Human-to-human transmitted coronavirus cases recorded outside China rises to 92…
Over 150 Million Chinese Are Under Coronavirus Lockdown...
Hospital director dies in Wuhan as China designates dead nurses and doctors as 'martyrs'...
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Japan Will Use HIV Drugs To Treat Coronavirus...
February 18, 2020
Massachusetts Democrat state Rep. David Nangle arrested for alleged misuse of campaign funds…
February 18, 2020
Nangle is accused of using the campaign money to pay for personal expenses. He was arrested at his home in Lowell by agents of the FBI and IRS. According to an indictment, Nangle was heavily in debt, had poor credit and incurred "tens of thousands of dollars in gambling-related spending and losses."
He is a member of the House Committee on Ethics.
Trump tweets about ‘suing everyone’ over Mueller probe…
February 18, 2020
....badly tainted and, in my opinion, should be thrown out. Even Mueller’s statement to Congress that he did not see me to become the FBI Director (again), has been proven false. The whole deal was a total SCAM. If I wasn’t President, I’d be suing everyone all over the place...
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 18, 2020
....BUT MAYBE I STILL WILL. WITCH HUNT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 18, 2020
Hundreds of Oracle workers protest Ellison fundraiser for Trump…
February 18, 2020
More than 2,200 Oracle employees signed an online petition criticizing an upcoming Trump fundraising event at founder Larry Ellison's Coachella Valley, Calif., property... In a letter from a group called Oracle Employees for Ethics addressed to "Dear Oracle Leadership," they write that Ellison's support for President Donald Trump is against the core values the company upholds in ethical conduct, diversity, and inclusiveness...
NYU College Republicans call for firing of left-wing professor who led anarchist protest…
February 18, 2020
New York University's (NYU) Amin Husain – an adjunct instructor at the school's College of Arts and Science – should be fired after it was revealed he spearheaded a radical anti-cop rally protesting a police crackdown on turnstile jumping, NYU's College Republicans said Tuesday. Husain, 44, is also a co-founder of Decolonize This Place, which urged its radical followers to "f-ck sh-t up" last month in a violent assault on New York City's subways that concluded with 13 arrests and $100,000 in damage.
Federal Judges Association calls for emergency meeting amid DOJ intervention in Roger Stone case…
February 18, 2020
Philadelphia U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe, who leads the group of more than 1,000 federal judges, told USA Today that the group “could not wait” until their originally scheduled spring conference to address the issues.
Bug in WordPress plugin can let hackers wipe up to 200,000 sites. Same bug can also let attackers gain access to the admin account…
February 18, 2020
WordPress site owners who use commercial themes provided by ThemeGrill are advised to update one of the plugins that come installed with these themes in order to patch a critical bug that can let attackers wipe their sites. The vulnerability resides in ThemeGrill Demo Importer, a plugin that ships with themes sold by ThemeGrill, a web development company that sells commercial WordPress themes...
China to grant tariff exemptions on additional U.S. goods…
February 18, 2020
China said on Tuesday it would accept applications for new tariff exemptions for 696 products imported from the United States including key agricultural and energy products such as pork, beef, soybeans, liquefied natural gas and crude oil.
Boy Scouts seek bankruptcy under wave of new sex abuse lawsuits…
February 18, 2020
The Scouts’ Chapter 11 petition, filed in Bankruptcy Court in Delaware, comes amid declining membership and a wave of new sex-abuse lawsuits after several states, including California, New York and New Jersey, recently expanded legal options for childhood victims to sue.
The Silent War On “Q” Continues…
February 18, 2020
“Highly sophisticated ‘State-level’ attacks [v 8kun] followed by FAKE NEWS attacks [v Q] the next day? Coordinated? Ask yourself a simple question... why? It’s time to wake up.”...
German scientists for the first time ever created lab-grown artificial genome that can reproduce itself like a natural one…
February 18, 2020
In a paper published in the journal Nature Communications this week, researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry describe how they assembled genomes made up of blueprints for proteins — and demonstrated that it was capable of replicating 116 kilobytes worth of its own RNA and DNA. Next up, according to a press release, the team plans to build an “enveloped system” that can reproduce like this last one — but also consume nutrition and dispose of waste, like a living cell.
SpaceX signs deal to fly 4 privately-paying space tourists around Earth in about two years…
February 18, 2020
The customers will be brokered through Space Adventures, which has flown private citizens to the International Space Station using Russian spacecraft. Space Adventures said the mission would last five days and is expected to launch between "late-2021 to mid-2022" from Florida's Cape Canaveral spaceport.
Bloomberg’s ‘mercenaries’: Billionaire Dem funding network of climate lawyers inside state AG offices…
February 18, 2020
A program funded by 2020 presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg is paying the salaries of lawyers who are farmed out to liberal state attorney general offices to pursue climate-based litigation -- a compact critics say amounts to Bloomberg buying state law enforcement employees to advance his preferred political agenda. The arrangement, which currently pays the salaries of Special Assistant Attorneys General (SAAGs) in 10 Democratic AG offices, is drawing new scrutiny now that Bloomberg is running for president.
Democrats launch $10M campaign bashing Trump in 3 key swing states…
February 18, 2020
The Democratic super PAC American Bridge is putting eight figures behind its latest ad campaign, a multimedia barrage aimed at softening up President Donald Trump in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — three Midwestern states he narrowly flipped in 2016.
Bloomberg qualifies for next debate in Nevada after poll boost…
February 18, 2020
A late entry to the race, Bloomberg, 78, has risen in public opinion polls as he pours money from his estimated $60 billion personal fortune into a national campaign, spending hundreds of millions of dollars on television ads.
Lindsey Graham Pushes Back at Def. Sec. Esper over Africa Troop Withdrawal: I Could ‘Make Your Life Hell’…
February 18, 2020
Senators and members of the House met with Esper on the margins of the Munich Security Conference. Graham, R-S.C., and Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., who are members of the Foreign Relations Committee, led the charge, said the four people, telling Esper that Congress would not support a U.S. troop withdrawal from the Sahel region in Africa and laying out the reasons to keep the troop presence there... One member present said Graham, Coons and several other lawmakers laid out their case "forcefully."
Tesla teardown finds electronics 6 years ahead of Toyota and VW…
February 18, 2020
This is the takeaway from Nikkei Business Publications' teardown of the Model 3, the most affordable car in the U.S. automaker's all-electric lineup, starting at about $33,000.
US & China Lead Biggest Jump In World Defense Spending In 10 Years…
February 18, 2020
Both nations increased their respective spending by 6.6%. The US alone increased spending $53.4 billion, which is itself almost as much as other major nations, like Britain, spend on their entire national defense budget...
Beijing Cracks Down On VPNs, while carefully controlling its domestic news reports, to increase its grip on the media narrative around the coronavirus epidemic…
February 18, 2020
China’s most popular VPN services, which allow foreign businesses and locals to circumvent internet censorship, have faced an onslaught of government attacks in recent weeks. As a result, some users are finding it more difficult to access censored websites, such as Google, Twitter and most foreign newspapers...