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The Coronavirus pandemic has created a resurgence in authoritarian policies threatening liberal democracies, a letter by former world leaders and Nobel Prize laureates has warned. The letter, cosigned by hundreds of leading figures and organizations from across the globe, is a response to what they see as the trampling of Democratic rights and the increase of authoritarianism in countries that ...

Half the migrants entering Somalia last week said they did not know about the coronavirus pandemic during interviews with United Nations employees, the Associated Press reported. Reports show that 51% of the 3,471 migrants who were interviewed at the border in Somalian the week ending June 20 said they were unaware of the coronavirus, according to the AP. “The first ...

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday a temporary pause on the state’s economic reopening amid a surge in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. “As we experience an increase in both positive COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, we are focused on strategies that slow the spread of this virus while also allowing Texans to continue earning a paycheck to support their families,” ...

President Donald Trump will not follow restrictions put in place Wednesday that requires New Jersey’s visitors to quarantine for 14 days, according to the White House. Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey joined Govs. Andrew Cuomo of New York and Ned Lamont of Connecticut Wednesday to announce that visitors must quarantine when arriving any of the three states, but ...

New York, New Jersey and Connecticut will impose a 14-day quarantine on travelers from states that are experiencing significant community spread of coronavirus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday. “We worked very hard to get the viral transmission rate down. We don’t want to see it go up because a lot of people come into this region and they can literally ...

Swiss politicians have allowed prostitutes to open up for business. Here the ubiquitous Dr. Fauci approves of Tinder dates getting down and dirty. But for some reason the thought of football players going hands-on is controversial. Initially, it looked like hatred of capitalism. Colleges are desperate for TV broadcast money to prop up athletic departments. Only hookers aren’t in the ...

Democrats run nine of the 10 states with the highest jobless rates, The Wall Street editorial board pointed out Sunday night in an editorial exploring how quickly states that instituted severe economic lockdowns are recovering. The WSJ’s editorial board pointed out Sunday evening that the states with the highest jobless rates experienced the most severe restrictions during the pandemic. The ...

Wow, what a relief that is. Here I was thinking it would take months for a new vaccine to eliminate the WuFlu and release Americans Held Hostage. When all it really took to eradicate Pandemic Panic was looting a few Apple stores. It was low tech, but it worked. Sure, there were millions of dollars in property damage and the ...

A team of researchers in Louisiana has proposed a method of combating the coronavirus: issuing booster doses of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, CNN reported. The MMR vaccine is a “live vaccine,” using highly weakened versions of the measles, mumps and rubella viruses to provide protection to the immune system that goes beyond just the injected viruses. The MMR ...

McDonald’s plans to hire more than a quarter of a million people over the course of the summer as economic lockdowns continue to slow down, the company announced Thursday. The restaurant chain will add 260,000 employees as it reopens dining rooms after shutting down amid lockdowns designed to slow the spread of the coronavirus, or COVID-19, according to the president ...

President Donald Trump participates in a roundtable with governors on Thursday to discuss reopening of America’s small businesses following the lockdowns. The event is scheduled to begin at 3:00 p.m. EDT. Content created by Conservative Daily News and some content syndicated through CDN is available for re-publication without charge under the Creative Commons license. Visit our syndication page for details and requirements.

Tulsa, Oklahoma officials warn that President Donald Trump’s campaign rally scheduled for Saturday will exacerbate a spike in coronavirus cases in the state and the rally venue has sued in an attempt to force the campaign to abide by social distancing guidelines. “It’s the perfect storm of potential over-the-top disease transmission,” Bruce Dart, the executive director of the Tulsa health ...

Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday said trips to a local playground may be too risky for the spread of Coronavirus, but refused to say the same about ongoing mass protests in the city. “Out of an abundance of caution, the playgrounds just created too much of a risk to families, of the spread of the ...

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said Thursday evening that she would pause the state’s reopening process due to notable increases in coronavirus infections over recent days. The announcement came as the Oregon Health Authority confirmed 178 new cases of COVID-19 Thursday, the highest daily count in the state since the start of the pandemic, and applies to the entire state, local ...

by Robert Charles As America emerges from COVID-19 and States reopen wholesale or by county, shadows are giving way to sunlight, furrowed brows to smiles, and reality is returning. Four facts define this moment, and they are encouraging – not discouraging. First, the tipping point has come – and many medical professionals acknowledge it. The downside of shelter-in-pace, stay-at-home policies – which ...