Новости за 26.03.2020

The Justice Department announced Thursday it has charged socialist Venezulan leader Nicolas Maduro of drug and trafficking-related crimes, including attempts to smuggle drugs into the United States. The narco-terrorism count alone carries a possibility of 50 years behind bars. The DOJ noted the 57-year-old successor to Hugo Chavez often travels outside the country, and it…

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.] By Mary Margaret Olohan Daily Caller News Foundation Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam criminalized gatherings of more than 10 people, even if they’re attending a religious service. The Democrat announced Monday that, effective Tuesday at midnight, “all public and private in person gatherings…

(ARSTECHNICA) United Launch Alliance says its Atlas V rocket is ready to launch on Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Liftoff is set for 2:57pm (18:57 UTC) for the national security mission, which has a two-hour launch window. This is the first launch under the command of the newly constituted US Space…

(FOX NEWS) A man in Morristown, N.J., has gone viral after he was spotted holding a sign thanking medical staff for “saving [his] wife’s life.” The man, whose identity is unclear at this time, was seen through the back window of the emergency department at Morristown Medical Center. “Thank you all in [the] emergency for…

(COURTHOUSE NEWS) A Virginia man who claimed he was illegally searched after he gave the middle finger to a police officer scored a win in federal court where a judge overturned a jury verdict favoring the cop. Brian H. Clark was apparently no stranger to the Patrick County courthouse as he had previously been banned…

(LIFENEWS) BioEdge reports an Argentine court slammed Dr Leandro Rodriguez Lastra for “ignoring a woman’s voice” and “her vital needs” when he provided medical care to her and her unborn baby, rather than an abortion. Lastra’s lawyers said he plans to appeal the sentence of 14-month suspended jail term, plus 28 months of disqualification from…

The college student notorious for telling a news outlet, "If I get corona, I get corona," has now publicly apologized. Despite calls from health officials to practice social distancing amidst the epidemic, spring breakers flooded Miami beaches last week. "If I get corona, I get corona. At the end of the day, I'm not gonna…

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.] By Jason Hopkins Daily Caller News Foundation The Federal Bureau of Prisons is not properly monitoring the communication of inmates with ties to terrorism, an audit by the Department of Justice’s inspector general (IG) Wednesday found. The IG’s 61-page report showed that…

A woman who accused presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden of sexual misconduct last year is now accusing the former vice president of outright sexual assault. Tara Reade, who worked as a staffer in Biden's Senate office from December 1992 to August 1993, told the northern California newspaper The Union in April that Biden inappropriately…

It's time for talking, according to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, now that the Senate voted 96-0 to fast-track a coronavirus relief bill. As the number of coronavirus cases rises daily and Americans wait for leadership and action from Congress, the California Democrat on Wednesday dashed any hopes for action on Thursday. “What I would like…

(ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY) -- After checking into a hospital with "unbearably painful" symptoms, comedian Kathy Griffin has spoken out against Donald Trump's response to the coronavirus outbreak. In a quote tweet replying to the president, Griffin accused Trump of lying about how many coronavirus tests the United States has performed amid the ongoing pandemic that has…

(AP) -- The U.S. Justice Department is getting involved in a federal civil rights lawsuit that seeks to block transgender athletes in Connecticut from competing as girls in interscholastic sports. Attorney General William Barr signed what is known as a statement of interest Tuesday, arguing against the policy of the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, the…

  The Federal Emergency Management Agency has launched a web page to "help the public distinguish between rumors and facts" regarding the response to coronavirus pandemic. For example, the site notes a recent death was reported in China due "to a new Hantavirus." However, the Hantavirus, often contracted from contact with the waste products of…

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Wednesday she might be inclined to delay passage of a $2 trillion bipartisan coronavirus stimulus package. Senate lawmakers from both parties and the White House struck a tentative deal early Wednesday to move forward on legislation to offer relief to American workers and businesses currently being affected by nationwide shutdowns…

A major source of information upon which government leaders have relied to urge or order the canceling of public events, shut down of businesses and sheltering in place has proved to be inaccurate. The Federalist's Madeline Osburn points out many members of the media and state officials are relying on an online mapping tool called COVID…

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Investigations.] By Eric Felten Real Clear Investigations It wasn’t the first time the FBI attorney had been in the Marine Corps Base Quantico Exchange. Nor was that day in February 2018 the first time she had secreted cosmetics in her purse. But it was the…

Imagine, if you will, a scenario. A pandemic occurs under a Democrat president. The origin of the infection is in China -- and China badly botches the response, which leads to more fatalities. Separately, a man is arrested with vials of biological material stuffed inside a sock in his bag at Boston's Logan International Airport…

  A minister who has been leading a weekly Bible-study group for members of President Trump's Cabinet has posted online his belief that amid the coronavirus, America is not experiencing God's "forsaking wrath" but, rather, his "consequential wrath." "Some leading evangelicals believe and teach that America is now experiencing God's judgment," wrote Ralph Drollinger, a…

As a kid, I was the victim – and beneficiary – of a malady I remember as the "Asian flu." Without hesitation, I can trace the onset of this illness to early October 1957, when I was 9 years old. I remember the date specifically because I followed baseball. I grew up as Dodger fan…

Once the deluge of water that brings on a flood stops, sludge floats to the top. The floodwaters of the coronavirus are still rising in this country, but the sludge and corruption and outright stupidity that led to bad policy supported and enacted by our lawmakers is becoming apparent, even to the political neophyte. The…