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The latest Health experts are increasingly convinced that the only way to stop America's rapidly worsening coronavirus situation is to reimpose stay-at-home orders, effectively abandoning the country's two-month-long effort to resurrect public life. “Stay-at-home is a blunt instrument,” Farshad Fani Marvasti,…

The latest Coronavirus patients are pouring into hospitals in hot spots such as Florida, Arizona, California and Texas, where hospitals are adding new ICU beds and special airflow systems as virus hospitalizations set records almost daily. The surge in patients is…

The latest President Trump and senior administration officials on Wednesday ramped up pressure on schools to reopen in the fall, and downplayed the recommendations of their own health experts. Trump tweeted that the safety measures recommended by the Centers for Disease…

The Latest The Trump administration has sent a letter to the United Nations withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization over its handling of the pandemic, a dramatic move that could reshape public health diplomacy and puts the U.S.…

https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2020/07/06/Ennio-Morricone-Oscar-winning-film-composer-dead-at-91/9311594038211/ Ennio Morricone, Oscar-winning film composer, dead at 91 Morricone is best known for scoring Leone's spaghetti Westerns which also included A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, Once Upon a Time in the West and Duck, You Sucker. He…

https://apnews.com/aaaecdb9fbedf226121d25c09f25d0a7 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country music firebrand and fiddler Charlie Daniels, who had a hit with “Devil Went Down to Georgia,” has died at 83. A statement from his publicist said the Country Music Hall of Famer died Monday at a…

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53299847 Rumours that anti-fascist protesters planned to burn American flags on the Gettysburg Civil War battleground site led to armed far-right groups turning up in numbers on US Independence Day. Posts on social media by supposed antifa leaders urged members to…

https://tuscl.net/photos/5f027349e5d0d Shannon LaNier, a TV host in Houston, is pictured in a photo in Smithsonian Magazine alongside his direct ancestor, Thomas Jefferson. Shannon LaNier, a ninth-generation descendant of Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings, wore the same sort of…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/05/republican-rebels-trump-biden-november-election [Good to see more and more conservative Republicans ready to dump Trump and reclaim their party] Just like in 2016, a faction of the Republican party has emerged to try to defeat Donald Trump in the upcoming presidential election. But unlike…

Huge group of armed Black protesters march on Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial https://twitter.com/i/status/1279493077489590273 "Update: This group refers to itself as the NFAC "the Not Fuckin Around Coalition." (??@jaorialese) #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/sb2AurtbQg — Anonymous (@YourAnonCentral) July 4, 2020 The largest armed Black crowd I’ve ever seen…

Five descendants of Frederick Douglass read excerpts of his speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" https://youtu.be/NBe5qbnkqoM

The Nevada Republican Party was ridiculed on Saturday for the Independence Day message the organization sent out. Veteran Nevada political reporter Jon Ralston, the editor of The Nevada Independent, tweeted out a screenshot of the email sent by Michael McDonald, the…