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MUMBAI/AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - Parts of India have recorded dramatic falls in mortality rates after a nationwide lockdown was imposed to fight the new coronavirus, suggesting there has not been an undetected surge in virus-related deaths.

Last week state representative Vernon Jones(D-GA) made a statement in which he endorsed Donald Trump for reelection as President In an interview with WGCL-TV (CBS 46), he referred to Trump as the “leader our country needed. A generation of African American families have been devastated by draconian policies that Joe Biden supported and voted for when he served in the U.S. Senate,” he said. “A change was needed and President Trump took action.” Brandon Phillips, a Republican operative and former chairman of Trump’s 2016 campaign in Georgia, was delighted with Jones’ decision — one he says Jones had mulled over for years. “Vernon...

ALBANY, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — During Friday’s coronavirus update, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo says all registered voters in New York State will receive an absentee voter application to be able to vote absentee during the June 23rd election. The executive order says all New Yorkers who are registered to vote will receive a postage-paid application to apply to receive a ballot to vote absentee. Cuomo said while voting absentee will be an option, polls will still be open.

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South Florida’s beaches are closed, even as some counties and cities across the state, like Jacksonville and, soon, Sarasota County, have begun the process of reopening theirs. But what does it mean for lifeguards today, when most Florida beaches are off-limits due to the coranavirus? And what does it mean for the time when lifeguards resume regular duties — as in making beach rescues and coming into close contact with beachgoers in the era of COVID-19? Lifeguards are, like paramedics, first responders, after all.

Where are the protests against the nurses and medical professions?

Longtime telecom boss to be replaced by deputy John Stankey after 13-year tenure; Stephenson to remain chairman until January T&T Inc. Chief Executive Randall Stephenson said he will retire at the end of June, handing leadership of one of the world’s largest media and telecommunications companies to longtime deputy John Stankey

he COVID-19 pandemic has brought the global economy to a halt. The geopolitical upheavals yet to come will dramatically change world history, in unpredictable ways. The United States is only three months into its struggle with coronavirus, and is experiencing an Icarus-like plummet from the economic heights. The tiny coronavirus will ravage the nations, and may even cause empires to fall. We have been here before. In his 2017 book The Fate Of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire, Oklahoma University historian Kyle Harper examined the roles that climate instability and plague played in weakening the Roman...

New York state joined forces with New Jersey and Connecticut to roll out a tri-state contact tracing program with the aim of preventing a future spike in novel coronavirus infections, according to NBC New York. Apple and Google Coronavirus Tool Business Insider Intelligence The initiative will be supported by $10.5 million in funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies, and is currently under development in collaboration with researchers from Johns Hopkins University. For context, contact tracing refers to public health workers' efforts to track down lists of people who have come into contact with coronavirus infected patients as soon as poss

The wife of CNN host Chris Cuomo is being criticized after revealing on her lifestyle blog that she poured half a cup of Clorox in her bath twice a week to help cure her coronavirus. Magazine editor Cristina Cuomo shared that the bleach is ‘technically salt’ and she used it to ‘combat the radiation and metals in my system’, in direct contrast to warnings given by Clorox that contact with skin should be avoided. Cristina, 50, claims the advice was provided by Dr. Linda Lancaster, who describes herself as an energy medicine and homeopathic physician and lists high-profile names such...

U.S.—The majority of the nation is "totally in favor" of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez boycotting her job permanently. After the congresswoman called for a job boycott once the economy opens back up, everyone said they were totally OK with it, as long as it's just her and maybe some of her associates who are boycotting their jobs forever. Approval of her job boycott was directly connected to her being the one who is doing the boycotting. "Please, never go back to work, AOC, for the good of the nation," said laid-off oil worker Pete Vik. "Heck, we're even fine if you...

Democratic leaders are making quite a name for themselves during the COVID-19 pandemic. Vote for one, and everyday Americans will find themselves disappointed. Especially when a crisis comes knocking. Eight years of former President Barack Obama (body by Esquire and mind by Baby Einstein), taught us that Ivy League educations and sounding smart mean nothing – if you lack common sense and logic. If Obama's years showed us anything, it is that power is always Democrats' end game. They will lie, cheat, and seek advantage during a crisis to get what they want. Never let a crisis go to waste!...

Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East​​ ​ Seven Years Since the Kidnapping of the Bishops of Aleppo​ Beloved Brethren and Spiritual Children Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Brothers, we address you with the Pascha greeting, sharing your prayers in your home corners and bending with you the knees of the heart before Christ, who was crucified for our sake, who resurrected from the dead and made us resurrect by His divine Light, wiping away from souls the dust of bitter times and the ashes of desolation...

A New Jersey driver crashed head-on into a pole — after passing out from wearing an N95 mask for hours, police said Friday. Lincoln Park Police believe that the driver, who was not named, lost consciousness while behind the wheel Thursday from lack of oxygen and breathing in excessive carbon dioxide thanks to the mask, the department wrote on Facebook. “The LPPD responded to a lone occupant single car motor vehicle crash yesterday. The crash is believed to have resulted from the driver wearing an N95 mask for several hours and subsequently passing out behind the wheel due to insufficient...

The slab lay over the remains of several individuals dating from 14,000 to 12,000 years ago, based on radiocarbon analysis of several of the skeletons. However, the remarkable image on the slab was only noticed some years after its discovery, while the stone was being carefully studied in the laboratories of the Zinman Institute of Archaeology at the University of Haifa, Haaretz has learned. The image on the slab is an extremely rare example of an identifiable human figure made by Natufians, the researchers say. The Natufian culture existed from about 15,000 to about 11,700 years ago, and spanned from...

A collection of Lunchbucket Joe's gaffe-a-minute machine at full speed. Priceless.

I want to update all of you who prayed for my Aunt Florence who was diagnosed with Covid-19. It is with a heavy heart to tell you that she passed away last night only six days after being diagnosed. She went very peacefully on angel's wings and I have no doubt that your prayers brought this about with hundreds of others who prayed. I am deeply grateful at the outpouring of concern from all of you who prayed and sent me messages. You are all very special and wonderful Americans whom I'm proud to associate with and call friends. I...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz stressed the new state approach of dialing up or down restrictions goes both ways and that businesses need to be prepared for renewed restrictions. An estimated 80,000 to 100,000 em­ploy­ees could re­turn to work Mon­day un­der a plan by Gov. Tim Walz to dial back the state’s stay-at-home order, which was imposed to reduce or delay the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The move is tailored to manufacturers and offices that don’t have face-to-face interaction with clients and weren’t deemed critical industries that were exempt from the stay-at-home order. Roughly 20,000 companies in this category now...

Diana West, author of... Death of the Grown-up, American Betrayaland The Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy...tweets the following brief timeline: 1/10/17 #Obama WH science office issues guidelines to permit research which "could produce a potential pandemic pathogen (an enhanced PPP)." 1/12/17 #Fauci declares 'there will be surprise outbreak" during Trump admin. https://gumc.georgetown.edu/gumc-stories/global-health-experts-advise-advance-planning-for-inevitable-pandemic/ Fauci's quote on 'surprise outbreak during Trump's administration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=197&v=DNXGAxGJgQI&feature=emb_logo direct link to Diana West's tweet

Patients treated with hydroxychloroquine have no better chance of survival than those who don't receive the drug hailed by Trump as a 'game-changer', results of a New York state Health Department trial suggest. 'I think from the review that I heard basically it was not seen as a positive, not seen as a negative,' said Governor Andrew Cuomo during CNN's coronavirus town hall. Ultimately, the study, conducted by SUNY at Albany, is intended to involved some 4,000 coronavirus patients, but the preliminary results are from a sample of 600 patients. Survival rates were no better among the group treated with...