Update (1740ET): Following reports that small banks were on the verge of pulling out of the administration’s $350 billion “Paycheck Protection Program” over fears they might be blamed for corruption and fraud due to hurried oversight, the White House got Jovita Carranza (the woman who replaced Linda McMahon at the helm of the SBA) and Steve Mnuchin out in front of the cameras to deny reports […]
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The new presidential preference poll from Fox News, which shows former Vice President Joe Biden beating President Donald Trump by a comfortable margin nationally and a wider margin in counties that were close in 2016, caused a stir heading into the weekend. So much so that it resulted in quite the on-air moment on Friday when Trump campaign spox Kayleigh McEnany essentially called the network’s poll […]
Experts from Moscow’s biodefense unit have been deployed at the epicenter of the deadly Covid-19 outbreak in Italy, tasked with disinfecting a nursing home where patients died amid the coronavirus pandemic. A Russian military biological and chemical protection team was dispatched to the Martino Zanchi nursing home in the city of Bergamo in Italy’s northern Lombardy region on Friday. Going from room to room, anti-epidemic specialists […]
The chief surgeon and director at one of Haiti’s major hospitals was kidnapped on his way into work, triggering protests from the facility’s staff, who have refused to take any new patients until the doctor is freed. The surgeon, Dr. Jerry Bitar, was abducted soon after leaving his home for the Bernard Mevs hospital in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince on Friday, an administrator at the facility […]
With Ukraine’s borders scheduled to slam shut to cope with Covid-19 contagion, thousands of Ukrainians who had been working in Europe risked infection by crowding at crossings to get back into the country. Endless lines of mostly men, many wearing face masks but some without, waited for hours at border crossings between Ukraine and Poland on Friday, hours before the lockdown was to take effect. RT’s […]
Via InvestmentWatchBlog.com, I drove over to check the scene out today, it was raining but I got some footy that should give an idea of what is going on in a smallish city like mine in SE Pa of about 150,000. This is the newest and largest hospital in our area. They were doing tests and had one section of a lot cordoned off for the […]
President Donald Trump and the coronavirus task force are holding a press briefing Thursday afternoon. The briefing is set to kick off at 5 p.m. EST. Watch live above, via The White House. Source
We have entered uncertain times. The novel coronavirus has upended life around the globe, and none of us knows exactly how long the outbreak or its ramifications will last. But daily reminders of how much we can’t control shouldn’t stop us from seizing upon those things we can. We may not know if the United States has yet been successful in flattening the curve, but we […]
Over 1,000 Russian tourists remain stranded in the UAE after cancellation of four FlyDubai flights. Some of them turned to protesting after Dubai denied entry to an evacuation flight – that was already in the air. Footage from the scene, circulating on social media, shows a group of tourists carrying placards and chanting “Home, home!” at the Dubai airport. Тем временем пассажиры рейса DP888 до сих […]
Russian military specialists who arrived in Italy to help with the fight against coronavirus are heading towards the north of the country, which has been affected by the deadly epidemic the worst. The convoy, composed of 22 trucks and other vehicles, set off for the northern Italian city of Bergamo early on Wednesday. The convoy, escorted by the Italian Carabinieri, has reached Florence, making a brief […]
These parents, who refused to let social distancing during the coronavirus outbreak stop them from celebrating their son’s 21st birthday, have turned their home into “Club Quarantine.” Watch the hilarious video below on Twitter: This is amazing pic.twitter.com/pqOoEmmwvk — Saba Hamedy (@saba_h) March 25, 2020 Another family had the same incredible idea to help celebrate their daughter’s 22nd: Wow I guess a lot of parents have […]
25 Mar, 2020 14:28 Only the thin blue line stands between civil society and anarchy. Or, as the case may be, between a procession of ducklings and highway traffic, as dashcam footage shared by French police shows. With the Covid-19 crisis prompting unprecedented public lockdowns, the police are often tasked with keeping order, including ensuring roadways are kept clear for essential travel – all while sparing […]
In a historically unprecedented measure, the Russian military has sent well over a dozen strategic lift aircraft packed with medics and medical equipment to help the Mediterranean nation battle COVID-19. Russian military medics sent to Italy to assist that country in its fight against coronavirus have been spotted on route to Bergamo, the Lombardy region city which has become one of the global epicenters of the […]
Over the past years international media has been replete with images of Putin on horseback, Putin shirtless, Putin hunting and fishing, and the Russian president even engaged in a taekwondo competition. But here’s one that’s truly new and a scene we would have never imagined, as Russian media reports: Russian President Vladimir Putin traded his usual shirt and tie for a hazmat suit as he visited patients receiving […]
Russian combat pilots have mastered the new capabilities of the fifth-gen Sukhoi Su-57 fighter jets, the Defense Ministry reported. Footage of the test flights includes a rare firing of a missile while in a near-vertical climb. The Su-57 is an advanced warplane which can speed straight up into the sky immediately after take-off, thanks to powerful engines and state-of-art controls needed to maintain stability during such […]
President Donald Trump fled the podium in the White House briefing room as part of a bit Monday night after a member of the coronavirus task force revealed she had a “low-grade fever” over the weekend. “You’ll notice I was not here over the weekend,” Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House response coordinator on the coronavirus task force said at Monday’s briefing. “Saturday, I had a […]
Russian personnel swiftly airlifted trucks full of medical equipment to Italy, the nation with the highest death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic. A video by Russia’s Defense Ministry shows containers with equipment being offloaded onto Kamaz military semi-trucks after an Il-76 transport plane landed in Italy’s Pratica di Mare airbase, 30km (18.6 miles) from Rome. Personnel in white hazmat suits helped to prepare the cargo hatch […]
Over the years, we’ve had a lot of coverage on hypersonic developments in Russia and China, mostly because their hypersonic programs are more advanced than the US. Now it appears the US could be catching up, as a new video via the US military shows a recent test of a hypersonic weapon. The US Department of Defense (DoD) reported that it successfully launched a common hypersonic […]
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Video footage out of London and Paris shows “youths” attempting to loot stores and start fights in response to the coronavirus outbreak. A clip showing a Sainsbury’s shop front in central London shows youths attempting to smash down the supermarket’s doors in an effort to break in. According to the Daily Mail, the video also “shows a number […]
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The White House coronavirus task force will host its latest Covid-19 press briefing on Thursday morning at 11 a.m. eastern time. Watch live above via the White House. Source
A new song out from U2’s Bono honors the victims of the coronavirus in a touching tribute released Tuesday aimed at bringing cheer during this time when everyone needs it most. “Let Your Love Be Known,” a piano ballad, was shared via Instagram by the singer with the message, “For the Italians who inspired it… for the Irish,” adding, “for ANYONE who this St. Patrick’s day […]
A local staff photographer for the Charleston South Carolina-based Post and Courier, Lauren Petracca, shared her experience of being tested for the coronavirus Tuesday on Twitter via a makeshift drive-thru. Pulling up to the testing area in her vehicle, Petracca was met by a man in a hazmat suit — who proceeded to lean into the photographer’s vehicle and insert a testing swab deep into both […]
President Donald Trump denied knowing about cuts made to The White House pandemic office when questioned by PBS’s Yamiche Alcindor on Friday, but a video from last month shows him defending his cuts to public health agencies. During a Covid-19 press conference on Friday, Alcindor asked Trump, “You said that you don’t take responsibility, but you did disband the White House pandemic office, and the officials that […]