May, 2020

The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity analysis found that 57.5 percent of COVID-19 deaths in Colorado have occurred in long-term care facilities, such as nursing homes or assisted living facilities. The data used in the analysis is only up-to-date until May 6.

A total of 2,981,000 more Americans filed for unemployment insurance last week, bringing the total number of jobless claims filed amid the coronavirus pandemic to more than 36 million, according to the Department of Labor.

A lawsuit accusing President Donald Trump of violating the Constitution by accepting foreign government money through his luxury Washington hotel can proceed to fact-gathering about Trump's profits, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The Richmond-based 4th Circuit Court of Appeals voted, 9-6, to reject Trump's bid to shut down the lawsuit the governments of Maryland and the District of Columbia brought alleging violations of the Constitution's emoluments clauses.

The Department for International Trade is looking at a “big concession package” to US negotiators in the next few months to cut the cost of some agricultural imports, the Financial Times reported.

A group of House Republicans has called on federal agencies to shed light on drones used by police across the country to surveil and enforce Covid-19 lockdowns, arguing that Chinese devices could compromise “sensitive US data.”

“HIV has not gone away – but we have come to terms with the virus...we have found therapies and we have found the prevention methods and people don’t feel as scared as they did before.”

Tabloid report says Beijing is considering countermeasures against states and politicians seeking damages over pandemic. Academic calls for action that will cause ‘real pain’ rather than symbolic strike back...

The 4-3 decision was written by four of the court’s conservatives... The court’s fifth conservative, Brian Hagedorn, wrote a dissent joined by the court’s two liberals... The ruling immediately lifts all restrictions on businesses and gatherings imposed by the administration's order but keeps in place the closure of schools until fall. It comes after Evers had already begun lifting some restrictions because the spread of the virus has slowed for now.

This is the first time a statewide order of its kind has been knocked down by a court of last resort. Although this is good news, the bad news is that some places in Wisconsin like Dane County immediately enacted a county-wide ‘safer at home’ order following WI Supreme Court decision, which also forces Churches to remain closed. It looks like this fight will go county by county around the nation. This is why they say voting for good Sheriffs is just as important as voting for a good President.

I'm done with it. No masks, then masks, unprecedented shutdowns,the "models" collapse, the curve, hospital capacity, then its "testing", then "contact tracing" and now the VACCINE. @RealDonaldTrump needs to protect Constitution and end ALL shutdowns. #ConstitutionOverCoronavirus https://t.co/4GSRn4DB3G

— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) May 13, 2020

If I were a Senator or Congressman, the first person I would call to testify about the biggest political crime and scandal in the history of the USA, by FAR, is former President Obama. He knew EVERYTHING. Do it @LindseyGrahamSC, just do it. No more Mr. Nice Guy. No more talk!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 14, 2020

“We're requiring all Angelenos, except for small children or those with disabilities that might be harmed by a face mask, to wear a face covering," Garcetti said, according to FOX 11 in Los Angeles. "You never know when you're going to bump into somebody around a corner in a park and see somebody. Have your mask with you when you leave your house."

"It was the greatest political crime in the history of our country," Trump said in an interview with Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo that aired Thursday morning. "If I were a Democrat instead of a Republican, I think everybody would have been in jail a long time ago, and I'm talking with 50-year sentences. It is a disgrace what's happened. This is the greatest political scam, hoax in the history of our country."

'Business of fun' to welcome back guests through new online booking system...

In a letter released Wednesday, Johnston County Sheriff Steve Blizell called the state’s 10-person limit on in-person church services “unfair” and “morally wrong,” before encouraging people to “HAVE CHURCH!”

Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks’ site is down, and the hackers claim to have 756 gigabytes of data including contracts and personal emails. A screenshot alleged to be a contract for Madonna has already been released... The source added of Grubman — the father of famed public relations pro Lizzie Grubman — “His firm has sensitive details on everything — work contracts, confidential settlements and endorsement deals for the biggest stars in New York and Hollywood.”...

“Right now we’re in the information-gathering phase of this and this obviously, from my standpoint, raises a lot more questions than it actually answers,” Johnson told reporters, according to The Hill. “We will start requesting interviews with those individuals.”

Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, turned over his phone to agents after they served a search warrant on the lawmaker at his residence in the Washington area... Such a warrant being served on a sitting U.S. senator would require approval from the highest ranks of the Justice Department and is a step that would not be taken lightly...

AI models that are trained primarily with text to detect hate speech, struggle to identify hateful memes. So, Facebook is throwing a new $100,000 challenge to developers to create models that can recognize hateful images and memes. As a part of the challenge, Facebook said it’ll provide developers with a dataset of 10,000 ‘hateful’ images licensed from Getty Images