April 17th, 2020

According to sources, the new rifle is chambered in the standard 5.8x42mm caliber using a new type of rounds that have better performance on medium to long-range. It has an effective firing range of 300 m for the carbine version and 400 m for the assault rifle version with a rate of fire of 750 rpm (Rounds Per Minute)...

UK foreign minister Dominic Raab said Friday that “we can’t have business as usual after this crisis,” vowing “hard questions” for China and a “very, very deep dive” on the origins of the pandemic.

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The price of wholesale pork rose by 7.2% to 55.86 cents a pound Thursday — the largest increase in more than two years. Choice-grade beef prices rose to a one-month high of $2.36 a pound, climbing for six straight days through Thursday.

The Orange County Register reports Thursday that council members in the city of Orange revoked the JR Motel’s conditional use permit. Officials said the motel doesn’t take reservations from the public and has violated building and safety codes.

“Holy moly. Indiana Election Commission meeting had just started on Zoom when someone switched video to them masturbating,” Mary Beth Schneider an editor for TheStateHouseFile.com tweeted. “My eyes! My eyes!”

Mayor Lenny Curry said Duval County's beaches are reopening Friday afternoon with restricted hours, and they can only be used for walking, biking, hiking, fishing, running, swimming and surfing. The beaches will be open between 6 a.m. and 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

State Dept. issues report noting ‘high tempo of activity at China’s Lop Nur test site’.

MSNBC's @SRuhle suggests Biden create "shadow government" to counter Trump during pandemic crisis pic.twitter.com/pxT8RvBuTU

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The decision — issued Wednesday — ends the prosecution of John DeRossett, 60, on the attempted premeditated first-degree murder of a law enforcement officer while discharging a firearm. DeRossett spent nearly five years at the Brevard County Jail Complex in Sharpes as he awaited a trial... This order means that John is innocent, that his actions were justified, and that he never should have been arrested in the first place.

American Bridge, an opposition research group founded by liberal operative David Brock, reported the receipt of the 450 shares in late 2018, a gift that was disclosed in its latest tax filings... While American Bridge's nonprofit hides its donors, the group's super PAC is required to disclose its funders. The PAC has so far raised $23 million for the 2020 elections, including $2 million from billionaire financier George Soros. The nonprofit arm has passed $4.3 million to its PAC this cycle.

The study found that the risk “of transmission from surfaces outdoors is lower during daylight,” and under higher temperature and humidity conditions. “Sunlight destroys the virus quickly,” reads the briefing...

... including those that in the next week will loosen surgery restrictions at medical facilities, allow all retail stores to provide product pickups and reopen state parks. Abbott also named a "statewide strike force" devoted to getting the economy going again.

Intelligence operatives are said to be gathering information about the laboratory and the initial outbreak of the virus. Intelligence analysts are piecing together a timeline of what the government knew and “creating an accurate picture of what happened,” the sources said.

The agency said the sawing incidents took place during smuggling attempts that were not necessarily successful in getting migrants or narcotics into the United States illegally. “Transnational criminal organizations are an adaptive adversary — regardless of materials, nothing is impenetrable if given unlimited time and tools,” CBP said in a statement.

"...it is up to the Chinese government to take responsibility...in order to insert an HIV sequence into this genome, molecular tools are needed, and that can only be done in a laboratory."

Unlike Mercury, Gemini, Apollo or the Space Shuttle era, the rocket will be owned and operated not by NASA, but by a private company — SpaceX... For all the company’s triumphs, and its experience flying cargo to the space station for NASA, it has never flown a single human being, a significant and dangerous challenge.