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Font Size: Every Democrat in the Senate has refused to acknowledge the sexual assault allegations against 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden that were brought forward by a former staffer, even after new evidence lends credibility to the alleged assault. The Daily Caller contacted every Democrat in the Senate, asking them if they would even consider the allegations by Biden’s accuser, Tara Reade, who has accused the then-senator of kissing her, touching her and penetrating her with his fingers without her consent in 1993. Each Senate office was given 24 hours to respond but not one did. Here Are All The...

As more states push to reopen their economies, many are falling short on one of the federal government’s essential criteria for doing so — having an efficient system to track people who have been physically near a person infected with the coronavius. An Associated Press review found a patchwork of systems around the country for so-called contact tracing, with many states unable to keep up with caseloads and scrambling to hire and train enough people to handle the task for the months ahead. The effort is far less than what public health experts say is needed to guard against a...

The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta has updated the list of symptoms people have reported from COVID-19. The six new symptoms include: Chills, Repeated shaking with chills, Muscle pain, Headache, Sore throat, New loss of taste or smell. It had been previously reported that the symptoms, which range from mild to severe, were fever, cough and shortness of breath or difficulty breathing. The CDC says if you develop any of these emergency warning signs for the disease, you should seek medical attention immediately: Trouble breathing, Persistent pain or pressure in the chest, New confusion or inability to arouse, Bluish...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP/VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE and AMERICA: Government, Family, Military, Business, Education, Churches, Farmers, Sanctity of Life, Health Care, and the Media Religion Forum threads labeled “Prayer” are closed to debate of any kind. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. … Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Psalm 23:4, 6...

After President Trump announced he would be suspending immigration to the United States to protect the jobs and wages of millions of newly unemployed workers during the pandemic, the Spectator USA reported an “internal battle” broke out in the White House. Sources familiar with the situation told the Spectator that Kushner “is one of the loudest voices pushing back on a full ban and is seeking to carve out exemptions for refugees, temporary workers under the H1B visa program, and farmworkers under the H-2A visa program.” If that’s true, then Kushner achieved a total victory. The ban applies only to...

Despite several protests over California’s stay-at-home order to slow the spread of coronavirus, a new poll shows the vast majority of residents support the restrictions. Among those polled, 75% want the order to continue as long as it’s needed, according to a California Health Care Foundation/Ipsos survey. Only 11% wanted to stop the stay-at-home order, while 13% had no opinion. Among low-income residents, support was even stronger: 78% support the stay-at-home order and only 3% oppose it. The majority polled also said they are following various guidance from health officials, such as wearing masks, avoiding trips and staying at least...

Coronavirus is expected to crush New York’s economy for years to come, according to a new report from the state’s budget office predicting a whopping $243 billion loss from the pandemic. The sum is equal to 14 percent of the state’s gross domestic product — and its loss is likely to usher in a wave of deep spending cuts, officials said.

A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed over 200,000 people worldwide. More than 2.89 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The actual numbers are believed to be much higher due to testing shortages, many unreported cases and suspicions that some governments are hiding the scope of their nations' outbreaks.

A White House official ordered a CNN reporter to give up her front-row seat and move to the back of the press room before President Trump’s briefing on Friday, in what appears to be another attempt by Trump to punish a network he calls “fake news.” The reporter, CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins, refused to move, as did a second reporter whose seat in the rear of the room she was ordered to take. The official then suggested the matter would be resolved by the Secret Service, though no action was taken, according to several people involved in the...

I had an idea on how to create a coronavirus vaccine. I am only a layperson but the idea may have merit. The focus of vaccine research has been how to deal with the spike proteins or the "crown" on the coronavirus. These spike proteins provide a pathway for the coronavirus into cells. A vaccine would purportedly initiate an immune response to these proteins. My idea is to modify the coronavirus and make it harmless by removing these spike proteins. Once introduced into the body this spikeless coronavirus should initiate an immune response and thus immunity to the real Covid-19....

A female classmate of Doherty High School senior Hunter Portaleos took her life the first week of April. “I had talked to her a few days before it happened, and she seemed fine,” Portaleos said. “I didn’t see any warning signs. A lot of her friends didn’t, either.” Two El Paso County teens have died by suicide since mid-March, when society began to shut down. “A lot of youth are dealing with anxiety and being socially isolated at home,” 18-year-old Portaleos said. “Along with what’s triggering the anxiety and bad mental health is the fact of not knowing what’s going...

Celebrities during the quarantine are an inspiration to us all. How they talk down to us, telling us how to live, and empathizing on how hard things are as they're trapped on their multi-million dollar estates. And Gal Gadot singing her condescending, cringe worthy version of Imagine is gonna help pull us all through this difficult crisis.

At the end of last week, the Prime Minister was beginning to wonder if the country was taking his advice too much to heart. He asked us to stay at home - and we have. At each daily press conference, medical and scientific advisers talk about the plunge in use of transport and how well rules are being observed. What they don’t say is that this was not quite in their original plan. Government modellers didn’t expect such obedience: the expected workers to carry on and at least a million pupils to be left in school by parents. The deaths...

North Korea ruler Kim Kong-un is dead or gravely ill after a stent procedure went wrong because his doctor's hands were shaking, according to reports, amid questions over his health -- Kim Jong-un is dead or on his death bed after a heart operation went wrong because his doctor's hand were shaking, reports claim. Rumours surrounding the health of the North Korean despot have been rife since he missed a celebration of the birthday of his late grandfather and the country's founder, Kim Il-sung, on April 15. A Japanese weekly magazine, Shukan Gendai, now reports that the leader is in...

As Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak prepares a phased structure to reopen Nevada’s businesses but hesitates to provide hard dates for the reopening, a Nevada brothel owner announces safety procedures that she plans to adopt once the governor gives the go-ahead to reopen the Silver State’s legal bordellos. Madam Bella, owner of Bella’s Hacienda, a legal brothel located in Wells, understands that reopening Nevada’s licensed brothels will be a challenge amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and she intends to meet the challenge head-on with clear guidelines to ensure the safety of the brothel’s sex workers, guests, and staff.

Apple said on Thursday it has found “no evidence” a flaw in their Mail app for iPhones and iPads has been used against customers, and that it believes the flaw does “not pose an immediate risk to our users.” Reuters—iOS email exploitSan Francisco-based cybersecurity firm ZecOps on Wednesday detailed a flaw that it said may have left more than half a billion iPhones vulnerable to hackers. Zuk Avraham, ZecOps’ chief executive, told Reuters he found evidence the vulnerability was exploited in at least six cybersecurity break-ins On Thursday, Apple disputed Avraham’s evidence that the hack had been used against users....

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Below you will find regular, but not daily, updates on medical and political developments.April 25, 2020 Medical updates Video: The Californian physician Dr. Dan Erickson described his observations regarding Covid19 in a press conference. Hospitals and intensive care units in California and other states have remained largely empty so far. Based on the respective positive test rates, Dr. Erickson calculates that the lethality rate of Covid19 is currently 0.03% in California, 0.05% in Spain, 0.09% in Sweden and 0.1% in New York State, while the lethality rate of the flu in the USA is around 0.13%. (Note: the positive test...

embers of the United States military are inadvertently funding the rise of their biggest 21st Century adversary — China — through their retirement savings, Army Green Beret and Congressman Mike Waltz (R-FL) warned in an interview this week. About $50 billion from the 401k-style plan that U.S. troops put their savings into is invested in an index that includes Chinese firms, some of which build weapons systems for the Chinese military, he said in an interview with Breitbart News on Wednesday. “It’s insane,” he said. “This is the most dangerous adversary we have ever faced.”Waltz said in a video he...

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