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SACRAMENTO — California will shut down state and local beaches in Orange County starting Friday to prevent massive crowds that state officials worry could threaten their progress containing the spread of the coronavirus. Reports circulated earlier that the shutdown would apply to beaches and state parks up and down California, but that turned out not to be the case. Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that Orange County was one of the top counties in the state for coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. “Orange County has been on our list of health concern,” he said at a news conference. “I hope it’s...

Opinion: Oh look, I updated some of Pelosi's Kavanaugh tweets in light of credible accusations against Biden Tara Reade has accused Joe Biden of penetrative sexual assault she says occurred when she worked as his aide in the 1990s. Then a 1993 clip of "Larry King Live" surfaced featuring Reade's mother calling into the show (which was about nefariousness in Washington) seeking advice on how her daughter could deal with "problems" she experienced "working for a prominent senator" without "go[ing] to the press" "out of respect for him." Today a former neighbor of hers — a Biden supporter, Trump hater,...

Microsoft beat on both top and bottom lines on revenue and earnings per share in its third quarter earnings report. The company noted that it saw a minimum net impact on total company revenue amid the coronavirus outbreak as cloud usage and demand increased. Yahoo Finance’s Myles Udland breaks down Microsoft’s earnings report. Video Transcript JEN ROGERS: Let's head to Seana Smith. She's got the breaking news on Microsoft's earnings. Seana. SEANA SMITH: Hey there, Jen. So it looks like Microsoft beat on both the top and bottom lines here for their fiscal third quarter-- coming in revenue at $35.02...

Furloughed workers looking to stay on unemployment rather than returning to work when asked will be stripped of their benefits in Iowa. Thousands of furloughed employees in the state have been receiving unemployment benefits to help them make ends meet during the pandemic until the businesses they worked for are allowed to reopen. The state announced on Monday that furloughed workers who refuse to return to work when allowed out of fear of the coronavirus will have their unemployment benefits cut. The Iowa Workforce Development noted that refusing to return to work over concerns of catching the virus will be...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump erupted at his top political advisers last week when they presented him with worrisome polling data that showed his support eroding in a series of battleground states as his response to the coronavirus comes under criticism. As the virus takes its deadly toll and much of the nation’s economy remains shuttered, new surveys by the Republican National Committee and Trump’s campaign pointed to a harrowing picture for the president as he faces reelection. “I am not f—ing losing to Joe Biden,” he repeated in a series of heated conference calls with his top campaign officials,...

The Trump administration has acted to ensure that no funds from the new Paycheck Protection Program, set up to assist small businesses battered by COVID-19, will go to Planned Parenthood. “President Trump is committed to ensuring Paycheck Protection Program money is used for saving jobs at small businesses, not getting the government into the business of funding abortion,” a senior administration official told The Daily Signal. “While not all Americans share President Trump’s pro-life beliefs, there is broad bipartisan support for the idea that American taxpayers should not have to fund abortion,” the official said Wednesday night. >>> When can...

The Trump administration is planning to speed up development of a coronavirus vaccine with the goal of having 100 million doses ready by the end of 2020, a senior administration official said on Wednesday. The official declined to be publicly identified. Executives and other experts have previously suggested that clinical trials to guarantee a vaccine is safe and effective could take a minimum of 12 to 18 months. Several agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services announced plans earlier in April to partner with more than 15 drug companies as well as European regulators in an effort to...

From studies in prisons in four states comes a remarkable conclusion: as many as 95% of COVID-19 cases may produce no symptoms: As mass coronavirus testing expands in prisons, large numbers of inmates are showing no symptoms. In four state prison systems — Arkansas, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia — 96% of 3,277 inmates who tested positive for the coronavirus were asymptomatic, according to interviews with officials and records reviewed by Reuters. *** After a recent spike in cases at the Neuse Correctional Institution in Goldsboro, North Carolina, state correctional officials tested all 723 prisoners last week. Of the...

While the majority of voters across the board support halting immigration due to the coronavirus, Hispanic voters are more in favor of a moratorium than white voters are. A new poll from the Washington Post revealed that 65 percent of all voters want all immigration to the United States to be put on pause.

The New York City subway system will stop running 24 hours a day in an unprecedented action designed to deter homeless people and to disinfect trains and stations amid hygiene fears during the new coronavirus pandemic. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who controls the subway, said Thursday the system’s 472 stations will close between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. The overnight closures are expected to begin May 6. During more than a century of operations, the subway system has shut down for days because of labor strikes, storms and blackouts. But this is the first time the system has ceased...

The Michael Flynn case has finally been broken open, thanks to the tireless and wonderful work of Sidney Powell. Two years I wrote a post in which asserted that Flynn was framed. I believed it then and never stopped believing it. Powell released some documents which demonstrate clearly that the FBI was determined to frame Michael Flynn. "What is our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?," the handwritten notes of the senior official say. The notes express further concern the FBI might be "playing games." Multiple officials confirmed to...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told a reporter that she doesn't "need a lecture or a speech" comparing the treatment of sexual assault allegations against former Vice President Joe Biden and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Washington Examiner reporter Kerry Picket asked Pelosi at a press conference how "Democrats square with the idea that they're essentially standing by Biden but used a comparatively different standard with Justice Kavanaugh when you demanded an investigation against Kavanaugh when a similar allegation came out against him." “I respect your question, and I don’t need a lecture or a speech,” Pelosi responded. “I have...

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A big box arrived yesterday with a West Palm Beach return address. I thought it was probably something from a lawyer related to my mother's estate. I didn't bother to open it until just now. It's a full set of Rush's History Series featuring Liberty the talking horse. I had purchased Brave Pilgrims long ago for my granddaughter. Some months ago Rush said that one could request these books, so I did; but I completely forgot about it. I had mentioned that I didn't need another copy of Brave Pilgrims but it was in my package too. Thanks, Rush; and...

Science is not a set of facts. Science is a method by which we try to work out facts. But when science course-corrects in the public eye, instead of being lauded as improving our models, the public and media seize on it by saying, "Doctors don't know what they're doing. Doctors are killing people." COVID-19 is a new disease, one we've never seen before. When it first hit our shores, we thought it would behave in the same way that other pneumonias that cause an acute respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS, do. These patients have stiff lungs and require high...

A 2008 column in the far-left magazine CounterPunch accusing Joe Biden of “loutish sexual advances” in the U.S. Senate has become a lightning rod in the debate over Biden and his former staffer Tara Reade’s allegation of sexual assault in 1993. Biden, in the late Alexander Cockburn view, was an empty and worthless swamp creature, a D.C. insider chosen purely to improve Obama’s electoral odds. Five paragraphs in, Cockburn made an aside about Biden’s character that accused him of harassing women who worked in the Senate, even while he was supposedly grieving over his wife’s death: "Biden is a notorious...

Avril Lavigne is honoring those on the frontlines amid the coronavirus pandemic. The singer previously revealed that she re-recorded her Head Above Water track "Warrior" to honor the "heroic" efforts of those whose lives have been changed due to COVID-19. Now, Lavigne has debuted a music video for "We Are Warriors" on Thursday (April 30). ... The net proceeds from "We Are Warriors" will go to Project Hope, "an incredible organization that is on the front lines keeping doctors and medical staff safe all over the world."

Leftist leaders of the environmental movement are attacking far Left filmmaker and Bernie Sanders supporter Michael Moore, trying to destroy the progressive documentarian for honestly pointing out the green energy scam is nothing more nor less than crony capitalism disguised as the planet’s salvation in his new film, “Planet of the Humans,” released on YouTube for free viewing on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Produced by Moore and directed by his long-time collaborator Jeff Gibbs, the film exposes the facts that green energy can’t prevent climate change, and those saying it can are profiting handsomely from government green energy...

Under cover of Corona, the sewage of the DC septic tank flows on. The latest revelations in the Deep State entrapment of Michael Flynn (Trump's first National Security Advisor, for about twenty minutes) confirm what most sentient creatures have known for three years - that there was never any good-faith basis for the FBI's investigation, only (in the now released words of Assistant Counterintelligence Division Director Bill Priestap) the object "to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired". The official pretext was that there might have been "a violation of the Logan Act". Oooooooh!...

The woman who accused former Vice President Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her when she worked as a staffer in his Senate office in 1993 is negotiating to appear in an interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace.