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When the clerk told the man he needed one, police said he walked over and said "Here, I will use this as a mask" before wiping his face and nose on the face of the clerk's shirt. Footage released by the Holly Police Department shows the man walking to the clerk and wiping his nose and face on her shirt. Police said the man “continued to be loud and disruptive inside the store” before he left in a white van.

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An internal Chinese report warns that Beijing faces a rising wave of hostility in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak that could tip relations with the United States into confrontation, people familiar with the paper told Reuters. The report, presented early last month by the Ministry of State Security to top Beijing leaders including President Xi Jinping, concluded that global anti-China sentiment is at its highest since the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, the sources said. As a result, Beijing faces a wave of anti-China sentiment led by the United States in the aftermath of the pandemic and needs to be...

A large crowd of protesters gathered outside the Massachusetts State House on Monday afternoon calling on Gov. Charlie Baker to reopen the economy. Dubbed the “Liberty Rally,” the event was planned to take place if Baker didn’t reopen nonessential businesses on May 1. Baker’s business order, along with his stay-at-home advisory, was initially set to be lifted on May 4 but was extended last week to May 18, as efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus continue. The protest was promoted by Jeffrey Kuhner, a conservative radio host, and on the website for “Super Happy Fun America,” which organized...

The Trump administration is projecting that the United States could see up to 3,000 deaths per day from the coronavirus by June 1, a person familiar with internal documents confirmed to The Hill on Monday. Data and modeling from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that the federal government is expecting the number of cases and deaths associated with the pandemic to continue mounting, even as President Trump and other officials push for states to lift restrictions meant to slow the spread of the virus in favor of reopening businesses. The New York Times, which was the...

Turkey will take decisive steps regarding trade in the local currencies of countries with which it runs trade deficits while shoring up import regulations over the coming two months, according to Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak. Trade conducted in local currencies will come to the fore in the coming period amid an attempt to ensure more balanced trading relations, Albayrak told the Sabah newspapers in an interview Monday.

NEW YORK, NY—Having let his facial hair grow freely for several weeks, New York Mayor Bill De Blasio held a press conference this morning where he unveiled special red armbands for police enforcing the city's quarantine on the Jewish community. "The red armband represents our commitment to public health," he said. "City workers and police who want to show their loyalty to making sure undesirable groups are not breaking quarantine will be asked to wear the bands for easy identification." "The third glorious era of New York will reign triumphant!" he cried, banging on his lectern. "Together we can reclaim...

At a press conference on Friday, State Health Commissioner Norman Oliver gave an example of a single patient being tested four times for COVID-19. "What we're doing now is, we're counting all four tests," Oliver said.

With Democrats refusing to convene the House and Senate Democrats refusing to convene the Senate, they have decided that the ostrich will the new symbol of the COWARDLY Democrats. The Democrats are looking for more AIRHEAD leaders like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck-E-Cheese Schumer. Additionally, they double down their assertion that Democrats are never guilty of sexual assaults such as the current charge against Joe Biden. The Democratic Party, now with the OSTRICH as the symbol of the party are looking for more AIRHEADS to take a leadership role.

worldometers.info gives the USA Total number of COVID-19 deaths as 69,492. This it the number that is repeated in the media. However the National Center for Health Statistics of the CDC gives the number as 38,576 on their website. LifeZette is reporting that this as an adjustment by the CDC. However, when I check with the Internet Archive Wayback Machine on archive.org, none of the screenshots from the previous dates that I checked show the higher numbers. E.g., the screenshot for April 27 at 05:36:31 shows only 27,674 deaths. Does anyone know what gives?

At last word, Judge Sullivan had ordered Flynn counsel Sidney Powell to stop filing exculpatory evidence newly produced by the government in the case until she had it all in hand. Is it possible Judge Sullivan has seen enough? We now learn from Catherine Herridge’s tweet (below) that Judge Sullivan has ordered the government to respond to General’s Flynn’s pending motion to dismiss the case on account of egregious government misconduct by May 11, and Flynn to file his reply by May 18. Expedited briefing is also ordered on Flynn’s sealed motion to file document under seal. Whatever is happening...

Amazon’s decision to let engineers and other office staff keep working from home through at least Oct. 2 was another blow for struggling merchants in downtown Seattle and Bellevue, which have been virtual ghost towns since the coronavirus crisis emptied the cubicle farms in March. The decision, which the Seattle-based online retailer shared with employees Thursday, also could signal a broader trend toward extending work-from-home practices. Other white-collar employers are realizing that returning to the workplaces is likely to require extensive precautions...

During Monday's news conference, Gov. Ducey said Arizona is "headed in the right direction" in terms of the pandemic, with a downward trajectory of flu and COVID-like illnesses, as well as a downward trajectory of positive COVID-19 tests and expanded testing availability. Retailers begin to reopen Gov. Ducey's news conference was held on a day when non-essential businesses are allowed to reopen in Arizona, to a certain degree.

One of the premier national unions for liberal outlets such as NBC News Digital, The Washington Post and The New York Times actually voted to request the government finance the news industry with taxpayer dollars. Surprisingly, it was The Times that released the story Sunday May 3. The article noted how the president of the “most prominent journalists’ union in the country, the NewsGuild, crossed a line that once seemed unimaginable: He asked the government for money.” Then came the kicker: “The guild’s leaders voted to request “‘public financing for journalism.’” NewsGuild President Jon Schleuss said that “One thing we...

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Mexico’s top health officials are now avoiding the practice of estimating and announcing Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases to instead focus on hospital capacity.

America’s relationship with the free market is on the rocks as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Economic commentators have already begun calling the current crisis a recession. The government response to this apparent recession has been unprecedented. But there is another, better way to tackle our economic woes. If we take a look back at our history, we can find a model in President Warren Harding’s wildly successful laissez faire approach to tackling the Recession of 1920. We’ve seen countless comparisons in today’s media of the coronavirus to the 1918 Spanish Flu. Not only is it natural to...

The poster on the office wall is faded, but not so our memories of the day it commemorated or the struggle to make it happen. Monday, May 4, 2020, marks the 40th anniversary of the official opening of the Cabinet-level U.S. Department of Education. It was a historic day in the history of public education in America to be sure, but it was also a special day for us personally as we, working for President Carter, had both been intimately involved in crafting and passing the legislation that created the department. The time has passed when the federal government can...

As nearly half of U.S. states begin to ease restrictions that were put in place to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is quietly projecting a stark rise in the number of new cases of the virus and deaths from it over the next month. Modeling from the CDC, incorporated into a chart prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and circulated within the administration, was obtained by the New York Times. It projects 200,000 new daily cases of the coronavirus by the end of May and 3,000 daily deaths in the U.S....

Wow! Looks like Flynn’s former lawyers were in cahoots with the coup and had to make sure Flynn was convicted. Remember early on when rumors of 302s being changed? Many had though McCabe changed them himself, now it may be he didn’t personally changed them himself but pressured Pientka and when he said no, he went to his ‘clean up’ man Strzok to do the job Link of the document