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US President Donald Trump has said the U.S. will put a hold on funding the World Health Organisation after the UN agency “called every shot wrong” in the lead up the coronavirus pandemic. During a press conference at the White House, President Trump said, “The World Health Organisation receives vast amounts of money from the United States and we pay for a majority – biggest portion of their money. And they actually disagreed with my travel ban at the time we did it and they were wrong. They’ve been wrong about a lot of things. “They had a lot of…

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MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow sat down with Donald McNeil, science and health reporter for the New York Times, to discuss the harsh and stringent measures “experts” say are necessary to prevent the spread of coronavirus. According to McNeil, this is only the beginning. The real work of halting the virus begins with removing infected people from their homes and taking them to an isolation camp, even if they don’t feel sick, and show next to no symptoms. “First of all, you’ve got to get people who are infected out of their homes so that they don’t infect their family members,” McNeil…

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Residents in Louisville, Kentucky who refuse to stay home after being exposed to coronavirus are being fitted with GPS tracking bracelets and threatened with criminal charges. The Louisville Courier Journal reports judges are placing people under house arrest and ordering them to wear tracking devices after health officials learned a number of patients had refused to self-isolate for the period advised. In one case, three residents of a single household were placed under house arrest for a week after one of the inhabitants tested positive to COVID-19. After refusing to comply with the order, the city placed ankle monitors on them…

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Police in Seattle are urging the public to call 911 to report “racist name-calling”, even if you are not sure that a hate crime has occurred. Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best said in a COVID-19 update on Monday that Washington State is no place for hate. In the one-minute video, which was shared on the department’s social media accounts, Best said: “We will document and investigate every reported hate crime, even racist name-calling should be reported to police. We take this information very seriously. “If you aren’t sure if a hate crime occurred call 911. We are here to help…

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Muslim Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar has suggested individuals who are disobedient to Allah should be flogged with 80 lashes. In a post on Twitter today, Omar cited al-Noor 24:4, a passage used by extremist groups such as ISIS to justify public lashings for rebellion against Islam. The Minnesota congresswoman’s tweet read: “And those who accuse chaste women, and produce not four witnesses, flog them with eighty stripes, and reject their testimony forever. They indeed are the Faasiquoon (liars, rebellious, disobedient to Allaah) [al-Noor 24:4]” Omar cited the passage in response to a Twitter user who implied the congresswoman was in…

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Houston’s Democratic mayor has asked crooks and criminals to not commit any crimes until the coronavirus is over. Mayor Sylvester Turner made the request on Monday during a media briefing on the city’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Until the coronavirus is resolved, criminals take a break,” Turner said. “Stay home. Ok? Stay home. And don’t commit any crimes and that way they’ll stay safe and out of jail and police officers will stay safe and can go home to their families. Ok? “So, everybody chill,” he added. “Crooks, criminals, you chill. Wait until the coronavirus is over.” WATCH:

CBN News has been caught using footage from an overcrowded Italian hospital during a report on the COVID-19 outbreak in New York City. According to the Daily Caller, the news outlet said, “an editing mistake” led to the network airing the misleading footage which was originally part of a March 22 Sky News report from Italy. A spokesperson for CBN News said the network has taken immediate steps to remove the footage from all platforms and shows. The outlet has been criticised on social media for spreading misinformation at a time of public panic. WATCH: During a Pandemic it is…

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The New York City Mayor has warned, churches and synagogues that continue to conduct worship services during the COVID-19 pandemic could be permanently closed down. During his Friday news briefing, Mayor Bill de Blasio said, law enforcement will be sent to shut down any worship services held over the weekend in violation of the ban on gatherings. If the congregation fails to comply, additional action will be taken, including fines and potential permanent closure of the building. “I want to say to all those who are preparing for the potential of religious services this weekend: If you go to your…

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US President Donald Trump has told Fox News that he hopes to have the Coronavirus under control by Easter Sunday so that churches all over the country can be packed for Easter services. “Easter is a very special day for me,” President Trump said. “And I see it sort of in that timeline that I’m thinking about. And I say, wouldn’t it be great to have all of the churches full? “You know, the churches aren’t allowed, essentially, to have much of a congregation there. And most of them, I watched on Sunday, online — and he was terrific, by…

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New York City Department of Health issued graphic guidelines on Saturday on how to ‘enjoy sex’ without spreading COVID-19. The department’s first suggestion to stop the spread of the virus was to have sex with yourself rather than with another person. “You are your safest sex partner,” the document said. “Masturbation will not spread COVID-19, especially if you wash your hands (and any sex toys) with soap and water for at least 20 seconds before and after sex.” The guide also recommended people avoid having sex with anyone outside of your household and to have a few sexual partners as…

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There seems to be no end to the hatred against the US President. Just recently his administration was accused by journalists of dismissively referring to the Coronavirus as ‘Kung flu’. The Washington Times recorded the following exchange: PBS Newshour reporter Yamiche Alcindor told Mr Trump that “at least one White House official” had used the term, and asked him if it was wrong. “I wonder who said that,” the president replied evenly. “Do you know who said that?” “I’m not sure the person’s name,” Ms Alcindor answered. “Say the term again,” Mr Trump demanded. “A person at the White House…

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The Arizona House of Representatives passed a bill on Tuesday that would ban transgender students from competing in girls’ sports. The bill, H.B. 2706, which applies to both public and private schools as well as community colleges and universities, requires teams in the state to be “expressly designated” for “males, men or boys;” “females, women or girls;” or “co-ed or mixed-sex.” Teams “designated for females, women or girls may not be open to students of the male sex,” under the proposal. The bill, which passed in a party-line vote of 31-29, will now move to the GOP-controlled Senate. Rep. Nancy…

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MSNBC host Brian Williams and New York Times Editorial Board Member Mara Gay aired a tweet during an exchange on the ‘Eleventh Hour’ which claimed Michael Bloomberg could have made every American a millionaire with the budget he spent on his short-lived presidential campaign. “When I read it tonight on social media, it kind of all became clear,” Williams said. The tweet read: “Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The U.S. population is 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and still have money left over. I feel like a $1 million check would be life-changing for…

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A bill mandating sex education classes for all K-12 students in Washington public schools has passed the Washington State House of Representatives. The measure passed on Thursday with the House voting 56-40 after nearly six-hours of debate. Opponents of the bill said the curriculum reviewed by the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction is too explicit, especially for children below the seventh grade. “I’m not sure why we’re rushing to remove the innocence from our youth,” Rep. Mike Steele said against the bill. “We put so much on them already.” Rep. Vicki Kraft, who also opposed the bill, cited a…

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A transgender science teacher in Wisconsin has accused the school district of enacting a “transphobic” bathroom policy which prevents adult staff members from sharing a toilet with young students. Mark “Vince” Busenbark, of Allis Elementary School in Madison, said the policy, which segregates bathroom use by age, was put in place after a “transphobic parent” complained to the district that a biological male was using the same bathroom as their young daughter. In a piece for Out Lives Magazine, Busenbark lamented that within days of using a women’s only bathroom frequented by female staff and students, a “transphobic parent complained…

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she’s tired of religious liberty advocates “weaponizing” the Bible to “justify bigotry,” just like white supremacists, slave owners and segregationists did. The New York congresswoman, who described herself as a “woman of faith”, made the comments during a Thursday House Oversight Committee hearing about the Trump administration’s “religious liberty assault on LGBTQ rights.” Ms Ocasio-Cortez retweeted a video of her speech on Sunday, saying: “There’s a long history in the US of abusing scripture to advance the causes of bigotry & discrimination. Slaveholders did it. Segregationists did it. White supremacists do it. And it continues. Yet…

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A bill which would drastically reduce the penalty for polygamy overwhelmingly passed the state House of Representatives in Salt Lake City on Wednesday. The legislation reduces the criminal penalty for plural marriages from a felony, punishable by up to five years in prison, to an infraction, equivalent to a parking ticket. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, the controversial bill cleared the House on a vote of 70-3, sending it back to the Utah Senate for another vote, where it will likely pass for a second time. The measure would then go to Governor Gary Herbert for his signature. Those…

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Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has helped a nine-year-old boy “tell the world he’s gay”. During a Q&A session at a campaign rally in Colorado, the young boy named Zachary Ro, was selected to ask Buttigieg a question. “This is a really touching question,” the host said before reading Zachary’s query. “Thank you for being so brave,” the boy wrote. “Would you help me tell the world I’m gay too? I want to be brave like you.” Buttigieg praised the boy, saying, “I don’t think you need a lot of advice from me on bravery, you seem pretty strong. It…

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George Soros sent in a brief letter to the Financial Times, calling for the removal of Facebook’s CEO and COO, Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg. Soros claims that Zuckerberg, who hasn’t followed Twitter in banning all political advertising, is helping Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign in a ‘kind of mutual assistance arrangement with D.T.’ Soros goes on to demand Facebook take action stating, ‘Mark Zuckerberg should be removed from control of Facebook.’ The F.T. posted a copy and paste transcript of Soros’ proposition yesterday. Notably absent from the article was the lack of an introduction and commentary from FT staff.…

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An Oklahoma state senator has authored a bill that would see abortion classified as homicide without exception. Republican Senator Joseph Silk’s Senate Bill 13 would make it a criminal offence for anyone to be involved in an abortion in all cases except when the mother’s life is in danger. In an interview on KOCO 5 News, the senator described the bill as, “an equal protection bill” that defines human life at the “beginning of conception” and offers all life “equal protection under the law.” Consequently, the law classifies any intentional killing of unborn children as “homicide.” The bill will see…

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