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- Gym Owners React to Orange County Moving to Less Restrictive Tier
Orange County’s graduation to a less-restrictive COVID-19 tier has come too late for some businesses, a local entrepreneur says. Tammy Niemann said her family-owned gym, Total Training, was forced to close its brick and mortar facility permanently largely due to state-imposed COVID-19 lockdowns. She said she felt the restrictions were hurting the chances of small businesses […]
- Indoor Dining to Resume in Michigan, DC Restaurants
Michigan and Washington D.C. are lifting some restrictions to allow restaurants to resume indoor dining at 25 percent capacity. In Michigan, bars and restaurants will be allowed to provide indoor services to up to 100 people starting Feb. 1 through Feb 21. Tables will have to be six feet apart with a maximum of six people […]
- Australians Gather for Covid-19 Christmas
Australians have enjoyed relatively mild weather across the nation on Christmas Day, the first celebrated under the shadow of COVID-19. Most major capital cities were overcast with peak temperatures in the high teens to mid-20s, barring Perth which is in for a scorching 37C. Family gatherings were restricted in Sydney, where the pandemic’s impact is […]
- Victorian Businesses Welcome Back First Phase of Non-Essential Workforce
One-quarter of Victoria’s workforce was welcomed back to the workplace on Monday, after nine months of CCP virus restrictions were lifted. Tens of thousands of people were expected to return to Melbourne’s CBD and locales across the state as the government greenlit the phasing in of non-essential workers for the first time since March. The first phase […]
- State Eases Restrictions on Youth Sports Amid COVID Concerns
LOS ANGELES—Youth competition in sports such as football and basketball could resume sooner than anticipated in the Southland, with the state today revising its guidelines to allowing the activities in counties with relatively low rates of new COVID-19 cases. The standard, which takes effect Feb. 26, allows for a resumption of “outdoor high-contact sports” in […]
- 96 Victorians Quarantined at Home After Arriving From Locked-Down Brisbane
Around 100 people arrived in Victoria on Saturday from Brisbane after the Queensland government suddenly imposed a three-day lockdown announced Friday to contain the risk of spreading a highly-infectious UK variant of COVID-19. It comes as the Victorian government told those in locked-down Greater Brisbane to stay where they are on Friday, while those who had […]
- Restrictions Reimposed in Sydney as Cluster Grows to 70 Cases
The New South Wales government has tightened restrictions after the COVID-19 cluster linked to Sydney ballooned to 70 cases. The state reported another 30 cases in the 24 hours to 9 a.m. on Sunday with 28 linked to the cluster on Sydney’s northern beaches. That takes the total number of known coronavirus cases in NSW […]
- After UK Beer and Pub Sales Plummet, Industry Leaders Call for Sector Re-Opening Date
The UK government came under pressure on Wednesday to fix a date for the beer and pub sector to fully re-open following a major slump in the industry’s sales last year. Amid the closures and various curbs put in place to slow the spread of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, sector sales fell by […]
- Queensland Returnees Banned From Visiting Aged Care Homes
People who have travelled to Victoria since Dec. 21 will be banned from visiting Queensland’s aged care facilities and hospitals. The new restriction will be introduced from 1 a.m. on Monday and also applies to other vulnerable facilities like disability accommodation and prisons, chief health officer Jeannette Young said on Sunday. “We’re responding quickly to […]
- NSW Virus Cluster Been Sourced Back to an International Case
A COVID-19 cluster in Sydney’s northern beaches has been sourced back to an international case, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has confirmed. Health authorities are racing to contain the mystery cluster which on December 17 numbered 17 people. The peninsula has entered a quasi-lockdown, with NSW Health asking residents to stay home and not leave the […]
NY Times
- Inside the Tent Camp Housing Thousands of Migrant Children – ‘No Place for a Child’
Migrant children and families are sleeping shoulder to shoulder on mats in a Texas border facility designed for 250 people that is now holding more than 4,100, according to some of the first photographs to emerge from the crowded camp that has become a focal point of the Biden administration’s struggles to absorb thousands of […]
- Atl Suspect’s Fixation on Sex Is Familiar Thorn for Evangelicals
“Sex addiction” is not an established psychiatric diagnosis, and there is a debate in the mental health community about how to define and treat compulsive sexual behavior. “There’s no evidence-based treatment for sex addiction,” said Joshua Grubbs, an assistant professor of psychology at Bowling Green State University and a clinical psychologist. Evangelical sex addiction treatment […]
- Tom Cotton Mocks Social Justice Warriors at New York Times in CPAC Speech
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Friday mocked “social justice warriors” at the New York Times and their “meltdown” this summer over his op-ed in the paper calling for troops to restore order during the rioting at the time. Speaking on the first day of the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, Cotton recalled how hundreds […]
- Congress Clears 2-Day Spending Extension to Finalize Stimulus Deal
Negotiators worked into Friday night to put the finishing touches on key details of the stimulus compromise, continuing negotiations on how long unemployment benefits should last, how to distribute federal relief for small businesses and the extension of a federal eviction moratorium. The plan was expected to revive the Paycheck Protection Program, a loan program […]
- SACRAMENTO Unemployment Scam Using Inmates Names Costing California Hundreds of Millions
SACRAMENTO — A rash of fraudulent pandemic unemployment claims filed under the names of jail and prison inmates, including more than 100 on death row, has bilked California out of hundreds of millions of dollars, a law enforcement task force said Tuesday. In a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom, the task force, led by district […]
- Politics, Science and the Remarkable Race for a Corona Vaccine
WASHINGTON — The call was tense, the message discouraging. Moncef Slaoui, the head of the Trump administration’s effort to quickly produce a vaccine for the coronavirus, was on the phone at 6 p.m. on Aug. 25 to tell the upstart biotech firm Moderna that it had to slow the final stage of testing its vaccine […]
- Newsom Do as I Say, Not as I Dine Coronavirus Message
SAN FRANCISCO — It was an intimate meal in a wood-paneled, private dining room in one of California’s most exclusive restaurants. No one around the table wore masks, not the lobbyists, not even the governor. [Sign up for California Today, our daily newsletter from the Golden State.] Photos that surfaced this week of a dinner […]
Washington Post
- Report: Oklahoma Congressman Missing After Secret Rescue Attempt in Afghanistan
Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) has reportedly gone missing after attempting a rogue evacuation mission to rescue five American citizens that President Joe Biden’s administration left behind in Afghanistan. According to the Washington Post, U.S. officials are now “unsure of Mullin’s location” after he requested help from the U.S. Embassy in Tajikistan on Monday with his evacuation […]
- Report: Taliban Offered Biden Control of Kabul, but He Declined
The chaos in Afghanistan could have reportedly been avoided altogether if President Joe Biden had accepted the Taliban’s initial offer for the U.S. to have full control of Kabul and the airport. According to a report from the Washington Post, as the Taliban began taking control of Afghanistan, senior U.S. military leaders met with Taliban political […]
- Exclusive: Despite Facebook Bias, Breitbart News Destroys Establishment Media on Platform
Despite the presence of a range of leftist “fact-checkers” with the power to suppress posts on the platform and open censorship of conservative news stories by Facebook, Breitbart News is demolishing its establishment foes on Facebook. Facebook has an established track record of censoring conservative media. It censored the New York Post twice, first for the Hunter […]
- NBC News Hit Piece on Grassroots Parents Battling K-12 Critical Race Theory Draws Fire
An NBC News hit piece on grassroots parents’ groups battling Critical Race Theory (CRT) and woke education in K-12 schools has drawn a flood of criticism. The piece, published Tuesday, titled “Critical Race Theory Battle Invades School Boards – with Help from Conservative Groups,” was written by Tyler Kingkade, Brandy Zadrozny, and Ben Collins, and […]
- WaPo: Biden made false claim about Georgia election law
The Washington Post fact-checking team on Tuesday said that President Joe Biden made a false claim about Georgia’s new election law. The Post‘s team pointed to two similar lines from his Thursday press conference and a written Friday statement criticizing the state’s new law after Gov. Brian Kemp (R) signed it, respectively. MORE ON WAPO: […]
- Federal Judge Accuses New York Times, Washington Post of ‘Shocking’ Bias Against Republicans
Judge Laurence Silberman accused the New York Times and Washington Post of being “Democratic Party broadsheets” in a dissenting opinion on Friday. Washington, DC, federal appellate judge Laurence Silberman accused the New York Times and Washington Post, and to some extent the Wall Street Journal, of being mouthpieces for “rather shocking” bias against the Republican […]
- WaPo reveals source who gave them fake quotes from Trump-Georgia call
Shutterstock After The Washington Post issued a long correction for a January 9 report alleging then-President Donald Trump pressured a Georgia election investigator specifically to “find the fraud” and that she would be a “national hero” if she did so, the newspaper revealed the source who supplied them the false quotes. The Daily Wire earlier […]
