by WorldTribune Staff, May 11, 2020 Baltimore police on Friday launched what the city’s police commissioner described as an aerial surveillance “experiment” which records the movements of everyone in the city during the day. The privately funded surveillance plane, known as the Aerial Investigation Research (AIR) Pilot Program, is operated by an Ohio-based company and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 10, 2020 Officials in Michigan deployed state police to shut down a barbershop after its owner had reopened for business on May 4 in defiance of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s coronavirus lockdown order. Michigan State Police paid a visit to Karl Manke’s barbershop in Owosso and served paperwork from the Attorney General’s […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 10, 2020 While most other states are in various phases of reopening amid the coronavirus crisis, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has essentially banned the reopening of schools, barbershops, salons, gyms, bars and restaurants and other “non-essential” businesses until there is either a vaccine, herd immunity, or an “effectively and widely available […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 8, 2020 Sen. Rand Paul, the only member of Congress’s upper chamber known to have contracted COVID-19, returned to Capitol Hill on Monday without the piece of equipment that has become a symbol of the pandemic — the face mask. “I have immunity. I’ve already had the virus, so I can’t […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 8, 2020 A U.S. District judge ordered the reopening of gun stores in Massachusetts effective at noon on Saturday, May 9. Judge Douglas P. Woodlock ruled on Thursday that Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker’s order closing gun stores as “non-essential” business infringed on Second Amendment rights. The ruling came in a Second […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 7, 2020 Most of New York’s new coronavirus hospitalizations are people who have been sheltering at home, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on May 6. The news is the latest blow to the models and the health “experts” that have guided the nation’s economy into freefall. Calling the data “shocking,” Cuomo said […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 7, 2020 In backing the pastor of a Virginia church who was threatened with jail time for violating the state’s coronavirus lockdown restrictions by holding a service with more than 10 people, the Department of Justice paved the way for more places of worship to sue governors who ban in-person services. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 7, 2020 A second wave of coronavirus infections was spread throughout the U.S. by travelers leaving New York City before stay-at-home orders were imposed, according to findings from scientists. The New York Times reported Thursday that researchers tracking the genetic makeup of the virus now believe that many outbreaks around the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 6, 2020 The owner of a Dallas salon who said she had to keep her business open in order to feed her children has been sentenced to seven days in jail for defying the state’s coronavirus lockdown order. Shelley Luther, who owns Salon a la Mode, reopened her business on April […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 6, 2020 Two Culpeper, Virginia police officers have tested positive for coronavirus several days after arresting a twice-deported illegal immigrant who also tested positive for the virus, a report said. The illegal, who was arrested for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend, has since been released back into the local community in Culpeper […]
