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, D-N.J., joined in calling for...

Remember the USNS Mercy? The one that the CIC had to get prepped and deployed to Gavin Newsom in an eye blink to prevent all of the hospitals from a massive overload that never happened? How come it’s impossible to get any information about how many patients have been treated on the Mercy or how many are currently in the hospital? Some crew members have tested positive for CV19, *but*, according to NYT, that will *not* affect Mercy’s ability to treat patients. What is up with the secrecy, Gav? Contrast with the USS Comfort stationed in NY, at the behest...

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As California tries to ramp up coronavirus testing as an essential step toward lifting stay-at-home restrictions, it faces significant hurdles that have been a problem from the start. Bottlenecks in the supply chain. Delays getting results. Areas without testing sites. Despite those challenges, Gov. Gavin Newsom laid out ambitious goals to quadruple current testing in the coming months. Newsom expects the state to go from offering 16,000 tests a day, as of Wednesday, to 25,000 per day by May 1. He won’t consider reopening businesses at large until 60,000 to 80,000 people are tested a day, which could be months...

President Donald Trump ripped Washington Post reporter Philip Rucker on Thursday after Rucker questioned the president about encouraging people to go outside. After the White House released a study showing that warm weather and sunlight can significantly reduce the risk of the coronavirus, Rucker asked the president if it was “dangerous” for him to encourage people to go outside. (RELATED: Democrats Plan To Censure Michigan State Rep. Karen Whitsett Who Credited Trump With Saving Her Life) “Here we go. The new headline is Trump asks people to go outside, that’s dangerous,” the president said. “I hope people enjoy the sun,...

Whether you're barbequing chicken this weekend, putting a pork roast in the oven or grilling steaks, meatpackers are the people who put the food on your table. On Thursday came a warning from the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union: if its workers can't stay healthy in processing plants across the country, there could be food shortages. "America's food supply depends on these workers. They feed America," Marc Perrone, the union's president told us. A handful of packing plants across the country already have closed due to the coronavirus outbreak, including a Smithfield Plant in South Dakota. The union...

With potentially record-setting heat on tap for the weekend, local officials have urged residents to avoid flocking to closed beaches and trailheads to take advantage of the taste of summer — which would defy COVID-19 social-distancing mandates. “It’s getting warmer in Los Angeles — and when it gets warmer in Los Angeles, we are a coastal city, we tend to head to the beach, we tend to head to the trails,” Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore said. “We like to be outdoors. And yet, as we know, in the nonessential activities, we’ve needed to close trailheads. We’ve needed...

News outlets are receiving tens-of-millions in federal stimulus money as part of the $2.2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package that President Trump signed into law, among them such venerable newspapers as The Seattle Times and Tampa Bay Times. The money is coming through forgivable Paycheck Protection Program loans under the CARES Act that Congress passed last month. According to the Small Business Administration, businesses with under 500 employees can apply for PPP loans, which are forgivable if they are used for qualifying expenses such as payroll costs and rent. However, it's unclear whether any of the news outlets intend to repay...