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June 28, 2020 at 10:32 pm
Baltimore’s trash and recycling collection services, which had been impacted by a COVID-19 outbreak among sanitation workers, will resume on Monday, the city said.
Other services also resuming Monday include alley cleaning, mowing and rat abatement, The Baltimore Sun reported. Graffiti removal, bulk trash pickup and citywide street sweeping will remain suspended.
Curbside recycling was halted and some trash routes were missed after more than a dozen sanitation workers tested positive for the illness caused by the new coronavirus and a total of 135 were self-quarantined.
Trash had piled up in some locations around the city, prompting complaints from residents. Read more at WBAL
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June 28, 2020 at 10:28 pm
WASHINGTON (Newsmax) – As anti-Trump media seeks to widely disseminate data on the COVID-19 case increases in red states Florida, Arizona, and Texas, they are selectively ignoring data on hospitalizations and mortality rates compared to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s New York, according to Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, on Newsmax TV.
“That’s what they do: They lie, they misrepresent, and they’ve taken their lead – well, I’m not sure if they’ve taken their lead from the Democrats or the Democrats took their lead from the media, but either way they work together and they misrepresent the facts,” Gohmert told “Saturday Report.”
Gohmert told host Grant Stinchfield the narrative is spinning away from the reality that the virus started in W...
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June 28, 2020 at 10:25 pm
The Houston Association of Realtors, commonly know as HAR, has made changes to its room descriptions on its online property database, replacing the term “master” with “primary.”
Master bedroom and master bathroom will now say primary bedroom and primary bath.
“Some of these changes are simply good faith exercises to demonstrate awareness of historic improprieties or inequities,” said Associate Prof. of Business at the University of Houston – Downtown Dietrich von Biedenfeld.
“Particularly in the south, we’ve had master slave culture. So, on a plantation, you would have a master of that domain who would then exercise control and dominance over enslaved or indentured servants, and so historically, to say that the master lives in a cert...
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June 28, 2020 at 10:22 pm
At least half of coronavirus patients continue to suffer from general weakness and breathing difficulties at least weeks and possibly months after recovery, preliminary results of an Israeli research show.
The Pulmonary Institute at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem released its findings to media Sunday, which pertain to dozens of COVID-19 patients from mild to moderate and serious conditions.
Around 50 percent suffer from symptoms after recovering, with no relation to the severity of the disease.
Read more at i24NEWS.
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June 28, 2020 at 10:22 pm
An Ethiopian Orthodox monk whose family says he is 114 years old has survived the coronavirus.
Tilahun Woldemichael was discharged from a hospital on Thursday after almost three weeks. He received oxygen and dexamethasone, a cheap and widely available steroid that researchers in England have said reduced deaths by up to one third in severely ill hospitalized patients.
Ethiopia’s health minister has said the ministry recommends the emergency use of the drug for COVID-19 patients who require ventilation or oxygen.
Read more at The Washington Times.
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June 28, 2020 at 10:22 pm
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg dropped out as one of the three richest people in the world this week, after the social media platform founder lost $7.2 billion as a result of a concerted advertising pullout from the company.
The value of Facebook Inc. fell by $56 billion Friday, amid a growing list of advertisers both large and small announced they would boycott the social network throughout the month of July.
Zuckerberg personally addressed employees via town hall Friday following reports of the massive withdrawal of ad revenue from companies including Verizon, Unilever, Coca-Cola and The North Face. About 100 brands have joined the “#StopHateForProfit” campaign, which protests “Facebook’s repeated failure to meaningfully address the vast proliferation of hate on i...
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June 28, 2020 at 10:21 pm
Cops are leaving the New York City Police Department in droves after the police-involved killing of George Floyd on May 25, with 272 uniformed cops putting in retirement papers from then through June 24, the NYPD says.
That’s a 49 percent spike from the 183 officers who filed during the same period last year, according to the department.
An NYPD source suggested the recent departures could signal a coming crisis for the 36,000-member department, which also faces a $1 billion budget reduction amid the “defund the police” furor.
Read more at NY POST.
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June 28, 2020 at 10:18 pm
Only two US states are reporting a decline in new coronavirus cases compared to last week — Connecticut and Rhode Island.
A rise was reported in a staggering 36 states, including Florida, which some experts have cautioned could be the next epicenter for infections.
Florida reported 9,585 new coronavirus cases Saturday, a single-day record since the start of the pandemic. The number rivals that of New York’s peak in daily cases in early April.While Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said the state’s surge in cases in the past week was the result of a “test dump,” officials there and across the US have also warned of an increase in cases among younger groups.
The daunting numbers could be the tip
of the iceberg: A survey by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prev...
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June 28, 2020 at 10:18 pm
Prime Minister Netanyahu and Finance Minister Israel Katz say they’ve decided to extend unemployment benefits through mid-August for Israelis whose eligibility for the payments was set to soon expire.
“As part of this, eligibility for grants for those 67 and older who didn’t return to work will be extended. At the end of this period the continuation of the ineligibility will be reexamined in light of the employment data in the economy,” a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office says.
The statement says the proposal will be added to a bill currently making its way through the Knesset to speed approval of the benefits.
Read more at Times of Israel.
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June 28, 2020 at 10:06 pm
President Trump predicted Sunday that he will have a “big win” in November due to a “silent majority.”
“THE VAST SILENT MAJORITY IS ALIVE AND WELL!!! We will win this Election big. Nobody wants a Low IQ person in charge of our Country, and Sleepy Joe is definitely a Low IQ person!,” Trump tweeted Sunday morning.
The president’s tweet slamming presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, comes as the Democratic candidate has been beating Trump in recent polls, including surveys of key swing states Trump will need to win again in November to keep control of the White House.
Read more at The Hill.
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June 28, 2020 at 10:02 pm
ben shapiro video from BaltimoreJewishLife.com on Vimeo.
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June 28, 2020 at 9:57 pm
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday that his country is experiencing its toughest year because of US sanctions coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic.
The coronavirus crisis has exacerbated economic problems that worsened after US President Donald Trump withdrew in 2018 from Iran’s nuclear deal with major powers and reimposed sanctions. On Monday, Iran’s rial currency fell to its lowest ever level against the US dollar.
“It’s been the most difficult year due to the enemy’s economic pressure and the pandemic,” Rouhani said in a televised speech.
“The economic pressure that began in 2018 has increased … and today it is the toughest pressure on our dear country.”
Iran has seen a sharp increase in coronavirus infections and dea...
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June 28, 2020 at 9:56 pm
Israel hit multiple Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip early Saturday morning after two rockets were launched at Israel from the coastal enclave on Friday evening, according to the Israeli military.
Israeli fighter jets struck a rocket manufacturing workshop and a weapons manufacturing infrastructure, the military said in a statement.
“Strikes on these targets hamper the Hamas terror organization’s buildup capability,” the statement continued. “The IDF views with great seriousness any destructive activity directed towards Israeli territory, and will continue to act as necessary against attempts to harm Israeli civilians.”
No casualties were reported and no Palestinian group claimed responsibility for the rockets, which fell in open areas; however, Israel holds...
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June 28, 2020 at 9:54 pm
Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky said that global travel may never fully recover from the coronavirus pandemic, but he anticipates more travel from tourists within their own countries to smaller communities.
“I will go on the record to say that travel will never, ever go back to the way it was pre-COVID; it just won’t,” Chesky told Axios in an interview published Sunday. “There are sometimes months when decades of transformation happen.”
Chesky said that people are “not getting on airplanes” to cross borders, but are rather traveling by car to “communities that are 200 miles away or less.”
“People will, one day, get back on planes,” Chesky said. “But one of the things that I do think is a fairly permanent shif...
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June 28, 2020 at 9:50 pm
Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia on ‘America’s News HQ’ discusses the economic impact of the coronavirus as more states see spikes.
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June 28, 2020 at 9:48 pm
U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Michael Lynk has urged the European Union to take real and drastic steps against Israel if Jerusalem moves forward with its plans to extend its sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and parts of Judea and Samaria, and called upon the European body to “develop a menu of countermeasures.”
In a June 26 statement to the U.N. Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, Lynk wrote: “It has sometimes been said by critics of the EU’s foreign policy towards Israel and Palestine that it suffers from paralysis and inaction. Nothing could better demonstrate that this argument is misplaced than for the EU to back up its criticisms of Israel’s occupation and looming annexation with a decisive menu of cou...
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June 28, 2020 at 9:46 pm
In a sign of improving relations, firms in Israel and the United Arab Emirates are expected to work together to combat the coronavirus (COVID-19).
“In light of strengthening international cooperation in the fields of research, development & technology in service of humanity, two private companies in UAE sign an agreement with two companies in Israel to develop research technology to fight COVID-19,” tweeted a UAE spokesperson on Thursday.
Hezi Levi, director general of Israel’s Ministry of Health, issued a similar announcement that the private-sector scientific and medical cooperation between the two countries would rise “above the historical political challenges.”
Although Israel and the UAE don’t have formal diplomatic relations, the two nations...
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June 28, 2020 at 8:00 pm
Baltimore, MD - June 28, 2020 - Parah Adumah is the quintessential chok, a law which is impossible for us to understand. It is atonement for the chet ha'egel-the mother cow is coming to 'clean up' the mess of her child. This is the opposite of Kibbud Av V'em, a mitzvah that is easily understood, and one in which the child is doing for the parents. For the nations of the world, it is very easy to honor one's parent, as the honor of Hashem does not come into the equation. However, as Bnei Yisroel, we must keep all mitzvos whether we understand them or not, and our ability to honor our parents can be limited because of our necessary deference to Hashem.
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June 28, 2020 at 4:51 pm
Just 40% of Israelis back new restrictions to limit coronavirus' spread as disapproval ratings for Netanyahu's coronavirus policy surge.
Israelis increasingly disapprove of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, with a solid majority now saying Netanyahu’s handling of the crisis is ‘not good’.
The poll, which was conducted by the Midgam polling agency and published by Channel 12 Sunday evening, found a major reversal in Netanyahu’s approval rating with regards to his coronavirus policies.
A month ago, a Midgam poll found that 53% of Israelis described Netanyahu’s handling of the crisis as “good”, compared to 43% who said it was “not good”.
Today, however, just 35% of I...
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June 28, 2020 at 4:41 pm
Baltimore, MD - June 28, 2020 - 4:40 PM - National Weather Service Baltimore MD/Washington DC has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southeastern Carroll County in north central Maryland...
North central Howard County in central Maryland...
West central Baltimore County in northern Maryland... Until 500 PM EDT.Damaging winds will cause some trees and large branches
to fall. This could injure those outdoors, as well as
damage homes and vehicles. Roadways may become blocked by
downed trees. Localized power outages are possible.
Unsecured light objects may become projectiles.
Locations impacted include...
Pikesville, Ellicott City, Randallstown, Owings Mills, Eldersburg,
Milford Mill, Lochearn, Sykesville, Oakland, ...
