April 6th, 2020

The order spells out a framework for international partners sought by the US in its bid to return to the Moon by 2024, to later establish a lunar colony and eventually do the same on Mars...

Can you smell what's cooking? Big things are about to happen.

Australia's high court found that the unanimous jury that convicted him in 2018 "ought to have entertained a doubt as to the applicant's guilt with respect to each of the offences for which he was convicted," and the court ordered verdicts of acquittal be entered... The decision means he will be released from Barwon Prison outside Melbourne after serving 13 months of the six-year sentence.

The DOJ's letter rejecting CNN and Playboy journalist Brian Karem's demands to access the briefings appeared to serve notice to the journalist-run White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) that its power to regulate who attends White House press briefings was based only on years of "tradition" and not a legal right.

Wisconsin’s presidential primary election will proceed Tuesday under an order from the state Supreme Court that came just hours after Democratic Gov. Tony Evers tried to postpone voting as part of a last-ditch effort amid growing fears over the coronavirus. The court ruled 4-2 on Monday that Evers lacked the authority to move the election on his own. Conservatives control the court 5-2, but one of the conservative justices is up for reelection Tuesday and didn’t participate in the ruling.

What are hungry Americans going to do when the food banks don’t have any more food for them?

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Inovio Pharmaceuticals, a small biotech in Pennsylvania, received regulatory clearance to begin testing. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and other nonprofits have poured funding into Inovio's vaccine project. The biotech said it expects to have early safety data by late summer and aims to produce 1 million doses by the end of 2020.

Bill Gates moving at a rapid pace.

In North America, we often call the April full moon the Pink Moon, Grass Moon or Egg Moon. In 2020, this April full moon also presents the closest (and thereby largest) supermoon of the year. This full moon more closely coincides with lunar perigee – the moon’s closest point to Earth in its monthly obit – than does any other full moon in the year 2020. Will you notice that the moon is larger than usual? Probably not … unless you’re a very experienced and discerning observer.

The filings come in the appeals court’s proceedings concerning Judicial Watch’s lawsuit that seeks records concerning “talking points or updates on the Benghazi attack” ...

BREAKING: India has allowed the export of Hydroxychloroquine to the United States, making an exception to its earlier ban on exports to keep supply for themselves.

"The decision follows a telephone conversation between Trump and PM Modi on Saturday" pic.twitter.com/B4j8tpyL1d

— Mike Coudrey (@MichaelCoudrey) April 6, 2020

CBS on Sunday morning posted a video of a “nurse in tears” who says she quit her job after she was asked to work in a Coronavirus ICU without a face mask: “America is not prepared, and nurses are not being protected.”... CBS never even verified the story. They just posted the video because orange man bad. It turns out the woman is indeed a nurse, however she took time off to pursue a blogging/’social media influencer’ career. She went back to work as a nurse for ONE DAY, then quit.

... he has called it a "Covid Pass" for the uninfected who can return to their normal lives.

"Over the course of this afternoon, the condition of the Prime Minister has worsened and, on the advice of his medical team, he has been moved to the Intensive Care Unit at the hospital. "The PM has asked Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who is the First Secretary of State, to deputise for him where necessary.