Failed by Israel, Malki Roth’s parents hope US can extradite her gloating killer

https://www.timesofisrael.com/failed-by-israel-malki-roths-parents-hope-us-can-extradite-her-gloating-killer/

Ahlam Tamimi, who oversaw the 2001 Sbarro bombing that killed Malki and 14 others, was freed in Shalit deal and became a celebrity in Jordan. Now the US just might be on her case

 

No more 100-meter limit; malls, libraries to reopen: All the eased regulations

https://www.timesofisrael.com/malls-libraries-gyms-and-zoos-the-businesses-that-can-reopen-under-new-rules/

Loosened virus restrictions lift distance cap on traveling from home; allow swimming for exercise at the beach; and visits to national parks, nature reserves and heritage sites

 

WHO: Coronavirus likely of bat origin, no sign of lab manipulation

https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/B1fES8nOI

 

World Health Organization says COVID-19 originated in the winged mammals in China sometime last year; still unclear how the virus had jumped the species barrier but it's unlikely to have emanated from a lab in Wuhan

The ‘Getcha’ Sting

https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/05/04/the-getcha-sting/

Nathan Lewin is a criminal-defense attorney with a Supreme Court practice who has taught at Georgetown, Harvard, University of Chicago, George Washington, and Columbia law schools.

I represented one of the men accused in the FBI’s prosecution and tried in federal court in Trenton. Binyamin Stimler joined the group that was filmed and recorded in the FBI’s creation of a crime. He participated only because he was ready to witness and sign the Jewish bill of divorce (get) that Rabbi Epstein hoped would be authorized by the phantom “husband” who was a creature of the FBI’s drama. Judge Wolfson excluded at the trial any evidence of the religious motivation of the defendants because the prosecutors preposterously objected that such evidence would lead to “nullification” of the federal kidnapping law by the overwhelmingly non-Jewish jury. She sentenced my client to 39 months’ imprisonment. He is, thankfully, no longer at Otisville.

Dr. Fauci Dismisses Wuhan Lab as Source of Coronavirus, Contradicting Trump and Pompeo

https://www.newsweek.com/dr-fauci-dismisses-wuhan-lab-source-coronavirus-contradicting-trump-pompeo-1501924

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the scientific face of America's pandemic response, dismissed the theory that coronavirus originated in a lab in Wuhan, contradicting the president and his Secretary of State in an escalating confrontation with China.

"The best evidence shows the virus behind the pandemic was not made in a lab in China," Dr. Anthony Fauci said in an exclusive interview with National Geographic published on Monday. "Everything about the stepwise evolution over time strongly indicates that [this virus] evolved in nature and then jumped species."

 

Intel shared among US allies indicates virus outbreak more likely came from market, not a Chinese lab

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/04/politics/coronavirus-intelligence/index.html

Intelligence shared among Five Eyes nations indicates it is "highly unlikely" that the coronavirus outbreak was spread as a result of an accident in a laboratory but rather originated in a Chinese market, according to two Western officials who cited an intelligence assessment that appears to contradict claims by President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

The assessment from members of the exclusive intelligence-sharing group seems to undermine forceful claims by Trump and Pompeo in recent days, as they have doubled down on the assertion that the outbreak originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, rather than a market in the same region.

The price of reopening the economy: tens of thousands of American lives

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/05/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-economy-models/index.html

 President Donald Trump now knows the price of the haunting bargain required to reopen the country -- tens of thousands more lives in a pandemic that is getting worse not better.

It's one he now appears ready to pay, if not explain to the American people, at a moment of national trial that his administration has constantly underplayed.

Depressing new death toll projections and infection data on Monday dashed the optimism stirred by more than half the country taking various steps to reopen an economy that is vital to Trump's reelection hopes and has shed more than 30 million jobs. Stay-at-home orders slowed the virus and flattened the curve in hotspots like New York and California, but they have so far failed to halt its broader advance, leaving the nation stuck on a grim plateau of about 30,000 new cases a day for nearly a month.

 

Trump [with too much time on his hands] raises conspiracy theory to attack MSNBC's Scarborough

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/495940-trump-raises-conspiracy-theory-to-attack-msnbcs-scarborough

President Trump on Monday referred to the accidental death of an intern in former Rep. Joe Scarborough’s office to take a shot at the MSNBC “Morning Joe” host, who the president has frequently feuded with during his time in office.

“‘Concast’ should open up a long overdue Florida Cold Case against Psycho Joe Scarborough,” Trump wrote on Twitter, using a derogatory nickname for the Comcast company, which owns MSNBC.

“I know him and Crazy Mika well, used them beautifully in the last Election, dumped them nicely, and will state on the record that he is ‘nuts’. Besides, bad ratings! #OPENJOECOLDCASE,” he added.

This is just the latest example of Trump attacking Scarborough over the death of Lori Klausutis, a 28-year-old intern for the commentator when he was a GOP congressman representing a district in Florida.

Klausutis died in 2001 in Scarborough’s district office. A local medical examiner ruled the death an accident, saying Klausutis had collapsed and hit her head on the side of a desk. She had an undiagnosed heart condition, according to the medical examiner, and the head trauma caused a fatal blood clot.

Scarborough responded to the president's tweet on the air Monday morning, ripping him for dragging Klausutis’s family through the mud.

 

 

 

The 45 most shocking lines from Donald Trump's Lincoln Memorial Fox town hall

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/04/politics/donald-trump-fox-lincoln-memorial/index.html

 With the statue of Abraham Lincoln towering over him, President Donald Trump took questions from two Fox News personalities -- and average Americans -- about the coronavirus, the possibility of a vaccine and his broader time in office.

Fact Check: Trump on Biden ‘Apology,’ Virus Test Myths

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/president-trump/fact-check-trump-on-biden-apology-virus-test-myths/2400675/

President Donald Trump is mischaracterizing Joe Biden's position on the U.S. pandemic response, stretching the facts on his own policies in the crisis and playing down the risk to meatpacking employees who are being called to work as infections run high.

Trump capped the weekend by taking questions from Fox News anchors and viewers in an open-air evening session Sunday against the backdrop of the Lincoln Memorial. Over the previous week, Trump persisted in bragging about U.S. coronavirus testing despite the country's weak record on that front.

 

A rabbi's outrageous attack on the haredi community

 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/279638

Rabbi Yitz Greenberg’s unfair attack on haredi Jews during the corona crisis was published in a paper they do not read. Opinion.

Two Israelis arrested in Israel for coronavirus scam in France

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/two-israelis-arrested-in-israel-for-coronavirus-scam-in-france-626820

 Two Israelis have been extradited to France amid investigations into a suspected scam the two conducted, pretending to work at professional businesses that they claimed were in the process of developing a drug to treat COVID-19, according to Ynet.

The scam succeeded in collecting 60,000 euros from three French companies.

She Predicted the Coronavirus. What Does She Foresee Next?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/02/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-prediction-laurie-garrett.html?algo=top_conversion&fellback=false&imp_id=120436930&imp_id=866033794&action=click&module=Most%20Popular&pgtype=Homepage

Laurie Garrett, the prophet of this pandemic, expects years of death and “collective rage.”

It's an insane time for Trump to pick (another) fight with China

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/01/business/trump-china-coronavirus-trade-war/index.html

 

The coronavirus pandemic is crushing the US and global economies. Unemployment is soaring. GDP is collapsing at an unprecedented pace. Corporate profits are plunging. Manufacturing is contracting.

Yet Trump could amplify that financial pain by attempting to use tariffs or other sanctions to punish China for its role in the health crisis. Economists warn that such a strategy could badly backfire, potentially turning what is now a deep recession into a full-blown depression.

"This is pure folly. It's exactly what the US economy doesn't need," Joe Brusuelas, chief economist at RSM, told CNN Business. 

Wall Street is not happy about the return of Tariff Man, as Trump calls himself. The Dow tumbled 600 points, or 2.4%, Friday afternoon on concerns about renewed US-China tensions.