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What’s changed from 2016 in precincts where voting is complete Here are shifts in precincts where we believe nearly all votes have been counted. AREAS THAT ARE… VOTES SO FAR VOTE SHIFT, 2016-20 Majority age 65+ 648k +1.5 62% to 60% R White, fewer college grads 1.1m +0.5 75% R Suburban 2.9m <0.5 51% to 50% D Obama-Trump areas 409k <0.5 54% R High-income 687k <0.5 55% R Majority college grads 1.1m +1.5 50% D to 51% R Rural 1.8m +2 68% to 71% R Majority Black 611k +2.5 85% to 83% D Urban areas 1.3m +6 68% to 62%...

Af­ter cel­e­brated New York Times and Wash­ing­ton Post ar­ti­cles about Don­ald Trump and Rus­sia turned out to be wrong, will ma­ligned New York Post ar­ti­cles aboutJoe Biden and Ukraine turn out to be right? This fas­ci­nat­ing me­dia era could force a re­de­f­i­n­i­tion of terms like “main-stream” and “tabloid.” Five days af­ter the New York Post started pub­lish­ing al­leged emails de­tail­ing Biden fam­ily cor­rup­tion, the Bidens still haven’t claimed they’re coun­ter­feit.

To our betters in the American ruling class: Just a note to say thanks for giving us a much-needed lesson in the wisdom of our Founding Fathers, who were not shy at all in admonishing us to be wary of surrendering the kind of government power you people have wielded, supposedly for our benefit, since the Chinese Communist virus hit our shores at some indeterminate point in the recent, or maybe not-so-recent, past. What you’ve done has made an abject mockery of the idea we have God-given, unassailable rights. Instead what we have are permissions from our political betters. Thomas...

Mr. Cuo­mo’s gov­ern­ment-led virus strat­egy has failed the most vul­ner­a­ble pa­tients, even as it de­stroyed busi­nesses and jobs. He should im­me­di­ately end the lock­down and al­low free peo­ple to help them­selves and each other—and that in­cludes by gen­er­at­ing the wealth nec­es­sary for sur­vival.

Greatest Generation, meet the latest generations. The United States is in the grips of a global pandemic unlike anything ever experienced by baby boomers, Gen Xers, millennials, Gen Z, or whatever you prefer to call the descendants of the G.I. Joes and Rosie the Riveters who fought, each in their own way, to save democracy and preserve freedom.

Different countries report coronavirus cases and deaths in different ways, which can easily lead to confusion and makes comparing the situation complicated. Here's a look at what you need to know in order to understand how the Swedish figures are reported.

Experts now agree the virus’s spread can be slowed but not contained. It will take its place among mostly seasonal respiratory infections. After a time, recurrent outbreaks will be moderated by a large number of potential carriers who have immunity from their last infection. And then we can ask some questions. The cost to Americans of the economic shutdown is vast. What are they getting for their money? Essentially less excess demand for respiratory ventilators and other emergency care than can currently be supplied.

Charles Mackay wrote not of pandemics but “moral epidemics” 179 years ago in Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. “We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object,” he observed, “and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, [until] their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.” Mackay wrote of hopes overriding reason in the public’s manias for tulips and alchemy and so much else. Now, our fears override our reason. The Moscow boogeyman seizing our democracy this...

In the event of an outbreak of a new or rare disease, such as the novel coronavirus, RIVM convenes the Outbreak Management Team (OMT Outbreak Management Team ). This emergency response team brings together specialists from various backgrounds who know a great deal about the disease in question. These specialists discuss the outbreak based on the latest information and knowledge from the scientific community.

If it’s true that the novel coronavirus would kill millions without shelter-in-place orders and quarantines, then the extraordinary measures being carried out in cities and states around the country are surely justified. But there’s little evidence to confirm that premise—and projections of the death toll could plausibly be orders of magnitude too high. If the number of actual infections is much larger than the number of cases—orders of magnitude larger—then the true fatality rate is much lower as well. That’s not only plausible but likely based on what we know so far.

From the PM's speech: "Because, my message to you this evening is not an easy one to hear. "The reality is that coronavirus is here in our midst, and for the time being it is here to stay. "There is no quick or easy solution to this intensely difficult situation. "The reality is also that in the coming period a large proportion of the Dutch population will become infected with this virus. "That’s what the experts are telling us now. "They are also telling us that – as we wait for a vaccine or treatment to be developed – we...

Most people know that the flu can kill. Indeed, the so-called Spanish flu killed 50 million people in 1918—more than were killed in the first world war. But what about TCC? Can you really catch your death? TCC is a collection of symptoms—coughing, sneezing, a runny nose, tiredness and perhaps a fever—rather than a defined disease. Although it shares a lot with the initial symptoms with the flu, it's a very different infection. Rhinovirus causes about half of all TCC, but other viruses can cause one or more of the symptoms of a TCC, including adenovirus, influenza virus, respiratory syncytial...

Because the U.S. data on coronavirus infections are so deeply flawed, the quantification of the outbreak obscures more than it illuminates.

The Democratic Party have surged its focus on cybersecurity to combat foreign interference by Russia or other actors that U.S. intelligence officials warn may seek a repeat of 2016.

How a rising of the ocean waters may flood most of our port cities within the foreseeable future — and why it will be followed by the growth of a vast glacier which may eventually cover much of Europe and North America. It is this melting of Arctic ice which Ewing and Donn believe will set off another Ice Age on earth. They predict that it will cause great snows to fall in the north — perennial unmelting snows which the world has not seen since the last Ice Age thousands of years ago. These snows will make the Arctic...

There are many sound arguments about why the U.S. should not have withdrawn its modest presence. But the notion that the pullout empowers Tehran is belied by its leaders’ expressions of anxiety. The Middle East rarely offers a respite to ambitious nations, even Iran.

Of all the anti-Trump hysterias of our age...the most absurd..:was the charge that last year’s repeal of an Obama-era regulation would break the Internet... the Internet is still working just fine and in many ways much better...

Last Thursday, a Scotland mom was embarrassed when she realized she had sent her five-year-old son to a nativity with a sex doll. Helen Cox, 46, says she purchased the blow-up sheep on Amazon back in November without realizing what it actually was until her son Alfie was sent home from school because of it. “I just can’t believe it. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry! How am I going to explain this to his teachers?” the mom of two said. “I have no idea if they’ve seen it was a sex toy and that’s why they sent...

The grant of citizenship is a transfer of political power. Access to the U.S. ballot box also provides access to the American taxpayer's bank account. This is particularly problematic with regard to low-skill immigrants. Within an active redistributionist state, as Friedman understood, unlimited immigration can threaten limited government.

Total nonfarm payrolls increased by 157,000 for the month, below the 190,000 expected in a Reuters survey of economists and the lowest gain since March. A 33,000 miss this month but 59,000 gain for the previous two months.