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Flint City Council Member Maurice Davis said Donald Trump has given a voice to poor Americans whereas Democrats have never done so.

A Catholic priest has filed a lawsuit against California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) claiming the governor’s “State of Emergency,” seven-month-long pandemic shutdown violates his constitutional rights.

“If it’s okay for Nancy Pelosi to go and get her hair done … then you need to open up America right now,” salon owner Lindsey Graham said.

Homeschooling is surging in the United States as many public schools have faltered in their reopening plans.

Mental health disorders linked to the lockdowns are disproportionately plaguing minorities and young adults in the U.S., CDC reports.

Domestic violence across New York City soared at the peak of the state’s coronavirus lockdown, recently unveiled data reportedly show.

Over 150 “health professionals,” in an open letter addressed to U.S. government leaders this week, called for reimplementing the coronavirus shutdown that devastated the economy and may have exacerbated domestic abuse, depression, suicides, and drug overdoses, among other problems.

Muriel Bowser, mayor of Washington, DC, issued an order on Wednesday mandating everyone above the age of two in the nation’s capital to wear masks upon leaving their homes “if they are likely to come into contact with another person for more than a fleeting moment.” Those found to be in violation of the order can be fined up to $1,000.

Sharp spikes in new coronavirus cases have prompted at least 28 states and New York City to roll back or pause their reopening efforts.

The coronavirus lockdowns are fueling a surge in the number of drug overdoses across the country, one of the Democrats who competed against Joe Biden for the party’s presidential nomination recently acknowledged.

During an interview with the Hill on Thursday, White House Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Anthony Fauci stated that he doesn’t think we need to revert back to “an extreme” of shutting back down, but that hard-hit states should start “pausing

Southern states are experiencing a surge in Chinese coronavirus cases because they opened too fast, Dr. Deborah Birx, a top White House health official, declared on Tuesday, noting that the U.S. has the “capacity” to stem the spread of the disease.

The Chinese coronavirus pandemic and the associated lockdowns disrupted pediatric outpatient visits and routine childhood vaccinations in the United States, leaving children and their communities vulnerable to potential outbreaks of preventable diseases such as measles, top health officials testified on Thursday.

At least 17 states had reportedly paused or rolled back their phased reopening plans as of Monday to hinder the growing coronavirus outbreaks across the country.

A group of Black Lives Matter protesters shouted a political script at diners after entering a restaurant in Washington, DC, on Thursday evening.

A significant number of states will reopen their colleges and universities by the fall, while K-12 schools will follow suit on a jurisdiction by jurisdiction basis, the nation’s top disease official told lawmakers this week.

States experiencing growing novel coronavirus outbreaks may need to pause or roll back their reopening stages without necessarily reimposing an “absolute shutdown,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s top infectious disease expert, told a House panel on Tuesday.

The nation’s capital may start the second phase of its reopening plans on Monday, easing restrictions on public places and non-essential businesses after shutting down to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus, Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) announced on Wednesday.

Governors, mainly Republicans, from some of the states experiencing a rise in novel coronavirus cases following their decision to reopen earlier than other U.S. regions, assert that they can handle the spike and refuse to reimpose lockdown measures.

Former Rep. Allen West (R-FL) highlighted Facebook and Twitter’s politically-driven and arbitrary censorship of information, contrasting the platforms’ facilitation of operations executed by Antifa and Black Lives Matter while censoring disagreement with public health authorities’ positions.

Delaware Gov. John Carney (D) issued a cease and desist notice, threatening to arrest and fine a spa owner for planning to reopen the business in protest of the state’s stay-at-home order, issued at first to get a handle on the novel coronavirus outbreak.

There was no significant increase in Chinese coronavirus hospitalizations, fatalities, and the percentage rate of people testing positive for the disease in 21 states that eased lockdown restrictions on May 4 or earlier.

Some left-wing Democrat governors want to damage their states’ economies with extended coronavirus-related lockdowns, noted Rep. Greg Steube.

Former NFL wide receiver Dennis McKinnon questioned arbitrary government determinations of “essential” and “non-essential” businesses on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel B. Pollak.

The number of suicides documented by a hospital in Northern California during the ongoing lockdown has exceeded the number of Chinese coronavirus deaths, doctors in the city of Walnut Creek revealed this week as they called for an end to the region’s lockdown order.

Anti-government “extremists” seeking to terrorize Americans have infiltrated the anti-coronavirus lockdown movement and are baselessly accusing governors of trampling on civil rights, panelists argued during a virtual forum Wednesday held by Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee.

The number of coronavirus hospitalizations, as well as the seven-day average of new deaths and cases, have remained reasonably stable in Texas since Gov. Greg Abbott allowed the state’s stay-at-home order to expire.

Fewer Americans are worried about their financial health or physical health. But concern over social isolation is rising.

Justice Rebecca Bradley of the Wisconsin Supreme Court questioned  Wisconsin’s shutdown order on Tuesday, asking whether it amounted to “tyranny,” and what authority the state had to issue it.

Population density has had a more significant impact on the novel coronavirus death rate in the United States than lockdown measures, an analysis found in an editorial published by the Wall Street Journal on Sunday revealed, echoing other assessments.

Ongoing economic restrictions driven by the coronavirus outbreak will cause shortages of beef and pork in grocery stores and supermarkets, said Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), offering his remarks in an interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak.

Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) explained that millions of cows and pigs will be euthanized if the status quo of varying economic restrictions across the country, ostensibly in response to the coronavirus outbreak, continue. He offered his remarks on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak.

Wayne Allyn Root is leading a drive-through protest caravan while abiding by coronavirus social distancing guidelines in Las Vegas on Friday.

Several hundred protestors in Raleigh, North Carolina, descended on the state’s general assembly building to call for reopening the state.

The coronavirus lockdown is keeping pro-life advocates from helping pregnant women in need, a protester said Tuesday at a rally in Jefferson City, Missouri.

President Donald Trump on Sunday continued to defend protesters of overbearing state lockdowns during the coronavirus pandemic.