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California Gov. Gavin Newsom will be closing all beaches and state parks across the state starting Friday to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, according to a memo sent to California police chiefs Wednesday. The decision comes less than a week after Newsom called out the massive crowds that flocked to Newport Beach in Orange County last weekend during a heatwave. Newsom called the beach crowds an example of "what not to do" for the state to make progress toward easing restrictions in the statewide stay-at-home order.

A Michigan judge on Wednesday found that while Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home order does “temporary harm” to the constitutional rights of Michigan residents, the harm doesn’t outweigh the public health risk posed by the coronavirus outbreak.

Former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) is back making gratuitous comments about the president. He said in an interview he won’t vote for him which comes as no surprise. He’s really a Democrat. “I just couldn’t support [Trump] long before he started to run. The birtherism thing was just too much for me. And then it piled on,” Flake, who has end-stage Trump Derangement Syndrome, told The Washington Post. “I don’t know anyone who thinks that this is the future of the party. This is a demographic cul-de-sac we’re in if nothing else. Anger and resentment only go so far; you...

The biggest expense for most families is housing, something made more difficult for those out of work during COVID-19. Eviction court proceedings were temporarily suspended in Jackson County and in Kansas, but they’ll resume Friday. SNIP “I don’t think we’re going to see a rush to the courthouse based on rent,” he said. “In the private area, I think those landlords are thinking the same thing, (which) is it’s better to keep that family here in their housing and find a way to pay the difference over time than evict that family and all the costs that go with that.”

April 30 2020 Thursday of the Third Week of Easter Reading 1 Acts 8:26-40 The angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, “Get up and head south on the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza, the desert route.” So he got up and set out. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, that is, the queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of her entire treasury, who had come to Jerusalem to worship, and was returning home. Seated in his chariot, he was reading the prophet Isaiah. The Spirit said to Philip, “Go...

The Russian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday rejected US arguments for fielding low-yield nuclear warheads, warning that an attempt to use such weapons against Russia would trigger an all-out nuclear retaliation. The US State Department argued in a paper released last week that fitting the low-yield nuclear warheads to submarine-launched ballistic missiles would help counter potential new threats from Russia and China. It charged that Moscow in particular was pondering the use of non-strategic nuclear weapons as a way of coercion in a limited conflict – an assertion that Russia has repeatedly denied. The State Department noted that the new supplemental...

Dozens of doctors, nurses and health care workers gathered outside Presbyterian Rust Medical Center in Rio Rancho Wednesday morning for a very special delivery from a young man. "I found out that I had cancer when I broke my leg when I was skiing. They x-rayed my leg. Something didn't look right, so that's when I was admitted to the hospital and then I started treatment right away. It lasted for around 5 months. I was in the hospital for about 40 nights, but right now I'm in remission,” said Sam Neale, a Make-A-Wish recipient. It was 17-year-old Sam Neale’s...

Coconino County Health and Human Services says fleas have tested positive for plague in the Baderville area northwest of Flagstaff. County staff notified residents and treated burrows and will also closely monitor the area for the disease. It’s the first confirmed case of plague in fleas this year in the county, but officials say there are likely more locations with the infection because it is endemic to Coconino County. Health staff will continue to collect and test flea samples throughout the area. Plague is a potentially serious disease that can be transmitted to humans through a flea bite or contact...

Wait, this title is misleading in that it could be read that either “reporters” or “liberals” suck, and the fact is that both suck. But reporters don’t have to suck. Liberals always do, because their trash ideology is terrible and yet they adhere to it. Reporters could be no-holds-barred truthtellers who could not care less, whose agenda they skewer or narrative they shatter in pursuit of the truth. That’s at least theoretically possible, even though most of them merely aspire to be skeevy prog transcriptionists typing out ham-handed propaganda to please their pinko masters. But if our reporters were not...

it’s appropriate to mourn the passing of one notable longtime New Yorker .. Unit 2 reactor at the Indian Point Energy Center. The workhorse, Westchester-based nuclear-power generator, which could have run for several more decades, is scheduled to be unplugged Thursday. Cause of death: political expediency .... the 1,028-megawatt Westinghouse machine delivered about 8,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity a year from a site on the Hudson River that covers less than a half square mile. Unit 2’s prodigious output left its more politically popular rivals — solar and wind energy — in the shade. Ivanpah, the biggest thermal-solar project in America,...

Brittany Costello Created: April 29, 2020 10:16 PM ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — There are a lot of questions surrounding the governor's public health orders and whether they're constitutional. A UNM law professor said issuing a public health order is constitutional and within the power of the governor. New Mexicans are required to abide by them. The orders are more than just recommendations, but law. "It's very confusing to understand, 'Why would these orders have the force of law?' because the legislature didn't pass it, but the New Mexico Constitution does give temporary authority to a governor just like the California Constitution...

A U.K. politician has apologized after he shared a photo of bacon as he prepared to fast in solidarity with Muslims during Ramadan. Ian Manning, a county councillor in Cambridgeshire, tweeted the image in the early hours of Saturday as he prepared to join fellow Liberal Democrats in fasting for a day on Saturday. He shared a picture of his pre-dawn meal of boiled eggs and bacon on Twitter, adding in a caption: "Up early to start my fast for #LibDemIftar! Really not sure I'll get through to the evening but we'll see!" But after many pointed out that Muslims...

Yet another great segment from Tucker. Highlights: Even as Moochelle sends a recorded message to all DC residents to stay home and only go out for groceries, medication or to do an “essential job”, Obama drove 40 miles to Virginia to go play golf on a nice sunny day, even though the Governor of Virginia had banned everybody else from playing golf because lockdowns “save lives” apparently. The black mayor of Chicago bans everyone else from going to the hair dressers, but then continues to go to the hair dressers herself. According to her, she needs to look cute cause...

Former US Attorney Joe diGenova was on the Howie Carr Show this week and he provided some more inside information regarding General Flynn’s case and the unraveling of the coup to remove President Trump from office. diGenova discussed the Durham investigation and said at the 5:30 mark that Durham is building a conspiracy case and anyone who lied to the court will be indicted for obstruction of justice charges: The bottom line is this, it’s unfolding and what’s happening is, what Durham is actually doing is he’s painting a picture and not everyone of these acts is going to be...

House Republicans are calling on Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to ease public health restrictions in counties that are less affected by the novel coronavirus, a notion the Governor’s Office rejected as premature. As businesses in Georgia and other states begin to open again despite ongoing risks of contracting and spreading the virus, Republican leaders in New Mexico are for the first time urging the governor to open up areas of the state that have seen few or no cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. Four lightly populated counties have had no cases: Sierra, Hidalgo, De Baca and...

Bishop Schneider: Coronavirus is causing a ‘catacomb Church’ to emerge 'It could be that we are going through a time of the catacombs — a kind of underground Church,' he said. 'But we needn’t be fearful. We have to be courageous.' April 29, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — During an interview with LifeSite co-founder John-Henry Westen yesterday, Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Kazakhstan said the “persecution” of the church being carried out by governments across the world during the COVID-19 outbreak is causing “a kind of underground Church” to emerge and that this may be a vehicle for God to purify the Church. “It...

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,...