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Documents released last week by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham give insight into a bombshell revelation about the “role of John Kerry’s State Department in fueling the FBI’s dubious Russia collusion probe, showing it was the State Department that provided ‘information’ leading to the controversial surveillance of Carter Page” reports Breitbart. Amongst the redactions released are parts of the Obama administration’s FISA warrant applications used to spy on Page. As Breitbart reports, the disclosures of the text claim Page was “an agent of a foreign power” and that “the status of the target was determined in or about October...

There hasn't been anything like the COVID-19 pandemic before. That's a problem for researchers. The disease is only a few months old, so there's scant data available for mathematical forecasts of the pandemic, according to Caroline Buckee, an epidemiologist at Harvard University. Until more data become available, it's difficult for scientists to understand how policies might affect the outbreak's severity. Get a daily rundown on what's happening locally with coronavirus: testing, treatments, economic impacts and Boston's road to recovery. Sign up now. “The reality is that we all want answers. How many hospital beds do I need? When can we...

When I was around six years old they showed "The Outer Limits" on independent television from Channel 5 in Washington DC, now Fox 5. In those days we had over the air signals and in York, PA if you were high up the antenna brought in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington DC signals etc. etc. etc. Right now DC 19 controls the horizontal but they are going to "restart the economy" and give us a "new normal" as they control the vertical. We will remain under control and restriction even if business is "reopened". Limits on people in buildings like restaurants...

Jessie James Decker was hit with backlash after she posted a picture of herself wearing underwear in front of her son. The "Flip My Hair" singer, 32, posted a photo of herself to Instagram donning a white t-shirt and black underwear while lounging on an armchair at home in lockdown. The star's tanned and toned physique was on full display in the pic, as she kicked one leg up in the air. Decker received a ton of compliments on her fit frame, but a few of her followers criticized the star for wearing undergarments in front of her 4-year-old son,...

Key player in Vatican’s COVID-19 task force pushes environmentalism Fr. Augusto Zampini Davies claimed the pandemic came about because of the way 'we treat animals and how we treat nature.' ROME, Italy, April 28, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – A key leader of the Vatican’s coronavirus task force, Father Augusto Zampini Davies from Argentina, wants to use the current pandemic for pushing environmental issues. Zampini “sees the need for conversion and ‘radical change’” regarding humanity’s attitude toward the environment. According to America Magazine, Zampini “is convinced that such change ‘is possible’ now after people’s experience of the pandemic and the lockdown.” He...

[snip] Living in the Gray as a Woman When I sent the #MeToo tweet which helped spark a movement by amplifying the work of Tarana Burke in 2017, I didn’t know what it would bring. I knew I was in pain. I knew millions of women around the world were in pain. And I knew how lonely that pain was, how isolating the experience of being a victim of sexual assault was, and how bad it was for us as a nation and as a species. But then it took off, and a moment became a movement that had been...

The state of New York paid $69 million for ventilators to a man with no background in medical supplies after he tweeted at President Donald Trump and the White House coronavirus task force recommended him as a vendor, BuzzFeed News reported. The ventilators never arrived. On March 27, as the novel coronavirus was surging through the US, Trump urged Ford and General Motors on Twitter to "START MAKING VENTILATORS, NOW!" Yaron Oren-Pines, an electrical engineer in Silicon Valley, replied to the tweet, writing, "We can supply ICU Ventilators, invasive and noninvasive. Have someone call me URGENT." BuzzFeed reported that New...

US deaths from the novel coronavirus topped 60,000 on Wednesday and the outbreak will soon be deadlier than any flu season since 1967. America's worst flu season in recent years was in 2017-2018, when more than 61,000 people died, according to the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. The only deadlier flu seasons were in 1967 when about 100,000 Americans died, 1957 when 116,000 died and the Spanish flu of 1918 when 675,000 died, according to the CDC. The United States has the world's highest coronavirus death toll and a daily average of 2,000 people died in April of...

Explosive new internal FBI documents unsealed Wednesday show that top bureau officials discussed their motivations for interviewing then-national security adviser Michael Flynn in the White House in January 2017 -- and openly questioned if their "goal" was "to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired." The handwritten notes -- written by the FBI's former head of counterintelligence Bill Priestap after a meeting with then-FBI Director James Comey and then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Fox News is told -- further suggested that agents planned in the alternative to get Flynn "to admit to breaking the...

THANK YOU @MarkLevinShow! pic.twitter.com/GJSNM0LUQH— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 29, 2020

... SPOTTED: Former President Barack Obama playing golf at Robert Trent Golf Club in Gainesville, Va., Saturday afternoon...

New information has emerged in recent days about a sexual assault allegation against the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, made by Tara Reade, a former staff assistant in Biden's Senate office. For the first time, someone has gone on the record to say that Reade detailed the allegation to her decades ago in the same way Reade is describing it now. A former neighbor of Reade's named Lynda LaCasse told NPR on Wednesday about a conversation the two had approximately 25 years ago regarding the alleged assault. The revelation, first reported by Business Insider, comes with increasing pressure on...

Most Americans would rather see former Vice President Joe Biden in charge of both the U.S. coronavirus response and the economy than current President Donald Trump, according to data from a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. However, while Biden may have the upper hand in polling in those areas, the results fall strongly along party lines. Out of those surveyed, 55 percent of those surveyed chose Biden over Trump to handle the coronavirus pandemic. While 40 percent of those polled said they would rather see Trump handling coronavirus issues in the U.S., 87 percent of those who supported Trump in that...

Infanticide, once seen as the heinous crime that it is, appears to be gaining acceptance on abortion-favoring college campuses, thanks to the continual shifting of goal posts to redefine what it means to be a “person.” During Created Equal‘s Justice Ride event at the University of North Florida before the institution of shelter-in-place orders, Created Equal VP Seth Drayer uncovered the precariously balanced rationale for supporting infanticide when a college student attempted to debate him on the equality of humans. Beginning with attempts to reach agreement on the definition of people and the equality of all humans, the tables turned...

Polls appear to show that Mr Trump is losing ground to Democrat rival Joe Biden in the upcoming presidential election. Amid the reports, the president is alleged to have shouted down the phone at his campaign manager Brad Parscale, three sources “close to the matter” told CNN. Mr Trump is said to have criticised Mr Parscale for the recent spate in falling poll numbers, and at one point threatened to take legal action. One Republican told CNN that: “He’s p** because he knows he messed up in those briefings.” Both the Trump campaign and the White House have not issued...

Oh Messiah Returns! Lyrics to song and music video Behold dark days arise, which blanket the earth The four horsemen they, ride beginning God's curse Woe unto the world, for they know what's at hand O hide us in caves, from the wrath of the Lamb! In Jerusalem Two Lampstands arise Dressed in sackcloth, with power Divine Repent is their cry, to both Jew and world For Messiah is nigh, FOREVER to rule! (Chorus) Behold the Day of the Lamb and who shall abide, in His light! Behold, He cometh with clouds in great power and might, to judge, Satan's...

Owl stuck in power line in SolvangThe Santa Barbara County Fire Department responded to an owl stuck in a high voltage line in Solvang on Tuesday. On Tuesday afternoon, Santa Barbara County Fire assisted PG&E after reports of an owl stuck in their power lines. Firefighters arrived to see an owl tangled in high voltage lines on Mission Drive in Solvang. Firefighters worked with PG&E crews along with Santa Barbara County Animal Control to help safely remove the owl from the lines. The owl was safely removed and taken to the Ojai Raptor Center in Ventura County for treatment.

New York State paid a Silicon Valley electrical engineer more than $69 million for a ventilators that never arrived, according to a report on Wednesday. Yaron Oren-Pines on March 30 pocketed $69.1 million for 1,450 ventilators — a jaw-dropping $47,656 per ventilator — at least triple the standard retail price of high-end models, Buzzfeed News reported. The Empire State terminated the contract about a month later and is now trying to claw back the cash, the report said.

It takes about a day to trace the contacts of COVID-19 patients at the Howard Brown Health clinic in Hyde Park, its director says. About 2⁄3 of those contacts end up testing positive. Roughly a quarter of the coronavirus tests conducted at the Howard Brown Health clinic in Hyde Park have been coming back positive, amounting to about 20 new confirmed cases a day. The initial diagnosis is just the start of the staff’s work, though. What comes next is the arduous task of tracking down every person that patient may have encountered, a time-tested public health practice known commonly...

The Washington Post editorial board on Wednesday called on former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, to address allegations of a 1993 sexual assault from former aide Tara Reade and release documents relating to his Senate career. In the editorial, the board says there are “no clear conclusions” regarding the accuracy of Reade’s account but notes that the 1,875 boxes and 415 gigabytes of Senatorial records, which were donated to the University of Delaware in 2012, could confirm whether Reade filed a complaint over the alleged incident. Examining the documents, the editorial board states, would not necessarily...