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Dallas Police data shows officers were busy issuing citations over the weekend.

... "At this point, it's hard to pretend like Stelter is a journalist. The same guy who put Michael Avenatti on air... who treated every allegation against Justice Kavanaugh as the gospel truth and who is happy to peddle tinfoil-hat conspiracy theories about President Trump, can't find his way to even mention serious and contemporaneously corroborated claims of sexual assault against the presumptive Democratic nominee for president," conservative strategist Chris Barron told Fox News. Avenatti, an attorney, represented adult-film star Stormy Daniels in her lawsuits against Trump; he later was convicted in a separate case linked to extortion attempts.

Hasbro has announced a new version of Monopoly will be released where all rent will be suspended until further notice. In addition, the board game will now give players $1200 for passing the Go space. All railroads will be closed, though essential services such as the utilities and the income taxes will still be open. "These new rules will stimulate Monopoly's economy," said a Hasbro spokesperson. "Why just give out $200 when we can increase that number to $1200 and make everybody a winner?"

Lucinda Martha Ruh (born 13 July 1979) is a three time Swiss National Champion figure skater, reknowned for her outstanding spinning ability. In April 2003, Ruh set a Guinness world record for the most continuous spins (115) on one foot. She was the fastest spinner on ice ever, clocking at six rotations a second. She has also created over twenty different new spin positions now required performed at competitions. From 2000 to 2006, she toured with Stars On Ice, Champions on Ice, and numerous other world wide tours. Lucinda Ruh - 1999 World Championships - Gliere Harp Concerto

Rafael’s housing situation is an exercise in tolerance and creative space management. He lives with four other people in an overstuffed apartment in Jackson Heights, Queens, that measures less than 500 square feet. He shares a bedroom with his mother. Two men sublet a second, smaller bedroom that Rafael created by subdividing the living room with drywall. His brother sleeps in the kitchen on a mat that he rolls up every morning and wedges in the corner, opening a path to the front door.

Students of nepotism will have no problem guessing who Bill de Blasio picked to head the Task Force on Racial Inclusion and Equity. That’s right — his wife: "On Sunday, de Blasio put first lady Chirlane McCray in charge of a special coronavirus task force dedicated to racial inclusion and equity. De Blasio said the program would assist New York City to become a “better and more just society than the one we left behind.”" “More just” means more biased in favor of politically preferred identity groups. To confirm this, de Blasio quacks that the task force will focus on...

More than 27,000 New Yorkers have died since the start of the novel coronavirus outbreak in March — 20,900 more than would be expected over this period and thousands more than have been captured by official coronavirus death statistics. As of Sunday, the city had attributed 16,673 deaths to coronavirus, either because people had tested positive for the virus, or because the circumstances of their death meant that city health officials believed the virus to be the most likely cause of death. But there remains a large gap between this number and the total deaths above typical levels in the...

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President Donald Trump reassured Catholic Church leaders Saturday that he will remain committed to protecting human life in his second term. The president spoke about a number of issues that are important to American Catholics during a conference call with church leaders. Abortion and religious freedom were among them, The Tablet reports. Trump repeatedly emphasized his commitment to pro-life matters and warned of the possibilities if a Democrat wins the White House, according to the report. “[Democrats] want abortion, and they want it now and they want it to go up to the end of the ninth month and beyond,”...

An “Islamic medicine specialist” from Iran urged Iranians to drink camel urine, claiming it can cure several diseases including coronavirus, according to a video posted on Instagram which has since gone viral. Drinking camel urine can cure lung diseases, asthma, and coronavirus, “Islamic medicine specialist” Mehdi Sabili said in a video shared on his Instagram page.

On Meet the Press yesterday, Dr. Deborah Birx sensibly stood up for an approach that takes account of differences from state to state and county to county, “Each state is different. And the reason we made the guidelines [for re-opening] and gating criteria very specific was also — and I’m sure a lot of people have missed the asterisk that said to look not only statewide, but also county by county.” She added that she’s been struck by “how different the outbreaks are from the metro regions, to the rural regions, to the county regions.” but not all of New...

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Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi formally endorsed Joe Biden for president Monday, claiming the former pro-abortion vice president will fight “for our children’s future.” Both Pelosi and Biden are radical pro-abortion politicians who support abortions up to birth and want to force taxpayers to pay for them. Biden is the presumptive Democratic nominee after all of his major competitors dropped out of the race. According to Variety, Pelosi released a 3-minute video explaining her endorsement and urging voters to give Democrats a sweeping victory in November. “Elections are about the future. Now more than ever we need a forward-looking, battle-tested leader...

WASHINGTON – The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a precedential opinion on Friday, April 24, 2020, affirming a district court decision that a transaction designed to generate massive foreign tax credits (referred to as the STARS tax shelter) lacked economic substance and business purpose and was subject to the accuracy-related penalty for negligence, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Joshua Wu of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.In Wells Fargo v. United States, No. 17-3578, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the decision of the U.S. District Court for the District of...

Genova Diagnostics Inc., a clinical laboratory services company based in Asheville, North Carolina, has agreed to pay up to approximately $43 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act, including claims that it billed  for medically unnecessary lab tests, the Department of Justice announced today.“Government healthcare programs are designed to provide beneficiaries with care that is medically reasonable and necessary,” said Assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt of the Department of Justice’s Civil Division.  “Providers of taxpayer-funded federal healthcare services will be held accountable when they knowingly cause false claims to be submitted for services that do...

Howard Stern suggested Monday that President Donald Trump’s supporters “take an injection of Clorox” and “drop dead.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Monday blasted the New York Board of Elections for canceling this year's Democratic presidential primary. Ocasio-Cortez challenged the notion that the decision was made with public health in mind, noting that the state is still holding down ballot elections the same day. “It is completely wrong for the BOE to cancel New York’s Presidential Primary,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “This decision is not informed by public health: the state is still holding elections for every other seat that day, & so far the only way your ballot will 100% be counted in NY is to vote in...

SAFELY OPENING UP AMERICA AGAIN: President Donald J. Trump and his Administration are taking steps to ensure States have the testing system required to reopen our Nation. President Trump is releasing his Administration’s blueprint for State testing plans and rapid response programs. This follows the release of President Trump’s Opening Up America Again guidelines on April 16, 2020. The blueprint describes the roles and responsibilities, as well as core objectives, for the robust State testing plans and rapid response programs needed by States to safely reopen.To meet the country’s testing needs, the blueprint describes a partnership between Federal, State,...

Nancy Pelosi was an inspiration when she showed the tens of millions of Americans forced into unemployment by the lockdown how they can console themselves amid the wreckage of the lives by eating extravagantly expensive ice cream stored in an extravagantly expensive refrigerator. Now she further showcases her leadership skills by demonstrating how not to behave during the sort of pandemic that allegedly justifies the lockdown. Specifically, she illustrates that you should not smear snot on your fingers, then wipe it off on a podium that others will be using:

California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Monday that he will be increasing enforcement of Coronavirus restrictions after tens of thousands of people flocked to Orange County beaches amid a heatwave over the weekend. Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency because of the Coronavirus on March 4 and issued an authoritarian lockdown order on March 19. “I don’t want to be punitive,” Newsom said. “They just want to take a rest on the beach and all of a sudden they get a citation – I don’t want to see that. But if there are people thumbing their nose...