Issues (GOP Club)
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Sen. Richard Burr (D-NC) is facing a lawsuit for allegedly taking advantage of inside information to sell shares of his stock before the coronavirus outbreak sent the market plunging. The lawsuit was filed by Thomas P. O’Brien, a former federal prosecutor, on behalf of Wyndham Hotels shareholder Alan Jacobson, on Monday in Washington, DC. It alleges that Burr violated the law when he dumpled up to $1.7 million in stocks before the pandemic caused the global markets to collapse.
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Democratic presidential candidate and former VP Joe Biden has been accused of being out of the limelight as the coronavirus pandemic shuts down the country. So his handlers said set ’em up, Joe, and scheduled a whirlwind of video appearances. So far, they’ve spotlighted his famous knack for stumbling into word salad. Fresh off an online appearance in which he waved off his first point about the pandemic as his teleprompter allegedly malfunctioned, Biden came to The View seeking redemption. He appeared via satellite to reveal how he would handle the current coronavirus crisis.
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As American health officials scramble to test citizens displaying symptoms amid the coronavirus pandemic, one faction of Americans has had more access to the coronavirus tests than the rest: celebrities. The story: Vice Magazine recently reached out to a number of celebrities who have been tested for COVID-19 to ask how they were able to get their hands on the sparse tests: “For the most part, it’s a mystery,” Vice explains.
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Appearing Tuesday on WMAL’s Morning on the Mall, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, accused D.C. journalists of attempting to pit him against President Donald Trump and affirmed there is no rift between himself and the president on how to combat the Chinese coronavirus outbreak.
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Congressional Democrats are taking heat from Republicans for rejecting a massive stimulus package twice amid a national emergency caused by the outbreak of the coronavirus. The bill would’ve provided nearly $2 trillion in financial aid from the federal government to prop up the struggling economy but Senate Republicans failed to get the required 60 votes to approve the package.
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As previously reported, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi came back to Washington D.C. last night after a week long recess and blew up days of emergency relief work done by the Senate. She wants to write her own far left bill and now we know what will be in it.
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America’s increasingly unstable and dangerous establishment media are calling for a full blackout of President Trump’s daily coronavirus press conferences. Think about that for a moment… For the first time since World War II, for the first time in nearly 80 years, Americans have no idea what their country will look like a year from now, and the corporate media want to impose a full blackout on the daily briefings the American president is making to the American people.
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College professors who are now pivoting to online teaching amid the coronavirus pandemic are concerned that students might give right-wing publications a glimpse into their lessons. The story: College and university professors are expressing concerns on social media that their material could be misused. Some have shared the measures they’re taking to ensure that only their students get access to recorded lessons, though noting that their methods have flaws.
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Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) introduced legislation Thursday to repatriate pharmaceutical manufacturing from China to America, aiming to reduce a dependency that could seriously limit the U.S. coronavirus response. The bill, which Cotton introduced with Rep. Mike Gallagher (R., Wis.), aims to severely curtail the volume of Chinese active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) from the U.S. medical drug supply. The PRC currently produces most of the world's APIs—the "active ingredients" in commonly used drugs—leaving the United States and other nations critically dependent on it for medicines.
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The current discussion of whether it’s appropriate to associate a virus with its place of origin has prompted Wikipedia to reconsider how it refers to the Spanish flu. The story: Wikipedia editors are mulling over whether to rename the site’s Spanish flu article the “1918 influenza pandemic.” Most of them are opposed to the proposed change, saying the pandemic is most commonly known as the Spanish flu and changing the title of the article might lead to more confusion. Some even said that the move amounts to re-writing history.
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A drug developed over half a century ago to treat malaria is showing signs that it may also help cure COVID-19 — especially when combined with an antibiotic, a promising new study reveals. Hydroxychloroquine, sold under the brand name Plaquenil — and also used to treat arthritis and other ailments — was determined to be effective in killing the deadly bug in laboratory experiments, Forbes reported, citing findings published March 9 in the Clinical Infectious Diseases journal.
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The former vice president issued a demand on Wednesday that President Trump invoke the Defense Production Act related to coronavirus recovery products. Biden’s plan says to “prioritize and immediately increase domestic production of any critical medical equipment required to respond to this crisis — such as the production of ventilators and associated training to operate — by invoking the Defense Production Action.”
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Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday snapped at a CNN reporter who asked him about the future of his presidential campaign. “I’m dealing with a fu**ing global crisis,” the Vermont senator told CNN congressional correspondent Manu Raju.
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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore Mayor Jack Young urged residents to put down their guns and heed orders to stay home after multiple people were shot Tuesday night amidst the coronavirus pandemic. Young said hospital beds are needed to treat positive COVID-19 patients and not for senseless violence. Seven people were shot Tuesday night in the Madison Park neighborhood, as Baltimore reported its fifth positive coronavirus case Wednesday.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) tried to calm fears of a pandemic on Jan. 14 by repeating China’s claim that coronavirus was not contagious among humans. “Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China,” the WHO tweeted.
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Representative Rashida Tlaib unleashed a profanity-laced attack on the National Day of Prayer. The President rightly declared a National Day of Prayer yesterday in the face of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Yet Rep. Tlaib – who just promoted erasing Israel from the map and replacing it with “Palestine” – shockingly responded to a national call to prayer over the Coronavirus by retweeting “[Expletive] a National Day of Prayer.” This isn’t just insensitive, it’s a shocking perversion damaging the very credibility of our government institutions in a time of national crisis. At the ACLJ, we’re not just encouraging prayer, we’re defending...
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In the absence of a vaccine for the novel COVID-19, which is now quickly spreading across the world, doctors believe that slowing down or treating the virus might be achieved with plasma therapy. The method of obtaining “convalescent serum” involves using plasma of those who’ve already recovered from the disease, which is considered to be rich in antibodies against the infectious agent. This approach has been used to treat and slow the spread of polio and measles outbreaks decades ago. Scientists have also reported that this strategy has led to a drop in deaths among ill patients during the Spanish...
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A new Gallup poll finds congressional Republicans with a higher approval rating than Democrats in the wake of President Trump's impeachment and acquittal in the Senate. Republicans get a 40 percent approval rating, compared to 35 percent for Democrats.
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President Trump’s campaign has sent a letter to Twitter’s leadership after the platform labeled one of its videos as “manipulated media.” The letter: “Understandably, the Biden campaign has a strategic interest in intimidating social media companies into suppressing true and embarrassing video evidence of Joe Biden’s continued inability to communicate coherently — a sad truth that has been publicly noted by Democrats and media figures alike,” the letter reads, according to Fox News.
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Senior Editor Mollie Hemingway joined Fox News’ “Special Report” to discuss New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg’s historic level of campaign spending, and what it reveals about the power of media and establishment consensus. Hemingway pointed out how Bloomberg’s failed campaign, despite unlimited resources, pokes holes in the popular narrative that Russia helped Donald Trump “steal” the 2016 election.
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