Новости за 19.04.2020

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.] By Jason Hopkins Daily Caller News Foundation New York City, the focal point of the coronavirus crisis within the United States, has formed a task force to specifically handle coronavirus-related discrimination claims. In light of hundreds of discrimination complaints based on COVID-19…

(CNBC) -- The federal government has flexed its muscle to blunt the economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic, and most voters back the intervention. As Congress looks to build on the largest emergency spending plan in U.S. history, 63% of registered voters said they approve of the expansion of the government’s role in the economy…

The American Civil Liberties Union is suing Idaho over a state law that requiring participants in girls' sports to be girls. That would rule out boys who say they are girls. Idaho's Fairness in Women's Sports Act made the state the first to ban "biologically male students from participating in all-female sports." That's a problem…

(CNBC) -- Following a rush for groceries and cleaning supplies, more Americans are looking to crack open a book. As people remain sheltered in their homes due to the coronavirus outbreak, online shopping has surged as a replacement for an old-fashioned trip to the store. In addition to the overall boom in e-commerce spending, sales…

President Donald Trump is blasting online newsman Matt Drudge this weekend, as the commander in chief said he's given up on the popular Drudge Report website. "I gave up on Drudge (a really nice guy) long ago, as have many others," Trump tweeted on Saturday. "People are dropping off like flies!" I gave up on…

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.] By Chuck Ross Daily Caller News Foundation McClatchy news service says it is reviewing two reports published in 2018 that claimed to validate a key part of the infamous Steele dossier following the declassification of information that Russian operatives may have fed…

(AP) -- AUBURN, Calif. -- The former mayor of a Northern California city who stepped down after he harshly criticized President Donald Trump and his supporters died Saturday in a plane crash, the Sacramento Bee reported. Dr. Bill Kirby, who was the mayor of Auburn, died in the crash Saturday morning near the Auburn Municipal…

(WASHINGTON TIMES) Cook County, home of Chicago, released hundreds of inmates from its jails during the coronavirus crisis. But good luck trying to find out who is back on the streets or what crimes they are accused of committing. The prosecutors and public defenders, who handle the cases in special COVID-19 court hearings, keep a…

(ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER) The pastor of a Westminster-based church accused of swindling more than $33 million from investors has agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Kent R.E. Whitney, 38, of Newport Beach is expected to admit to federal counts of mail fraud and filing a false federal income…

(WASHINGTON TIMES) New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio urged residents Saturday to turn in neighbors who fail to follow social-distancing rules, encouraging them to text photos of violators and report their location to a government hotline. He congratulated New Yorkers for being “extraordinary at social distancing” during the novel coronavirus crisis, but then said…

How much does it take to enforce government restrictions during the era of the coronavirus? In San Clemente, California, the answer comes to 37 tons of sand, which the city dumped into Ralph's Skate Court to keep kids away. The city said it acted because despite issuing social-distancing guidelines and officially closing all parks on…

(ZERO HEDGE) With much of the world under some form of lockdown to slow the spread of COVID-19, and debates rage over when, and how, to reopen the global economy in order to avoid the next great depression, the light at the end of the tunnel has been top-down predictions of a vaccine within 18…

(NEW YORK POST) This drone needs to social distance. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a rogue craft that caused a dystopian scene when it flew over the East River promenade broadcasting a coronavirus warning. “This is the anti-COVID-19 volunteer drone task force,” said an authoritative robotic voice projecting from the drone as it hovered…

(FEDERALIST) The Biden campaign unveiled a new tool this week to up is lagging online engagement allowing supporters to showcase their support for the former vice president. Users can insert an image of themselves into an internet graphic declaring themselves on “Team Joe.” Here’s an example from the campaign: Read the full story ›

(LONDON DAILY MAIL) Unrest has spread across Africa, with riots over food shortages and an army being deployed to 'restore order' as the coronavirus crisis rocks the continent. Protests have erupted in Cape Town, the military have been mobilised in Lesotho and the chief of staff to the Nigerian government died of the lethal bug.…

Vices, while not usually unpopular, are dispiritingly in favor right now as we self-isolate. The title of a Forbes piece by Jack Kelly from last week lays it out pretty well: “Americans Are Excessively Eating, Drinking, Smoking Pot, Playing Video Games And Watching Porn While Quarantined.” Wonderful. The embrace of one vice in the article…

(BREITBART) A team of researchers from Stanford University and other California colleges recruited volunteers in Santa Clara County to take blood tests and the stunning results show that 50 times more people than projected have had the coronavirus and now possess the antibodies that makes them immune. Some 3,000 people volunteered to take a blood…

A university has announced it will grant credit for learning to play Dungeons and Dragons. Not demonstrating the "critical thinking and problem-solving skills" the game apparently requires; just playing it. Campus Reform reported the course at Castleton University in Vermont will be "simply on how to play the game rather than the game’s supposed psychological…

(GATEWAY PUNDIT) The deadly China coronavirus that started in China sometime in late 2019 has now circled the globe. Evidence suggests that the coronavirus was not from a wet market but came from a lab in Wuhan. We still don’t know whether the deadly virus was leaked intentionally or if it was an accident. But…

(NEW YORK POST) To recovery and beyond! A coronavirus-stricken Briton has conquered the illness thanks to a Buzz Lightyear-style helmet — but he says the real superheroes are the medical workers, according to the South West News Service. Glenn Philpott, 59, spent five days in intensive care at the St. James Hospital in Leeds, where…

(THE REGISTER) Spare a thought for Iran's long-suffering scientists today, who had to read the news along with the rest of us that the country's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claims to have "developed" a gizmo capable of detecting coronavirus... in five seconds. At distances of up to 100 metres. State-controlled media PressTV this week gushed…

(LOS ANGELES TIMES) Men contending with coronavirus infection may have a pair of vulnerabilities that could increase their risk of longer, more severe illness: their testicles. A pilot study that tracked the clearance of the virus from patients in Mumbai, India, offered further evidence that men are indeed harder hit by the pathogen. And it…

(KFBK) Doctors believe they have found a new symptom for COVID-19. The Spanish General Council of Official Podiatrist Colleges warned that some people who were diagnosed with the coronavirus had purple lesions on their feet and hands before they started showing other symptoms. The lesions are "similar to those of chickenpox or measles," and have…