Новости за 10.05.2020

(JERUSALEM POST) -- The head of a Christian TV channel called God TV which engages heavily in proselytizing messaging and which recently began broadcasting in Hebrew on cable television in Israel has acknowledged that his channel seeks to preach about Jesus and the gospels. In a video on Saturday explaining the missionary messaging God TV…

Federal rules for college campuses have been updated now to give students there due process rights, and a key promoter of student rights says it's a major step in the right direction, but the war is not over. The Department of Education announced the adoption of new Title IX regulations, which now guarantee "critical due…

(THE FEDERALIST) -- Tara Reade defended her sexual assault allegation against former Vice President Joe Biden in an extensive sit-down interview with Megyn Kelly posted Friday night on YouTube. Taped earlier this week, the 40-minute interview began with questions about Reade’s background, covered the alleged assault in graphic detail, and pushed Reade to confront several…

  The Chinese Communist Party, which has been accused of covering up the COVID-19 pandemic, is cracking down on any criticism within its borders. As lockdowns are lifted across the restrictive nation, business owners are being ordered to promote "Xi Jinping Thought" or be closed down. The report comes from Bitter Winter, an online magazine…

  A lawsuit has been filed by the Christian Action League of Minnesota against the state over a statute that allows citizens to obtain a court order halting someone's "unwanted words." The Thomas More Society explained that the organization ran a campaign alerting companies to the fact that they were placing ads in a publication…

After successful lawsuits in several states protecting the right of consumers to sell food prepared in their kitchens to neighbors, the Institute for Justice is targeting North Dakota with its National Food Freedom Initiative. Two women this week joined several other plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the North Dakota Department of Health, which defied its…

(STUDY FINDS) -- BOULDER, Colo. — It’s proven incredibly difficult for scientists, organizations, and governments alike to accurately predict the spread of COVID-19 through countries and communities. Now, however, researchers from the University of Colorado, Boulder say they’ve developed a new mathematical tool that can help produce more accurate disease infection predictions. The team behind…

(STUDY FINDS) -- EVANSTON, Ill. — A new study conducted at Northwestern University concludes that vitamin D may be an essential ingredient to protecting oneself from the coronavirus. The research team discovered a strong correlation between vitamin D deficiencies and mortality rates. According to the study, the lower the vitamin D levels present in a…

By Chuck Ross Daily Caller News Foundation Former Rep. Trey Gowdy accused reporters from CNN, Politico and The New York Times on Sunday of helping House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff “peddle” the now-debunked conspiracy theory of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government. Gowdy was asked in an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday…

(WASHINGTON POST) -- In a week when the novel coronavirus ravaged new communities across the country and the number of dead soared past 78,000, President Trump and his advisers shifted from hour-by-hour crisis management to what they characterize as a long-term strategy aimed at reviving the decimated economy and preparing for additional outbreaks this fall.…

By Chris White Daily Caller News Foundation The left-wing tech firm reportedly behind much of the chaos surrounding the Iowa caucus in February is rebranding and recruiting new leadership as the company’s CEO acknowledges: It’s time for a major overhaul. Shadow is calling itself BlueLink and adding new leadership after its technology caused delays in…

  Field hospitals set up across the United States to help medical providers cope with the flood of coronavirus patients cost an estimated $660 million. But most are being dismantled without seeing a single patient, reports NPR. For example, a 1,038-bed hospital in Stony Brook, New York, contracted for more than $155 million saw no…

(NBC NEWS) A Colombian advertising company is pitching a novel if morbid solution to shortages of hospital beds and coffins during the coronavirus pandemic: combine them. ABC Displays has created a cardboard bed with metal railings that designers say can double as a casket if a patient dies. Company manager Rodolfo Gómez said he was…

(ASSOCIATED PRESS) Police in northern China have charged a man with attempted murder after he allegedly buried his mother in an abandoned grave, where she was found traumatized but alive after three days covered by loose dirt. The man’s wife told police her husband carried his mother away in a wheelbarrow on May 2. When…

Eleven members of the Secret Service have tested positive for COVID-19, according a new report. Yahoo News reported Friday it has seen Department of Homeland Security documents which show that 11 individuals currently have the virus and that 23 members of the Secret Service have recovered from the disease. Another 60 employees of the agency…

(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he was “immediately” filing a lawsuit against a California county that is not allowing his company’s headquarters to reopen because of the coronavirus pandemic. Making the comments Saturday on Twitter, Musk tore into Alameda County’s interim public health officer, Dr. Erica Pan, and also said Tesla will move…

(PJ MEDIA) This will teach those Islamophobes that Islam is a religion of peace: a professor is facing death threats for suggesting otherwise. Nicholas Damask, Ph.D., has taught political science at Scottsdale Community College in Arizona for 24 years. But now he is facing a barrage of threats, and his family, including his 9-year-old grandson…

(ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION) GBI agents in the Ahmaud Arbery murder investigation are reviewing additional video from the Glynn County neighborhood where he was shot to death as they piece together the minutes before the fatal confrontation that has drawn national attention to Georgia and its justice system. Investigators are reviewing the tape, recorded minutes before the…

(CAMPUS REFORM) A Georgetown University Law School advocacy group filed a lawsuit alongside Villanova Law Professor Leslie Book against the United States over COVID-19 relief funding for children of illegal immigrants. The Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection said in a press release that the complaint challenged the “intentional and discriminatory exclusion of U.S. citizen…

(CAMPUS REFORM) The University of Akron in Ohio announced it will close more than half of its colleges to help mitigate the financial effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The school will shuffle current departments and degree programs into the remaining colleges of business, arts and sciences, law, engineering, and health as it faces a $65…

Verteran liberal legal scholar Alan Dershowitz says the Department of Justice's prosecution of onetime Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn illustrates the need to establish a single standard of justice. Writing for the Gatestone Institute, the Harvard Law School emeritus professor said the Democrats targeted Flynn because of his association with Trump. Newly unsealed documents…

Between having had more than enough of the not-so-great indoors and realizing that the grocery store might not always have meat, Americans are increasingly looking to feed themselves by hunting. “People are thinking about where they get their food and how they get their food," Land Tawney, president of the advocacy group Backcountry Hunters and…