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Thirty-eight states have started reopening or are planning to reopen soon from the near-total economic lockdown implemented to try to slow the spread of the CCP virus, according to an Epoch Times tally. Businesses in 21 states have already started reopening or will be allowed to welcome customers back on May 1. Alabama, Georgia, Montana, and Tennessee are among the states that have already started reopening. Oklahoma, Utah, and Wyoming are among the states loosening restrictions effective Friday. The other states that have reopened or are reopening on May 1 are: Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Mexico,...

The U.S. Department of Education has asked the University of Texas (UT) to supply documentation on its relationship with the China-based infectious-disease lab at the heart of the controversy surrounding the origin of the CCP virus, the novel coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease. Though scientists suggest the likeliest origin of the pandemic remains natural, investigators are looking into whether there is evidence to support a theory that the virus was the subject of scientific work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and somehow escaped. President Donald Trump, in remarks on Thursday, claimed to have seen evidence to support the...

Two U.S. warships in two days have sailed through separate disputed island chains in the South China Sea in a challenge to territorial claims, in what the U.S. Navy calls “freedom of navigation” operations. Beijing on April 28 said it had “expelled” the USS Barry, a guided-missile destroyer, from the seas around the Paracel Islands, which it claims as its own territory, saying China’s sovereignty had been violated. The U.S. Navy disputed the story, however, saying that the warship had carried out its operation successfully. The following day the Navy dispatched a larger cruiser, the USS Bunker Hill, through the...

...Nichols and his two kids were walking along a sidewalk when he allegedly pulled out a knife and told the jogger to cross the street. The 29-year-old man, also of Cambridge, later told detectives he was about 30 to 40 feet away from Nichols at the time, according to a police report...“It does provide a little information on some of the stress that may be on some people,” Cambridge police spokesman Jeremy Warnick told WFXT. “Certainly people have been in their homes for an extended period of time. We are going on six or seven weeks, which is a long...

Defying Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home order and a California Highway Patrol ban on protests on state properties, hundreds of demonstrators were expected to descend on the state Capitol on Friday to demand the reopening of schools, businesses and churches despite the coronavirus pandemic. Watch video from the protest by clicking on the video below.

NEW YORK, NY—During an interview with Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC this morning, Joe Biden denied Tara Reade's sexual assault allegations against him, whispering his adamant denials into the journalist's ear. Biden was supposed to join the interview remotely but somehow got away from his handlers and got into MSNBC's studios, sneaking up behind the Morning Joe host and whispering into her ear for the duration of the interview. "Listen, honey, I respect women," Biden assured Brzezinski while rubbing her shoulders and inching his nose closer to her hair. "Whether it's an intern or a real classy broad like you, I...

GALLUP, N.M. — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has authorized the lockdown of Gallup at the mayor’s request. The governor will invoke the state’s Riot Control Act, which will authorize her to enact further temporary restrictions to stop the spread of COVID-19 in that city. The order goes into effect on Friday at 12 p.m. and will expire on Monday at noon. The lock-down will order all roads into Gallup be closed, businesses in the city will close from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. and vehicles can have a max of two individuals. Residents are ordered to remain in their residence...

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Three-time World Champion Ayrton Senna will be forever remembered as one of the all-time greats in Formula 1. Here are five stories that give you a glimpse, a reminder, of what made him such an iconic driver. He will never be forgotten.

VIDEO Look in the ARCHIVES! And only in the ARCHIVES!!! Joe Biden stuck to the script that all records should be searched only in the National Archives. When Mika Brzezinski asked him about looking elsewhere, it was obvious that Biden was not programmed to give the answer and his systems overloaded as his candidacy crashed and burned on Morning Joe.

Guest Piece from America’s History Teacher, Larry Schweikart As the fallout from the China Virus continues to spread—though the China Virus itself is largely contained now—the political ramifications are not raining down equally on all. As of this morning, Gallup has President Trump at over 49%—his highest ever in that poll—and Scott Rasmussen’s partnership poll also has him over 49%. IDB/TIPP has Trump now tied with the demented Joe Biden for the first time, with Biden slipping several points from just a month ago. This is more than just Biden’s “woman trouble.” It represents a growing understanding by the American...

Does Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel believe Joe Biden would be better off dead? That would be a peculiar position for Biden's chief adviser on medical issues and a member of the candidate's Public Health Advisory Committee to take. But if we accept the reasoning behind Emanuel's infamous 2014 essay, Biden is nothing more than a resource-sucking shell of himself who should stop trying to prolong his life. I suspect that if one of Trump's advisers on coronavirus had once taken to the august pages of The Atlantic to reason that men who reach the age of 75 are useless to society,...

While he didn't provide a timeline for the state's education system reopening in the fall or later, he did say that schools, including colleges, should begin forming plans on how they expect to reopen their doors in a safe way.

Few songs are more ingrained in the American psyche than "This Land Is Your Land," the greatest and best-known work by folk icon Woody Guthrie. For decades, it's been a staple of kindergarten classrooms "from California to the New York island," as the lyrics go. It's the musical equivalent of apple pie, though the flavor varies wildly depending on who's doing the singing. On its most basic level, "This Land Is Your Land" is a song about inclusion and equality—the American ideal broken down into simple, eloquent language and set to a melody you memorize on first listen. The underlying...

Since April 7, authorities in California have released seven sex offenders with histories of violent crimes, including violating their paroles and indecent behavior, back into the public due to coronavirus concerns. Court Commissioner Joseph Dane has authorized the release of the following seven criminals that the Orange County District Attorney still considers a “high risk” to public safety:

Jimmy Walters was an old-school “hellfire and brimstone” pastor at a Baptist church on the Navajo Nation. His wife, Rachel Walters, was equally devout and spent her time caring for their children and home, and weaving Navajo rugs to sell. Their son, 48-year-old Davis Begaye, lived with them in a four-bedroom house overlooking the mesas, plains and Ute Mountain in the small community of Cudei, outside Shiprock. He worked at the Home Depot in Farmington for several years. That’s where the family suspects Begaye got infected with COVID-19 – the illness caused by the coronavirus – in early April. Over...

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf will announce the first group of counties expected to move into the yellow phase of coronavirus mitigation Friday afternoon, his office confirmed. A press release from Wolf's office said he and Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine will provide an update on coronavirus in the state at 2 p.m.

Let This Be You Cure For The Covid 19 Blues! Tommy gives his thoughts about getting rid of Covid 19 blues

“We weren’t always able to pinpoint where all the cases were coming from,” said Annette Chambers-Smith, director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. As the virus spread, they began mass testing. They started with the Marion Correctional Institution, which houses 2,500 prisoners in north central Ohio, many of them older with pre-existing health conditions. After testing 2,300 inmates for the coronavirus, they were shocked. Of the 2,028 who tested positive, close to 95% had no symptoms. “It was very surprising,” said Chambers-Smith, who oversees the state’s 28 correctional facilities. As mass coronavirus testing expands in prisons, large numbers...

Time for reopening? Let's reframe the question. Time for what to reopen? With what precautions? In which states and counties and communities? Mandatory reopening or voluntary? And who really decides? Governors, mayors, the president? Business owners or consumers? Does anyone really expect what economist Arnold Kling calls "patterns of sustainable specialization and trade" to snap back into pre-COVID-19 shape? Any effort to address questions yields the lesson that one-size-fits-all answers are ill-suited for a nation of 329 million people, half in million-plus metropolitan areas and the other half thinly spread out over a continent-sized landmass. Nonetheless, much of the public...