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Science
How Do Bats Live With So Many Viruses?
They are considered the probable source of the coronavirus outbreak spreading from China. It turns out that they may have an immune system that lets them coexist with many disease-causing viruses.Bats are an interesting creature.
I would like to encourage a population close to me.
Rabies can be a problem.
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World
Coronavirus Live Updates: China Now Has More Cases Than It Had of SARS
Chinese officials have confirmed over 7,700 cases of the mysterious illness as foreign governments airlifted their citizens out of Wuhan, the outbreak’s epicenter.There is nothing on recovery as yet.
If people do not recover humanity is extinct.
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U.S.
John Bolton’s Account Upends Trump’s Denials, but Will It Upend Trump?
A president who has survived one revelation after another the last three years now faces perhaps the most serious disclosure of his political career at the very moment he is on trial in the Senate.If John Bolton does not testify Trump will continue.
Russia will have Triumphed and Communism won a Pyrrhic victory.
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Opinion
We Made the Coronavirus Epidemic
It may have started with a bat in a cave, but human activity set it loose.Self harm benefits no one.
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Business
In the Race for Cheap Airfare, It’s You vs. the Machine
Travel providers now use software to re-price their offerings, sometimes dozens of times a day, putting travelers at a big disadvantage.Cheap airfare is destructive of airlines.
We must pay a real price.
"What the traffic will bear" is equally destructive.
Travel is either a necessity or a luxury for the traveler.
It must pay the costs of operation and enough profit to pay the cost of the debt.
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Climate
Trump Removes Pollution Controls on Streams and Wetlands
The Trump administration has finished a new rule that rolls back environmental controls on many wetlands and intermittent streams, delivering a win to rural landowners.Surface water and ground water are fully exploited.
This policy is disaster.
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New York
With One Crime, an Ex-Congressman Damaged 2 Families
Former Representative Chris Collins committed a crime that tarnished much more than his own career.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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U.S.
Tape Made Public of Trump Discussing Ukraine With Donors
The recording from a dinner in 2018 showed that the president spent an hour with two key players in the Ukraine pressure campaign. He has repeatedly said he does not know them.Donald Trump should be removed from office.
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Opinion
Iowa Should Never Go First Again
The current system is a form of white privilege that warps the process.Both Iowa and New Hampshire have a blue Tinge.
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Opinion
Pompeo Called Me a ‘Liar.’ That’s Not What Bothers Me.
Journalists are supposed to ask tough questions, then share the answers — or lack thereof — with the world.Mary Louise Kelly is doing her work.
Pompeo seems to be dodging work.
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A frantic campaign schedule catches up with one senator.
Four Democratic senators running for president have been dashing between
the campaign trail and the impeachment trial.
Bernie Sanders should not be president.
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Biden Plans a Counterattack at Trump as Impeachment Tensions Rise
The former vice president will deliver a speech on Thursday forcefully
rebuking the president, whose allies in Congress have increasingly set
their sights on Mr. Biden.
No speech as yet.
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Legal Pads, Photographs and a Podcast: How Senators Are Documenting Impeachment
Senators, who serve as jurors and judges in President Trump’s impeachment
trial, are also acting as tourists and historians of the rare proceeding.
There will be a transcript.
4
Bashing Bolton, a Senate candidate, Jeff Sessions, plays up his loyalty.
His message boiled down to this: He had every reason to gripe publicly, but
he did not.
I cannot read John Bolton's mind.
Jeff Sessions is no better at reading minds.
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The Senate breaks for dinner.
The questioning could go deep into the night.
There is a time limit.
6
Trump Ally Held Event Handing Out Cash in a Black Community
The group that hosted the event last month in Cleveland is run by a
prominent black ally of the president, and it promoted Trump administration
policies while doling out cash prizes.
Tips are insulting.
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Senators ask when the president wanted to pursue an investigation of the Bidens.
A lawyer for President Trump tried to suggest that Mr. Trump’s interest was
not prompted by the announcement of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden
Jr. in late April that he was running for president.
Trump is transparent.
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Republicans Move to Block Impeachment Witnesses, Driving Toward Acquittal
Efforts to bring wavering Republicans into line appeared to be working as
President Trump’s lawyers argued that anything a president did to win
re-election was “in the public interest.”
The Republicans "must hang together or hang separately."
9
Protesters rally outside the Capitol, calling trial ‘a sham.’
They plan to return every day until the trial concludes, a co-founder of
the group said.
It is short of violence.
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Cory Gardner won’t vote to call witnesses or documents.
He said the Senate need not consider anything beyond the testimony already
gathered in the House’s impeachment inquiry.
The Republicans hear nothing.
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As Biden Makes Push in Iowa, His Ground Game May Have Some Gaps
Democratic officials and some activists for the candidate say Joe Biden’s
Iowa organization is weak in some areas, which could hurt him on caucus
night. Biden aides say they have plenty of boots on the ground.
The evidence will be seen.
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Senators are happy to ask questions they already know the answers to.
That could change as the questioning continues.
So far the questions have not changed.
13
Trump’s Mideast Plan Leaves Palestinians With Few Options
The landscape has shifted so much that a proposal that would have been a
nonstarter a decade ago has put the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in a
bind.
The shooting will continue.
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Schumer on the likelihood of witnesses: ‘Probably no.’
He maintained that he held out hope that enough Republican senators would
agree.
There is no call for witnesses yet.
15
Schiff says Trump ‘is a president who identifies the state as being himself.’
The courts have declared, Representative Adam B. Schiff said of the
president, “You’re not a king.”
Schiff is correct.
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Impeachment questions liven up the Senate chamber.
Senators passed notes and appeared to be drafting questions on the fly.
There probably is an approved list.
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Anything a president does to stay in power is in the national interest, Dershowitz argues.
Alan Dershowitz told the Senate a “quid pro quo” to help the president’s
re-election is by definition in the national interest.
"Word Salad"
"If it does not fit you must acquit"
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Super PAC Attacks Sanders in an Ad. Sanders Raises $1.3 Million in a Day.
As Bernie Sanders shows strength in the early-voting states, his opponents
face a challenge: Attacking him can help fuel his campaign.
Sanders is another puritan.
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Trump lawyer invents a standard of proof for impeachment.
The president’s lawyer said the House managers had failed to prove him
guilty “beyond a reasonable doubt.”
There is no doubt that Trump should be removed.
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The president can’t defy his foreign policy because he sets it, his lawyer argues.
“If his staffers disagree with him, that does not mean that he is doing something wrong,” said Patrick Philbin, an attorney for President Trump.Donald Trump appears to think he is King.
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