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Chinese ambassador to Israel found dead at home, says Israeli foreign ministry By Stephen Sorace Fox News May 17, 2020 China’s ambassador to Israel was found dead inside his home north of Tel Aviv on Sunday, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said. Du Wei, 57, arrived in Israel in mid-February amid the coronavirus outbreak and was living in the coastal city of Herzliya on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. He previously served as China’s envoy to Ukraine. Staff found Du unresponsive in his bed with no signs of violence to his body, the Haaretz daily reported. Initial media reports…

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Obama Criticizes Virus Response in Online Graduation Speech By Jill Colvin Newsmax May 17, 2020 Former President Barack Obama on Saturday criticized U.S. leaders overseeing the nation’s response to the coronavirus, telling college graduates in an online commencement address that the pandemic shows many officials “aren’t even pretending to be in charge.” Obama spoke on “Show Me Your Walk, HBCU Edition,” a two-hour event for students graduating from historically black colleges and universities broadcast on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. His remarks were unexpectedly political, given the venue, and touched on current events beyond the virus and its social…

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Burr’s alleged conflicts extend beyond his coronavirus-related stock trades By Maggie Severns POLITICO May 16, 2020 The insider trading investigation stemming from Sen. Richard Burr’s sale of stocks ahead of the coronavirus pandemic highlights the North Carolina Republican’s long record of investing in companies with business before his committees, according to a POLITICO review of eight years of his trades. While Burr sat on committees focused on health care, taxes and trade, he and his wife bought and sold hundreds of thousands of dollars of stock in an array of health care companies, banks and corporations with business…

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Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade Lauds Lachlan Murdoch: “He Really Understands What’s Going On” The Hollywood Reporter May 16, 2020 “Lachlan is a fantastic guy,” the ‘Fox & Friends’ host said. “I’ve had more interaction with him than I had with Roger Ailes in 20 years.” Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade used an appearance on a podcast episode published Friday to laud the leadership of Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch, comparing him favorably to the late Fox News boss Roger Ailes. “Lachlan is a fantastic guy,” Kilmeade said. “I’ve had more interaction with him than I had with…

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Washington Post May 14, 2020 The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s conservative majority sided with Republican legislators and struck down on Wednesday the decision by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’s administration to extend a stay-at-home order intended to quell the spread of the novel coronavirus. The 4-3 decision limits Evers’s ability to make statewide rules during emergencies such as a global pandemic, instead requiring him to work with the state legislature on how the state should handle the outbreak. The justices wrote that the court was not challenging the governor’s power to declare emergencies, “but in the case of a pandemic, which…

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FBI serves warrant on senator in investigation of stock sales linked to coronavirus By Del Quentin Wilber Los Angeles Times May 14, 2020 Federal agents seized a cellphone belonging to a prominent Republican senator on Wednesday night as part of the Justice Department’s investigation into controversial stock trades he made as the novel coronavirus first struck the U.S., a law enforcement official said. Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, turned over his phone to agents after they served a search warrant on the lawmaker at his residence in the Washington area,…

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