President Trump said Thursday he would “certainly consider” bringing retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn back into his administration, adding he believes his former national security adviser will be “fully exonerated” in light of new evidence in the federal case against him.
“It looks to me like Flynn would be fully exonerated based on everything I see. I’m not a judge but I have a different type of power,” Trump said while taking questions at an address on protecting America’s seniors amid coronavirus.
“I don’t think I would have to use that power,” Trump said when asked if he would consider pardoning Flynn. “Hopefully we won’t have to get there.”

Taiwan’s intelligence chief said Thursday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is “sick” — and his country has emergency plans for a potential power struggle if he dies, according to reports.
Chiu Kuo-cheng, the director of the National Security Bureau (NSB), gave a vague health description when pressed at a government hearing about rumors of Kim’s possible death, according to Taiwan News.
He refused to elaborate, citing the need to protect the intelligence service’s sources in North Korea, the report said.
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Delta and American Airlines are joining JetBlue in requiring passengers to wear face coverings on their planes.
JetBlue and Delta’s new rules begin May 4 and American Airlines’ start May 11. Frontier, one of the smaller domestic airlines, will begin requiring face masks on their flights on May 8.
The change comes as flight attendants and lawmakers have called for increased protections on flights amid the pandemic, which has left airlines with unprecedented losses in revenue.
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For nearly a decade, a team of scientists from Wuhan, China, crisscrossed southern Asia in a high-stakes search for bats and the strange diseases they harbor. They crawled through caves, catching the razor-toothed mammals with nets and scooping up liters of their excrement. They trapped insects and mice living near bat roosts and collected blood from villagers who hunt bats for food or folk medicine.
They returned to their state-of-the-art laboratory in central China with tubes and vials containing known killers – pathogens associated with diseases that are deadly in humans – and also a few surprises. On multiple occasions, their takings included exotic coronaviruses previously unknown to science.

Rav Shlomo Ephraim of Luntchitz, author of Kli Yakar and Ololos Ephraim (1550-1619). Rav Shlomo Ephraim was born in Lunchitz in Poland. He was a disciple of Rav Shlomo Luria (Maharshal),

As the United States pressed Saudi Arabia to end its oil price war with Russia, President Donald Trump gave Saudi leaders an ultimatum.
In an April 2 phone call, Trump told Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that unless the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) started cutting oil production, he would be powerless to stop lawmakers from passing legislation to withdraw US troops from the kingdom, four sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The threat to upend a 75-year strategic alliance, which has not been previously reported, was central to the US pressure campaign that led to a landmark global deal to slash oil supply as demand collapsed in the coronavirus pandemic — scoring a diplomatic victory for the White House.

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President Trump said Thursday that he has seen evidence linking the novel coronavirus to a lab in Wuhan, China, without providing further details.
“Yes, I have,” Trump told reporters at the White House when asked directly whether he had seen evidence that gives him confidence the virus was tied to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The president, noting that the matter was under investigation, declined to answer later when pressed on what gave him such confidence to link the virus to the lab in China.
“I can’t tell you that. I am not allowed to tell you that,” Trump said.
Read more at The Hill.
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A survey conducted by the ‘Direct Polls’ institute examined who Israeli citizens would like to see replace Yaakov Litzman as Health Minister.
According to the survey, a plurality of 44.2% would prefer to see a public health professional assume the post of Health Minister.
Of the politicians named as candidates, Yamina chairman Naftali Bennett received the most support with 35.7% of respondents saying they would prefer to see him as Health Minister.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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