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Dozens arrested in anti-COVID-19 lockdown protest in Germany
Smaller shops, auto dealerships and some schools have already been allowed to reopen and plans are being drawn up to ease other restrictions. The country plans to start reopening schools on May 4. She has received plaudits for her management of the health crisis, which has seen Germany's COVID-19 toll remain significantly lower than in Italy, Spain , France and United Kingdom where the death toll... [Full Article...]
Supreme Court makes no 2nd Amendment ruling in NY gun case
The court ruled that the city's move to ease restrictions on taking licensed, locked and unloaded guns outside the city limits, coupled with a change in state law to prevent NY from reviving the ban, left the court with nothing to decide. The justices' decision to not consider the dispute over the Second Amendment is expected to disappoint gun owners and activists, who had anticipated a major ruli... [Full Article...]
Coronavirus: Last Covid-19 patient leaves hospital in Wuhan
The northeast Chinese border province of Heilongjiang has seen large numbers of cases entering from Russian Federation. There were no signs of any worry yesterday as people packed into a flower market in Suzhou city, in east China's Jiangsu province. [Full Article...]
Poison Control Centers See An Increase In Calls Following Trump's Disinfectant Comments
He re-shared a tweet from the Maryland Emergency Management Agency (MDMEMA). Reckitt Benckiser, the company that manufactures the household disinfectants Dettol and Lysol, issued a statement warning people not to ingest or inject its products. [Full Article...]
Furious Bernie Sanders campaign blasts NY for canceling primary
Monday's vote delays after Cuomo cancelled a number of June 23 special elections across the state, including those for Queens borough president, a state Senate seat in central NY and an Assembly seat in the Rochester area. And our campaign communicated that we wanted to remain on the ballot. A lawyer for the Sanders campaign, Malcolm Seymour, asked the election commissioners Sunday not to cancel... [Full Article...]
United States coronavirus death toll surpasses 55,000
The global death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic reached over 200,000 on Saturday, with confirmed cases expected to top three million in the coming days. Britain was slower to impose a lockdown than European peers and is struggling to raise its testing capacity. The US has also seen declines, especially in NY, which quickly became the epicenter of the pandemic in the country but is now recording l... [Full Article...]
Thousands pack beaches during SoCal heat wave, prompting warnings from officials
Our primary mission is watching the water. A similar crowd was expected Saturday as the fog burns off. "I wish I can prescribe a specific date to say, 'Well, we can turn on the light switch and go back to normalcy, '" Newsom said. "There is a direct correlation between what you do this weekend and how long this will take and how many lives we will lose", Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said on F... [Full Article...]
Three Civilians Reportedly Killed in Alleged Israeli Attack on Syria
These have overwhelmingly been directed against Iran and its proxies, notably the Lebanese-based Hezbollah terror group, but the IDF has also carried out strikes on Syrian air defenses when those batteries have fired at Israeli jets. Israel did not comment on the Syrian report. Iranian and Lebanese Hezbollah forces in Syria are fighting alongside Syrian government forces. Tel Aviv frequently l... [Full Article...]