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Interesting! Democrat Claire McCaskill and Joe Scarborough think NeverTrumper Justin Amash’s decision to run for President as a Libertarian will only help President Donald Trump. McCaskill said every anti-Trump vote needs to be for Joe Biden. Amash – from Michigan – could peel away enough anti-Trump vote there to keep Biden from winning. . . .

Denver Newsroom, Apr 23, 2020 / 07:00 pm MT (CNA).- Franciscan University of Steubenville will be covering tuition costs for all incoming freshmen and transfer students in fall 2020 in response to the coronavirus pandemic. President Father Dave Pivonka announced April 21 that the university would cover the remainder of incoming full-time undergraduates’ tuition costs, after scholarships and grants. “We’ve heard from many students whose concerns over the pandemic are making the decision to leave home for college more difficult. Also, many families and students have seen their ability to pay for college evaporate due to the economic impact of...

Come Friday in Texas, the nation’s second-largest economy, businesses such as restaurants and retail stores will be open again, but at a 25% occupancy rate. After that, public health officials will reevaluate the data and decide whether to allow a 50% occupancy rate...Other states besides Texas where stay-at-home orders were set to expire Thursday: Alabama, Arizona, Idaho, Maine, Nevada, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Florida, where some beaches already have reopened. On Friday, stay-at-home orders in Indiana, Ohio, and Utah are set to expire, meaning some businesses will reopen Saturday.

A vegetarian or vegan diet may be increasing the likelihood of depression, a US-based study has found. People with a plant-based diet were twice as likely to take prescription drugs for mental illness and nearly three times as likely to contemplate suicide. The report, which looked at more than 160,000 people, also found that a shocking one in three vegetarians suffer from depression or anxiety. Researchers reviewed 18 studies examining the relationship between mental health and eating meat, involving a total of 160,257 participants. They concluded that vegetarians and vegans had “significantly” higher rates or risk of depression, anxiety and...

The team at Johns Hopkins University, where the test was developed, say a commercial product is years away and they are working to fine tune their test -- many cancers were not found by the blood test alone. But their results are the first to demonstrate that it's possible to screen people for several types of cancer at once with a blood test. They tested about 10,000 women with no symptoms. Those who had a positive test then were given combination PET and CT scans to look for tumors. Out of the 10,000 women, the test turned up 26 cancers...

Patrick Rooney, Founder of Old School™ (Natural Health / Success / Freedom), discusses YouTube's removal of Dr. Dan Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi's viral "COVID Briefing" video, under the grounds that it is a "violation of our policy." "Questioning Authority" used to be a battle cry of those on the left side of the political divide, but the phrase has apparently been abandoned when they are the "authority" in question. COVID-19 Briefing: Current Quarantine Approach Wrong Based on Science | Dr Erickson & Dr Massihi Pt1 https://youtu.be/vJprwe_rWeM Old School™ https://oldschoolus.com

Tesla Inc. TSLA, +4.08% Chief Executive Elon Musk reiterated his criticism of ongoing shelter-in-place orders across the U.S., calling it an "infringement of people's rights" and saying that telling people they cannot leave their homes is "fascist, this is not democratic. Give people back their (expletive) freedom." Tesla's sole U.S. vehicle-producing factory in Fremont, Calif., has been shuttered since late March as the San Francisco Bay Area was among the first regions in the U.S. to issue mandatory shutdowns. "It's outrage" that will cause "great harm" not just to Tesla but other companies and suppliers, Musk said in a call...

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said on Wednesday he would keep the US embassy in Israel in Jerusalem, despite the fact that he objects to the conditions under which President Donald Trump decided to move it. “The move shouldn’t have happened in the context as it did, it should happen in the context of a larger deal to help us achieve important concessions for peace in the process. But now that is done, I would not move the embassy back to Tel Aviv,” Biden said in response to a supporter’s question during a virtual fundraiser with donors from the...

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Costa Rica joins a growing list of several countries who are using hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for patients diagnosed with the Covid-19 virus. Bahrain was one of the first countries in the world to administer Hydroxychloroquine to treat active coronavirus cases, the Chairman of the Supreme Council of Health, Head of the National Taskforce for Combating the coronavirus, Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdullah Al Khalifa said. The Kingdom first used the drug on 26 February, following the registration of its first case on 24 February. India's health ministry has recommended the use of hydroxychloroquine as a preventative treatment for healthcare workers,...

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Almost about two months since anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine was first reported by renowned French Professor Didier Raoult, the drug has become the number one controversial drug in America since President Trump touted the drug on social media back in March. Public health officials repeatedly warned the drug is dangerous and unsafe for use due to lack of proven and random clinical trial to back up the claims. Some media outlets here in the U.S. went as far as calling the drug “unproven.” Now, for the first time, a major news outlet here in the United States is covering hydroxychloroquine in...

Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced her plan to reopen the state’s economy, a plan that allows some personal services to open as soon as Friday and restaurants to reopen in June with some provisions. The four-stage plan also includes a “Stay Safer at Home” executive order that is extended until May 31 and requires residents to wear face coverings in public in stage one. The month-by-month plan can change if the number of COVID-19 cases increases again. “We don’t know what will happen in the next days, weeks, months,” Mills said. “We may well have to start and stop and...

The Swedish city of Lund is to spread chicken manure in its central park in an effort to deter crowds gathering for a festival. Tens of thousands of people usually descend on southern city to celebrate Walpurgis Night, which is marked across Scandinavia. But officials want to keep people away because of the coronavirus outbreak. There is no lockdown in Sweden, where data show most people have taken to voluntary social distancing. "Lund could very well become an epicentre for the spread of the coronavirus on the last night in April," the chairman of the local council's environment committee, Gustav...

Officials in North Carolina’s Gaston County announced on Wednesday their intention to sign an order allowing businesses in the county to reopen, effective April 29 at 5:00 p.m., despite Gov. Roy Cooper’s (D) extended stay-at-home orders. Commission Chairman Tracy Philbeck made the announcement Wednesday morning, stating that county leaders are “letting our folks know we support them going back to work.” “We’re going to put our people to work and we’re going to do it in a health-minded way,” Philbeck said. “We have learned that social distancing works. We’ve learned that with strict sanitation, strict hygiene, it works,” he continued,...

Don't read too much into these posturings, because that's all they are. They're going to continue defending this senile rapist to their last breath. But the problem is that his current strategy makes them look like unspeakable hacks and hypocrites. They are that, of course, and proudly. But they don't like it being this obvious. All they're really demanding is that Biden say "This woman is a liar, don't believe her" so they can echo "This woman is a liar, that's why we don't believe her." They just want Biden to throw them any help at all so that they...

Oval Office11:41 A.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT:  Well, thank you very much.  Before we get to a very good governor and somebody that we’ve worked with very, very well, incredibly well — the great state of Louisiana — I wanted to introduce Dr. Blythe Adamson.  She’s been with us for a few months to help us with the ventilator situation, because we took over a government where everything was missing.  It was all missing in action.  And she and a group of super geniuses straightened it out to a point we’re now helping other countries with ventilators — France, Italy, Spain,...

The White House has ordered intelligence agencies to comb through communications intercepts, human source reporting, satellite imagery and other data to establish whether China and the World Health Organization initially hid what they knew about the emerging coronavirus pandemic, current and former U.S. officials familiar with the matter told NBC News. A specific "tasking" seeking information about the outbreak's early days was sent last week to the National Security Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency, which includes the National Center for Medical Intelligence, an official directly familiar with the matter said. The CIA has received similar instructions, according to current...

Given the latest sexual assault allegations against the democratic front runner I can't see the DNC letting him get then nomination. Post your candidate to replace him.