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FPI / March 20, 2020 Americans are giving President Trump high marks for his response and leadership during the Wuhan coronavirus crisis, a new poll found. According to a Harris poll released on Thursday, 56 percent approve of Trump’s handling of the crisis. In less than a week, the president’s general approval rating jumped four […]

FPI / March 20, 2020 The World Health Organization (WHO) first reported on the spread of a previously-unknown virus on Dec. 31, 2019. The virus was linked to a number of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, a city in Eastern China. The WHO officially named the virus COVID-19. Researchers from the University of Southampton found that […]

FPI / March 19, 2020 Rep. Adam Schiff and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence which he chairs have asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to dismiss a lawsuit against them for the controversial impeachment-related subpoenas for phone records. During the Intelligence Committee’s impeachment inquiry, Schiff subpoenaed the private phone […]

FPI / March 19, 2020 On March 3, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) stated: “Globally, about 3.4 percent of reported COVID-19 cases have died. By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1 percent of those infected.” The director, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, also said: “While many people globally have built […]

FPI / March 19, 2020 Italy has surpassed China in the number of reported deaths from the coronavirus. A study by Italy’s national health authority found that more than 99 percent of the country’s coronavirus fatalities were people who suffered from previous medical conditions. The Rome-based health authority said it examined medical records of about […]

FPI / March 19, 2020 Millions of noncitizens were allowed to enter the United States via its northern border with Canada before Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued a national lockdown over the coronavirus outbreak. New York and Washington state, which have heavily-traveled borders with Canada, have among the highest number of coronavirus cases in […]

FPI / March 19, 2020 By Donald Kirk WASHINGTON — The mere idea of the nation’s capital more or less shutting down would have been beyond imagination if anybody had talked about it seriously two months ago. Even after the outbreak of coronavirus in China had reached Korea and Europe, very few people would really […]

FPI / March 19, 2020 There is not yet any evidence that the push back against the coronavirus panic is working, Rush Limbaugh said. And, it’s a panic that, with a compliant media, would not likely be happening with a Democrat in power, the radio host added. “Every day we go against the grain. Every […]

FPI / March 19, 2020 People are being whipped into an “unnecessary panic” and the world’s leaders need to calm their citizens amid the coronavirus pandemic, a top Israeli virologist said. “I’ve been in this business for 30 years,” Professor Jihad Bishara said in an Israel Channel 12 interview. “I’ve been through MERS, SARS, Ebola, […]

FPI / March 18, 2020 Amid the coronavirus outbreak, food delivery apps are seeing record downloads as state and local governments throughout the United States are restricting in-person dining at restaurants. In a gesture it said was meant to help local restaurants during the health crisis, delivery company Uber Eats has waived delivery fees for […]

FPI / March 18, 2020 It would be nice if concerned Americans could get reliable information on the coronavirus from the major media. But this is an election year. In the Trump era. Breitbart News on March 17 listed a number of the outright lies perpetrated by the corporate media during the virus outbreak. “Keep […]

FPI / March 18, 2020 Against what one would think would be angry international opinion at the havoc brought by the coronavirus, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is cranking out propaganda 24/7 that is aimed at downplaying its own response to the outbreak while criticizing that of the Trump Administration. And U.S. Democrats and their […]

FPI / March 18, 2020 A 53-year-old disabled woman shot an intruder to death Saturday afternoon at her home in Houston, according to investigators. KHOU reported that the woman was home alone when a 17-year-old and 18-year-old allegedly broke out a window, which allowed them to reach inside and unlock the exterior door. The 18-year-old […]

FPI / March 18, 2020 The communist government in Beijing should be focused on stopping the coronavirus rather than spreading false information about the origins of the Wuhan virus while at the same time kicking American journalists out of China, the U.S. National Security Council (NSC) said on Wednesday. The statement from the NSC comes […]

FPI / March 18, 2020 The United States is encouraging Iranian citizens to use an encrypted messaging app, which was originally set up to report terror suspects, to detail in real time what is happening with the coronavirus crisis. The full scope of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak in Iran remains a mystery amid a consistent […]