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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti may block large events and gatherings in the city until next year. Garcetti broached the possibility on Monday at a briefing with senior staff and department heads across the state government. Los Angeles Fire Department Deputy Chief Trevor Richmond summarized Garcetti’s comments in an email reviewed by the Los Angeles Times. “Large gatherings such as concerts and sporting events may not be approved in the city for at least 1 year,” the email said.

Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus, who wrote a book about sexual assault accusations made against now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and defended Dr. Christine Blasey Ford in the pages of her newspaper, now says the “#BelieveAllWomen” and “#MeToo” movement are “dumb” — because a similar, but credible sexual assault allegation has been leveled against the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden. In a shocking editorial for the Washington Post, Marcus lashes out not just at Biden’s alleged accuser, Tara Reade — who has now filed a criminal complaint against Biden and who has a record of contemporaneous...

For nearly three weeks after it emerged, Tara Reade’s sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden was nowhere to be found in the mainstream media, in stark contrast to how they treated the accusations against Justice Brett Kavanaugh. No questions for Biden: Since Reade came forward, Biden has appeared in 10 interviews on different networks, including NBC, CNN, and MSNBC. Hosts have asked him a total of 81 questions, but none about the sexual allegations against him, the Washington Free Beacon reports. Then, this weekend, both the New York Times and the Washington Post reported on the story, roughly 19 days...

"It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes." It may have been Stalin and it may have been Napoleon. It may have been Boss Tweed. Regardless of the original source, this truism describes government corruption and manipulation to perfection. Even in the face of a global pandemic and an unprecedented government-ordered economic shutdown, politicians are using their power to corrupt vital needed data regarding the Chinese coronavirus and its deadly toll on Americans. The latest escapade comes from America's "ground zero" for COVID-19 infections, New York, where the death tally just surpassed 10,000....

Rapper Kanye West said he is “definitely voting” in the upcoming November election and left little doubt about who he will be backing. The interview: “Both my parents were freedom fighters, and they used to drink from fountains they were told they couldn’t drink from, and they used to sit in restaurants where they were told they couldn’t eat from. They didn’t fight for me to be told by white people which white person I can vote on,” said the Trump-supporting rapper-turned Christian in an interview with GQ magazine.

Rep. Liz Cheney responded to a letter House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent to Democrats and accused her of blocking money from families suffering financially from the coronavirus pandemic. Pelosi sent a letter to Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday, urging the public to ignore President Trump's claims about the virus and to instead listen to scientists. "We will overcome this moment, but success requires one fundamental from which all actions will follow: we need the truth," the California Democrat wrote. "The truth is, from this moment on, Americans must ignore lies and start to listen to scientists and other respected professionals in...

A Colorado baker who fought and won a years-long legal battle after refusing to make a wedding cake for a gay couple has been slapped with a similar lawsuit, this time for refusing to bake a transgender cake. The story: In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court cleared Jack Phillips, a devout Christian who owns Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado, of any wrongdoing after a same-sex couple sued him for denying them a wedding cake as it went against his religious precepts. Now, Phillis is facing a similar lawsuit for refusing to bake a trans-themed cake in 2017. Autumn Scardina, the...

The Chinese industrial city of Guangzhou has become unsafe for black people. Visitors and workers from Africa were recently kicked out of their hotels and apartments because of the rumors that the coronavirus was sweeping through the black community. There have also been several racial incidents in the city as African nations and blacks in America have sounded an alarm about the racism. It's not a very well kept secret that Chinese society is racist. They are equal opportunity haters, seeing all races -- white, black, brown, red -- as inferior. They're usually much too polite and courteous to make...

While the whole world is growing increasingly aware of the fact that WHO may have intentionally delayed informing people about the coronavirus outbreak and that China did the same, WIRED now acknowledges the whole fiasco but calls the accusations against the WHO a “right-wing Stunt”. “A right-wing stunt to pin the blame for Covid-19 on the World Health Organization actually contains a useful notion. There is at least some reason to suspect that WHO knowingly and consequentially misled us,” tweeted WIRED, while attaching a link to an article penned by a WIRED “Ideas Contributor”.

Law enforcement authorities in Illinois’ Cook County, which includes Chicago, are kept in the dark on the identities of the hundreds of inmates the county has released from its jails during the coronavirus crisis. The story: The cases are held in special coronavirus court hearings but prosecutors have refused to share information on the released prisoners both with The Cook County Sheriff’s Office, which runs the jail, and Chicago Police Department, according to The Washington Times. “The greatest fear people have is the fear of the unknown,” said, Kevin Graham, president of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police, in a...

The political world would be a much better place if all public officials knew how to apologize for mistakes the way Louisiana Lt. Gov. Bill Nungesser did on Easter Day. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer was interviewing Nungesser about Louisiana’s unusually high incidence of the coronavirus, part of which probably was exacerbated by Mardi Gras celebrations in February. Nungesser was saying there was only one known case in the whole state by the time of Mardi Gras, but that had federal or medical guidance come sooner, officials certainly would have considered canceling Mardi Gras.

Some Bay Area residents are learning the hard way - violating the stay at home order can be costly. But it really depends on where you are in the Bay Area. Different cities and counties are enforcing the orders in their own way. At Sea Cliff beach in Santa Cruz County, a San Jose woman who wished to remain anonymous was cited Thursday after snapping a photo during what she called a "mental break" from the confines of home.

CBS, the network that brought us the crying nurse with mental health issues who didn't understand hospital procedures, and the two, count 'em, two, video instances of Italian hospital mayhem to make phony claims about chaos at New York and Pennsylvania hospitals in the coronavirus pandemic, has now put out another whopper. This time, it's a 60 Minutes segment about mask and personal protective equipment shortages at a New York City hospital, which, its report argues, is all Trump's fault.

The Obama administration requested a number of funding cuts to the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) which diminished the amount of personal protective equipment and other necessary medical supplies kept in the event of a pandemic or natural or man-made disaster, show records reviewed by Fox News. The story: The Obama administration first made the requests in its 2011 budget, which reads: “CDC requests $523,533,000 for the Strategic National Stockpile in FY 2011, a decrease of $72,216,000 below the FY 2010 Omnibus.” But the document also shows that an additional $68,515,000 would later be appropriated to the SNS from the 2009...

During his first three years in office, President Donald J. Trump celebrated a booming economy, delivering on his central promise, “Make America Great Again.” His pro-growth policies created millions of new jobs, with the lowest unemployment rates for Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians, respectively, in American history. The unemployment rate overall fell to the lowest in 50 years, since 1969, during the 1960s Kennedy boom. Wages and middle-class incomes soared to over $65,000, an all-time record, with wages for lower-income workers rising faster than for their bosses. Hearkening back to Reagan and Kennedy, that resulted from marginal income tax rate cuts,...

Can Hillary Read a Timeline? Rep. Dan Crenshaw fired off a brutal response after Hillary Clinton posted yet another attack on President Trump and his coronavirus response. Crenshaw eviscerated Hillary Clinton The former First Lady shared a Washington Post story and quote with her social media followers, which falsely alleges the President took over two months to treat the pandemic seriously. “Replace this man in November,” she added. Crenshaw responded to the bitter two-time failed presidential candidate as he often does – using facts to thoroughly embarrass those trying to score cheap political points. (snip) Denial? From the man who...

For the second time in four days, a coronavirus projection model heavily relied upon by the White House task force has been updated, again dropping the number of projected deaths and hospitalizations. The Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington dropped its estimated death projection on Sunday for the first wave of the pandemic to 81,766 deaths, down from 93,531.

Twitter temporarily locked the account of online personalities and political commentators Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson, known as Diamond and Silk, over a tweet that criticized the stay-at-home guidelines. The tweet argued that staying inside will make people sicker and that going outside boosts immunity. “The only way we can become immune to the environment; we must be out in the environment. Quarantining people inside of their houses for extended periods will make people sick!” Diamond and Silk tweeted Wednesday.

According to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll released on Wednesday, a majority of registered voters believe former President Obama would do a better job at handling the coronavirus pandemic than President Trump. According to the poll “52 percent of the survey’s 1,990 respondents said they believed that Obama would be a better leader than Trump during the ongoing pandemic, compared to the 38 percent who said they thought Trump is the better leader.” Considering the lengths that the mainstream media has gone to criticize Trump’s response to the coronavirus, even blaming him for the death of a man who drank...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Tuesday threatened to cut funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) in Congress’ next stimulus package unless the organization changes its leadership. Graham’s remarks: Graham made the scathing remarks in an appearance on Fox News, saying he will use his position as chairman of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee overseeing foreign operations to make sure the WHO doesn’t receive funding from the U.S.