May 1st, 2020

“Those planes that are coming in from Iran that are bringing things for the oil industry are returning with the payments for those things: gold,” Abrams said.

In April alone, Venezuela loaded 9 tons of gold, worth around US$500 million, on airplanes for Iran, in exchange for Iranian help for repairing Venezuela’s crumbling refineries

Education Department investigation into foreign financial ties also seeks records of school system’s dealings with Huawei, Zoom CEO

From bank run to bacon run.

Protestors also gathered at the Capitol:

The best example is the storage and exploitation of individual DNA taken pursuant to the newborn genetic screening test. In almost every state, blood spots from each newborn are sent to the state public-health laboratory to be tested for certain genetic conditions. Too often, however, the blood samples aren’t destroyed after they’ve served the purpose for which the parents consented.

On the day he was supposed to see his family and transition to house arrest, Michael Cohen found himself locked back up at federal prison, sources tell the Beast.

Legal counsel for OANN argues White House briefing room is federal property, and Trump should not yield press room control to outside journalist group.

We’ve got a new economy coming. Be prepared with knowledge, strategies, and action.

Democrats had invited Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House coronavirus task force, to appear Wednesday before an Appropriations subcommittee examining the Trump administration's response to the pandemic...

..."all the participants broke into thunderous cheers of 'hurrah!'" when he appeared...

“There is a still-classified Russia's military robotics road-map that sketches out various stages of Russian unnamed military developments, which undoubtedly has been influenced by Russian military actions and experience in Syria,”... “The Ministry of Defence is discussing the eventual use of robotic swarms in combat— and Marker is definitely the platform to test that out,”... Part of Davydov’s argument for military robots is that they will, simultaneously, be faster, more discriminating in target selection, and more accurate than people. While it is already possible for machines to react to sensor data faster than humans, the other parts of that equation require targeting algorithms with far greater discretion than anything seen presently...

Samaritan’s Purse, an evangelical Christian relief organisation, built the tent hospital that would act as overflow for patients in Mount Sinai’s hospitals. But with New York apparently past its peak of Covid-19 infections, it was decided for the field hospital to close by the second week of May, the New York Post reported.