The gap between confirmed COVID-19 cases and the actual number of infections, which is crucial in estimating the prevalence and lethality of the virus that causes the disease, may be far larger than most epidemiologists have assumed. According to a [...]
President Donald Trump has an expansive view of how much unchecked power the U.S. chief executive can wield. For example, in a speech back in July 2019, he asserted, “I have an Article II, where I have to the right to [...]
In yesterday’s Kansas Supreme Court emergency checks-and-balances decision, the court dealt with what one of the Justices described as an oral argument as a “drafting snafu”—a legislative concurrent resolution (HCR 5025) dealing with the governor’s emergency powers, which apparently was [...]
The mainstream media’s silence regarding a former staffer’s sexual assault accusation against Joe Biden is finally broken: The New York Times covered the allegations on Sunday in an extensively reported piece, “Examining Tara Reade’s Sexual Assault Allegation Against Joe Biden.” It’s [...]
April 13, 2020 By Krystal Hu (Reuters) – Amazon will begin to put new grocery delivery customers on a wait list and curtail shopping hours at some Whole Foods stores to prioritize orders from existing customers buying food online during [...]
April 13, 2020 By Yew Lun Tian and Huizhong Wu SUIFENHE, China (Reuters) – China’s northeastern border with Russia has become a frontline in the fight against a resurgence of the coronavirus epidemic as new daily cases rose to the [...]
In a rare moment of detente, tech rivals Google and Apple are apparently teaming up with a new strategy to track and surveil Americans. The tech giants will log people using their phone who have apparently tested positive for Covid [...]
April 13, 2020
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In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic Venezuela is suffering from the most acute fuel shortage in years. Although Venezuela sits on the largest oil reserves in the world, the country’s refineries produce less than 10% of their capacity without [...]
April 13, 2020
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President Trump retweeted a post Sunday evening that included a call to fire Dr. Anthony Fauci, the controversial member of Trump’s White House coronavirus task force who accused Trump of ignoring his advice to institute social distancing in mid-February in [...]
April 13, 2020
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Dr. Anthony Fauci showed his true colors on Easter Sunday of all days. The NIH Director went on with Jake Tapper and unloaded on President Trump saying “lives could have been saved” if the administration would have shut down the [...]
April 13, 2020
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