Thais unhappy with Israel's entry ban over China virus |
Feb 20, 2020 |
Bangkok, AP –The government of Thailand is scrambling to cope with new travel restrictions after Israel banned the citizens of Thailand and three other Asian countries and territories from entering over concerns about a new virus.
Israel on Monday announced it was refusing entry to all foreign nationals who traveled to Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau during the past 14 days. Israeli...
Donald Trump holds the record of being the oldest president at the time of his first inauguration, taking office at 70 years and 220 days old.
But four of the top candidates in the field of Democrats could break his record:
Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, and Elizabeth Warren would be the oldest presidents ever on their first Inauguration Day.
Sanders is the oldest; he would be 79 years and 134 days old...
Feb 18, 2020 |
Fox News – Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark. stood by his earlier suggestion that the deadly coronavirus may have originated in a high-security biochemical lab in Wuhan, China, telling "The Story" Tuesday that we "need to be open to all possibilities" in exploring the origins of the outbreak that has sickened more than 75,000 people around the world.
When host Martha MacCallum pressed the Senator on his startling and unverified claim, Cotton cited...
In retort to abortion ban, lawmaker calls for mass vasectomies
| Montgomery AL (AP) – An Alabama lawmaker fed up with her colleagues' attempts to outlaw abortion has filed legislation to require all men over 50 to get vasectomies.
Democratic Rep. Rolanda Hollis said Friday that she introduced the bill to send "the message that men should not be legislating what women do with their bodies."
Alabama lawmakers last year approved a ban on abortion unless the...
Career criminal reportedly admitted to prison hospice
February 5, 2020
New York, CNN Business – Bernard Madoff says he is dying and is asking a judge for compassionate release from prison, where he is serving 150 years for orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme in history, according to a Wednesday federal court filing.
Madoff, 81, has terminal kidney failure and a life expectancy of less than 18 months, according to the filing.
He was arrested in December 2008 on...
"Fatherless children are much more likely to do poorly in school, act out, abuse drugs, and commit crimes."
Polls says Hunter Biden's job at Burisma was 'inappropriate', but didn't ask about his being a millionaire deadbeat dad
The Hill – A new poll found a majority of respondents classified former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden's job at Burisma as "inappropriate."
A Politico/Morning Consult poll found 52 percent of participants found the fact that Hunter Biden...
Feb 16, 2020
Protesters calling for Sen. Bernie Sanders to cut his support for the dairy industry crashed his Nevada rally on Sunday.
One protester grabbed a microphone to say she was Sanders' "biggest supporter" but pleaded that he "stop pumping up the dairy industry."
While she was speaking, three topless women took the stage with "let dairy die" written on their chests.
Business Insider – Topless protesters crashed the stage at a...
San Diego County declares local health emergency to aid coronavirus response – while simultaneously insisting public is not at risk |
Feb. 14, 2020
Los Angeles Times – Looking to increase funding for local quarantine operations connected to novel coronavirus, San Diego county public health officials declared health and local emergencies Friday afternoon.
The action, which must be ratified by the county supervisors on Feb. 19, is similar to one taken by the Santa Clara County Board...
‘Forcing girls to be spectators in their own sports is completely at odds with Title IX…’
Joshua Paladino, Liberty Headlines – Three high-school girls and their mothers, with legal assistance from the Alliance Defending Freedom, sued Connecticut‘s public schools on Wednesday for letting boys compete in female athletics.
“Girls deserve to compete on a level playing field,” said ADF Legal Counsel Christiana Holcomb, according to ADF’s press release. “Forcing them to compete against boys isn’t fair,...
"I'm the guy that helped get Obamacare passed." – Joe Biden, Feb. 11, 2020
Biden wrapped himself in Obamacare ... it did not go well
Headline Health – Joe Biden went down in spectacular defeat with a fifth-place finish in yesterday's first-in-the-nation New Hampshire presidential primary.
In the final hours before he beat a hasty retreat out of the Granite State – leaving loyal supporters at his election night gathering in Nashua dazed and confused – the former...
"Democrats want to run your healthcare, but they can't even run a caucus in Iowa." – President Donald Trump, Manchester, NH, Feb 10, 2020
Trump Skewers Dems On Healthcare, Iowa
The Sun – President Donald Trump mocked "mumbling" Nancy Pelosi at his New Hampshire rally, saying Democrats are "losing their minds" ahead of tomorrow's primary.
During the Manchester rally, the president derided "radical socialist Democrats" and impersonated Pelosi's response to his State of the Union speech last...
HOUSTON (AP) — The mother of a 5-year-old Guatemalan boy sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the medical care he has received in detention for a head injury suffered before the family was arrested.
The lawsuit filed late Friday in California asks a judge to order the child to be taken to a pediatric neurologist or pediatric neurosurgeon.
It also seeks to prevent ICE from trying to immediately deport the family.
The boy fell out of...
Walter Reed prosthetics chief allegedly took sports tickets
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted the former chief of prosthetics and orthotics at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
Court records show David Laufer pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to five counts of making a false statement.
The office of the U.S. Attorney in Maryland said Wednesday that the 63-year-old Pittsburgh resident failed to report financial benefits, including travel and tickets to sporting events,...
Feb 4, 2020
Los Angeles Magazine – Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer announced today that his office plans to drop all charges in a high-profile case in which a Newport Beach doctor and his girlfriend were accused of drugging and sexually assaulting multiple women.
Spitzer said at a press conference that a review of the case by his office found “There’s insufficient evidence to prove this case beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Dr. Grant Robicheaux, 39, and...